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.

Aso Seitaro open jams 55,000 from the button with A♥ J♣ and big blind Flo Campomanes fills up with 5♠ 5♥ for a flip on the bubble. The dealer keeps it interesting until the end, tabling 8♠ Q♣ K♦ 6♦ 9♣ , busting Aso and putting Campomanes back among the top stacks of the day.

After losing a flip and bleeding some more in the hands after, Flo Campomanes is at it again with a raise to 13,000 from +1, button Roland Ferrer ups it to 38,000 and Flo calls. The flop 9♠ 5♠ 2♣ gets checked around to the turn 2♦ where Flo's 42,000 lead sends Roland in the tank before he decides to fold.

Aso Seitaro gets us going with a 12,000 open from under the gun, hijack Flo Campomanes three-bets to 33,000 and Seitaro calls. The flop 8♣ 2♦ 7♠ has Flo continue for 35,000, Seitaro folds and Flo shows Q♦ Q♣ .

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

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

A raise to 2,500 from under the gun and three callers in front, small blind Lee Joon Han squeezes to 12,600 which gets the job done and last to fold Flo Campomanes shows 6♦ 6♥ .