Main Event (45,000 PHP)

With an open to 18,000 from the button, Richard Marquez induces SB Sergius Santos to jam 120,000 with K♠ T♠ and calls the remainder with A♦ 8♣ . The dealer flips over 8♥ J♥ 6♠ 3♣ 7♦ to catapult Richard Marquez into the lead.

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:

With 24 out of 126 remaining we are inching closer to the cut-off with 19 players qualifying for day 2. Here are the top chip counts:

Opening 5,000 from +1, chip leader Lenart Ecarma takes CO Sergius Santos to the flop K♠ A♣ 2♦ and continues for 4,000. Making the call, Sergius Santos watches the 2♠ get dropped for a check around to the river 7♥ and when checked to him again, forks out a winning bet of 10,000.

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.

CO starts the limping with SB and BB joining to the flop T♦ 8♦ 4♠ checked around to the turn 7♥ , where BB Looi Jonathan tests the waters with a 3,000 lead that has CO Sergius Santos pay up to see the river 4♥ . Another 4,500 lead from the bb gets called by Santos to table the winner A♥ 7♣ against Jonathan's Q♣ 9♠ .

With a limp from +1 in front, +2 Anastasios Pavlou raises to 1,000 and finds 4 takers to share the flop K♣ J♣ Q♠ with. Sergius Santos leads 1,000 from +1 with a call from CO and BU before SB Vito Tjahyadi makes it 4,000 to scoop the pot uncontested.

Sergius Santos kicks off with a raise to 600 from UTG and takes three customers to the flop 7♠ J♥ 9♣ where a 1,000 c-bet keeps only SB Eva Zhang around for the turn K♦ . Two checks reveal the river 8♥ and Eva Zhang slides out 2,700 with a straight A♣ T♦ that gets received by a call and a muck.

Oliver Duran slow plays A♦ Q♠ from UTG to induce a 22,000 jam from CO Sergius Santos holding A♠ 8♠ and deliver another knockout on 7♠ 4♠ 7♥ 3♠ 6♦ .

Kim Sehyeon kicks of the action with a raise to 1,700, HJ Santos Sergius jams for 5,700 and a cold call from CO. Kim Sehyeon successfully isolates with a 33,000 shove holding A♣ K♣ . Sergius Santos flips over A♦ 8♠ looking for help and the dealer obliges by hitting the felt 2♠ J♦ 4♦ 8♣ 2♦ leaving Sergius Santos in the game with a triple up.