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.

It gets folded to the CO where Toshiki Mitsui of Japan raises it up to 1,300. He gets calls from Filipinos Christopher de Lara on the D and Wendell Barte in the BB.

The flop goes T♥ 2♥ 4♠ as Barte checks and Mitsui CBets for 2,000. Both Filipinos call. The turn card is the 8♠ as again Barte checks. The Japanese player now makes it 5,000 to go and is again called by de Lara but Barte exits the hand. It is now Heads-Up to the river which brings in the K♥ . Mitsui now bets 11,000 and gets no response from de Lara.

Mitsui tables K♠ K♣ and inches closer to the six-figure mark in terms of chip count.

In an ongoing hand where the pot is at 8,200 and the board having a flop of 8♥ T♦ 4♦ , Japan’s Toshiki Mitsui checks it from the CO as Kunal Jain of Hong Kong bets 4,500. Mitsui check-raises his opponent to 11,500 as Jain re-raises all-in and covers Mitsui. The Japanese player gives it a moment and decides to call for his last 30,900.

Jain shows K♠ T♥ for top pair on the flop while Mitsui turns over J♠ J♦ for an over-pair that the Hong Kong resident did not see.

The last two community cards are the 7♣ and the 2♥ as Jain’s stack is now officially in the danger zone.