Kick-off (16,500 PHP)

Christopher Mateo initiates the action with a 90,000 raise from +1, Dalipe Jess puts his last 70,000 into the middle for a call in BU and Elmer Kalaquian goes over the top from BB with 410,000. A quick call from Mateo sends the dealer to work.

With Nichols Manalo opening another hand for 60,000 and two calls from the BU and SB we get treated with the flop Q♣ A♦ T♣ . A c-bet for 80,000 keeps only BU Elmer Kalaquian in the hunt and the 8♦ turn is revealed for a check-around to the river Q♥ . Another 175,000 from Nichols Manalo does the trick to move up into the top positions on the leader board.

Yuhei Ando's UTG min-raise finds three callers from BU, SB and BB and the dealer reveals the flop 4♣ 2♣ J♦ . Ando's c-bet gets answered by a check-raise all-in for 80,000 from Michihiko Matsuda in the BB to end the hand right there.

With that we have the final 11 players advancing to Day 2 of the Kick-off on the books, making it a total of 50 out of 337 over all three flights.

Without us noticing, Elmer Kalaquian fought his way to the top, bagging a respectable 370,000, Christopher Mateo - who just missed the cut-off in Flight B finishing in 33rd earlier in the day - close on his heels with 359,000 and Manuel Geronimo, who was very active throughout the whole day, coming in 3rd with 318,000 to his name.

The action will continue tomorrow at noon with the final 50 battling it out until the last player standing.

Here are the complete chip counts of Flight C :