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:

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 :

Getting into the action on the river K♦ 5♠ 3♣ 7♦ 2♣ with 56,500 in the pot, BB David Rene Mar leads with an oversized bet of 80,000, wanting to get paid with 7♥ 7♠ and finds a grumpy customer in Masanori Ishihara that throws it in the muck.

Joemark Vasay opens from CO for 6,000 and BU Ishihara Masanori increases to 14,500 to see the flop 8♥ 5♥ 4♥ . Checked to the button, another 8,500 go in the middle and a call presents us the turn 3♣ . Checked to the river 9♣ we see Joemark Vasay slide out 10,000 for value with T♠ T♥ , answered by a call and a muck.

HJ Masanori Ishihara leads the table with a 4,000 open and takes the BU and both blinds to the flop 6♣ 4♠ 6♠ . Another 4,000 as continuation keeps only the blinds around to check to the river 7♥ T♦ and SB Keijiro Shimojo tables the winner 3♦ 3♠ versus 2♣ 3♣ from BB Yokoo Kazuyoshi and HJ's 9♥ 5♠ .

Masanori Ishihara opens 1,000 in UTG and sees the flop 7♠ J♣ 2♦ alongside BU and SB. A 1,800 c-bet is only called by BU David Trivino for the turn T♥ . Slowing down, Masanori Ishihara check calls 1,100 for the river A♥ action killer and flips over the winner A♠ 8♠ .

Seongjin Kim opens for 500 from UTG to take the CO and both blinds to the flop 9♣ 5♠ K♠ . The BB donks 300 but lets it go after Seongjin Kim pumps it to 1,800 with CO and SB calling to see the turn T♣ . A 20,800 shove from Seongjin Kim puts Masanori Ishihara all-in with a call, but the dealer doesn't need to continue when Masanori Ishihara throws it in the muck, seeing 5♣ 5♦ from his opponent.