Main Event (18,500 PHP)

The action gets folded to the blinds where Daiki Goto of Japan shoves from the SB against American Craig Gray in the BB who opts to make the call for his last 145,000.

Goto shows J♠ J♥ and is way ahead of Gray’s 7♣ 7♦ .

The runout goes 5♠ 4♦ T♦ A♠ 8♠ as the Jacks hold and Gray is issued his walking papers as the last elimination in Day 1B.

There 47 players remaining and all will advance to Day 2 of the Main Event.

The action starts from the UTG for a raise to 4,000 which is called by Finland’s Eduard Galanzovskiy on the D and Craig Gray of the United States in the BB.

The flop comes 7♣ Q♣ 6♥ as it checked around to Galanzovskiy who bets 8,000. Gray calls but the original raiser folds. It is Heads-Up to the turn where the T♦ appears. This time, Gray who leads out for 13,500 and gets raised all-in by Galanzovskiy who covers him. The American makes the call for his remaining stack of 52,500.

The Finn shows 6♠ 6♦ for bottom set on the flop while Gray tables Q♠ T♥ for two pairs on the turn.

The river card does not bring in any of Gray’s required outs as the 2♠ shows up.

Galanzovskiy also joins the six-figure club.