Kick-off (16,500 PHP)

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 :

First to act Qi Le Wah limps with a 6,000 raise from HJ Chang Chen-Ming who finds two callers for the flop 2♣ 4♣ A♣ . A 9,000 c-bet only gets called by limper Qi Le Wah for the dealer to table the K♦ on the turn. Another 18,000 from Chang Chen-Ming seals the deal, banking a nice pot.