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Bubble round fireworks here with Linh Tran up against David Tai. The hand kicked off with a 10k raise from Tai, Tran three-bet to 18k, Tai upped it to 42k, Tran shoved for 98.5k total.
Tran A♥ A♠
Tai A♦ J♥
The board ran 5♣ 10♣ J♠ 2♥ 3♥ for a double up to Tran. He now has nearly 200k while Tai dropped to 50k. After this hand, Tran proceded to win two more pots though significantly smaller.
Big stacked Le Ngoc Khanh and Lim Yohwan stared down a flop A♣ 2♦ 4♦ with preflop raised pot before them. Khanh led for 26k and was called. On the K♦ turn, Khanh sent out 31k and was again called. On the A♠ river, no bets arrived and Khanh had to show his 5♠ 7♠ missed draw. Yohwan won with A♦ 5♣ trips. Yohwan up to 330k, Khanh dropped to 270k.
Kentaro Somekawa doubled up his very short stack during one of the first hands of the day but still couldn’t hold on to it. He was eliminated in 54th place by Cheli Lin with 7-7 falling to A♣ J♣ on a board 2♣ 9♣ K♠ 4♠ J♠.
We are now on the bubble with 53 players remaining.
One of the remaining APT champions in the field, Czardy Rivera raised to 8500. He was called by Mikiya Kudo on the bug blind. At the flop 7♣ 3♣ K♠, both checked it. On the J♦ turn, Kudo bet 24k, Rivera called. On the {kd river, Kudo shoved and won the pot with Rivera folding. Kudo at 270k.
The first dropout of the day was Anthony Abram with his 8 bb stack unable to double up. That brought the field to 55 players. Next to fall was Marcuss Liow.
Le Ngoc Khanh
Liow entered Day 3 with an above average stack and in one unlucky hand, he was painfully booted out. The hand saw Le Ngoc Khanh raise to 8k, Liow three-bet to 14k, Khanh four-bet to 25k, Liow shoved with 130k. Khanh tanked then called.
Liow K♦ K♣
Khanh A♥ Q♥
Though Khanh had one overcard, when the flop landed 7♠ Q♣ Q♠ his one lady found twins to improve to trips. The turn and river 2♣ 10♣ completed the board and Liow was eliminated.
First hand underway! Live updates running throughout until the Final 8 is reached! Check back for all the action.
Starting Day 3 Chip Counts
| Rank | Name | Country | Chips | Table | Seat |
| 1 | Takao Shimizu | Japan | 308,500 | 3 | 1 |
| 2 | Chang Jae Lee | Korea | 286,500 | 6 | 3 |
| 3 | Sam Welbourne | Thailand | 273,000 | 6 | 4 |
| 4 | Lim Yo Hwan | Korea | 270,500 | 7 | 8 |
| 5 | Koji Asaka | Japan | 254,000 | 3 | 3 |
| 6 | Kah Boon Teh | Malaysia | 254,000 | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | Jiego C. Erquiaga | Philippines | 250,000 | 8 | 8 |
| 8 | Jun Obara | Japan | 245,000 | 3 | 7 |
| 9 | Junichi Nakagiri | Japan | 237,500 | 5 | 6 |
| 10 | Mikiya Kudo | Japan | 223,000 | 6 | 1 |
| 11 | Zheng Xi Yong | China | 221,000 | 8 | 2 |
| 12 | Shun Suke Tsujii | Japan | 217,000 | 6 | 5 |
| 13 | Wendell “Kenzio” Garcia | Philippines | 213,500 | 4 | 2 |
| 14 | Kosei Inchinose | Japan | 205,000 | 5 | 1 |
| 15 | Le Ngoc Khanh | Vietnam | 202,500 | 7 | 2 |
| 16 | Tai Hsing Hsiung | Taiwan | 183,000 | 8 | 7 |
| 17 | Wang Yi | China | 183,000 | 7 | 6 |
| 18 | Czardy Rivera | Philippines | 170,500 | 6 | 6 |
| 19 | En Ching Wu | Taiwan | 164,500 | 4 | 7 |
| 20 | Victorry Chong | Malaysia | 152,500 | 4 | 3 |
| 21 | Cheli Lin | Taiwan | 146,000 | 3 | 2 |
| 22 | Koichi Morita | Japan | 144,500 | 4 | 1 |
| 23 | Seo Dong Kyoon | Korea | 142,000 | 3 | 4 |
| 24 | Julius Lagman | Philippines | 140,000 | 6 | 7 |
| 25 | Bobby Zhang | Austalia | 137,500 | 6 | 8 |
| 26 | Marcuss Liow | Malaysia | 136,500 | 7 | 4 |
| 27 | Andianto Wijaya Tan | Indonesia | 135,500 | 2 | 8 |
| 28 | Alfie Poetra | United States | 123,000 | 2 | 6 |
| 29 | Ryuichi Uesunomiya | Japan | 118,000 | 5 | 7 |
| 30 | Benedict Koh | Singapore | 107,000 | 2 | 5 |
| 31 | Stephen Miles | England | 106,000 | 5 | 5 |
| 32 | Stephen Nathan | United Kingdom | 100,500 | 3 | 8 |
| 33 | Kazuki Haruta | Japan | 98,500 | 4 | 6 |
| 34 | Fu Bang huang | Taiwan | 96,000 | 4 | 5 |
| 35 | Joven Huerto | Philippines | 94,000 | 2 | 7 |
| 36 | Kwok Luen Hei | Hong Kong | 90,000 | 2 | 1 |
| 37 | Francois Michel Castillo | Philippines | 86,000 | 5 | 4 |
| 38 | Marius Zalpys | Lithuania | 84,500 | 2 | 2 |
| 39 | Goh Chong Tech | Singapore | 84,500 | 8 | 6 |
| 40 | Katsuhiro Shimpo | Japan | 83,000 | 8 | 5 |
| 41 | Sebastian Wong | Singapore | 82,000 | 4 | 4 |
| 42 | Anton Del Rosario | Philippines | 81,000 | 5 | 2 |
| 43 | Julius Gaduang | United States | 79,000 | 7 | 5 |
| 44 | Linh Tran | Vietnam | 76,000 | 7 | 1 |
| 45 | Sandro Bruni | Italy | 70,500 | 4 | 8 |
| 46 | Pamela Ang Chai Li | Singapore | 68,500 | 5 | 8 |
| 47 | Park Neong Hyo | Korea | 63,000 | 6 | 2 |
| 48 | Lz Rongshan | China | 61,500 | 3 | 5 |
| 49 | Keita Minaguchi | Japan | 61,500 | 2 | 3 |
| 50 | Park Jung Wong | Hong Kong | 56,000 | 3 | 6 |
| 51 | Alexis Lim | Philippines | 54,000 | 7 | 7 |
| 52 | Siyoung Lee | Korea | 53,000 | 7 | 3 |
| 53 | Chul Ho Bae | Korea | 38,000 | 8 | 4 |
| 54 | Anthony Abram | Austalia | 32,500 | 5 | 3 |
| 55 | Kentaro Somekawa | Japan | 32,500 | 8 | 1 |
| 56 | Lu Li | China | 22,500 | 8 | 3 |
The Main Event resumes with 56 players returning to the felt. Only 52 paid will money which means four of them will walk away empty-handed. Action begins at 1pm. Blinds continue at Level 17: 2K/4K ante 4K. They will play until the Final 8 is reached.
Total chips in play: 7,675,000
Average stack: 137,053
Total entries: 307
Prizepool: PHP 14,889,500
1st place: 2,844,500
