Kick-off (16,500 PHP)

With 173 entries today we doubled yesterdays field of 86 and the same can be said for the action. A lot of players have more than one bullet to their name and the final chip counts reveal Shimojo Keijiro being the only one topping half a million largely due to him eliminating Christian Lortie on the bubble, adding a hefty 166,000 last minute.

Roxanne Victorino - one of the multi bullet contenders - bagged the 2nd highest stack with 440,000 after a roller coaster ride early in the game. Closely followed by Hyunbae Lim with 439,000 and both players topping yesterdays chip leader Jess Dalipe who will start Day 2 with 379,000.

The full chip counts are as follows :

Alex Taneo starts us off with a 12,000 open from +1 and CO Shiina Tsubasa calls to see the flop J♣ 8♥ 5♥ . Checked to the river 5♠ 7♠ Alex Taneo tries again for 12,000 with A♣ 3♣, but gets called by Shiina Tsubasa showing A♥ 9♥ for the better kicker.

UTG Andrei Vavilonskii looks down at 3♥ 4♥ , slides his last big blind in the middle and the action folds to Alex Taneo on the button who successfully isolates for 20,000 with A♦ Q♣ and the dealer cooks up 6♦ 6♠ K♥ 7♣ 2♣ , sending another player to the rail.

SB Alex Taneo opens for 5,500 and Pavlou Anastasios finds a call to see the flop 9♦ J♦ 7♣ . Countering the SB's 6,000 c-bet with a 15,500 raise of his own we see the turn 6♦ and Alex Taneo takes over the reins once more by announcing all-in and taking home the pot.