HomeWith three side events and a couple of satellites to the Main Event on deck earlier today, it was a chip shuffling poker room for the Asian Poker Tour Cebu 2016. This was the fourth day of the poker festival with the Head Hunter P4,000 Bounty, the Ladies of Poker, and the High Roller Open Face Chinese Pineapple 12 Max occupying the tables.
Head Hunter P4,000 Bounty
The day kicked off with the Head Hunter event. By the end of late registration, there were 106 entries creating a prize pool of P1,221,000 plus an additional P424,000 for the bounties. Tracking the progress of the event throughout the day, Korea’s Soo Jo Kim piled in the chips and held on to the chip lead for quite some time until he ran into another big stack, Denmark’s Michael Kim Falcon. Falcon amassed himself a big stack by eliminating several players including Singapore’s Feng Zhao, and then further escalated when he eliminated Kim who tried to bluff him out of a pot. At the bubble stage, it was Falcon who delivered the painful blow to Germany’s Sebastian Benz who went all in with 10♦ 9♦ only to fall to Falcon’s A♥ Q♠.
Immediately after, more short stacks quickly fell such as Japan’s Tetsuya Tsuchikawa and Naruyasu Ota, Peru’s Yohn Paredes, and Korea’s Jae Chul Chang. Before the final 8 was reached, Japan’s Kenji Kurashina and Kosei Ichinose also fell. When Filipino player Ernesto Ouano was eliminated in 9th place, the event was stopped for a continuation tomorrow. Ending the day as the chip leader was Michael Falcon with a dominating 334,000 chips. The final 8 will return at 1pm tomorrow for the battle to the finish.
Ladies of Poker
Ladies of Poker Champion, Ivy Patalinghug
Although it was a low turnout of 9 entries for the Ladies of Poker event, they seemed to be having a good time playing at the sweet RFID table. With a prize pool of P48,500 collected, two places would see a payout with P31,500 going to first place and P17,000 for the runner-up. At five-handed, Filipino player Ivy Patalinghug railed Vilma Goldman and became the massive chip leader. From there, she went on a killing spree, scalping Floyd Raquel next by cracking pocket aces with her set of fives. Immediately after, she, railed Japan’s Naoko Iiboshi as the bubble, and went heads up against Japan’s Tomomi Ito with an 8:1 chip advantage. It was a quick end to Ito who went all in with 7♥ 5♥ against Patalinghug’s K♠ 8♣ on a board of 4♥ 10♥ K♦. The turn of 8♦ and river of A♣ were not the outs Ito needed and Patalinghug reigned victorious.
Payouts:
1st Ivy Patalinghug – Philippines – P48,500
2nd Tomomi Ito – Japan – P31,500
High Roller OFC Pineapple 12 Max
High Roller OFC Pineapple Champion, Evgeny Kocherov
The High Roller OFC Pineapple saw 10 players cough up the P55,000 buy-in fee amassing a prize pool of P485,000. In the final battle, it was Evgeny Kocherov who defeated Lim Yah Loon to claim the first place cash prize of P315,200 and the event trophy. Kocherov finally bagged it having placed second to Korea’s Sim Jae Kyung at the same event last month.
Payouts:
1st Evgeny Kocherov – Russia – P315,200
2nd Lim Yah Loon – Singapore – P169,800
Main Event Super Satellite and Mega Satellite Results
Another Main Event seat was awarded from the Main Event Super Satellite. The happy winner was Michael Clifford Dier. The unfortunate bubble was Barry Lim who claimed P27,500 instead. Interestingly, Lim also bubbled yesterday but with his combined cash returns, he has enough to enter the Main Event if he chooses. At the Main Event Mega Satellite, four players were awarded seats, namely, Kimura Lee, Jay Lubas, Richard Marquez, and Henrieto Bonachita.