Florencio Campomanes confirmed the eliminations of Kosei Ichinose and Henrik Tollefsen, both sent their chips to Keisuke Hikosaka. The Norwegian three-bet shoved his short stack and received two callers including the Japanese before the active players checked down a board. Tollefsen's ended up second-best to the of Hikosaka.
And then, there was an open raise and a flat-call before the PokerStars Team Pro got his 19,000 chips in with the to lose a flip versus pocket jacks. It was somewhat cruel as Hikosaka had flopped a full house and Ichinose was given a worthless straight on the turn to rub it in.
Khanh Le may not recall how he got to 101,000 in chips, but a quick check of these PokerNews Live Updates will now serve as a reminder as to how he jumped up into the lead half way through Level 6 on 130,000 now.
He bumped it to 1,800 preflop from the cutoff before the button jammed all in with his 30,000-chip stack. Le called with and was well in front of his opponent's .
The flop was a dream for Khanh and he held on through the turn and river.
PokerStars Team Pro Aditya Argawal had indeed busted the first bullet and re-entered again before the end of level five, but the next attempt wasn't any more successful either. Jose "Boyet" Drilon raised to 1,200 and was called by two players before the Indian moved all in for 8,600.
Only Drilon called with the and Argawal's held up until the turn before the river sent him to the rail.
A plethora of Japanese players are competing on Day 1b and have already made quite some impact. One of them that just caught our attention was Hayato Kitajima. The Japanese had raised and picked up one caller from one seat over to get the remainder of the short stack for around 12 big blinds on a flop of [Qd Rc 2c].
The player at risk put his tournament life on for top pair, while Kitajima was only waiting for that and happily looked him up with the and grabbed the chips once the turn and river blanked out.
This Spring the Macau-based Poker King Club took over operations inside the poker room at Solaire Casino, just down the street from City of Dreams where APPT Manila is being held.
This led to much speculation as to whether the famed nosebleed cash games in Macau, featuring some of world's top pros and weathiest Asian businessmen, might make a move to the Philippines. PokerNews can now confirm that has happened.
Today, PokerNews' Caitlyn Howe talked with Poker King Club President Winfred Yu as he attempts to weave his way though the APPT Manila Day 1b field. Yu said players including Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan, and Dan Cates are all currently in Manila playing some of the biggest cash games in the history of this part of the world with stakes as high as HKD 20,000/40,000/80,000.
Check out what Yu had to say about all that and more in the following video:
The sixth level has just ended with the ante moving up to three digits. Thus, the green T-25 chip denominations are no longer required for the rest of the tournament and the chip leader on each table has been asked to buy them off the opponents and ease up the chip race without taking any additional break.
Tournament direction has also confirmed 325 entries for Day 1b to boost the overall field to an impressive 585 entries.
Wally Sombero four-bet shoved with the and cracked the pocket kings of his sole opponent thanks to a board of . The all in was for 28,800 chips and the Filipino is back in the game with a stack well above average. "I was ready to leave," the local hero and godfather of poker in the region said.
At the same table, David Steicke previously busted with versus for 12 big blinds in a three-bet shove according to Ryan O'Donnell.
After a three-way flop of , Wally Sombero led for 4,000 out of the small blind and Seokchan Hwang called from one seat over. Initial preflop aggressor Marcuss Liow moved all in for another 13,200 on top and Sombero folded, later claiming in table chat that he had the .
Liow:
Hwang:
The turn was a blank and same applied for the river to send Liow to the rail. Hwang already had quite a few chips before and is now even deeper stacked.
board. Tollefsen's 
ended up second-best to the 
of Hikosaka.
to lose a flip versus pocket jacks. It was somewhat cruel as Hikosaka had flopped a full house and Ichinose was given a worthless straight on the turn to rub it in.
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and was well in front of his opponent's 
flop was a dream for Khanh and he held on through the 
turn and 
river.
held up until the 
turn before the 
river sent him to the rail.
and grabbed the chips once the 
turn and 
river blanked out.
versus 
for 12 big blinds in a three-bet shove according to Ryan O'Donnell.
, Wally Sombero led for 4,000 out of the small blind and Seokchan Hwang called from one seat over. Initial preflop aggressor Marcuss Liow moved all in for another 13,200 on top and Sombero folded, later claiming in table chat that he had the 
turn was a blank and same applied for the 
river to send Liow to the rail. Hwang already had quite a few chips before and is now even deeper stacked.
, flopped a straight and got it in when his opponent turned a set of jacks.
