HomeThe field is down 54 players across six tables. They are at a break and will have five more 60-minute rounds before bagging time at the end of Level 16. Here are the current table leaders:
Table 2
Pak Seok Won – 175k
Mike Takayama – 172k
Tomohiro Ikeda – 220k
Feng Zhao – 210k
Table 3
Henrik Tollefsen 278k
Enrico De Rosa – 275k
Table 4
Moses Saquing – 410k (chip leader)
Thomas Ward – 234k
Table 5
Jeorge Lagatuz – 250k
Edwin Dela Cruz – 210k
Jose Cheung – 220k
John Matsuda – 210k
Table 6
Bell John Perez – 280k
Lee Chang Hwan – 390k
Table 7
Nick – 250k
Sasaki Seiji – 230k
Wen Peng Dai – 190k
After cracking Edgar Asehan Jr’s pocket Kings with pocket Jacks on a flopped boat, De Rosa picked up another 5-bet pot off of Aleksandr Merzmvinskii. An open from the hijack from Merzmvinskii, Richard Marquez three-bet to 8.5k from the small blind with De Rosa following a four-bet to 20k from the big blind. Merzmvinskii five-bet to 44k, leaving about 150k behind. De Rosa proceeded with a call and the flop revealed A♦ 8♥ 9♠. De Rosa check-called Merzmvinskii’s continuation bet of 25k and both players checked the turn J♥. Going to the river 5♦, De Rosa moved all-in with Merzmvinskii folding for the rest of his chips. De Rosa now at 275k.
Bell John Perez is the second big stack at table 6 and has just added more to his arsenal after bluffing out Manish Lakhotia. The two actually faced off on a previous hand with Perez defending his big blind with a three-bet. This time around, with the pot already at 35k, the flop came Q♥ 7♠ 6♠, big blind Perez bet 15k, button Lakhotia called. On the turn J♠, Perez checked, Lakhotia bet 20k, Perez raised to 80k, and after tanking, Lakhotia folded while showing A♣ Q♣. Perez returned the gesture and showed 10♠ 5♦ bluff – flush draw. Perez now up to 280k, Lakhotia dropped to around 75k.
Main Event final tablist Ryan Platon was sent to the rails after losing a 210k pot to Wen Peng Dai on a board of 5♣ K♣ J♣ 6♠ Q♠. Following a raise pre-flop, Platon check-raised Dai’s flop bet and continued to check call on both turn and river for the remainder of his chips. Upon showdown, Dai revealed a flopped Q-high flush Q♣ 10♣ to take down the pot and become Table 26’s new chip leader at 220k.
Double knockout at table 5 with Edwin Dela Cruz scooping up all of Lion Lee and Sandro Bruni’s chips. The hand opened with a 4k raise by utg John Matsuda, hijack Lee jammed, Bruni jammed 50.5k, Cruz tanked then made the big call. This was enough for Matsuda to get out of the way.
Cruz A♦ Q♦
Bruni 9♣ 9♥
Lee A♣ J♣
The board favored Cruz with a queen turning up Q♥ 6♠ 6♦ 4♥ K♦. Cruz zoomed to 223k.
Raised pot preflop builds 14.5k in the middle, three players saw a flop 6♠ 2♦ Q♦. Blinds checked, button player Feng Zhao c-bet 8k, called by the small blind. on the turn A?, small blind led for 5.5k, Zhao called it. Sb had 7♠ 7♦, Zhao won the pot with Q♠ J♦.
On a raised pot of 45k in the middle, Jose Cheung went head to head with big stacked John Matsuda on a board of K♠ 10♠ 7♥ 3♠. Cheung fired 10k and was met with a substantial raise to 38.5k from Matsuda on the turn. Cheung called and the river showed a 4♥. Matsuda put maximum pressure on Cheung and put in a bet for the rest of his stack. Cheung called off and takes down the 250k pot for a 166 big blind stack.
Cheung K♦ 10♥
Matsuda J♦ J♠
Hubert Spiess entered Day 2 at the bottom of the list with only 3 BB to fight with. He has since doubled up three times. The most recent saw him raise from hijack to 3500, called by cutoff, button, then short stacked big blind jammed. Back to Spiess who joined the shove for a total of 77k. Cutoff Edwin Dela Cruz tank-folded, and button Jose Cheung folded. Spiess opened A♣ K♠, bb had A♦ J♠, the board ran K♦ Q♦ 3♣ 8♥ A♥. Spiess eliminated a player and is now up to 105k.
The payouts are up! Have a look! A sweet Php 3,098,400 up top!
Buy in: Php 82,500 (~US$ 1,570)
Guarantee: Php 8,000,000 (~US$ 152,300)
Prize pool: Php 11,785,500
ITM: 17 places
Day 1A: 25 advanced out of 52 entries
Day 1B: 41 advanced out of 79 entries
Day 2: 31 entries
