Main Event (18,500 PHP)

Germ de Haas of the Netherlands and Czar Ian Marcos of the Philippines have decided to split the remaining prizes via an ICM chop.

De Haas, having a slightly bigger stack than Marcos, receives 2,616,000 (~US$46,555) while Marcos gets 2,584,000 (~US$45,985).

Their Heads-Up duel for the trophy and the PhP125,000 (~US$2,225) APPT Main Event paclage ensues shortly.

Hand #22: The action folds to the blinds where Marcos shoves from the SB and gets promptly called by Laxamana in the BB.

Marcos flips over 4♦ 4♥ while Laxamana shows A♦ 4♠ .

The flop goes J♦ 4♣ 8♠ as Marcos completes a set on the case card to have his opponent drawing dead. The last two community cards are the J♠ and the 7♦ as six players remain all guaranteed PhP590,000 (~US$10,500).

Hand #17: Marcos opens from the CO for 475,000 and gets the BB defense from Astorga.

The flop is A♥ 2♦ 6♣ as Astorga checks. Marcos continues for 375,000 and gets called. The turn is the Q♦ as now Astorga leads out for 900,000. Marcos goes into the tank and uses a timebank card before raising to 2,175,000. Astorga re-raises all-in and Marcos excruciates. He ends up burning four timebank cards but choosing to fold.

Astorga is new chip leader.

From the D, Czar Ian Marcos of the Philippines raises it up to 325,000 and gets a BB defense from the United States’ Alex Boldt.

The flop is Q♦ 9♥ K♠ as Boldt checks. Marcos CBets for 160,000and gets check-raised by the American to 600,000. Marcos calls. The turn is the 4♦ as Boldt goes all-in for and gets a snap call from the Filipino for his remaining stack of 1,535,000.

Boldt shows A♣ 5♣ which has hit nothing, but Marcos does table J♥ T♥ for the nut straight on the flop.

With Boldt drawing dead, the river card is the 2♠ making the crippling of Boldt official.

Marcos now has the chip lead in his crosshairs.

The action gets folded to the CO where The Philippines’ Czar Ian Marcos raises it up to 265,000 and gets two callers in Ye Kejie of China on the D and the Netherlands’ Germ de Haas in the BB.

The flop comes 7♦ A♥ K♠ as de Haas checks and Marcos continues for 205,000. Both of his opponents fold.

Marcos is making a late surge as his stack climbs to surpass the three million mark.

The action folds to the CO where Fredrick Yu of the Philippines raises it to 450,000 as it gets folded to the D where fellow Filipino Czar Ian Marcos makes a raise, adding an additional 20,000 chip to put Yu all-in. Yu obliges.

Marcos shos A♣ J♠ while Yu has live cards with Q♣ T♣ .

The runout goes 6♠ 2♦ 9♦ 7♠ 4♦ as Yu completely misses and Marcos busts him with a higher card.

Marcos’ stack near the two million mark as the final three tables are formed.