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An open from Richard Marquez in late position, Lester Edoc three-bet from the small blind to 90k. A call from Marquez, the flop showed J♦ 5♥ 4♣ to which Edoc fired a continuation bet of 50k. Marquez called and both players checked it down on turn Q♣ and river 7♣. Edoc showed A♥ 4♥, failing to beat Marquez’ pocket nines. Marquez’ chip count climbs to the 900k mark.
Niroshan Loganathan opened from the hi-jack to 35k with Mathias Schell shoving right behind with less than ten big blinds, 146k. A call from Loganathan, the board ran 7♠ A♦ 10♠ 9♠ 2♣ giving Loganathan the pot to chip up to 900k. Schell exits in 16th place for Php 201,000.
Loganathan K♦ 10♦
Schell K♥ J♣
16 players remaining
Average stack 578,125
Table 3
Nicolo Valenton – 420k
Haruka Yoshimura – 204k
Quoc Vu Nguyen – 465k
Emmanuel Segismundo – 395k
Dan Trett – 610k
Niroshan Loganathan – 920k
Matthias Schell – 181k
Table 4
Kai Tse – 225k
Czar Ian Marcos – 285k
Richard Marquez – 728k
Shunpoker – 600k
Renniel Galvez – 1.38M
Lester Edoc – 1.46M
Jae Chang – 487k
Moses Saquing – 240k
Hand opened with utg Dan Trett bumping it up to 24k, four players called. At the flop 7♠ 10♦ J♥, Trett c-bet to 30k, utg+1 Niroshan Loganathan and button Quoc Vu Nguyen called. The blinds folded. On the turn 7♥, Trett slid out 80k, that induced a fold from Loganathan, but Nguyen went the opposite direction and shoved. Trett called.
Trett K♥ K♣
Nguyen 5♣ 7♣
The river 4♠ secured the double up for Nguyen to around 510k. Trett slipped to 500k.
Ryan Jerico Platon raised to 28k and both blinds called, Nicolo Valenton and Haruka Yoshimura. At the flop 10♦ A♦ K♥, blinds checked, Platon c-bet 60k, Valenton folded, Yoshimura called. On the turn 2♥, Platon bet 120k, Yoshimura check-called again. On the river 10♥, Platon fired 175k and Yoshimura check-folded. Platon climbed to 870k.
From utg Jae Chang raised to 25k, sb Lester Edoc three-bet to 120k, bb Kang Seung Min called with less chips, back to Chang who shoved. Edoc called.
Edoc 5♦ 5♥
Chang 10♦ 10♣
Kang A♦ Q♣
The board ran J♠ 6♦ 9♠ 7♣ J♥, Chang scooped it up and Kang was eliminated in 17th place for Php 201,100.
It is down to two tables here at the Main Event with three players biting the bullet nearly simultaneously.
Jim Bonanno was all in with A♥ 8♦ and missed the board against Moses Saquing’s 9♥ 9♦. He earned Php 167,600 for 20th place.
Terry Gonzaga was all in with pocket Jacks, Lester Edoc had him dominated with pocket Queens, no help on the board for Gonzaga to take 19th place.
Short stacked Mark Ortiz lost a chunk of his chips when he double up Matthias Schell. Less than an orbit later, Ortiz was all in with K-Q dominated by Emmanuel Segismundo’s A-8. Ortiz laddered up to 18th place for Php 201,100.
Quoc Vu Nguyen and Renniel Galvez, both with heavy stacks, went at it preflop that led to Nguyen shoving to put Galvez at risk. Galvez called.
Nguyen A♦ K♥
Galvez K♣ K♠
The board ran 3♥ 7♠ K♦ J♠ 10♦ for a double up to Galvez to 1.3M and Nguyen chunked down to 255k, roughly 20 BB.
Catching the action only on the river, 7♥ 10♥ K♠ 8♣ Q♣, around 150k already weighed down the middle. Niroshan Loganathan bet 105k, Nicolo Valenton raised to 220k, Loganathan folded.