Mystery Bounty - ₱2 million GTD

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:

Starting the action with a 440,000 open-jam from the button holding A♦ J♣ , Francisco Sanchez watches on as SB Michael Cerbito wagers his last 1,000,000 with A♣ 9♠ and the chip leader Jeffrey Ponce finding a call with K♥ T♥ . Having a flight to catch, the dealer conjures up 3♠ K♦ 8♦ 4♠ 9♣ to end the tournament and hand over the trophy to Jeffrey Ponce.

Trying to put his newly acquired chips to good use, Francisco Sanchez announces all-in for 2,300,000 with A♣ 3♠ from the button just to find out he is a huge underdog against Jeffrey Ponce calling his last 1,800,000 with A♠ J♥ . Both players missing the board K♠ 6♠ 4♣ 9♥ T♣ completely has Jeffrey Ponce running away with a commanding chip lead.

First to act, Jeffrey Ponce announces all-in with A♥ 9♣ and gets called by SB Francisco Sanchez for his remaining 1,100,000 holding A♣ K♠ . Sanchez stays ahead on Q♥ J♦ K♥ J♣ A♦ and goes back into the lead.

Two hands later, the protagonists from the last update go at it again. This time Jeffrey Ponce kicks off the action with a 135,000 raise from BU with A♦ J♦ and a quick call after SB Michael De Leon announces all-in for 1,000,000 with A♠ 2♥ . No ducks come flying by on the board 3♥ K♥ 6♦ 7♥ K♦ and Michael De Leon's run comes to an end.

A 100,000 min-raise from UTG Michael De Leon has BB Jeffrey Ponce defend to lay his eyes on 3♦ 6♦ 5♦ . No action reveals the 2♦ turn with De Leon sliding 60,000 over the line and a quick call completes the board J♣ . Both players keen to show their cards, Jeffrey Ponce comes out on top with 7♦ 7♥ against a muck.

With a large 200,000 raise from UTG, Jeffrey Ponce takes CO and BB on a costly trip to see the flop A♦ 5♠ K♣ . Checked to Michael De Leon in the cut-off 150,000 go over the line with no takers.

Mark Hebron limps his SB and Jeffrey Ponce waves his option to see the flop 5♦ 3♠ T♠ that gets checked all the way to the river 8♥ T♣ where Jeffrey Ponce tries to steal with a 50,000 lead in position holding 7♣ 6♥ , but Mark Hebron is having none of it with J♥ 5♥ to scoop up a tiny pot.

With a 100,000 open from CO, Jeffrey Ponce takes BU Michael De Leon to the flop T♣ T♥ 7♠ that gets checked to the turn 2♣ . A delayed c-bet of 75,000 and a call deliver the A♥ river. Switching to a check, Jeffrey Ponce induces a 210,000 bluff by Michael De Leon with a missed straight draw 9♥ 8♥ and scoops up the pot holding A♦ 8♣ .

With a big open-jam for 435,000 from +2 sitting on A♥ J♣ , Yuki Nishio watches HJ Jeffrey Ponce call and flip over K♦ J♠ . With the odds in his favor, the dealer spells heartbreak for Yuki Nishio by flipping over 7♣ 7♥ 3♦ K♠ Q♠ to end his chances of clinching the trophy.

Francisco Sanchez starts us off with 60,000 from UTG and takes both blinds to the flop 4♦ 5♣ Q♦ . A 50,000 c-bet sees only SB Jeffrey Ponce tag along for the turn 6♥ that gets checked to the river 7♦ . Taking over the reins with a 100,000 lead of his own, Jeffrey Ponce scoops up another pot.

With a 60,000 open from UTG, Jeffrey Ponce takes +2 Francisco Sanchez to the flop 4♣ 8♦ T♠ and decides to jam his massive stack into the chip leader. After the aid of a time bank, Francisco Sanchez begrudgingly lets it go and we move on.

Kicking off the action with a 60,000 raise from +1, Jeffrey Ponce is faced with a 155,000 three-bet from BU Ryan Tan. After some consideration, Jeffrey Ponce announces all-in to take down the pot uncontested.

Starting the day in 2nd, Vivencio Nachor Jr. goes out with an open to 35,000 from UTG, three-bet 85,000 from +1 Jeffrey Ponce back to the opener announcing all-in for 340,000 and a call. This massive hand has the dealer front and center.

Jeffrey Ponce starts us off with a 25,000 open from +1, countered by a 65,000 three-bet from BU Jose Colada and the flop comes Q♣ 6♦ 2♠ . Checked to the BU, 26,000 go over the line and a call reveals 7♦ . Another 85,000 lead in position from Jose Colada shuts his opponent down.

That's it for the Flight A Mystery Bounty with hyper active player Janno Alvarez coming out on top of 42 players, bagging 324,000, closely followed by Jeffrey Ponce with 296,000 and Tony Khoang in third with 236,000.

The Day 2 Final will start on Tuesday at 12:00 noon and for those who missed to qualify today we have another chance tomorrow at 17:00 with Flight B.

The final 7 qualifiers are:

Jeffrey Ponce starts us off with a 12,000 raise from SB and BB Janno Alvarez defends to see the flop 6♣ Q♥ 3♥ . Check-call 9,000 from the preflop raiser takes us to the 5♠ turn , checked to the river A♦ . Jeffrey Ponce takes over the reins with a 17,000 lead but has to muck when seeing Janno Alvarez flip over a hero call of K♠ 8♠ .

Maggy Mae Cenon starts us off with a 74,000 jam from +2 with A♦ J♣ and finds button Jeffrey Ponce successfully isolation for 170,000 to flip over Q♥ Q♣ . The dealer delivers a small board 4♣ 8♥ 5♣ 7♥ 9♥ thereby eliminating Cenon Maggy Mae and taking us to the bubble.

With a 35,000 open jam from Clarence Ho UTG, holding A♣ K♣ we have another player waking up with A♦ A♠ , this time in the form of Jeffery Ponce, but the outcome is the same after the dealer tables K♥ 6♥ 9♥ 7♠ 2♥ and eliminates Clarence Ho.