Main Event (18,500 PHP)

Pang Ying of England opens from the HJ for 210,000 and it gets to the BB where the Philippines’ Rodrigo Sequite moves all-in for 1,060,000. Pang makes the snap call.

Sequite turns over Q♦ Q♥ but is disgusted to learn that Pang, who covers him, has A♣ A♠ .

The runout goes 5♦ K♥ 2♠ 3♣ 2♣ as the Filipino becomes the first casualty in the final two tables.

Big stack Rodrigo Sequite of the Philippines opens from UTG for 60,000 and it folds to the CO where Korea’s Hong Soojing 3-bets it to 145,000. It folds back to the Filipino who makes the call.

The flop is 2♠ Q♠ J♣ as Sequite checks. Hong continues for 100,000 and gets called. The turn is the K♥ and this time, both check. The river card is the 9♦ as now Sequite fires a bet of 300,000. Hong folds.

Sequite’s extraction from the Korea ups his stack to past the two million mark and stays close to chip leader Ryuki Shirase’s nearly 3,000,000 stack.

Day 1C chip leader Niroshan Loganathan of Canada is raising from the +2 position for 60,000. It gets re-raised on the D by the Philippines’ Rodrigo Sequite to 150,000. Loganathan calls.

The flop comes 2♦ 8♦ 8♠ as Sequite continues for 150,000. The Canadian calls. The turn is the Q♦ as this time, Loganathan seizes the betting lead and fires 260,000. Sequite shoves his remaining stack of 505,000 and gets the quick call.

The Filipino turns over K♠ K♦ for an over-pair and a redraw for a flush while Loganathan shows 6♦ 5♦ for a made flush on the turn.

With Sequite’s tournament life on the line, the river card arrives and it is the 3♦ to give him a higher flush and all but obliterates Loganathan’s once mighty stack.

Sequite is now among the Main Event monster stacks.

The actions from the +2 position to 35,000 as it folds to the CO where Japan’s Takuya Makino 3-bets all-in for his remaining stack of 285,000. On the D, Rodrigo Sequite of the Philippines iso-shoves for 386,000 and it is enough to get the initial raiser out of pot.

The Japanese player is at risk as he tables A♦ J♣ . Sequite shows K♦ K♠ .

The flop goes Q♥ 6♥ J♠ to give Makino more outs, The turn is the 3♠ while the river card is the 3♦ as Sequite dispatches Makino and nears the chip leaders.