Turbo Flight (6,500 PHP)

Japan’s Keita Kitamura open shoves from the HJ for his last 165,000 and it folds to the SB where Daryl O’Rourke of Ireland also goes all-in for his remaining stack of 330,000. In the BB, chip leader Arjun Dhingra of India decides to makes the call.

Kitamura turns over A♦ J♥ , O’Rourke shows T♥ T♣ while Dhingra has A♥ Q♠ .

The flop is A♣ Q♥ 8♠ to give the Indian a near insurmountable lead over the two players at risk. The turn is the K♦ to give both a sliver of hope with redraws to a similar straight but the river card is the 9♦ as Dhingra eliminates two players in one swift blow and suddenly there are only four players remaining.

Kitamura finishes in sixth place for PhP36,500 (~US$655) while O’Rourke is out in fifth for PhP48,000 (~US$860).

The four remaining combatants are guaranteed PhP62,000 (~US$1,110).

The clash of the two big stacks heading into today’s finale is now a tainted picture as Florida’s Leon Steward is now a short stack who shoves his last 75,000 into the pot from the SB and gets called in the BB by former chip leader Keita Kitamura of Japan—now a middling stack.

Steward shows A♦ J♦ while Kitamura is live with 8♠ 2♦ in the duty call.

The runout goes K♣ 6♣ 3♣ 5♠ 7♣ as Steward stays alive and in effect also further dents Kitamura’s dwindling stack.

The Philippines’ Joey Pardales raises it from UTG to 60,000 and is greeted with an all-in declaration from Makoto Miyatake of Japan for 75,000. It folds to the SB where former chip leader—and another Japanese player—Keita Kitamura re-shoves for 205,000. Pardales folds.

Miyatake shows K♣ J♥ while Kitamura tables Q♥ Q♠ .

The flop is A♦ Q♦ T♣ to give Miyatake the nuts: a Broadway straight while Kitamura gets middle set. The turn is the 6♦ but the river is the T♥ to pair the board and give Kitamura a full house to bust his compatriot in ninth place via an unfortunate bad beat.

The remaining eight players are now all guarantee PhP25,000 (~US$450)

Chip leader Keita Kitamura of Japan opens from the +1 position for 16,000 and it folds all the way to the BB where India’s Jayantilal Jain 3-bets it to 65,000. Kitamura calls.

The flop comes A♥ J♥ 3♦ as Jain shoves his remaining stack of 86,000. Kitamura snap calls.

Jain shows K♠ K♦ , the same hole cards he had in the ousting of Filipino Joseph Herrera in the previous hand but this time he is behind as Kitamura tables A♠ Q♦ .

The turn card is the 4♦ while the river is the 7♥ as the Indian hits the rail.

Kitamura pads his huge chip lead.