Main Event (45,000 PHILIPPINE PESO)

Day 1B chip leader Vince Nachor of the Philippines has not been having a good Day 2 and is down to only 120,000 in chips which he commits UTG. He gets one customer in China's Tai Weiliang at the D but fellow Filipino Edilberto "Duroy" Gopez opts to isolate by going over the top all-in for 515,000. Tai makes the call and suddenly three players are all-in for a pot worth over one million in chips.

Nachor shows A♣ 2♣ while Gopez tables K♦ K♣. Tai now pins his hopes on yet another double elimination with Big Slick A♠ K♥ .

The runout goes: 4♠ Q♦ 4♣ 2♠ Q♣ as Gopez ejects Nachor and puts a damper on Tai's amazing run by sending the Chinese player down to a mere ten BBs.

It's blind versus blind as Malta's Brandon Misfud just completes his SB against the BB of Filipino Vince Nachor. However, Nachor raises it to 13,000. Misfud tanks and calls.

The flop is 6♥ 4♣ Q♥ as Misfud checks.

The Filipino continues firing, this time for 11,000. Misfud perfroms a check-raise to 34,000 as Nachor 3-bets all-in. Misfud calls for the rest of his stack worth 132,000.

Nachor flips over K♥ K♣ while Misfud shows K♦ Q♦.

The turn produces the T♦ while the river brings the T♣ , eliminating the Maltese player.

Day 1B chip leader Vince Nachor of the Philippines raises from the +1 position to 12,000 and the action gets folded around to the SB of China's Jack Li-Yinding who makes the call.

The flop shows 5♣ 5♦ 7♥ as both players check.

The turn is the 8♦ and Li-Yinding checks again. This time, Nachor fires 10,000 as the Chinese player calls again.

The river is the 8♦. Now Li-Tinding comes blasting for 35,000. Nachor makes the call.

Li-Yindang turns over 5♥ 5♠ , flopping quads. Nachor mucks.

He has never cashed abroad but he has won seven titles on his home soil and could be on the precipice of his biggest one yet as Vince Nachor emerges as the Manila Megastack Main Event Day 1B with 296,000 and holds the third largest stack heading into Day 2 on Saturday, September 28.

His ascent to the top of the leaderboard began when he waylaid Singapore's Szetho Zhong when his pocket queens held against the open-ended straight draw of his opponent for a major double up to claim the chip lead and eventually cruised to the top and stayed there by staying hot like the backdoor flush he had against fellow Filipino Raymundo Gomez on a board of 7♠ 2♠ 5♦ 3♦ 7♦ and showing A♦ T♦ . Nachor even sent the competition to the Bubble by eliminating two-time Super Stack titlist Ashley Patterson.

But the mission hasn't been completed yet and a deep run will enable him to climb out of 56th in the all-time Philippine money list.

Jaime Ramon Reyes of the United States finished with the second in chips with 281,000 while Korea's Lee Hyundong got third with 273,000.

Day 1B entries: 130 (104 unique)

Chips in play: 3,900,000

Average stack: 195,000 (49 BB)

Blinds: 2,000/4,000 (4,000 BB Ante)

Remaining players: 20

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: Friday, September 27

Day 1D (Turbo): Friday, September 27

Day 2: Saturday, September 28

Day 3/Final Day: Sunday, September 29

With the BB and the BB ante looming in the next, England's Ashey Patterson shoves his remaining 14,000 UTG and gets calls from chip leader Vince Nachor of the Philippines in the +2 position and China's Liu Zhiqiang on the Button.

The flop goes T♠ 4♦ A♦ as Nachor and Liu check.

The turn brings out the 4♣ and Nachor begins building the side pot with a bet of 10,000. Liu Calls.

The river is the 5♣ as this time both players check.

Patterson shows Q♣ 7♣ , Nachor reveals A♠ 8♠ and Liu tables K♠ J♣ as Nachor scoops the pot and eliminates Patterson whose deep run in the Main Event once again falls short.

Shayne Villanueva of the Northern Marianas Islands opens the action from UTG for 2,100 but then local player Vince Nachor re-pops him from the D for 8,400. Singapore's Szetho Zhong joins the action by calling from the BB. Villanueva decides to fold.

It is Heads Up to the flop of 8♠ 2♣ 9♥ as Zhong checks. Nachor continues for 12,000 as Zhong calls.

The turn is the 6♥ . Zhong checks again and this time Nachor ships it for 45,000 and covers his Singaporean opponent. Zhong still calls.

Nachor flips over Q♥ Q♣ while a deflated Zhong turns over 7♣ 7♠ .

The river card did not help Zhong as he now has options on whether to return to the competition or not.