Warm-up (5,000 PHP)

Germany’s Markus Wolter open shoves from the HJ for 62,000 and Filipino Joseroy Jeremias 3-bet shoves from the CO for 133,000. They get called by chip leader Patrick Noonan of Ireland in the SB.

Wolter turns over 7♠ 6♠ which is a live hand against Jeremias’ A♥ K♠ and Noonan’s A♣ K♣ .

The flop, however, became an immediate cause for concern by the two players at risk: 3♣ 5♦ T♣ as the Irishman picks up the nut flush draw. The turn is the J♠ but the river brings the J♣ as Noonan completes his flush and flushes out two competitors in the process.

Noonan is now the closest to the one million chip mark and fortifies his stranglehold of his throne atop the leaderboard.