Main Event

Hijack Gerges Kyrillos opened to 58,500, leaving himself 10,000 behind. Button Ho Tung Chun made the call and saw flop 4♦ Q♦ J♦ . Checked to Ho, he bet the 1BB left and Gerges flicked in the rest of his stack.

Ho K♥ Q♥ Gerges 5♥ 5♠

Drawing to two outs, the runout Q♣ J♥ missed to help Gerges leaving him to head for the exit in 18th.

Utg Gerges Kyrillos opened to 33,000, called by button Butch Bautista. Flop came 8♦ T♥ 3♥ and saw Kyrillos check-call a 31,000 bet from Bautista. Kyrillos checked the turn T♦ , prompting a 50,000 bet from his opponent. This time, Kyrillos raised to 125,000 and Bautista answered with a bigger 300,000. Kyrillos moved all-in for 89,000 more, called once more behind.

Kyrillos T♠ T♣ Bautista 5♥ 5♦

With quads, Bautista was left drawing dead and lost over 28 BB from his stack from the hand alone.

Folded to Alvir Inocentes on the button, he raised all-in with A♣ Q♣ and was called by big blind Gerges Kyrillos with A♦ 7♥ . An ace high flop 5♦ A♥ 8♦ gave both players top pair but the run out 2♠ J♣ meant that kickers would place. Inocentes locked up the win with the better ace for a full double up.

Registration is closed for Day 1A with a total of 198 entries recorded and a generated prize pool of PHP 2,535,192. Remaining field will play down to ITM at 30 players to cap the first flight on schedule.

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