
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 |
---|---|
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) |
Tetsura Ogura Loses Another And Is Out
Tetsura Ogura looks at 9♠ 9♣ in the CO and announces all-in for 59,000. Easy call for BB Xia Qi with K♦ K♥ and the dealer tables 2♣ Q♣ 6♣ K♣ Q♥ with Tetsura Ogura improving to a flush, but Xia Qi still takes it down with kings full.
Player | Chips |
---|---|
XQ Xia Qi | 143,500(48 BB) |
TO Tetsura Ogura | busted |
Xia Qi Banks A Healthy Pot
Xia Qi starts the action with a 2,700 raise UTG and finds two costumers in the button and BB for a flop K♦ J♥ 7♥ . Not slowing down, Xia Qi c-bets for 3,000 and BB Nakabo Hirotoshi is the only one to stay around for the turn 3♥ . Another 5,000 and a call give us the river 9♣ and we check to show down.
Player | Hand | Chips |
---|---|---|
HN Hirotoshi Nakabo | K♥4♣ | 21,000(18 BB) |
XQ Xia Qi | A♣A♦ | 49,500(41 BB) |