Main Event

20,000 ante

On a board 9♣ J♥ 2♣ Q♣ 6♣ and a large 250,000 in the pot, big blind Emmanuel Segismundo bets 135,000, David Erquiaga raises to 310,000, Segismundo folds.

15,000 ante

Button players Emmanuel Segismundo raises to 35,000, small blind Won Jae Lee calls, big blind Richard Tolentino shoves, Segismundo folds, Lee calls. Tolentino opens A♦ 2♥ and is at risk of elimination against Lee’s 7♣ 7♠ . With the board running 9♠ 4♥ 2♦ 5♦ T♥ , it’s the end for Tolentino.

15,000 ante

Two players pump up the pot to 100,000 preflop, the flop comes 9♥ A♣ 9♦ . Lojack Emmanuel Segismundo bets 20,000, cutoff Richard Tolentino raises to 50,000, Segismundo calls. On the turn 5♦ , Tolentino c-bets 75,000, Segismundo check-raises to 185,000, Tolentino folds.

10,000 ante

Hijack Tay Wee Shen raises to 30,000, button Emmanuel Segismundo and big blind call. At the flop 4♥ Q♦ K♥ , Shen c-bets 35,000, Segismundo calls, big blind folds. On the turn 5♥ , Shen slows to a check, Segismundo bets 87,000, Shen folds.

Hijack Ng Wai Loon raises to 12,000, cutoff Emmanuel Segismundo three-bets to 37,000, Ng calls. At the flop 2♠ T♣ 8♣ , Segismundo bets 24,000, Ng check-calls. On the turn Q♣ both players check, and the river 9♦ is checked by Ng again. Segismundo goes the other direction with a shove, Ng folds.

Welcome to Day 2 of the Main Event! The Main Event drew 499 entries over three starting days to more than crush the PHP 20M guarantee. The 77 returning players are now looking at a prize pool of over PHP 28.7 Million. We will have the official number and payout breakdown for you once that’s been made available. Today’ stage will play down to the Final 9 players. Leading the race is Ryan McAllister with a towering 777,000 stack which is equivalent to 129 bb. Live updates begin at 1pm.

It took nearly twelve hours of Day 1B play to whittle the field down from a roaring 265 entries to 40 players. Bagging the largest stack of 777,000 (155 bb) was USA’s Ryan McAllister to take command of the overall Day 2 survivors list.