Main Event (18,500 PHP)

Taiwan’s Liu Yu opens from UTG for 2,100 and gets three callers.

The flop comes J♣ T♠ 4♠ as all check to Carlo Calingasan of the Philippines on the D and he leads out for 7,000. Liu raises all-in as Japan’s Hirotaka Matsunaga also shoves his last 15,600. It folds back to Calingasan who tanks a bit before releasing his hole cards into the muck.

Liu turns over K♣ Q♦ for an open-ended straight draw while Matsunaga has A♥ J♥ for top pair-top kicker.

The turn card is the 4♥ but the river card is the 9♠ to complete the Taiwanese player’s straight and knockout the Japanese player.