Kickoff (16,500 PHP)

After another 20 levels of play and 119 entries, the final 18 qualifiers are determined, bringing the total to 51 out of 338 who will start the Day 2 Final tomorrow at 1pm, battling it out for the biggest slice of the whopping ₱4,760,527 prize pool with ₱843,527 and an APPT Manila Main Event Package worth ₱125,000 for the champion. All of the 51 finalists have a guaranteed ₱26,500 in the bank.

Flight B Winner Lemmor Patulot will start Day 2 as the chip leader with 549,000.

"For me, since it's only Day 1, my plan is play to win, so when i get a good hand and feel that I'm ahead I always gamble but when I'm behind I can let go, but it always depends on the other player's profile and the outcome of board so it's not consistent."

He got there after a late charge busting Ryuki Shirase with K♦ K♠ against A♠ 9♦ , followed by the knockout of then 2nd in chips Tim Gerwig with A♣ K♥ against A♠ Q♠ that ballooned his stack to 712,000.

"Before that hand I won 2 consecutive pots against the same player and I heard them talking about my play style, that I'm bullying them since I'm the CL, so the third time he opened and I three-bet. In my mind if he shoves I call and even if I lose I still have 150K+ so it's still playable, that's why i called."

After that he lost a chunk against Jun Kim Beom with A♥ Q♦ versus K♠ T♦ that got him back down to where he finished the day.

Flight C Winner Michael Gabby Concepcion - Winner of the Manila Poker Cup Main Event for ₱3,246,000 in September - takes the 2nd biggest stack of 459,000 into Day 2 after cracking Anthony Alway's rockets with A♥ 3♠ by hitting a flush and busting Joseph Reyes close to the bubble shortly after.

Flight C Runner-up Keijiro Shimojo - who is on an absolute tear since the Manila Megastack 20 In November, shipping 5 tournaments, including the Kickoff Event in November for ₱874,443 and making another eight final tables in addition to that - will start the Final Day in 3rd with 420,000 after a big double up with A♦ K♥ against Renato Villanueva's K♦ J♠ and busting Choi Yun Su right after.

The Final Day will start at 1pm on Sunday with live coverage from start to finish.

When the action folds to Wakatake Masahiro in the small blind, all-in is declared with A♥ J♦ , but big blind Yoo Gyeong Tae wakes up with A♣ K♦ and quickly calls. The dealer delivers a board of blanks with T♣ 8♦ 4♥ 8♥ 7♣ , leaving Yoo's kicker in play and sends off Wakatake as the bubble boy.

Looking at 8♠ T♠ from under the gun, Anthony Alway shoves for 90,000 and small blind Miyamoto Masakazu has an easy call with A♦ K♥ . Alway gets the better deal this time with 3♠ 8♣ Q♣ T♣ Q♠ letting him digest the loss with aces earlier a little easier.

Under the gun +1 Michael Gabby Concepcion kicks off the action with a raise to 20,000, button Anthony Alway three-bets 45,000 with A♠ A♦ and snaps when Concepcion declares all-in for 157,000, holding A♥ 3♠ . Conceptions needs an excavator to dig himself out of this hole, but the dealer brings an entire fleet hitting the felt with 4♥ Q♥ T♥ 8♥ 6♥ , giving Conception a flush and boosting him into the lead.

Mark John Marriott opens 16,000 from the button, small blind Maxwell Rosete declares all-in for 75,000 with A♦ 3♥ and Marriott snaps holding J♠ J♣ . Everything is looking peachy for Marriott when the dealer flips over 8♥ 9♠ 5♥ J♥ before going pear shaped on the river A♥ , giving Rosete a flush.

Under the gun +1 gets the ball rolling with a raise to 8,000 and takes four players to the flop K♠ 8♣ 5♥ that gets checked by all five players to reveal the turn Q♠ . Small Blind Ashley Patterson jams 145,500 and watches all of his opponents fold.

The turn J♣ has Mar stay in the lead before the river A♦ completes Choi's straight, leaving Mar with a fraction of a big blind.

The dealer turns the tides, but keeps it interesting by flipping over the K♥ and let's Wakatake's flush prevail on the river 7♣ .

No help for Hisashi on 4♦ and J♥ , bringing Timonera close to the leader.

With 119 total entries and another 18 finalists to be determined we pick up the Flight C live updates with 43 players left.

After a slight delay, Flight C is now rolling with 12 entries at the starting buzzer. This is the last chance to enter! The pot is already into PHP 3.2M and rising. Registration closes at the start of Level 11 at around 21:45.

Flight C (Turbo) of the Manila Megastack 22 Kick Off Event is about to begin! This is the last chance for players to try to secure a spot in the money round with the pot now past the PHP 3M guarantee.

For a buy-in of PHP 16,500 (~US$ 290), players receive a 30,000 starting stack. Blinds increase at a faster 20 minute pace and even faster when registration closes at 15 minutes.

SMP will bring you updates as soon as Flight B concludes.