Main Event (45,000 PHP)

With a raise to 60,000 from +1, Gun Jegal takes BU and BB to the flop 3♥ 5♠ 6♠ where he continues with 80,000. Only BU William Ysmael pays up to see the turn J♥ , Gun Jegal fires another barrel for 200,000 and is put all-in by William Ysmael. With the aid of a time bank, Gun Jegal makes the call with K♠ J♠ to be ahead of Ysmael's A♥ 6♥ , but the dealer has other ideas, hitting the felt with the 2♥ thereby giving William Ysmael a flush.

Marco Espela opens 32,000 and takes both blinds to the flop 6♠ 4♥ 7♠ that gets checked all the way to the river A♠ 5♥ where BB Gun Jegal slides out a lead of 40,000 that is met with a raise to 120,000 from the preflop aggressor and pumps it up further to a total of 290,000 with a straight K♠ 8♠ . After deliberating for over a minute, Marco Espela finds a call, but has to hand his cards to the dealer on top of two time banks.

SB Jester Initia open-limps his SB and Gun Jegal opts to check for the flop J♣ T♥ 2♠ to be revealed where Jester Initia tests the waters with a 13,000 lead that gets called to see the turn 7♠ . Switching to a check, Jester Initia calls a 23,000 bet from his opponent to complete the board 6♦ to check again. Faced with a final 98,000 bluff from Gun Jegal holding A♠ 9♣, Jester Initia goes deep in the tank, but trusts his gut and makes the call with J♦ 3♦ aided by two time banks.

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:

Gun Jegal starts off another hand with a raise to 8,000 from UTG, SB calls and BB Shinoda Takuya shoves his remaining 45,000 with 9♦ 9♠ . Gun Jegal is the only taker showing K♣ Q♥ and the dealer gets ready to decide the next flip. The board runs Q♦ A♣ J♠ J♣ 5♥ and we are down to 12 players.

Christopher Mateo kicks off the action with a raise to 6,500 from BU, followed by a 96,500 jam from BB Gun Jegal with J♣ J♦ and Mateo fills up with A♦ Q♥ . No help for Mateo on T♠ 4♥ 9♦ K♥ 7♣ and a big double up for Gun Jegal.

This time Gun Jegal opens 5,000 from CO, countered by a 13,000 three-bet from Remigiusz Hajduk on the button and only a call to see the flop T♦ A♦ 9♣ . Remigiusz Hajduk wants 9,000 to see the turn 9♠ and ends the hand with an unanswered bet of 25,500.

HJ Gun Jegal opens 5,500, countered by CO Remigiusz Hajduk with a 13,000 three-bet before the initial raiser puts in another 39,500 to take it down pre flop.

Folded to SB Gun Jegal 4,000 go over the line and BB Hajduk Remigiusz defends to see the flop K♥ J♣ 9♣ . A 3,000 c-bet is called for the turn 6♦ and Gun Jegal slides out the winning bet of 6,000.

HJ Gun Jegal starts us off with 800 and BB Samson Hiu defends to see the flop 8♠ K♠ K♦ . A 300 c-bet gets check-called and the board completes J♦ J♠ with no more action for Gun Jegal to flip over the winning A♥ T♦ against 9♣ Q♠ .

Jeniel Muere opens for 700 from UTG and SB Gun Jegal pumps it to 4,500 for the flop J♠ 2♦ K♣ . A 4,200 c-bet is enough for Gun Jegal to take it down right there.

Jeniel Muere opens another hand with 800 from the CO to take the button and BB to the flop A♥ 9♥ 8♠ . An 800 c-bet takes everyone to the turn T♦ that has Jeniel Muere fork out another 2,000, only called by BB Gun Jegal to complete the board 4♠ . A third bet of 5,000 gets called again and Jeniel Muere shows the winner A♠ T♣ .

UTG opens 400, followed by a call from HJ and BU Jeniel Muere reraises to 1,000 for everyone to stick around to see the flop 8♠ A♠ 6♣ that gets checked to the turn 9♥ . HJ Gun Jegal tests the waters with a 1,500 bet and only Jeniel Muere pays up to see the river A♣ . No more action has Jeniel Muere table the winner J♥ J♦ against 8♦ 9♣ .

Another open from UTG, this time to 400 from Juan Cassanova takes big stack Gun Jegal from the button to see the flop 3♠ 4♦ 6♦ . Continuing for 500 and a call has the dealer reveal the turn 3♦ and Juan Cassanove slides out a winning bet of 700.

A 300 open from UTG Jeniel Muere has BB Gun Jegal defend to see the flop 6♦ 7♦ 5♠ . Gun Jegal donk-bets 2,000, his opponent announces all-in for 28,000 and we hear call. The dealer arranges the protagonists hands and gets ready.