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Yoichi Fujiya increased his stack further in a hand where he raised to 3000 preflop and was called by both the big blind and a limper in the utg+1 seat. At the flop of 7♥ 3♣ 9♦, action was checked to Fujiya who laid out 6500 sending the bb player into an uncomfortable position. After debating on what to do, he eventually folded while the other opponent moved all in. Fujiya called and the hands were revealed:
Fujiya: K♣ K♠
Opponent: 5♠ 6♠
With the turn of 9♠ and river K♦, Fujiya scooped up the mountain of chips with his full house while railing one in the process.
Expectedly, when it’s kings vs. rockets showdown, most of the chips if not all are shoved into the middle. And that’s exactly what happened between Eric Chen and an opponent with a similar stack as his.
The dealer boarded 7♠ 6♣ A♠ 6♣ 6♥ and Chen has his pocket aces paid off big.
Chen climbs to over 41,000 in chips.
Flo Camponanes and Czardy Rivera tangled in two pots that both favored Camponanes. In the first hand we saw, Camponanes raise to 1100 and was called by both blinds with Rivera on the big blind. At the flop of A♠ 4♠ 10♠, the small blind checked, Rivera bet 1400, got raised to 3000 by Camponanes pushing the sb out. Rivera tanked a bit then opted to fold giving Camponanes the pot.
Several hands later, with a raised pot in the middle, db Camponanes bet 2100 into a flop of K♣ 9♦ K♦ and was check-called by Rivera in mid posiiton. At the turn of 8♥, Rivera checked again, Camponanes bet 4400 to which Rivera answered with a check-raise to 10000. After a few minutes, Camponanes reraised Rivera to a total of 20000 sending Rivera deep into the tank. Rivera eventually gave up his hand and Camponanes took another pot away from Rivera.
Anvar Muratov is making his presence felt at the table by claiming a couple of pots early. In a recent hand, he reraised Yoichi Fujiya’s 1000 to make it 2850 to to play. Fujiya called and both saw a flop land 5♣ Q♠ 10♠. Both players checked for a free turn of 6♥. Fujiya checked, Muratov bet 3050, and Fujiya surrendered the pot with his fold.
Two hands later, Muratov raised to 925 from the hijack seat and everyone folded giving him the blinds and antes.
One of the side event in APT Philippines – MegaSportsWorld Deep Stack Turbo (Event 9) is now running and has 170 players at the moment. Registration is still open, so don’t get shut out!
On a board of 7♦ 3♣ 7♣ 4♥ K♥ we saw SJ Kim ask a player how much he had left.
When told it was under 5,000 or so, Kim declared all-in and the player sheepishly folded his hand. The Korean has around 60,000 in chips– one of the biggest in his table.
In a previous level, we reported of a Richard Marquez double-up courtesy of a set of nines against an opponent’s pocket queens. The opponent got crippled so bad that he was already leaving the tournament area the hand after he lost it big. Thanks to  tournament staff who stopped him in his tracks and asked him to finish the hand first, he found out later that he tripled up to around 3,000 or 4,000.
And in this level we just saw him scoop the pot after his set of fives beat a player with a top pair.
We also got his name now: Benjie Bustillo, who is back from the dead with around 18,000 in chips.
With 90 players for Day 1A and another 118 for Day 1B, the main event total is at 208. Payouts should be posted in a bit and we’ll get that to you when it’s available.
Do Hoang Anh leads the field at the break with around 79K chips followed closely by Mike Fawaz with around 75K and Paul Hockin with 70K.