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.

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.

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

The turn Q♦ is just what Ferrer needed and the river 7♥ seals Sugiura's fate.

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:

With both players having rockets, it is Von Rahden free rolling for a flush. The turn 8♣ gets him one step closer and the river 7♣ completes the heartbreak for Ferrer.

Picking up the action on the turn J♦ 4♥ T♠ 4♠ and 31,400 in the middle, Felix Von Rahden check-folds after Roland Ferrer bets 16,100.

A 1,600 open from under the gun takes three players to the flop T♣ 8♥ 5♦ where the action gets checked to Fujimura Sunao who forks out 2,500. The small blind folds, Roland Ferrer calls from the big blind and the initial raiser gets out of the way too for the turn 8♦ to be revealed. Two checks complete the board 3♠ where Ferrer tries to steal with 2,600 holding 9♣ J♥ , but Fujimura smells something fishy and calls with ace-high A♣ 6♣ to scoop the pot.

Picking up the action on the river Q♦ 8♣ 4♦ 9♠ 7♦ and 10,100 up for grabs we see Paul Coles lead 7,100 from the big blind, Roland Ferrer raises to 17,200 and mucks when Coles calls and tables J♦ 6♦ flush.