Main Event (18,500 PHP)

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.

From the +1 position, Yasuto Suzuki of Japan opens for 1,500 and gets two callers in Germany’s Markus Wolters from the CO and Pierre-Yves Mathys of Switzerland in the SB.

The flop comes 4♦ A♥ 2♥ as Mathys checks. Suzuki continues for 1,500 as Wolters calls. Mathys then check-raises it 6,200 and gets the original aggressor to fold but Wolters makes the call. It is now Heads-Up to the turn where the 3♣ appears. The Swiss player then goes all-in for his remaining stack of 21,300. Wolters folds his hand face up, revealing A♦ 9♠ .