Main Event (18,500 PHP)

With only 21,000 left in his stack, Mark Anthony Chua of the Philippines commits his remaining stack to the pot from UTG and it folds all the way to Singapore’s Thomas Po in the SB who makes the call.

Chua turns over A♠ T♠ while Po shows one better with A♠ J♦ .

The subsequent runout goes: 7x 8x 9x 3x 8x as Po wins with higher hole cards and officially bursts the Day 1C bubble as the remaining 59 players all trudge on to Day 2 of the Main Event.

The action open from UTG for 2,500 and a call comes from the +1 position. It folds to the HJ where Japan’s Yasuto Suzuki 3-bets it to 6,500 and then a 4-bet shove comes from the CO of another Japanese player in Yosuke Okada for 13,000. It gets to the SB where Mark Anthony Chua of the Philippines 5-bet shoves to isolate as the two original participants get out of the way. Suzuki snap calls.

Okada turns over 8♥ 8♦ while Chua is coin-flipping with him for his tournament life holding A♣ K♣ . However, both are crushed as Suzuki shows A♥ A♠ . Suzuki covers both of his foes.

The flop doesn’t change the outcome: 4♥ 2♠ J♦ but the turn brings in the Q♣ and before anyone could react, the river card is the T♥ to give Chua a backdoor Broadway straight that officially knocks Okada out and cripples Suzuki as his aces get cracked by the Filipino to send his stack to the ICU.