Yeongpil Han rivered in 10th place - PHp 405,000 (~US$ 8,000)
Graeme Siow out in 11th place - Pp 405,000 (~US$ 8,000)
Dimitar Blazhev avoids the rail, cripples Siow
Markus Garberg eliminated in 12th place - Php 405,000 (~US$ 8,000)
Second shove does the job for Yeongpil Han
Joshua Chargualaf denied by Vlahos in 13th place - Php 345,500 (~US$ 6,800)
No second trophy for Xin Lin, 14th place - Php 345,500 (~US$ 6,800)
Daniel Sammarco’s aces cracked, exits in 15th place - Php 345,500 (~US$ 6,800)
Dimitar Blazhev doubles through Dela Cruz
Junya Kubo railed by Erquiaga in 16th place - Php 286,000 (~US$ 5,600)
Chip counts at the break
16 players Chips in play 10,320,000 Average stack 645,000
Table 1 Junya Kubo 160k Markus Garberg 920k Dimitar Blazhev 170k Vikaash Shah 840k David Erquiaga 1.235M Ryo Naito 510k Mark Dela Cruz 1.453M Graeme Siow 275k
Table 2 Christos Vlahos 1.575M Rogelio Del Rosario 950k Kunwoo Kim 365k Jongjun Park 695k Daniel Sammarco 250k Yeongpil Han 225k Xin LIn 150k Joshua Chargualaf 655k
Naoyo Fujihisa departrs in 17th place - Php 286,000 (~US$ 5,600)
Youngsin Ko booted in 18th place -
Rogelio Del Rosario doesn’t call Kim’s push
Table draw
18 players remaining Chips in play 10,320,000 Average stack 573,333
Table 1 Junya Kubo Markus Garberbg Dimitar Blazhev Vikaash Shah David Erquiaga Ryo Naito Youngsin Ko Mark Dela Cruz Graeme Siow
Table 2 Christos Vlahos Naoya Fujihisa Rogelio Del Rosario Kunwoo Kim Jongjun Park Daniel Samarco Yeongpil Han Xin Lin Joshua Chargualaf
Qibing Wang unlucky, falls to Dela Cruz in 19th place - Php 237,000 (~US$ 4,700)
Jongjun Park lands lucky two outer against Fujihisa
Yeongpil Han ships a double up Erquiaga
Jeonggyu Cho calls to his doom in 20th place - Php 237,000 (~US$ 4,700)
Daniel Sammarco gets full pay from the leader
Mark Dela Cruz claims another pot, rises to 633k
Christos Vlahos with a huge double through Fujihisa, sits with 1.38M
Motokatsu Uhara railed in 21st place - Php 237,000 (~US$ 4,700)
Markus Garberg takes a chunk from Jeonggyu Cho
Simen Gulbrandsen railed in 22nd place for Php 192,000 (~US$ 3,800)
Thijs Hilberts dominated by Chargualaf, out 23rd for Php 192,000 (!US$ 3,800)
Mark Dela Cruz wins the race against Garberg
David Erquiaga pays two double ups
Kunwoo Kim doubles up through Del Rosario
Ryan McAllister railed by Siow in 24th place - Php 192,000 (~US$ 3,800)
Jun Obara out in 25th place - Php 166,000 (~US$ 3,300)
Julien Weymouth’s kings cracked out 26th for Php 166,000 (~US$ 3,300)
Zackery Lowrie out in 27th place - Php 166,000 (~US$ 3,300)
Eliminations 28th to 36th - Php 140,500 (~US$ 2,800)
28th Takumi Matsuzaka - Japan 29th Yuka Asaka - Japan 30th Si Yang Phua - Singapore 31st Daniel Holmedahl - Norway 32nd Sebastian Schade - Germany 33rd Adones Carmona - Philippines 34th Sean Ragozzini - Australia 35th Kristian Wiermhyr - Norway 36th Olivier Duran - France
Yuka Asaka runs into Vlahos’s aces
Yuka Asaka was all in with pocket jacks but ran into Christos Vlahos with pocket aces. Her run ended in 29th place. Vlahos is up to 540k.
Daniel Holmedahl goes up and out
Naoya Fujihisa breaches a million, rails Schade
Sebastian Schade takes two from Kunwoo Kim
Eliminations 37th - 43rd - Php 115,000 (~US$ 2,300)
37th Johnson Tan - Philippines 38th Andre Berg - Norway 39th Scott Iain Alm - UK 40th Johnnie Moreno - USA 41st Michael Saludes - Philippines 42nd Christopher Mateo - Philippines 43rd Hidekazu Tanaka - Japan
Don Carmona lands two double ups
Bubble round: No look Yuka Asaka survives! Triples up
Bubble round: Joshua Chargualaf vs Rogel Del Rosario
Bubble round: Zackery Lowrie triples up to 84k
Bubble round: Christos Vlahos chunks Carmona
Bubble round: Graeme Siow rises to 480k
Bubble round: Junya Kubo pushes for the pot, Sammarco folds
Dimitar Blazhev busts Kalaquin bubble round reached
Youngsin Ko ends short stacked Teh
Three quick bust… bubble round approaching..
We are nearing the bubble with three short stacks quickly dusted off here. Recent busts were Jay Tolon, Moses Saquing, and Jaeho Kim. 3 to the money. We will go hand-for-hand once we reach 44 players.
Break time chip counts; 50 remain, 43 ITM
Vikaash Shah pushes out Mateo
Strange hand went down at action table 4 with a flop at 10-10-7, Vikaash Shah checked, Christopher Mateo bet 37k, Shah raised to 91k, Mateo three-bet to 200k, Shah jammed for 250k total for only 50k more to Mateo, he folded. Shah now at around 500k. Mateo down to around 200k.
Markus Garberg continues to rise
Julien Weymouth chunks Lubas
We missed the action on this hand but we did see Julien Weymouth shipping a sizable pot against Gerard Lubas with a set of twos. Lubas was down to his last 7k and lost it to Markus Garberg. Weymouth up to 340k.
Zheko Dinev gets lucky then departs
Opening level see 19 bust
Plenty of players dropped on the opening round, 19 to be exact. We are down to 60 players. Money is at 43. Leading is Markus Garberg with 540k.
Si Yang Phua at 175k
POY contender Si Yang Phua is running well with two double ups and a KO of a short stack to climb to 170k. He doubled up with pocket kings over pocket nines then busted a short stack. David Erquiaga is at a separate table and has the same amount of 170k.























































