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.

Alan Yap wagers his last 43,000 from +2 with A♥ J♣ and Jester Intia successfully isolates from the hijack holding K♦ K♣ . The dealer delivers a board of blanks 8♠ 3♣ 4♦ 7♥ 8♣ , busting Yap and taking Intia back into the lead.

Under the gun Jester Intia raises to 12,000 and small blind Sasaki Seiji tags along to the flop 4♣ 6♦ K♠ that gets checked around to the turn A♦ where Intia forks out a 13,000 delayed c-bet and Sasaki calls. The river 6♥ gets rejected by both players, having Intia come out on top with A♠ 7♥ against Sasaki's T♣ T♠ .

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

Being right about Shiina's holding, Intia stays ahead when the dealer tables 4♣ and K♠ , knocking out Shiina and taking us one step closer to the 13 player cutoff.

The river 6♣ is a blank, ending Fandialan's run for today.

Nachor's mood quickly takes a turn after the dealer tables T♥ and leaves him in the dust by completing the board 6♠ .

The turn A♥ locks it down for Villanueva who watches the dealer complete the board 2♣ to scoop a hefty double.

Folded to Lim Soo Ghee in the small blind, 1,600 slide into the middle and Jester Intia defends to see the flop 9♥ T♣ 4♠ where Lim continues for 2,200, gets called and the turn falls 6♠ . Another 3,800 from Lim get answered for the board to complete 5♣ and two checks reveal Intia as the winner against Lim's K♦ J♥ .