Main Event (45,000 PHP)

Andy Chan looks at K♦ Q♦ in the CO and says all-in for 740,000. SB William Ysmael is the only one to call with A♥ J♠ and the interested onlookers are watching the dealer hit the felt 6♦ 4♠ 4♦ T♥ 5♥ thus bringing Andy Chan's Cinderella story to an end and putting William Ysmael in an even better position to hunt for his 2nd Main Event title in a row.

The action gets folded to Andy Chan again, he looks down at 3♥ 3♠ and announces all-in for 410,000. William Ysmael fills up his BB with K♥ 5♥ and the dealer takes center stage again. The board completes 6♦ 7♣ T♥ 6♣ 6♥ granting Andy another double up.

#95 goes to William Ysmael with a CO min-open.

#96 is taken down by another min from Richard Marquez in UTG.

#97 gets folded to SB Andy Chan - who made it all the way here after starting day 2 with five big blinds - he jams his remaining 165,000 with 9♥ 4♣ and gets called by BB Richard Marquez with 9♦ 7♥ who is dominating. Having grown up with Disney movies, the dealer wants the Cinderella story to continue and tables A♦ 4♠ 3♣ 3♥ 8♠ to grant Andy Chan a suck out and a much needed double up.

Andy Chan kicks off the action with a 160,000 raise from UTG and BB alvir Inocentes defends his big to see the flop 3♠ 6♠ 8♣ where a 150,000 c-bet finds a caller to go to the turn 4♦ that has both players check to complete the board A♦ . Alvir is done checking and switches to a lead of 375,000 instead which brings the hand to an end.

Hand #74 kicks off with a jam from +2 Andy Chan for 625,000, holding A♠ 7♥ and gets called by short stack Oliver Duran with T♠ T♦ . The dealer reduces Oliver's chances to two outs by flipping over the A♥ first and finds neither of them by completing the board 9♠ 8♣ 3♣ K♦ to end Oliver Duran's Run in 8th place.

Hand #7 starts with William Ysmael opening 85,000 from +1 and BB Andy Chan defending to see the flop 2♦ T♣ 7♥ that has Ysmael continue for 80,000 and Chan calls for the turn 9♠ to be revealed. A second barrel of 285,000 ends the hand for Ysmael to scoop the pot.

Having reached the Final 9 down from 77 that started Day 2 Richard Marquez came to life towards the end running up a massive chip lead that resulted in him bagging 3,070,000 in first, but Alvir Inocentes - the only player that qualified for day 2 twice - mounted a late charge that included the last minute elimination of Christopher Mateo on the final table bubble and brought him close to the leader with 2,825,000 in chips.

With an exiting journey through the ITM stage down to the final table done, we give the players some time to recover before we resume play tomorrow at 13:00 with the contenders battling over the lion share of the P20,113,920 prize pool and P3,713,920 on top.

We will see you here tomorrow for the live updates again and leave you with the chip counts of the final 9 :

Andy Chan decides to open-limp his SB and fills up when BB Richard Marquez wants 200,000 to continue. The flop 3♣ 9♦ 7♥ has Chan check-call 185,000 to the turn 4♥ and another check-call for 350,000 to complete the board 4♦ . Faced with a third barrel of 700,000, Andy Chan lets it go.

Andy Chan kicks us off the an 80,000 raise from UTG to take BU Yohei Katsuragawa on a trip to the flop J♥ A♠ Q♥ that gets checked to the turn 2♠ . A delayed c-bet of 100,000 finds a call and we complete the board with the 4♠ . Another 200,000 wander over the line for Andy Chan, trying to steal with K♦ 9♦ , but after the aid of a time bank, Yohei Katsuragawa is good to go and calls with Q♣ T♥ to scoop up the pot and stay in a comfortable spot.

UTG Andy Chan kicks us off with a 50,000 open, called by Manuel Geronimo for his last 40,000 and the SB tags along to see the flop 8♣ T♦ 8♦ . Andy Chan successfully isolates with a 30,000 c-bet, shows A♠ Q♠ against Manuel Geronimo's A♥ 4♠ and the dealer delivers another knockout by completing the board 7♥ 2♥ .

Starting us off with a raise to 25,000, David Rene Mar takes BB Andy Chan to the flop 3♦ A♥ 3♠ and continues for 18,000. Andy Chan pays up to see the turn T♣ that gets checked for the river 4♠ to be revealed where Andy Chan switches to a lead, value-betting for 76,000 holding 5♣ 2♥ . After taking his time, David Rene Mar makes the call to muck against Andy Chan's big blind special, losing a time bank in the process.

This time Andy Chan starts the action with a 20,000 raise from HJ, countered by William Ysmael in BB defending with a 108,000 three-bet, but has to let it go when faced with another all-in from Andy Chan for 230,000.

HJ William Ysmael opens 18,000 with A♣ 9♠ and BB Andy Chan jams 116,000 with K♦ K♠ for a heads up race. The dealer unveils the board J♠ 2♦ 5♠ Q♥ 8♦ and grants Andy Chan the double up.

After a grueling 11 hours and 15 levels of play we reached the finish line with 9 players standing.

Remigiusz Hajduk barely came out on top, bagging 281,000 with the aid of a massive hand just before the end with AA versus AK, knocking out Hwang Minsoo in 11th. Gun Jegal was very active from the start with some swings here and there to take 2nd place with 280,000 and a very solid Oliver Duran in 3rd with 263,000.

Flight B starts tomorrow at 13:00 with 10 levels of late registration lasting until 20:10.

as always, here are today's 9 qualifiers all in one place:

Folded to SB Andy Chan, 6,500 go over the line and BB Vivencio Nachor Jr. defends to see the flop 2♦ 5♠ 9♦ with a 7,000 c-bet going in front for Andy Chan. Vivencio Nachor Jr. increases to 19,000 to reveal the turn T♠ and Andy Chan immediately shoves holding K♠ 9♠ . Vivencio Nachor Jr. calls with his remain 43,000 tabling T♥ 8♠ , but gets outdrawn on the river Q♠ .

Looking down at A♥ Q♠ and a raise to 5,500 from UTG Oliver Duran, Andy Chan slides his remaining 39,000 over the line. Duran calls with 6♣ 6♠ for a flip that goes to Chan after the dealer hit the felt with Q♦ A♣ 3♥ 9♥ 5♥ .

Jong Hyun Song opens 1,500 from BU and BB Andy Chan defends to see the flop 5♣ 2♥ J♣ . A 2,500 c-bet takes us to the turn Q♥ where Jong Hyun Song takes it down with another 6,000 continuation.