Main Event (45,000 PHP)

Open-jamming 190,000 from CO with A♦ T♣ , Marco Espela finds a customer in SB Jester Initia calling for his last 140,000 with A♠ 5♠ , dialing nine-one-one for help. The ambulance comes in the form of 3♥ 7♥ 4♣ 2♥ 8♥ to resuscitate Jester Initia's ambitions of making it to the final table.

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.

With a raise to 12,000, three-bet 45,000 and a 74,000 shove we have two more players getting ready for the showdown with initiator Daisuke Aoki showing K♣ K♠ against Jester Initia's A♦ Q♥ . The dealer makes the river count again by unveiling Q♠ 7♠ 9♠ T♥ A♠ and thins out the field some more.

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 :

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 :

Fresh from the Megastack Turbo final table, Alang Fu Zhenbo opens 1,100 from the SB and BB Jester Initia defends to see the flop 6♣ T♠ T♣ that gets checked to the river 5♦ 2♦ with a delayed c-bet of 2,500 going in the middle with 4♥ 3♥ and Jester Initia calls to muck.

Initiated by a 1,200 raise with T♦ T♠ from UTG Tetsuya Ogura, Jester Initia wagers his last 4,200 with A♠ J♥ for a flip, but his hopes die quickly when the dealer tables 9♦ T♣ 3♣ 4♥ A♣ .

First to act Lemmor Patulot initiates the action with a raise to 1,500 holding 2♥ 2♦ , SB Jester Initia jams 6,800 with J♦ J♣ and the dealer hits the felt T♠ T♦ 8♠ K♦ Q♠ to grant a double up.