Kick-off (16,500 PHP)

Coming off of an early double up, Lee Suya jams for 60,000 with A♦ T♦ from SB after CO Chris Pasion made it 12,000. Easy call for the CO with K♦ K♥ and the dealer takes center stage flipping over 5♠ 8♥ 5♣ 7♣ 4♥ to deliver the first elimination of the day.

Looking down at K♣ 9♣ and announcing all-in for 38,000 from the button, Lee Suya is up against BB Ryan Tan with A♥ 8♣ . The dealer gets warmed up with K♠ J♣ 6♦ K♦ 5♠ for Lee Suya to double.

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 :

Looi Tek Wye Jonathan starts us off with a raise to 5,000 from CO and both blinds defend with Lee Suya being all-in. The board gets checked to J♠ Q♦ 8♥ 6♣ and SB Lenart Ecarma tests the waters for 3,000. A call, the river 6♠ and another 25,000 from the SB eliminates the initial raiser and Lenart Ecarma takes all the chips with Q♠ Q♥ , sending Lee Suya home in the process.