Mystery Bounty - ₱2 million GTD (20,000 PHP)

Finishing Runner-Up in Flight A on Sunday and entering the final day as 5th in chips, Jeffrey Ponce continued to chip up throughout the day, making it to the final table as 4th in chips. Eliminating Yuki Nishio in 8th place with KJ against AJ was a big break, inducing a bluff with top pair against Michael De Leon saw him extend his lead and later eliminating him in 4th place to enter the three-way deal with more chips than 2nd and 3rd combined.

Talking about 2nd and 3rd, the double elimination stole their spotlight, but Michael Cerbito had a great run closing the deal in 2nd with P282,500 from the regular prize pool and an additional P41,000 in bounties and 3rd place Francisco Sanchez, who was extremely active from the get go taking home 267,500 from the deal and six bounties worth a whopping P391,000, making him the biggest winner of the day.

Well done to everyone and we will leave you with the final rankings of the Mystery Bounty Final:

Francisco Sanchez kicks us off with a 50,000 open from HJ, followed by a call from CO and a jam by Edgar Asehan for 390,000 in the BB. Francisco Sanchez is the only one sticking around with K♣ K♥ against Q♦ Q♥ . The dealer spices up the felt with 5♦ 9♣ 4♥ 5♠ J♦ to dish out the first FT elimination.

Facing a 20,000 open from UTG Edgar Asehan, Jose Colada jams for 121,000 with A♠ Q♠ and gets snapped by his opponent, flipping over A♦ K♣ to dominate. Having a heart for underdogs, the dealer cooks up 3♥ 4♦ Q♥ 2♥ 4♣ , denies a bounty and takes Jose Colada out of the danger zone.

Sliding his last 9,000 in the middle, Patrick Wahlquist watches on as both blinds fill up and check it down to the river A♠ 9♣ 5♣ 2♣ K♣ with Mark Hebron spiking a flush and picking up the P35,000 bounty with 7♣ 7♦ against K♠ J♠ from the shorty and 4♥ 4♠ for Edgar Asehan.

After a full 17 levels of play, the starting field of 151 got reduced to the final 23 entering tomorrow's Day 2 Final with Ryan Tan accumulating a whopping 518,000 to take first place, Vivencio Nachor Jr. bagging 449,000 in 2nd and Jose Colada - after an early exit - making good use of his additional bullet to finish 3rd with 318,000 to his name.

A total of 193 entries over both flights got us well above the guaranteed prize pool with a final ₱3,294,896 to be distributed among the 30 finalists tomorrow. The top spot will take home at least ₱440,000 from the regular prize pool and a share of the bounty pool ranging from the lowest ₱26,000 up to the largest one of ₱250,000.

The final will start in just under 10 hours from now at 12:00 noon going all the way to the end when the winner will be crowned. Live updates are going to be there with you.

Here are the final 23 chip counts from Flight B :