Main Event (18,500 PHP)

With the prize pool at the end of Day 1C’s registration at PhP14,812,521 (~US$263,780), Day 1D is underway and later it will be determined how much the final payouts will be as Day 1C’s 396 is the most of the three qualifiers thus far and brought in 59 new players that are already ITM and moving on to Day 2.

Unlike the previous Day 1s, however, Canada’s Niroshan Loganathan was a steady force after picking up the chip lead before the midway mark of the competition and despite several upheavals—mostly from the Filipino layers—he was able to build on it and coast until the end.

Loganathan was believed to have burst the bubble when he busted Filipino Alexis Lim. But it proved to be the penultimate elimination as the bubble was burst not long after when Singapore’s Thomas Po called the shove of Filipino short-stack Mark Anthony Chua who went all-in with A♠ T♠ and was behind all the way against Po’s A♠ J♦ as the board blanked out ensuring the final 59 who will be moving on.

The Canadian finished hostilities with 679,000 in chips while being pursued by three Filipinos in Kevin Mateo in second with 485,000, Richard Marquez in third with 451,000 and Mark Solsona with 441,000. Fifth place was held by Taiwan’s Lin Yu Hsien for 408,000.

A total of 140 now comprise those seeing action in Day 2 which takes place tomorrow (June 15) still at 12:00NN (UCT+8).

Day 1D is still ongoing.

Ermito Sorio, Jr. of the Philippines takes the plunge with his remaining stack of 24,000 committed to the pot from the +1 position and it folds to the D where Korea’s Kim Kunwoo makes the call. In the SB, Nuerzhigit Zhapbarkhan of Kazakhstan also goes all-in for his last 57,000. Kim calls that as well.

Sorio turns over 6♠ 6♦ while Zhapbarkhan shows K♥ T♠ . Kim has A♣ 7♣ .

The runout goes 2♥ 4♥ 5♦ 2♣ Q♣ as Sorio triples up by having his sixes hold and Zhapbarkhan gets knocked out by Kim’s Ace-high.

After a series of raises, it is all-in preflop for Filipino Ermito Sorio, Jr. and Korea’s Kim Kunwoo who is at risk for his last 132,000.

Sorio shows A♣ K♥ while Kim has Q♥ Q♦ .

The flop goes 3♣ T♦ Q♣ to give the Korean an insurmountable edge with top set as the last two community cards are the K♣ and the T♣ as Kim’s full house all but wipes out his Filipino foe.

The action folds to the CO where Tadhg Conway of Ireland puts all the chips he acquired from his second bullet in the middle for 16,700 and it folds to the SB where Korea’s Kim Taeyoo also goes all-in and is joined by fellow Korean Kim Kunwoo in the BB for his last 29,800.

Conway shows A♠ Q♠ as Taeyoo shows K♥ Q♥ . Kunwoo is ahead with K♦ K♣ .

The runout goes 3♣ 5♦ 8♠ 8♥ J♦ as Conway busts for the second time and Taeyoo takes a big hit to his stack.