Deepstack (12,500 PHP)

Anant Acharya has taken the lead after a hand against Juhoon Chung sent him soaring over the million marker. The hand opened with a limp from Chung from the small blind and Anant checked. At the flop K♥ 4♥ 6♠ , Chung bet 25,000 that Anant called. Chung checked the turn A♣ , Anant bet 50,000, Chung answered with a raise of 130,000 then folded to Anant's shove of 795,000.

After scoring a double up, Anthony Castro picks up a few pots. The first one saw him steal the blinds and ante with an uncalled shove. The next, he opened 45,000, got called by two players, then he c-bet the flop 3♦ 5♦ Q♦ for 80,000. No one called. On the third pot, he defended the big blind by calling utg+1 Juhoon Chung's 40,000 raise and called the 30,000 flop bet on a board T♣ 6♣ J♠ . After they both checked the turn 6♥ , Castro fired 95,000 on the river 8♠ , Chung called then mucked to Castro's 9♦ 6♦ trips.

Action folds to the blinds, Juhoon Chung limps then calls Byambasuren Danzanbaljir's 35,000 raise. Both check it to the turn 7♦ 6♦ 8♦ J♠ . Chung checks again then calls 45,000. On the river A♠ , Chung checks, Danzanbaljir fires 85,000, Chung snap-calls and wins the pot with Danzanbaljir quickly mucking.

Big stack update: Juhoon Chung eliminated Dmitrii Belikov and Marco Almerez to climb to 425,000.

On a board A♠ A♣ Q♠ 5♠ and 11,500 brewed, Alari Kunnapuu bets 2500 and is check-called by lone opponent Juhoon Chung. Taking it to the river 3♦ , Chung leads out 7500 and quickly wins the pot without challenge.