Warm-up (5,000 PHP)

The break commenced, one table had an all-in and a call as short stack Siddarth Mishra of India had apparently open shoved from UTG for his last 16,000 and the burden of whether to call or not fell upon Filipino Raymundo Gomez in the SB.

The runout is 8♣ 6♣ Q♠ 2♦ 5♣ as the Indian stays alive as now all 35 remaining players are officially on break.

Raymundo Gomez of the Philippines gets it going with a raise from the +1 position for 25,000 and it folds to the CO where Hong Kong’s Sun Hui puts pressure on his Filipino opponent by re-raising to 95,000. Gomez is all-in to call and he obliges.

Sun turns over A♣ K♥ while Gomez shows T♦ T♥ .

The flop became an immediate concern for Gomez: Q♥ 6♥ 8♥ . One more heart appears, he is out the door. The turn is the 8♦ and the river is the 9♦ as Gomez breathes a sigh of relief as he scoops the pot and stays relevant in the hunt for advancement.

Rodolf Ramo open shoves his last 55,500 from the CO and gets called by fellow Filipino Raymundo Gomez from the BB.

Ramo then brandishes A♦ A♥ while Gomez shows T♥ T♦ .

The runout goes: K♦ 2♠ 6♥ 8♥ K♥ as Ramo doubles through but Gomez loses more than half his stack in the defeat.

Filipino Raymundo Gomez has it folded to him on the D and raises it 1,600 as the blinds decide to call.

The flop is 4♦ J♦ 8♣ as Australia's Qi Xia in the SB and Patrick Noonan of Ireland in the BB opt to check. Gomez CBets for 2,200 as Qi calls. The Irishman then check-raises it to 7,200. Both his opponents lay it down.

Noonan shows the J♠ .

In another ongoing pot with 13,500 in the middle, the board reads Q♥ Q♠ T♠ 6♠ 8♥ .

Malaysia’s Lim Kok Leong checks from his BB and Raymundo Gomez of the Philippines bets 6,000 from the HJ. Lim proceeds to check-raise all-in for his last 11,100. Gomez snap calls.

Lim flips over K♠ 3♠ for a flush on the turn while the Filipino shows Q♦ 8♣ for a full house on the river, sending the Malaysian back to the registration area for a re-entry ticket.