HomeMalaysia’s Neil Lawrence outgunned local crowd favorite Grace Takayama at the Mystery Bounty Deep Stack Turbo side event to ship the PHP 75,100 first prize plus three bounty rewards amounting to PHP 69,600. In total, Lawrence walked away PHP 144,700 richer. This was his career second APT title and trophy with his first win over five years ago.
Neil Lawrence – Deep Stack Turbo champion
You can catch the final table action via APT Twitch and APT YouTube. We also have a brief recap for you down below.
Date: Saturday, March 5
Buy in: PHP 6,600
Entries: 46
Main prize pool: PHP 175,700
Bounty pool: PHP 92,000
ITM: 5 places
Final table payouts
1st Neil Lawrence – Malaysia – PHP 75,100 + PHP 69,600 bounties = PHP 144,700
2nd Grace Takayama – Philippines – PHP 43,500 + PHP 22,400 bounties = PHP 65,900
3rd Gerry Flores – Philippines – PHP 26,900
4th Steve Chua – Philippines – PHP 17,800
5th Scott Alm – Canada – PHP 12,400
Event recap
The Mystery Bounty Deep Stack Turbo was the third side event of the inaugural APT Mystery Bounty Weekend which took place at partner / host venue Resorts World Manila. Two hours of registration pulled in 46 entries at PHP 6,600 each for a prize pool of PHP 267,700. From that pot, PHP 92,000 went to the five bounty rewards.
A quick four and a half hours in, the final table was set with seven players on the feature table. As blinds escalated, Grace Takayama eliminated Kendrick Tan then the bubble burst when Lawrence cleaned out short stacked Ferdinand Apas with K♥ K♦ full house over A♦ 8♥ two pair on a board A♥ 7♠ 2♥ K♣ 7♦.
Grace Takayama
Takayama earned her second final table bust by booting the ailing Scott Alm (5th). By doing so, she became the first player to draw for a mystery bounty reward. To her dismay, she pulled the PHP 8,900 card instead of the coveted PHP 41,600. Next showdown, Lawrence landed another full house, this time through Steve Chua with A♠ K♦ over 9♦ 9♥ on a board 6♣ K♣ A♥ A♦ K♥. Down in chips, Chua met his end at the hands of Takayama to award her another mystery bounty ticket. Second chance to draw the big one, she missed again but still pulled better than previous worth PHP 13,500. Gerry Flores followed out in 3rd place with Lawrence earning his first mystery bounty ticket which he turned into PHP 6,200. With two players remaining, that meant the champion was guaranteed to scoop up the top two bounty rewards – PHP 41,600 and PHP 21,800.
Heads up proceeded with Takayama leading 2:1. Amid an excited rail, Lawrence burned their hopes with his A♣ J♥ beating Takayama’s A♥ 5♣ for a double up and the chip lead. Despite Takayama’s efforts, Lawrence kept his lead intact. On their final all in, Lawrence A♣ J♦ dominated Takayama’s A♥ 2♣ to claim the title, trophy, PHP 75,100 first prize and PHP 69,600 in bounties for a total of PHP 144,700.
Congratulations to Neil Lawrence!!
The series now enters its final day. Last chance to win an APT Trophy is at the Mystery Bounty Super Deep Stack Turbo side event. Here are all the details.
Buy in: PHP 9,900 (PHP 3K goes to bounty pool)
Starting time: 4pm
Starting stack: 40,000
Opening blinds: 100 – 100
Level intervals: 20 minutes
Registration: closes at the start of Level 7