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:

Hayashi Hiroki initiates his last hand with a 40,000 open from the button to take both blinds to the flop K♥ 7♥ 5♠ . Checked to him we see a 25,000 c-bet followed by a fold and a raise to 50,000 from BB Michael Cerbito the dealer reveals the 7♣ check-check and completes the board with the T♣ . With a jam in front, Hayashi Hiroki calls for his last 35,000 with A♠ A♦ and has to surrender his chips to Cerbito flipping over 7♦ 6♠ .

With +1 Francisco Sanchez making it 25,000 and BU Hayashi Hiroki increasing to 50,000 we get treated with the flop 8♥ 4♥ 4♦ . Another 30,000 c-bet takes us to the turn K♣ and Hayashi Hiroki announces all-in for 80,000 and takes down the pot.

Kicking off the action with a 16,000 open from HJ, Hayashi Hiroki quickly calls the 60,000 all-in announced by BB James Soriano for the dealer to decide another race.

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 :

The field down to 24 players with 23 qualifying for Day 2 everyone is on their toes. Deciding to bully, SB Patrick Wahlquist shoves 5♣ 7♥ and puts BB Hiroki Hayashi all-in for 50,000. He looks at A♦ K♣ and hopes to double. The dealer makes his heart skip a beat when flipping over 6♥ 6♣ 4♠ 5♥ , but lets him breathe a sigh of relief after completing the board with the A♣ .

When folded to SB Hiroki Hayashi, 48,600 go into the middle with A♣ 6♦ and BB Yujiro Fukushima calls 4,200 flipping over 7♦ 6♠ . The dealer tables Q♠ 3♠ 8♥ 6♣ 5♠ to send Yujiro Fukushima home.