Main Event (45,000 PHP)

After a huge beat just the hand before, HJ Marco Espela is all-in for his last 50,000 with 5♦ 5♥ against UTG Yuki Ozaki's T♦ T♠ . The board 7♦ J♥ 8♥ 8♠ 6♠ misses everyone and we inch closer to the final two tables.

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.

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.

Marco Espela lays out a raise of 24,000 with A♦ A♠ from CO, countered by an 81,000 jam from BU Junhyeok Kim with K♦ J♦ and the dealer goes to work. The board Q♣ 5♥ Q♠ 5♣ 9♣ spells bust for Junhyeok Kim and we move on.

Marco Espela opens 20,000 from UTG and BB Yuki Ozaki defends to see the flop J♦ 6♣ 8♣ and a friendly check-check to reveal the turn 2♣ . Ozaki takes over the reins with an 18,000 lead that gets called to complete the board 2♥ . A second lead of 24,000 goes in the middle and Marco Espela throws his cards away followed by a time bank for good measure.

After another 15 levels of Day 1 play in the Main Event are under our belts we reached the final 19 out of a starting field of 126 advancing to Day 2 on Saturday 13:00.

With the top 5 eclipsing yesterdays Flight A chip leader we saw Mystery Bounty's biggest winner Fransisco Sanchez come out on top with 379,000 to his name, after another stellar performance. In close quarters we have 2nd in chips Kim Jaejoong bagging 367,000 and David Rene Mar in 3rd with 341,000.

For all the players missing out today, we have Flight C on Friday at 13:00 with the usual 10 levels of late registration until around 20:10.

Enjoy the rest of your night and see you tomorrow for another round of live updates!

Our 19 qualifiers all in on place:

Marco Espela opens K♣ K♠ from UTG, SB Edgar Asehan jams 50,000 with 4♠ 4♣ and another player is at risk. The dealer flips over Q♦ 3♠ 8♥ K♥ 9♥ and sends Edgar Asehan packing.

Opening 4,000 from +1, Marco Espela is faced with opposition to his left, making it 10,500. After calling and watching the flop materialize 5♦ T♦ 9♠ , he leads 23,000 and picks up the pot.