
Day 2 Final
Jeffrey Ballester Busts

When faced with a UTG min-rasie, BU Jeffrey Ballester jams his last 49,000 holding 8♣ 8♥ and initial raiser Jonald Garcia calls the rest with T♦ 9♦ . The dealer favors the over cards with 6♠ J♠ 6♦ A♦ T♠ and we inch one closer to the finish line.
Player | Chips |
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JG Jonald Garcia | 370,000(46 BB) |
JB Jeffrey Ballester | busted |
Flight A
Jess Dalipe Bags The Lead In Flight A Of The Manila Megastack Kick-off

After an eventful day we have our final 13 players of Flight A with Jess Dalipe coming out on top, bagging 379,000 after chipping up early and a pivotal hand at level 9, holding A♣ A♠ against Chogo Kento's A♥ K♥ for all the chips to go in pre, ending with a crucial double up.
Rounding out the top 3 are Moon Kyung Ho with 334,000 and Eric Ceret bagging 331,000.
One of the most active players of the day was Darren Moves with 232,000 to his name and bringing the day to an end by busting Shirai Hiroto in the bubble with Ace-Queen versus Ace-Six.
The full leaderboard looks like this :
Player | Chips |
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JD Jess Dalipe | 379,000(76 BB) |
MK Moon Kyung Ho | 334,000(67 BB) |
EC Eric Ceret | 331,000(66 BB) |
JT Johnson Tan | 312,000(62 BB) |
CB Christian Bulpett | 234,000(47 BB) |
DM Darren Moves | 232,000(46 BB) |
NM Nichols Manalo | 192,000(38 BB) |
MM Masakazu Miyamoto | 140,000(28 BB) |
133,000(27 BB) | |
XQ Xia Qi | 115,000(23 BB) |
QA Quijano Anacleto | 79,000(16 BB) |
JB Jeffrey Ballester | 78,000(16 BB) |
SW Sham Wing Sheuk | 23,000(5 BB) |
With two players left to bust for the day to come to a close the leaderboard is as follows :
Player | Chips |
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JD Jess Dalipe | 374,000(125 BB) |
JT Johnson Tan | 351,000(117 BB) |
MK Moon Kyung Ho | 350,000(117 BB) |
EC Eric Ceret | 235,000(78 BB) |
NM Nichols Manalo | 226,000(75 BB) |
CB Christian Bulpett | 193,000(64 BB) |
XQ Xia Qi | 139,000(46 BB) |
MM Masakazu Miyamoto | 135,000(45 BB) |
QA Quijano Anacleto | 122,000(41 BB) |
120,000(40 BB) | |
120,000(40 BB) | |
JB Jeffrey Ballester | 95,000(32 BB) |
SW Sham Wing Sheuk | 54,000(18 BB) |
DM Darren Moves | 33,000(11 BB) |
KG Kiril Gelev | 25,000(8 BB) |
Player | Chips |
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JD Jess Dalipe | 184,500(123 BB) |
LL Liu Li Ming | 151,000(101 BB) |
EC Eric Ceret | 150,000(100 BB) |
CB Christian Bulpett | 135,500(90 BB) |
MM Masakazu Miyamoto | 131,000(87 BB) |
DM Darren Moves | 123,000(82 BB) |
QA Quijano Anacleto | 118,500(79 BB) |
MJ Murakami Junichi | 87,500(58 BB) |
JB Jeffrey Ballester | 86,000(57 BB) |
KG Kiril Gelev | 68,500(46 BB) |
Player | Chips |
---|---|
JD Jess Dalipe | 83,500(139 BB) |
76,300(127 BB) | |
59,400(99 BB) | |
GJ Gun Jegal | 59,200(99 BB) |
KG Kiril Gelev | 51,000(85 BB) |
RY Ryuichiro Yamakawa | 50,400(84 BB) |
HW Hao Wu (7) | 43,500(73 BB) |
GS George Salud | 40,800(68 BB) |
MM Masakazu Miyamoto | 39,300(66 BB) |
JB Jeffrey Ballester | 38,500(64 BB) |
BN Bryan Nielsen | busted |
Patrick Wahlquist's C-bet Enough

Button Patrick Wahlquist three bets 4,000 with initial raiser Jeffrey Ballester in HJ and CO Jongsu Kim calling for a 5♥ A♣ T♣ flop. A 5,500 c-bet is enough for Patrick Wahlquist to pick up the chips.
Player | Chips |
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PW Patrick Wahlquist | 64,000(128 BB) |
JK Jongsu Kim | 26,300(53 BB) |
JB Jeffrey Ballester | 21,700(43 BB) |
Jeffrey Ballester Takes It On The Turn

Komaki Minami is first to act and gives us an 800 open with the blinds defending again to see the flop 7♥ 9♥ 7♣ . Keeping his foot on the gas, Komaki Minami leads 2,000 and after two calls we see the turn K♣ . When faced with another 3,000 lead, Jeffrey Ballester raises to 8,000 and bags the pot.
Player | Chips |
---|---|
34,000(113 BB) | |
JB Jeffrey Ballester | 33,500(112 BB) |
27,000(90 BB) |