HomeFalling on the first hand of the day was Vivian Im with Sim Jae Kyung aka Simba sending her out. Simba is the day’s entering chip leader. He climbed to 572k.
Next out was Doug Hartwick falling to Christopher Kwong. Kwong now at 160k.
Iori Yogo couldn’t get the boost he needed falling to Andre Lettau whose A♦ 7♦ landed trips on the board 10♥ 7♣ 3♣ 7♥ 6♥.
The fourth to exit was short stacked Xing Yu Ren bumped out by N-Rak Lertphokhanon with pocket tens doing the job over nine-six offsuit. Lertphokhanon goes up to 340k.
Here we go! Cards in the air at Day 3!
APT Philippines II 2019 enters the next stage of the MAIN EVENT with the 66 players returning for Day 3. The agenda is to reach the money of 52 places then onward to a seat to the Final 8. The featured event has been running since September 13 attracting a Philippine series record-breaking 515 entries at host venue Resorts World Manila at the new Grand Wing. With buy-in at PHP 55,000,000 (~USD 1,100) the prize pool broke well past the guarantee (PHP 10M) for a much wealthier PHP 24,977,500 (~USD 480,000). For the eventual champion, PHP 5,185,500 (~USD 99,500) awaits along with the APT Trophy and APT Championship Ring.
Remaining: 66 players
ITM: 52 places
Opening blinds: 2500 – 5000 ante 5000 (Level 18)
Total chips in play: 12,875,000
Average stack: 195,075
Bagging time: Final 8 players
Day 3 entering players
| Rank | Name | Country | Chips | Table | Seat |
| 1 | Arvhin Malinab | Canada | 670,500 ???? | 18 | 4 |
| 2 | Simba “J.K Sim” | Korea | 522,000 | 18 | 7 |
| 3 | Xiao Sheng Zheng | China | 437,500 | 16 | 8 |
| 4 | Gavin Flynn | Ireland | 397,500 | 8 | 8 |
| 5 | Daiki Horikawa (BP) | Japan | 379,000 | 16 | 3 |
| 6 | Dang Mai Anh | Vietnam | 376,500 | 7 | 6 |
| 7 | Tetsuya Enoki | Japan | 375,500 | 6 | 1 |
| 8 | Yonghyun Yoo | Korea | 368,000 | 6 | 3 |
| 9 | Khoo Kah Hock | Malaysia | 344,000 | 7 | 7 |
| 10 | Heng Li | China | 329,500 | 7 | 2 |
| 11 | Yip Wai Shing | Hong Kong | 308,000 | 17 | 1 |
| 12 | Thomas Ward | New Zealand | 301,000 | 17 | 7 |
| 13 | Stauilaus Pui | Malaysia | 292,500 | 7 | 1 |
| 14 | Thoo Ming Ken | Malaysia | 281,500 | 16 | 5 |
| 15 | Andrew Lettau | Austria | 277,000 | 15 | 8 |
| 17 | Rene Van Krevelen | Netherlands | 274,000 | 6 | 7 |
| 16 | Francesco Morales (BP) | Italy | 274,000 | 9 | 6 |
| 18 | John Niko Costiniano | Philippines | 271,500 | 9 | 3 |
| 19 | En Ching Wu | Taiwan | 269,000 | 18 | 5 |
| 20 | Lester Edoc | Philippines | 264,500 | 15 | 1 |
| 21 | Masato Yokosawa | Japan | 254,500 | 17 | 6 |
| 22 | Gary Thompson | Ireland | 237,500 | 7 | 3 |
| 23 | Kosuke Tajima (BP) | Japan | 227,500 | 9 | 1 |
| 24 | Yin Zhang | China | 211,000 | 7 | 5 |
| 25 | Su Tianhong | China | 205,500 | 18 | 9 |
| 26 | Yo Hwan Lim | Korea | 202,500 | 16 | 6 |
| 27 | Kirill Tarasov | Russia | 200,000 | 18 | 1 |
| 28 | David Erquiaga | Philippines | 197,000 | 9 | 4 |
| 29 | Emmanuel Seaismundo | Philippines | 191,500 | 8 | 7 |
| 30 | Jae Won Choi (BP) | Korea | 190,000 | 6 | 9 |
| 31 | Terry Fan | Taiwan | 185,000 | 6 | 5 |
| 32 | N-Rak Lertphokhanon | Thailand | 184,000 | 15 | 3 |
| 33 | Tou Ta Wei | Taiwan | 178,000 | 8 | 4 |
| 34 | William Ysmael | Philippines | 163,500 | 16 | 7 |
| 35 | Hubert Spiess | France | 158,500 | 9 | 8 |
| 36 | Jixue Yin | China | 158,000 | 9 | 7 |
| 37 | Tatsu Kaneko | Japan | 155,000 | 7 | 4 |
| 38 | John Tech | Philippines | 154,500 | 7 | 8 |
| 39 | David Wang | Australia | 154,500 | 16 | 1 |
| 40 | Michael Seymour | Australia | 147,500 | 17 | 5 |
| 41 | Mark Dela Cruz | Philippines | 143,000 | 6 | 8 |
| 42 | Robert G. Uy | Philippines | 133,500 | 17 | 8 |
| 43 | Taichi Yoneya | Japan | 133,000 | 9 | 2 |
| 44 | Yoda-Zhao Gang | China | 132,000 | 8 | 5 |
| 45 | Deninis Gamboa | Philippines | 132,000 | 15 | 6 |
| 46 | N. Binh Minh | Vietnam | 129,000 | 8 | 6 |
| 47 | Christopher Kwong (BP) | Singapore | 127,000 | 17 | 2 |
| 48 | Dongjun Kim | Korea | 127,000 | 18 | 2 |
| 49 | Jaideep Sajwan | India | 122,500 | 16 | 4 |
| 50 | Yohn Paredes | Peru | 122,000 | 15 | 7 |
| 51 | E. “Saudnio” Macavinta | Philippines | 117,500 | 9 | 5 |
| 52 | Xing Yu Ren | China | 117,000 | 15 | 2 |
| 53 | Jin Yong | Malaysia | 108,000 | 8 | 3 |
| 54 | Jason Kyle Magbanua | Philippines | 103,500 | 6 | 4 |
| 55 | Janno “Boypicktus” Riga | Philippines | 101,000 | 8 | 2 |
| 56 | Metasit Pratipsangkom | Thailand | 95,000 | 15 | 4 |
| 57 | Tokio Kaneko | Japan | 81,000 | 16 | 2 |
| 58 | Anh Nguyen | Vietnam | 77,000 | 17 | 3 |
| 59 | Royoji Takahashi (BP) | Japan | 69,000 | 18 | 3 |
| 60 | Kim Sun Hong | Korea | 67,500 | 8 | 1 |
| 61 | Vivian Young-Shin Im | Korea | 58,500 | 18 | 6 |
| 62 | Iori Yogo (BP) | Japan | 53,000 | 15 | 5 |
| 63 | Seina Asagiri | Japan | 50,500 | 6 | 2 |
| 64 | Nicholas Andrews | Australia | 48,000 | 6 | 6 |
| 65 | Gun Clawuuthinan | Thailand | 46,500 | 18 | 8 |
| 66 | Doug Hartwick (BP) | Canada | 46,000 | 17 | 4 |