Main Event (45,000 PHILIPPINE PESO)

American Ronald Lane makes a raise from UTG for 15,000 and gets called by two Filipinos in Manuel Geronimo from the Button and Edwin de la Cruz in the BB.

The flop comes 2♠ 2♦ 9♣ as de la Cruz checks. Lane CBets to 30,000 making Geronimo fold. De la Cruz ships his remaining 20,000 in the middle for his tournament life.

Lane shows T♥ T♦ with a dismayed de la Cruz turning over K♠ 9♠ for top pair on the flop.

Needing a king, a nine or running cards to make a flush, the poker gods didn't hear his plea and instead rolled out the 5♥ and the 4♣ busting Filipino just short of Day 2.

In a blind vs. blind situation, two Filipinos clash as Manuel Geronimo completes his SB and Edwin de la Cruz checks on the BB.

The flop is 6♦ 4♣ 2♣ . Geronimo bets 8,000 and de la Cruz raises it to 20,000. Sfter a few seconds Geronimo declares he is all-in and de la Cruz snap calls.

Geronimo flips over 8♣ n6c for top pair and a flush draw while de la Cruz tables 6♠ 4♠ for top two pairs.

The turn is the 2♠ and the fateful is the A♣ to complete Geronimo's flush and cripple de la Cruz's stack.

Two Filipinos go at it as Manuel Geronimo riaes to 5,500 from middle position and Edwin de la Cruz 3-bets to 15,000 in late position. Geronimo calls.

The flop comes 8♠ 5♦ A♥ as Geronimo checks. De la Cruz unloads for 15,000 and Geronimo empties the clip for an all-in raise for 86,000.

The man call "Hit D Heat" cools down and folds.

Edwin de la Cruz (better known as "Hit D'Heat" in the Philippine poker circuit) just melted the Big Slick of Japan's Ryo Suzuki when the Japanese player raised from the +1 position for 3,500 and got a call from Filipino Eugene Co. De la Cruz then 3-bet from the CO to 12,500 and Suzuki 4-bet all-in for 34,000. Co got out of the way and de la Cruz made the call.

Suzuki tabled A♣ K♦ while de la Cruz showed 9♦ 9♣ .

The runout missed Suzuki's holdings completely: 3♣ 8♥ 7♦ 2♠ T♥ as de la Cruz eliminates the Japanese player and now has a six-figure chip count.