Main Event

Already amassing 18 career binks and amassing close to US$400,000 in his long career, Eman Segismundo is one who definitely is knowledgeable in what it takes to win it all at any given time.

This native of Marikina City has been a fixture in the local poker scene, having started in small buy-in tournaments during the early part of the millennium and has acquired skills that make him thrive in any field, especially large ones as exemplified by his conquests several Main Events including the Pokerstars LIVE Manila Super Series Main Event in 2017 and recently the Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Deepstack event in 2023.

Segsmundo has a stack of 322,000 and is closely followed by two Filipinos in Joemark Vasay with 315,000 and Maxwell Rosete's third best holdings of 299,000.

Day 2 gets underway at 1PM (UCT+8) today (September 28).

Day 1D (Turbo) entries: 63 (57 unique)

Chips in play: 1,830,000

Average stack: 130,714 (14 BB)

Blinds: 1,000/1,500 (1,500 BB Ante)

Remaining players: 10

Dates: September 25-29, 2024

Buy in: Php 45,000 (~US$800)

Guarantee: PhP20,000,000 (~US$357,000)

Day 1A entries: 78 / 12 qualified

Day 1B entries: 130 / 20 qualified

Day 1C entries: 250 / 38 qualified

Day 1D (Turbo) entries: 63 / 10 qualified

Day 2: Saturday, September 28

Day 3/Final Day: Sunday, September 29

Here are the ten players who advanced to Day 2 of the Main Event from this flight:

With action folded to the blinds, Denmark's Patrick Wahlquist in the SB made the bold move to shove into the BB of Korean poker veteran Lee Suya. After much consideration, Lee opted to call.

Wahlquist turned over A♣ 5♦ while Lee showed live cards in J♣ 7♠ .

The flop came 9♥ 4♥ A♦ giving Wahlquist an almost insurmountable lead.

Needing running cards to extend his tournament life and continue the day's competition, Lee found himself drawing dead on the turn when the Q♦ appeared. To add insult to injury, Wahlquist gets the A♠ on the river as Lee is the final elimination of Day 1D and brings the remaining ten players into Day 2 to join the 70 others who already advanced.

Joemark Vasay knows that he is close to advancing and needs to control his own destiny by staying aggressive with the bubble looming.

He raises from UTG but to his surprise, fellow Filipinos George Salud and Mac Mantos go all-in. Salud is in for his last 84,000 and Mantos for his last 32,000. Covering both, Vasay takes on the challenge and makes the call.

Salud tables A♥ K♥ while Mantos turns over Q♥ J♠. Vasay shows 9♠ 9♦ and even if he has a made hand, it is vulnerable against such over cards.

The runout goes: 3♦ 6♦ 6♠ 2♣ 5♥ .

Vasay dodges all overcards and successfully busts two players in the process.

The action got folded to the CO where Filipino Martin Gonzales suddenly put all his chips in the middle and was called by Korea's Kim Yang Kyun who covered him.

Gonzales turned over T♠ T♣ while the Kim showed he had two over card and coin flipping with K♠ Q♠ .

The first three cards of the runout were 3♣ J♠ A♦ and one of Gonzales' mates shouted: "No ten!"

That's exactly what happened on the turn, though, as the T♥ appeared.

Needing the board to pair on the river, the 4♦ came out and sent the Filipino veteran to the rail for good

Hong Kong's Harish Asnani had only one move in mind when the action was folded to him in the SB: go all-in for his last 84,000 to steal the blinds and ante. He did just that but got called by Korean An Sangjin in the BB.

Asnani flipped over A♥ 2♥ and the Korean had the edge holding 6♦ 6♠ .

The flop came 8♦ A♣ 6♣ as Asnani's prayer for an ace was answered, but he didn'y want to see it with a six that gave a set to this opponent. The 7♦ on the turn sealed the deal and the Q♥ on the river made Asnani's exit official.

In a batle of two Filipino pros, Eman Segismundo raises from the CO for 17,000 but is greeted by a 3-bet from Joemark Vasay in the SB for 51,000.

Segimundo took a moment before declaring all-in for 226,000. Vasay took a moment before folding.

The final flight of the Main Event has drawn 61 entries to bring the total entries to 769. We shall await the official prize pool however it looks like it is well past PHP 29 Million.

Date: September 27, 2024

Buy-in: PHP 10,000 (~US$178)

Guarantee: PHP 20,000,000

Flight D Entries: 61

ITM / Bagging time: 10

Cards are in the air for Main Event Day 1D!