Main Event

80,000 ante

Battle of the blinds, Edwin Dela Cruz limps, big blind Terry Gonzaga checks, both players check the flop T♥ T♣ 3♠ . On the turn 6♠ and river A♣ Gonzaga bets 200,000 and 400,000, Dela Cruz check-calls both bets. Dela Cruz has A♦ 7♦ top pair, Gonzaga has Q♣ T♠ trips to win the pot.

60,000 ante

From utg+1, Tor Anton Welo raises to 120,000, button Terry Gonzaga calls, the flop comes J♥ 7♥ A♥ . Welo bets 150,000, Gonzaga calls. On the turn A♣ , Welo checks then calls Gonzaga’s 250,000 bet. On the 8♣ river, Gonzaga bets 500,000, Welo check-raises all in, Gonzaga folds.

PH₱ 609,000 (~US$ 11,000) 60,000 ante

Nicola Montalbano tumbled out in 8th place after dropping to just 4 bb. The hand saw utg Tor Anton Welo raise to 120,000, hijack Terry Gonzaga three-bet to 300,000, Montalbano went all in with less chips. Back to Welo who called, the flop ran A♥ K♥ T♠ , Gonzaga c-bet 300,000, Welo check-called. On the turn 6♠ , Gonzaga shoved, Welo opted to fold. Gonzaga opened K♣ K♠ set, Montalbano was drawing dead with 4♣ 2♣ . The river was 4♥ .

60,000 ante

From utg+2 Nicola Montalbano raised to 250,000, button William Teoh three-bet to 550,000, small blind Terry Gonzaga four-bet shoved, Montalbano folded, Teoh called and opened 8♣ 8♠ . Gonzaga had A♥ K♣ . The board ran 5♠ K♥ 4♦ J♣ T♦ for a double up to Gonzaga.

50,000 ante

Hijack Edwin Dela Cruz raises to 100,000 and finds three callers to the flop 3♥ 2♣ A♣ . Action is checked to cutoff William Teoh who bets 220,000, button Terry Gonzaga three-bet shoves, no callers.

40,000 ante

From utg, Terry Gonzaga shoves, hijack Czar Ian Marcos calls with A♦ Q♦ . Gonzaga ahead with A♥ K♥ . The board runs low 3♥ 9♣ 5♠ 2♥ 8♠ for the King kicker to play.

15,000 ante

Czar Ian Marcos raises to 30,000, hijack Terry Gonzaga three-bets to 90,000, Marcos calls. On the flop Q♠ J♦ Q♥ , Marcos check-calls a 60,000 bet. On the turn 4♦ and river 5♥ , both players check it down. Marcos opens 9♣ 9♥ , Gonzaga mucks.

10,000 ante

10,000 ante

Preflop raise war leads to Jason Kyle Magbanua all in with A♣ Q♣ and is up against bigger stacked Terry Gonzaga with T♦ T♠ . With the board running 2♠ 9♣ 9♦ 3♠ 4♣ , out goes Magbanua as Gonzaga ships it.

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.

2,000 ante

From under the gun, Christopher Puyat raises to 5,000, button Zhining Chen and big blind Terry Gonzaga call. At the flop 8♠ K♣ 8♥ , Puyat c-bets 5,000, Chen goes all in, Gonzaga checks out, Puyat opts to fold as well.

1,000 ante

From under the gun +1, Terry Gonzaga raises to 2,200, big blind calls. At the flop T♣ 2♠ [2h}, Gonzaga bets 2,000 and is called. On the turn T♥ , both players check to bring on the river 2♣ . Big blind leads out 10,000, Gonzaga calls. Big blind has J♥ 6♦ bluff, Gonzaga ships it with Q♦ Q♥ full house.

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.

5,000 ante

Two players built a 100,000 pot by the river 2♥ 3♥ 2♠ 2♣ K♦ . Liao Po Hsun checked, lojack Terry Gonzaga bet 50,000, Liao called then mucked to Gonzaga’s A♣ K♥ full house.

5,000 ante

Preflop action builds a 70,000 pot, the flop runs A♥ Q♣ 4♥ . Big blind Terry Gonzaga bets 50,000, utg+1 Lin Hao folds.