Main Event (18,500 PHP)

Singapore’s Ang Lim Yong opens from the +1 position for 4,000 and gets caller in Park Eunseo of Korea in the HJ and Japan’s Hirotaka Matsunaga from the D.

The flop goes 3♣ Q♠ T♣ as Ang continues for 8,000. Park raises it to 16,000 and Matsunaga moves all-in for 35,500. Ang then commits his last 39,500 into the pot. Park makes the snap call.

Matsunaga tables K♠ Q♥ for top pair on the flop as Ang reveals he has Q♣ J♣ and is outkicked. However, they are both behind against Park’s concealed A♣ A♥ .

The turn card is the A♦ to give both pursuers a semblance of a chance with a gutshot that never arrives when the river card is the 3♦ .

The double elimination ups the Korean’s stack to way past the century mark.