Warm-up (12,500 PHP)

Tamon Nakamura opened 12,000 on the hijack, called by Renniel Galvez on the button. Ma Carmen Esdaile on the big blind, flicked in her last 24,000, and saw both continue to flop J♣ A♥ Q♦ . Nakamura led 23,000, leaving Galvez to quickly surrender and the two off to showdown.

Tamon Nakamura Q♥ J♥

Ma Carmen Esdaile 6♥ 6♣

Down to two outs, Esdaile headed out as the stone cold bubble shortly after missing to improve on either turn 5♠ or river 5♦ .

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.

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