HomeFrom late position, Jae Chang raised to 22k, sb Terry Gonzaga three-bet to 60k. The flop J♠ 8♣ 9♦ saw Gonzaga fire 100k, Chang called. On the turn 3♥, Gonzaga jammed his 193k stack, Chang folded. Gonzaga rises to 524k.
Aamir Choudhry
Aamir Choudhry went head to head against Richard Marquez and in the end lost all his chips in 21st place. Action opened with Choudhry raising from mp to 30k, cutoff Marquez called. At the flop K♥ 10♥ 9♥, Choudhry c-bet 40k, Marquez called. On the turn Q♥, Choudhry fired 100k, and still Marquez stuck with him. On the river 7♣, Choudhry shoved his 250k stack, Marquez snap called, Choudhry had a solid K♦ K♠ set but Marquez had a gorgeous A♥ J♥ royal flush to ship it. Choudhry exited for a payout of Php 167,600 while Marquez skyrocketed to 1M. He is the new chip leader.
Richard Marquez
From hijack, Niroshan Loganathan raised to 20k, small blind David Erquiaga shoved his remaining 140k stack, Loganathan called to put him in the hot seat.
Erquiaga A♥ 2♠
Loganathan 2♦ 2♣
The board was K♠ 10♠ 5♥ 10♦ 4♣ to end Erquiaga’s run in 22nd place. He laddered up to Php 167,600.
Bad luck on the river for Edilberto Gopez who was on his way to a double up against big stacked Ryan Jerico Platon. Gopez had A♥ Q♥, Platon A♣ 9♥, the board ran K♥ 4♣ 6♥ 3♦ 9♠. Gopez earned Php 139,700 for 23rd place. Platon zoomed to 700k.
From utg, Christopher Mateo raised to 22k, big blind Nicolo Valenton defended. At the flop J♦ 4♦ 7♣, Valenton jammed, Mateo called and was at risk of elimination.
Mateo K♥ K♣
Valenton 10♦ 5♦
The turn 5♠ and river 5♥ did not grant the flush but it did give Valenton a runner runner trips to crack kings and boot Mateo in 24th place. Mateo earned Php 139,700.
Table 2 – Haruka Yoshimura – 550k
Table 3 – Quoc Vu Nguyen – 922k
Table 4 – Richard Marquez – 685k
Prior to the redraw, Joel Chan Zhan Leong lost a chunk of his stack after doubling up David Erquiaga with A♥ 10♥ dominated throughout by A♠ K♦. Down to 7 BB, he pushed with pocket Tens then lost the flip against Lester Edoc’s A-Q queen on the board. He earned Php 139,700 for 25th place.
Lee Chang Hwan entered the day as chip leader but couldn’t take it to the limit. He lost a big pot to Renniel Galvez then the rest to Dan Trett to take 26th place. On the first clash, Galvez hit a set of snowmen on the flop, Lee had two pair on the turn that didn’t improve.
On his final hand, Lee was down below 10 BB and shoved with Q♣ Q♠, Trett called with A♣ 9♥, the board ran clean until the river spiked an ace 10♦ 2♠ 10♠ 7♥ A♠. Trett is up to 690k.
Utg+1 Edilberto Gopez raised to 18k, action folded around to the small blind Haruka Yoshimura who three-bet to 49k. Gopez called and the flop ran J♠ J♥ 8♣. Yoshimura led out 50k, Gopez called. On the turn A♥ no bets were fired. The river 7♣, Yoshimura checked, Gopez bet over half the pot amounting to 130k, Yoshimura called. Gopez had 9♣ 9♦, Yoshimura had Q♦ Q♣ to scoop it up. Yoshimura rises to 550k.