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:

Everything is looking peachy for Huang's over pair on the turn 5♦ before going pear shaped on the river 6♠ for Ferrer to bink the two outer and score a massive double up.

Under the gun Roland Ferrer opens 4,500, chip leader Huang Cheng Wen makes it 11,000 from +1 and Ferrer calls. The flop 9♣ 7♠ A♠ has Huang continue for 11,000 which gets the job done.

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

Digging for ten outs, Huang has to surrender the pot after the dealer reveals the turn 9♠ and river Q♣ giving Magnotti a boat and a much needed double up.

After busting Mark Marriott and Rodrigo Sequite in the same hand Huang Chen Wen becomes chip leader and takes his table 5-handed for now.

Huang Cheng Wen kicks off the action with a raise to 700 from the hijack, cutoff Junj Javalera calls and both blinds defend to see the flop 7♣ J♠ T♦ . Huang forks out a 1,100 c-bet and only Javalera pays up to see the turn Q♠ that gets checked to the river 7♥ where another 1,800 from Huang gets the job done.

Picking up the action on 8♦ 6♣ 2♦ 3♠ and 5,800 in the middle we see Junj Javalera end the action with a check-jam of 25,000 from the small blind after big blind Alexis Lim opened 1,500 and Huang Cheng Wen called from the button.