Kick-off (16,500 PHP)

Jongho Lee Opens 60,000 from UTG and finds three takers in +2, HJ and BB to see the flop 3♠ A♣ Q♠ . His 85,000 c-bet gets countered by a 250,000 raise from HJ Keijiro Shimojo to send the action back to Jongho Lee who goes deep in the tank. After the aid of two time banks he says all-in for 650,000, holding A♠ J♠ and gets snapped by Keijiro Shimojo showing 3♥ 3♣ , putting Jongho Lee at risk. The dealer delivers two blanks in the form of 9♣ 8♠ to eliminate the underdog.

A 350,000 all-in from UTG Jonald Garcia gets called by BB Jongho Lee for the next race.

With an open shove from Ricky Oyama in UTG for 150,000 and a call by Jongho Lee in the BB, the dealer has one player at risk.

Jamming 55,000 from the button with J♠ J♥ and both blinds filling up we see the board J♣ K♣ 5♦ 5♥ 9♥ get checked down for the Jacks to come out on top.

Opening 25,000 from BU, Jimin Lim snaps for his last 100,000 when Jongho Lee announces all-in from the big blind and we go flipping.

Lee Jongho starts the action with a 12,000 raise from HJ and goes deep into the tank when CO Qi Le Wah announces all-in for 63,000. With two time banks and the chips for a call going in the middle, we have a race on our hands.

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 :

Picking up the the action on a Q♦ K♠ 6♥ flop and 45,000 in the middle, we check to the river A♦ T♠ with Jonald Garcia sliding in a strong 40,000 bet out of position that takes it down against Lee Jongho.

With no more option to re-enter the action, the current leaderboard consists of the following names :