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 :

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.

Hisashi Yamanouchi starts off with a 2,500 open from +1, +2 calls and HJ Sehoon Jin three-bets 10,500 for the action to go back to Hisashi Yamanouchi making it 25,000, +2 gets out of the way and a 49,900 five-bet-jam from Sehoon Jin with A♥ A♠ . Hisashi Yamanouchi barely covers and calls with J♦ J♣ , cant find help on 7♠ 4♣ 9♥ 2♥ Q♠ and is down to five big blinds.

HJ Hisashi Yamanouchi opens 2,200 to take CO and SB to the flop 2♥ 6♣ 8♥ . Checked to CO Kiyohide Kuroiwa 3,500 wander into the middle, SB folds and Hisashi Yamanouchi announces all-in for 70,700 with Q♥ T♥ , putting Kuroiwa all-in for 22,300 with A♥ 4♥ . The dealer has two blanks to offer 6♦ 9♣ for ace high to win.

Hisashi Yamanouchi opens 3,000 from CO and takes the remaining three players to the flop 4♣ 2♦ 5♦ . Checked to the preflop raiser, a 6,000 c-bet goes over the line and only SB David Rene Mar pays to see the turn J♥ that gets checked around to complete the board 9♣ . When David Rene Mar checks and is faced with another 18,000 bet he gets suspicious and makes the right call with A♥ 4♥ against 7♦ 6♦ from Hisashi Yamanouchi.

Yamanouchi Hisashi tries to steal from the button with 2,500, but the blinds are having none of it and we see the flop A♦ 4♦ K♠ . SB Sergius Santos slides out a small 2,000 donk-bet and only BU Yamanouchi Hisashi tags along to the turn A♥ . Another 4,000 lead from the SB gets countered with a raise to 11,000 for the river 2♠ . Sergius Santos takes over again with a 10,000 bet and Yamanouchi Hisashi surrenders.