Main Event (45,000 PHP)

Having dipped a good portion of his day 2 starting stack, HJ Seung Yong An has another go with a raise to 11,000 and BB Jose Colada defending to see the flop 7♣ 7♦ Q♥ that gets checked to the turn 3♥ where Jose Colada takes the lead for 10,000 to see the river Q♦ and another 20,000 goes in the middle to find a call. Colada flips over 7♥ 7♠ to take it down.

Ki Bum Park leads the way with an 8,000 open from +2, CO Jose Colada pumps it up to 22,000 and Seung Yong An defends BB with a four-bet to 58,000. Park folds and Colada does the same, but with the aid of a time bank to grant Seung Yong An a nice preflop pot and establish some dominance early.

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 :

Open-jamming 38,000 from CO with A♠ 7♠ , the shortest stack Ono Masahiro leaves his fate to the whims of the poker gods. BB Jose Colada calls with J♠ T♦ and there is hope for Ono Masahiro, but the poker gods are cruel tonight, completing the board 6♣ K♣ J♣ 8♠ 6♠ and finalizing our 12 qualifiers from Flight D.

Before we could lay our eyes on the tables we had another exit from Tracy Crisostomo in 16th.

Current chip stacks are as follows :

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.

Kicking us off with a 1,600 open from CO, Yuhei Ando watches BU Yusuke Akimoto jam 7,400 and BB Jose Colada shoves over the top for 22,000. Yuhei Ando fills up and the dealer goes to work.