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Vietnam's Quang Duong has shot up to a spot among the early leaders.
Duong found a set on the river to drag a massive pot and crest the 40,000 mark already.
"I got lucky," he told PokerNews.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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42,000 |
PokerStars Team Pro Celina Lin was just spotted in a heads-up pot and the board had already reached the 
turn. Lin made a bet of 850 from the cutoff and the player from one seat over called before the 
fell on the river. Now Lin grabbed more chips and fired a bet worth 2,350.
Her opponent tanked for a mere minute and called before getting shown the 
for a six-high straight, sighing out loudly. The PokerStars Team Pro smiled over to this very blogger: "Are you gonna report this?" Yes, just done.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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24,000 | |
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Winfred Yu and Gab Yong Kim were involved in a raising war and about 7,000 chips were already pulled in the middle, presumely the raising chips that had been invested. Yong Kim was then all in for another 14,950 and Yu looked over to his opponent. "This is a re-entry event?" he asked the dealer and received a nod.
The High Roller regular then made the call and let out a "makes sense" when the Korean turned over his 
. Yu only held 
and failed to improve with the board running out 
. The Hong Kong native is down to about half the starting stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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38,500 | |
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10,000 |
Level: 3
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 0
Sydney, Australia's Derek Baker has emerged as the early chip leader here, picking up two big pots without showing down a hand.
He told PokerNews the first one came courtesy of a four-way pot where he floated a couple of bets before making a big check-raise on the river and forcing a fold.
The second came when he joined one caller of a 400-chip raise from the button and the blinds came along for the ride, going five ways to a 
flop. The original raiser c-bet , making it 650 and everyone called.
The turn brought the 
and when it checked to Baker, he made it 1,200. Only the big blind called. The river was the 
and after the big blind checked, Baker fired again, making it 4,300. The big blind folded and Baker dragged the pot, grabbing hold of the chip lead.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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44,000 |
The two PokerStars Team Pros Aditya Agarwal and Kosei Ichinose have taken their seats in the third level and will be competing in an already decent field of almost 250 players. Eight of them have ran out of chips early on, though one re-entry max is allowed on either Day 1a or 1b to rejoin the competition again.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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20,000 | |
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20,000 | |
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Floridian Ben White is a long way from home. But he told PokerNews he fired here on Day 1 a of the APPT Manila Main Event simply because he was in the neighborhood.
So far things are going swimmingly for the American, who finds himself among the early leaders and hasn't really had to show down too many hands.
"Just a lot of medium sized pots without showdown," he said. "I'm running good."
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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49,000 |
Team PokerStars Pro Celina Lin flopped a set and got it in against a player holding the nut flush draw and a willingness to go broke with it.
She faded all trouble on the turn and river and now appears to be in the lead as the first player past the 60,000-chip post.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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61,000
37,000
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37,000 |
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Sam Nee Aik Chuan, who finished runner-up in a A$ 2,200 No Limit Hold'em of the World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific last year, raised to 700 and received two callers out of the blinds to see a three-way flop of 
. The player in the small blind check-raised all in for more than 10,000 chips and the Malaysian, who had fired a continuation bet worth 1,100, glanced over to the tournament clock before releasing his cards.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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26,000 |
PokerStars Team Pro Bryan Huang is off to a great start after scoring a double with flush over flush. The last hand when we spotted him in today's field, he faced a bet of 2,000 on the river of a 
and the pot was around double of that. Huang mucked 
and was shown the 
by his sole opponent.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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40,000 | |
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