Main Event (18,500 PHP)

The action begins from with a raise from the +1 position for 900 and calls from Australia’s Nicholas Andrews on the D and Ng Kheng Chen of Malaysia in the SB.

The flop goes J♠ 6♣ 5♠ as Ng and the original raiser check. Andrews takes over by betting 1,000. Ng calls and the original raiser folds. It is Heads-Up to the turn which produces the Q♥ as Ng checks anew. Andrews unloads 2,200 and it is enough to make the Malaysian go away.

Malaysia’s Ng Kheng Chen opens from the +2 position for 800 and gets called on the LJ until Kohei Sato of Japan 3-bets them to 2,200 from the D. Ng proceeds to 4-bet it to 5,000 as the caller in the LJ folds. Sato chooses to call.

The flop goes 8♠ 7♦ 8♥ as Ng checks. Sato bets 2,500 and is check-raised by the Malaysian to 7,000. Sato calls. The turn is the 6♠ as once again Ng checks. The Japanese player then gos all-in for his remaining stack of 17,500. Ng makes the snap call.

Sato flips over T♦ 9♦ for a straight on the turn while Ng shows T♠ T♥ and is not drawing dead as a seven or the last ten gives him a boat.

The river card does pair the board, but it’s the 6♥ as Ng is in a perilous situation with such a low stack in the early goings.