Main Event (45,000 PHP)

Flight D Turbo concluded at level 19 with 12 out of 79 rounding out our day 1 qualifiers. Joseph Talamayan already sat on a massive stack when we started our coverage and ended the flight in 1st place with 310,000, closely followed by Jester Initia with 306,000 and Kim Yongkyun with 285,000.

With 512 entries over all four flights, resulting in a total prize pool of P20,113,920 we have found our 78 finalists that will have to continue to bring their a-game tomorrow to have a chance at clinching the title and take home the P3,713,920 first prize.

Play will resume at 13:00 with everyone guaranteed a min cash of 75,000

Flight D complete chip counts :

Open-jamming 38,000 from CO with A♠ 7♠ , the shortest stack Ono Masahiro leaves his fate to the whims of the poker gods. BB Jose Colada calls with J♠ T♦ and there is hope for Ono Masahiro, but the poker gods are cruel tonight, completing the board 6♣ K♣ J♣ 8♠ 6♠ and finalizing our 12 qualifiers from Flight D.

Looking at J♦ J♠ it's now or never for Shiono Takashi announcing 50,000 all-in from the CO and BB Ronald Ferrer wakes up with A♠ K♥ for a quick call. The dealer tables 5♥ 5♣ 8♠ A♥ Q♠ handing out another elimination, thus bringing us to the bubble.

Coming from a late elimination in Flight C, Jester Initia shoves his medium sized 136,000 stack with A♦ A♣ from HJ and gets called by Aznar Ramdrick with 116,000 holding A♠ Q♠ . No Help for the underdog and we are down to 14 players.

Before we could lay our eyes on the tables we had another exit from Tracy Crisostomo in 16th.

Current chip stacks are as follows :

We will have 12 players qualify here, so we are down to the last four knockouts!

We are still finishing up Flight C chip counts, but will be here in a few minutes to continue the live updates.