HomeRainy days are best for staying indoors and getting on the felt for some poker action. The Asian Poker Tour kicks off the second day of the APT Poker Weekend Series Manila 2016 at the APT Poker Room on the second floor of the Waterfront Manila Pavilion Hotel & Casino with two fun side events, the No Limit Hold’em 1 event and the High Rollers event.
The first to take the floor is the No Limit Hold’em 1 at 1pm. Buy-in for this event PhP16,500. If you were unable to make it to or through the Welcome Event, then this is a great tournament to enter. The tournament starts you off with a 10,000 stack with blinds increasing every twenty minutes. Players who get to the felt before the end of round one will be looking at a nice deep healthy stack of two hundred times the starting big blind.
At 2pm, the High Rollers event gets underway with a buy-in of PhP55,000. This tournament has the highest entry fee of the entire series. Depending on the number of entries, the prize pool usually tends to be quite lucrative. Players begin with a 40,000 starting stack with levels increasing every forty minutes.
While those events warm up the felt, the Welcome Event P1M Guaranteed resumes for its final day. The opener saw a total of 184 entries for a total prize pool of PhP1,070,900. There were 49 players who made it through the qualifying heats and today they will be battling it out for the first place cash prize of PhP267,700. The eventual winner will also be taking home the coveted first trophy of the series. The overall chip leader is Singaporean Hermann Lee who bagged up 176,700 chips at yesterday’s Flight B. The opener will be the first event featured on the RFID table with the final eight under the spotlight. You can watch the action on the APT Youtube channel.
The APT PWS Manila 2016 has just begun so for APT guests still on their way to the festival, rooms at the venue are available at a discounted rate. Booking information can be found in the website along with the festival schedule, tournament facts, and other helpful tidbits.