Main Event (18,500 PHP)

Taiwan’s Chou Kuan Jui raises from the +1 position for 8,000 and gets calls from chip leader Ryuki Shirase of Japan on the D and Filipino Edgar Asehan in the BB.

The flop comes 4♣ J♥ 9♠ as Asehan checks. Chou continues for 12,000 as Shirase calls. Asehan then check-raises it to 40,000 as Choi re-raises all-in for his last 83,000. Shirase folds but Asehan makes the quick call.

Chou tables J♦ T♦ for top pair on the flop while Asehan unfurls J♠ 8♣ for top two pairs on the flop. The turn card is the 8♦ giving the Taiwanese players more outs on the redraw to the open-ended straight. However, the river card is the 3♠ ending his campaign in Day 1A and installing Asehan as the new chip leader.

In a hand in progress, there is already 5,100 in the pot and a flop of 7♥ 4♥ A♦ as Chou Kuan Jui of Taiwan is in the +2 position and checks it to the Philippines’ Chierro de Leon in the HJ who bets 1,800. Chou calls. The turn is the T♦ as Chou checks again. De Leon fires 5,500 and is check-raised to 13,500. The Filipino decides to fold.