Warm-up (12,500 PHP)

With 29 players left holding onto their seats, that means only five more eliminations are due before the day wraps up, with 24 survivors advancing onto Day 2. A total of 43 players are geared to cut a share of the PHP 3,019,610 (~USD 51,690) prize pool, 19 already qualified from today's initial flight.

Chip Counts

Alexander Donn happily committed his remaining 46,000 with K♥ K♣ and was up against Waki Yasuhiro's A♠ T♦ for his tournament life.

Donn at risk, was left drawing slim after flop 7♠ Q♠ A♥ rolled ace-high. Runout 5♣ K♠ however, managed to peel one of his two outers, keeping him in the Kickoff games with a much bigger stack.