HomeAkio Kawano went head to head against chip leader Marc Rivera and got the better of him to double up. Rivera had 6♠ 6♦, Kawano with Q♥ Q♠, the board ran dry. Kawano up to 200k.
Catching the action only at the shipping, the board was J♠ 5♠ 4♣ 9♦ Q♠. Xiabo Zhou showed his A♥ A♠ but Hirawasa Fumimasa had better K♦ 10♦ straight to claim the pot. Fumimasa up to 270k, Zhou at 275k.
Ivan Tabucal eliminated! In two losing hands at this opening round, Tabucal was bounced out of the Main Event. Tabucal entered the day as second chip leader with over 100 bbs to play with and proceeded to lose a sizable chunk to sb Edgar Kim.
Ivan Tabucal
Tabucal raised to 14k, Kim three-bet to 42k, Tabucal called. The flop landed Q♠ 2♣ A♣. Kim bet 35k, Tabucal raised to 70k, Kim called. On the 4♦ turn and K♣ river, both checked. Kim showed A♠ 9♥ top pair, Tabucal mucked. Kim rose to 460k.
Marc Rivera
Dropping to 260k, Tabucal met his end on this hand. Utg chip leader Marc Rivera raised to 10k, utg+1 Tabucal three-bet to 36k, Rivera four-bet to 86k, Tabucal all in, Rivera with the snap-call.
Tabucal Q♣ Q♦
Rivera A♦ K♠
The board ran 8♥ A♣ 10♠ 5♦ 8♣ for a higher pair spiked by Rivera. Tabucal out. Rivera up to 700k.
Maki Ikeda
Several more players have fallen, among them was Nguyen Hoang Bach with Maki Ikeda delivering the axe. Bach was all in preflop with K♠ K♥, Ikeda A♣ Q♠, the board was generous to Ikeda as it ran Q♣ 9♣ A♥ 9♥ 2♠. Ikeda shipped it and climbed to 280k.
Instant shove action on the first hand. Fu Bang Huang booted BJ Perez to become the first casualty of the day. On the table over, Taichi Ichikawa had a better turnout. After a preflop raise war with Ysmael, he was all in. His pocket kings held against Ysmael’s queens. Ichikawa up to 260k, Ysmael down to 100k.
And we are off! Cards are in the air for Day 3 of the Main Event. The plan today is to play down from 70 players to the Final 8. The money wasn’t reached yesterday which means we we will see the bubble burst today with 51 players paid.
Entering today as chip leader is Marc Rivera with 448k. He is trailed by Ivan Tabucal with 414k. Both players are from the host country, Philippines. They are the only two that bagged up over 400k at Day 2.
Here’s the info at the start:
Blinds: 2k-4k ante 4k
Total chips in play: 12,575,000
Average stack: 179,642
The Main Event drew an APT Philippines series record-breaking 503 entries and with each at P55,000, it created a very lucrative P24,395,500 prize pool. The eventual winner is looking to ship P5,038,400. Good luck to all today!
Day 3 Chip Counts
| Rank | Name | Country | Chips | Table | Seat |
| 1 | Marc Rivera | Philippines | 438,000 | 11 | 9 |
| 2 | Ivan Chev Tabucal | Philippines | 414,000 | 11 | 1 |
| 3 | Jung Seung Mook | Korea | 394,500 | 8 | 2 |
| 4 | Christopher Mateo | Philippines | 391,000 | 12 | 8 |
| 5 | Gerardo Lubas III | Philippines | 380,000 | 13 | 2 |
| 6 | Su Tian Hong | China | 365,000 | 9 | 3 |
| 7 | Gonzva Benjamin | Thailand | 359,000 | 8 | 4 |
| 8 | Sung Jin Han | Korea | 350,000 | 7 | 1 |
| 9 | Vamerdino Magsakay | Philippines | 343,500 | 12 | 2 |
| 10 | Edgar (Eui) Kim | Hong Kong | 326,500 | 11 | 5 |
| 11 | Marvin Rettenmaier | Germany | 322,000 | 12 | 3 |
| 12 | Victor Chen (Chen Chih-Yen) | Taiwan | 309,500 | 6 | 5 |
| 13 | Le Tuan Anh | Vietnam | 308,500 | 9 | 8 |
| 14 | Yong Hyun Yoo | Korea | 308,000 | 12 | 1 |
| 15 | Jae Kyung Joe | Korea | 299,000 | 7 | 7 |
| 16 | Kyung Kun Lee | Korea | 252,000 | 11 | 8 |
| 17 | Craig Landry | Australia | 241,000 | 10 | 7 |
| 18 | David Erguiaga | Philippines | 238,000 | 8 | 6 |
| 19 | Alvin S. Sembrano | Philippines | 232,500 | 13 | 3 |
| 20 | Siyoung Lee | Korea | 230,500 | 13 | 6 |
| 21 | William Ysmael | Philippines | 228,500 | 10 | 2 |
| 22 | Tatsuya Hirose | Japan | 223,500 | 6 | 6 |
| 23 | Ron Tse Tate | United States | 217,000 | 11 | 3 |
| 24 | Tetsuya Tsuchikawa | Japan | 216,000 | 6 | 3 |
| 25 | Sam Razavi | United Kingdom | 199,500 | 9 | 6 |
| 26 | Maki Ikeda | Japan | 197,000 | 13 | 1 |
| 27 | Joseph Ty Sia | Philippines | 192,500 | 12 | 7 |
| 28 | Xiaobo Zhou | China | 192,500 | 9 | 2 |
| 29 | Sandro Bruni | Italy | 190,500 | 10 | 5 |
| 30 | Thomas Lee | Canada | 183,500 | 9 | 1 |
| 31 | Sukwon Lee | Korea | 181,000 | 10 | 3 |
| 32 | Jessie Supnet | Philippines | 172,000 | 10 | 4 |
| 33 | Fumimasa Hirasawa | Japan | 151,000 | 9 | 7 |
| 34 | Akio Kawano | Japan | 145,500 | 11 | 7 |
| 35 | Wen Kang Hsu | Taiwan | 145,000 | 13 | 8 |
| 36 | Sebastian Wong | Singapore | 144,500 | 8 | 8 |
| 37 | Lee Sang Jun | Korea | 141,000 | 8 | 9 |
| 38 | Tim Brown | United States | 138,500 | 9 | 4 |
| 39 | Christos Vlavos | Australia | 137,000 | 10 | 6 |
| 40 | Hwang Seok Chul | Korea | 135,000 | 6 | 2 |
| 41 | Tobias Peters | Netherlands | 132,500 | 7 | 5 |
| 42 | Hiroshi Matsumoto | Japan | 131,500 | 12 | 5 |
| 43 | Taichi Ichikawa | Japan | 129,500 | 10 | 8 |
| 44 | Alex Lee | Singapore | 125,000 | 9 | 9 |
| 45 | Brandon Yates | United States | 118,000 | 7 | 2 |
| 46 | Shue Sing Churk | China | 118,000 | 6 | 4 |
| 47 | Yasheel Doddanavar | India | 115,000 | 7 | 9 |
| 48 | Keiichiiro Sugimoto | Japan | 114,000 | 12 | 6 |
| 49 | Chen Yazhou | China | 103,000 | 6 | 7 |
| 50 | Naoki Yamamoto | Japan | 98,000 | 7 | 3 |
| 51 | Lu Zheng Hao | Singapore | 97,000 | 7 | 6 |
| 52 | Ryo Kotake | Japan | 94,000 | 7 | 4 |
| 53 | Nguyen Hoang Bacis | Vietnam | 93,000 | 13 | 4 |
| 54 | Fu, Bang Huang | Taiwan | 87,500 | 11 | 6 |
| 55 | Sze Chi Fu | Hong Kong | 84,500 | 8 | 1 |
| 56 | Joven I. Huerto | Philippines | 82,500 | 13 | 5 |
| 57 | Daiki Horikawa | Japan | 80,000 | 13 | 7 |
| 58 | Mohammed Abras Ladau | United Kingdom | 72,500 | 11 | 4 |
| 59 | Lanny Haney | United States | 69,500 | 9 | 5 |
| 60 | Taku Yamamori | Japan | 64,500 | 10 | 1 |
| 61 | Taichi Yoneya | Japan | 64,000 | 8 | 7 |
| 62 | Lin Yu Sheng | Taiwan | 62,500 | 10 | 9 |
| 63 | Bobby Zhang | Australia | 59,500 | 7 | 8 |
| 64 | Bj Perez | Philippines | 56,500 | 11 | 2 |
| 65 | David Chargualaf | United States | 49,000 | 6 | 9 |
| 66 | Masato Nemoto | Japan | 48,500 | 12 | 4 |
| 67 | Ko Isayama | Japan | 46,000 | 6 | 8 |
| 68 | Anthony Abram | Australia | 44,500 | 6 | 1 |
| 69 | Yosuke Kijima | Japan | 35,000 | 8 | 5 |
| 70 | Takahiro Shibata | Japan | 32,500 | 8 | 3 |
| Day 1A = 124 / Day 1B = 305 / Day 2 = 74 | |||||
| Total Entries = 503 | |||||
| 12,575,000 Chip in Play / 179,642 Average Chip Stack | |||||