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:

Picking up the action on another river J♣ 7♣ 7♠ 3♠ 6♣ and 40,000 up for grabs, big blind Sasaki Seiji leads 23,000, Park Jeongmin ups it to 80,000 and sends Sasaki in the tank before he announces all-in for 124,500 with a boat 3♥ 3♦ . Park calls with A♣ K♣ flush, granting Sasaki one of the biggest pots of the tournament so far.

Park Jeongmin opens 6,500 from +1 and takes two players to the flop J♥ 9♥ 8♠ where he continues for 8,500. Only hijack Kim Byungsung pays up to see the turn 8♣ where another 15,500 gets called by Kim to complete the board 9♠ . Both players check and Kim mucks after seeing Park table 7♦ T♦ .

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

The K♣ changes nothing, putting Park close to the leaders and leaving Villanueva with crumbs and a few minutes of late registration left.

Park Jeongmin gets us going with a 2,500 raise from +2 and finds two customers to see the flop 9♠ T♦ 8♥ that gets rejected by all of them to reveal the turn 8♦ . Park leads 5,000, the hijack folds and small blind Prolan Fandialan sticks around to see the river 5♠ . Taking over the reins, Prolan Fandialan leads 12,000, which sends Park into the tank before throwing it in the muck.