Main Event (18,500 PHP)

China’s Ye Kejie open shoves for his 1,775,000 from UTG and the action folds all the way to the BB where Czar Ian Marcos of the Philippines makes the call.

Ye turns over A♦ T♥ while Marcos shows 8♠ 8♦ .

The flop immediately makes it difficult climb out of the hole for the Chinese player: 2♠ 8♦ J♦ but the arrival of the Q♥ on the turn gives Ye a gutshot Broadway redraw. It doesn’t happen as the river card is the 2♣ giving Marcos a full house and completing the annihilation of Ye as the Final Table is now known.

Everyone in the Final Table is now guaranteed PhP236,589 (~US$4,210) and also an APPT Super Qualifier seat worth PhP9,000 (~US$160).

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.