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:

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.

Michael Cerbito kicks off the action with an 100,000 open to take BB Francisco Sanchez to the flop A♦ 3♠ K♠ . A 75,000 c-bet gets called to reveal the turn 6♥ where another continuation of 200,000 is enough for Michael Cerbito to take it down.

Michael Cerbito initiates the action with a 60,000 raise from UTG and SB Francisco Sanchez defends to see the flop 6♥ T♥ T♦ for a friendly check-check to the turn 8♠ . Francisco Sanchez decides to lead 100,000, but has to fork out some more when the pre flop aggressor pumps it to 250,000 to make it to the river 7♣ . Putting Michael Cerbito all-in for 270,000 with A♣ 8♣ , Francisco Sanchez has to surrender a massive pot to his opponent flipping over A♥ T♣ .

In the next hand Francisco Sanchez defends his SB against a 30,000 open from CO Michael Cerbito to see the flop T♥ 9♠ 6♦ . Check-calling a further 50,000 for the turn T♦ , Francisco Sanchez lets it go when faced with another 70,000 bet.

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♠ .

Folded to SB Michael Cerbito, 40,000 go in the middle with BB William Kang defending to see the flop 8♣ 5♥ 9♠ . A 110,000 c-bet and a call present the turn 5♦ and another 80,000 is good for Cerbito to take it down.

Choy Ho announces all-in 78,000 from UTG with A♦ 9♥ and SB Michael Cerbito rolls the dice for another bounty by calling with Q♥ T♥ . The dealer almost seals the deal with A♠ 5♦ 3♥ , but changes her mind to complete the board K♠ J♦ for a straight and a knock out going to Michael Cerbito.

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 :

With Michael Cerbito kicking off the action from UTG for 13,000 and BU Darren Moves three-betting 30,000 we see the flop 9♥ A♠ A♥ and a friendly check-check to reveal the turn 8♠ . A delayed c-bet of 12,000 and a call take us to the river 3♦ with none of the players wanting to spend any more chips and Michael Cerbito tabling the winner Q♠ 9♠ versus a muck.