Kickoff (16,500 PHP)

Beating a field of 87 after 17 levels of play, Jester Intia tops the 13 remaining qualifiers for Day 2 with a stack of 368,000. His rise to the top started on level 12 by busting Vivencio Nachor Jr., Prolan Fandialan, Guillaume Lafont and Christian Lortie in quick succession and ended with a last minute knockout of Alan Yap in 15th place.

Uesugi Ichiro finished the day in a close second, bagging 347,000 after staying among the leaders since registration closed, eliminating local boy David Lennard Ang along the way.

Florencio Campomanes had a roller coaster ending to the day, busting Marc Gagne going into level 17, followed by losing a big flip against Edgar Asehan before getting back up by eliminating Aso Seitaro on the bubble, leaving the No.4 on the Philippine's all time money list with 295,000.

Two more flights on Saturday at 1pm and 6pm have the chance of breaking the PHP 3,000,000 guaranteed prize pool before the remaining qualifiers duke it out on Day 2 at 1pm on Sunday until a winner is determined.

With 18 players left and 13 spots qualifying for Day 2 the Chip Counts are as follows:

Alan Yap kicks off the action with a 9,000 raise from the cutoff and Jon Mari Doria calls from the button. The flop 9♣ K♠ 2♣ has Yap continue for 9,000, Doria raises to 18,500 and Yap fills up to see the turn J♥ . Checked to Doria, 21,000 slide over the line and Yap folds.

With 44 players left trying to reach the 13 player cutoff for today, the top chip counts are as follows:

Hijack Shiina Tsubasa gets us started with a raise to 2,200, Jon Mari Doria three bets to 7,600 from the cutoff, Billy Soriano cold calls the button and Shiina fills up to go to the flop 9♥ J♣ 6♣ . Three checks reveal the turn 5♦ where Shiina announces all-in for 15,900 that scares both opponents into folding.

The river 2♥ gives Doria a boat, almost tripling up.