We arrived at the table just as two players had committed all their chips in pre-flop. William Mcauley confidently tabled his but was not happy when he saw Daniel Spence show his .
There would be no help for Mcauley, as the board ran out to see him drop down to 23,000 as Spence welcomed the double, moving to 95,000 in chips.
Antoine Amourette final tabled this event last year, finishing 9th, and he's looking poised to make another deep run here today. We just caught Amourette winning a hand that has pushed his stack up over 75,000.
We caught up with the action on the flop, which read . Amourette fired out 2,200, and his opponent tossed out one yellow T5,000 chip, signifying a call. The turn brought the , and this time, Amourette fired 4,800. Again, his opponent tossed out a 5k chip for the call, and the river was the .
Amourette kept up his aggression firing out a big bet of 13,700, and this time, it was too much for his opponent, as he kicked his hand in.
We arrived at the table after all the action had finished, but here's what we saw when we got there. The flop had come down , and Team PokerStars pro Bryan Huang had check raised all in for 11,000 total after Milan Gurung bet 2,200. Gurung thought for about 45 seconds before kicking his hand in, and Huang showed one card: . After seeing that, Gurung playfully asked "can I have my hand back please?"
Despite winning that hand, Huang is down a bit on the day, sitting in 17,000.
The hand started with Chane Kampanatsanyakorn limping into the pot from under the gun before Lingling Teng raised to 1,900 from the hijack. Kampanatsanyakorn made the call as both players saw the flop come . A quick check from both would see the fall on the turn as Kampanatsanyakorn bet out 2,500. He was met with a quick raise to 6,000 which he called as the completed the board. Again Kampanatsanyakorn checked as Teng threw out 7,000 in chips.
A minute passed as Kampanatsanyakorn counted his entire stack before making the call. Teng tabled for a pair of fives, before Kampanatsanyakorn showed his for a pair of queens.
A good start for Kampanatsanyakorn, who moves up to 77,000 in chips as Teng drops down to 28,000.
Ivan Zalac built up the chip lead on Day 1a by playing a ton of pots, and he hasn't shown any signs of slowing down today. His table has played five hands so far, and Zalac has been involved in everyone of them.
In one of the latest hands, we saw Zalac open the action with a raise to 2,100. The only caller was Vince Lazaruk in the big blind, and they saw a flop of . Both players checked, and the turn brought the . Lazaruk checked called a 2,100 bet from Zalac, and when the river brought the , Lazaruk led for 6,000.
Zalac counted out the chips for the call, and tossed them in. Lazaruk tabled for a rivered flush, and Zalac mucked his hand while shaking his head. On the very next hand, Zalac raised to 2,100 from under the gun, and he was three bet by Christian Friedrich to 4,400. Zalac asked for a count, and when he got it, he stuck in the rest of his yellow T5,000 chips, setting Fredrich all in. He simply chuckled before quickly giving up his hand, and Zalac got some of his chips back.
We had 158 entrants into this tournament, and we will be paying out 20 spots. The first payout will be 141,000 PHP, with the winner walking away with 3.948 million PHP, or just a shade under $100,000. You can see the rest of the payout numbers in the payouts tab at the top of the table.