Main Event (45,000 PHP)

Jamming his remaining 245,000 with K♠ 8♠ from UTG, Sham Wing Sheuk watches BB David Rene Mar fill up and show K♣ 4♦ for a good chance to double up. The dealer has other ideas and flips over 3♦ 7♣ 4♥ 7♠ A♥ to bring us down to six players.

#40 has William Ysmael recover by taking down the pot with a 100,000 raise from CO

#41 sees William Ysmael kick off with another 100,000 from HJ to take CO and BB to the flop 3♦ 8♠ K♣ where he takes it down with a 125,000 c-bet.

#42 starts with David Rene Mar opening 110,000 to take CO Sham Wing Sheuk to the flop 5♦ T♥ 9♦ where a 110,000 c-bet and a call take us to the turn 8♥ . Slowing down to a check, David Rene Mar watches Sham Wing Sheuk consume two time banks before jamming his remaining 595,000. With the aid of one of his own time banks, David lets it go.

Hand #5 goes to birthday boy Yusuf Cassidy with a raise to 140,000 from CO and no takers.

Hand #6 has Sham Wing Sheuk open 80,000 from BU, called by SB and BB Alvir Inocentes pumps it to 165,000 to take it down.

Having reached the Final 9 down from 77 that started Day 2 Richard Marquez came to life towards the end running up a massive chip lead that resulted in him bagging 3,070,000 in first, but Alvir Inocentes - the only player that qualified for day 2 twice - mounted a late charge that included the last minute elimination of Christopher Mateo on the final table bubble and brought him close to the leader with 2,825,000 in chips.

With an exiting journey through the ITM stage down to the final table done, we give the players some time to recover before we resume play tomorrow at 13:00 with the contenders battling over the lion share of the P20,113,920 prize pool and P3,713,920 on top.

We will see you here tomorrow for the live updates again and leave you with the chip counts of the final 9 :

Looking down at A♥ 9♦ , short stack Lemmor Patulot slides his remaining 200,000 in the middle, gets called by CO Sham Wing Sheuk with K♥ J♠ and the dealer has another players fate in her hands. Flipping over J♣ 5♠ 8♠ 7♣ K♠ is enough to be outdrawn and Lemmor Patulot starts gathering his things.

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 :

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

Current chip stacks are as follows :

Picking up the action on the flop 5♦ 8♣ 6♦ and 7,500 in the pot, Sham Wing Sheuk lays out a winning bet of 5,800.