Main Event (45,000 PHP)

Yohei Katsuragawa opens 6,000 from UTG with A♠ Q♦ and Darren Moves slides his remaining 30,000 in the middle from +1 holding K♠ Q♥ . The dealer has some doubts last minute on 6♠ Q♠ J♠ K♦ A♥ , but hands it to the favorite anyway.

Joseph Talamayan leads the way with a raise to 3,500 from HJ and both blinds defend to see the flop 7♥ 5♣ T♥ that gets checked to the turn T♠ . Checked to the aggressor, 7,000 leave his stack for a delayed c-bet and only SB Darren Moves pays up to see the board complete 4♥ where he takes over with a 5,000 lead holding T♣ 9♠ , gets called and his opponent mucks.

Jamming his last 5,500 with K♦ 2♣ , Hisashi Yamanouchi gets called by Darren Moves with J♠ T♦ and the dealer flips over 3♦ 2♦ 5♦ A♥ T♣ for the next elimination.

After being chip leader at some point and a rough few hands recently, Darren Moves opens another hand for 2,500 from UTG, finds opposition in BU Junichi Murakami jamming 45,000 with A♠ J♠ and Darren moves fills it with his last 38,000 holding A♥ Q♠ to dominate. The dealer unveils 2♠ 7♥ 8♣ A♣ K♦ and puts Darren Moves back into contention.

Darren Moves opens 1,600 from the button, BB Jose Colada jams 13,700 with A♣ J♦ and Moves fills up with K♠ Q♠ . The dealer keeps it interesting to the end, hitting the felt K♦ 6♠ A♦ 4♦ Q♦ and hands the pot to Jose Colada with a flush.

Apling Pamplona kicks off the action with a limp from UTG and BU Darren Moves raises to 1,000 for a heads-up flop 5♦ A♠ T♠ that gets checked to the turn J♥ . Pamplona leads 1,000 and gets raised to 2,000 from Darren Moves for the board to complete 4♣ . Checked to the latter, 5,000 go over the line to scoop the pot.

We pick up another pot of 17,500 on the river K♠ T♠ 9♥ 4♣ 7♥, where SB Darren Moves leads 6,000 to pick it up against Ando Yuhei in the HJ.

Yusuke Akimoto opens 300 from CO, BU calls and BB Sohei Aoyama makes it 1,100 to see the flop 2♦ 3♥ 3♠ three-way. A simple 700 continuation takes it down for Sohei Aoyama.

Having been down to a single 1,000 chip, Darren Moves is somehow still standing and wagers his reacquired 32,000 with A♥ K♥ from the button. Chip leader Fransisco Sanchez calls with A♣ Q♥ , cant hit on 2♣ J♠ K♦ 6♥ 8♥ and breathes new life into Darren Moves' tournament ambitions.

Picking up the action on the flop 7♥ 7♦ T♣ , 19,000 in the middle and three players still fighting for it, the BB leads 18,000, An Seung Yong jams 113,500 with T♠ T♦ from UTG and CO Darren Moves successfully isolates for 114,500 holding 5♣ 7♣ . No miracle with the board completing 2♣ Q♥ , putting the Action-Aussie down to a single chip.

Darren Moves initiates the action once more with a 4,500 open from UTG to take the button Masanori Ishihara to another unicolor flop Q♥ 2♥ 3♥ and tests the waters with a 2,000 c-bet. The button pumps it to 7,000 and Darren Moves fills up. Another check-call of 10,000 takes him to the river 3♣ and he announces all-in for 20,000 with A♥ 9♥ flush. Masanori Ishihara doesn't believe it and makes the call to muck.

Darren Moves kicks off the action with a 5,000 raise from CO and both blinds defend to see the flop J♥ 2♥ T♥ . Darren Moves slides out another 5,000 as continuation and only BB Ando Yuhei pays up to the the turn Q♣ that gets checked to the river 4♥ . Not scared of the flush, Ando Yuhei takes over with a 20,000 lead, Darren Moves calls, but throws it in the muck when Ando Yuhei tables J♠ 4♣ .

With first to act Kim Seongjin opening for 600, +1 Darren Moves increses to 1,100 and calls the initial raiser's 4,500 four-bet to see the flop T♣ 6♠ 7♥ that gets checked all the way to the river 8♣ J♠ . Kim Seongjin lays out a final bet of 10,000 with K♠ K♦ and gets called, followed by a muck.

Picking up the action with 19,300 in the middle and the board already complete with 7♠ 4♦ 8♠ K♣ 8♥ , Darren Moves wagers his last 13,500 with K♠ Q♥ coming up short against An Seung Yong's 7♥ 7♦ .

A limp from UTG Darren Moves and a raise to 300 from BU Alexander Goh has the blinds defend for a 3♣ A♥ 9♣ flop. The preflop limper leads 300 to weed out the BB and see the turn 2♣ three-way. Another 1,200 lead does the trick for Darren Moves.