Kick-off (16,500 PHP)

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.

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 :

UTG Komaki Minami opens 2,000 and button Junita Ishikawa makes it 6,000 with the CO calling twice in the middle we see the flop 9♠ 5♠ 3♠ three-way. Junita Ishikawa c-bets 5,000, with only Komaki Minami continuing, who decides to let it go when facing another 7,000 bet on the turn 4♠ .

HJ Komaki Minami opens 1,200 with SB Junita Ishikawa calling to see the flop 5♣ 9♣ 5♥ . Leading 1,500, 2,500 and 5,000 to complete the board 2♥ T♦ , Junita Ishikawa doesn't want to pay again.

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.

Komaki Minami starts the action with 800 from UTG, Mike Blomvan makes it 2,300 from the SB and Junita Ishikawa calls twice from the button and we see the flop 4♠ K♥ Q♦ three-way. Checked around to the 4♠ , Mike Blomvan leads 1,500 and Komaki Minami makes it 5,000 to end the hand right there.