With the first three levels now in the books the players are off on a 10-minute break. They will return for the start of Level 4 where the blind levels increase to 60 minutes.
The tournament clock currently claims 270 entries with 246 players remaining, That means the event's second starting flight has already surpassed the total entries for the first and registration is open for two more hours.
The player on the button opened to 1,100 and Manuel Blaschke called out of the big blind to see a heads-up flop of . Both players checked and the Austrian then check-raised the turn from 1,500 to 5,200. The opponent of the Austrian tanked for a fair amount of time, stared at the board and eventually mucked the cards to allow the table captain another pot.
Xiao Ming Liang raised to 775 from the cutoff and the player on the button called before Madhav Gupta in the small blind three-bet for 3,550 more on top of it. Liang made the call and the flop was checked through. On the turn the raising war started again and Liang ended up all in for his last 11,625 with the .
As soon as Gupta had made the call and saw the cards of his opponents, he sighed loudly and stood up from his table before flipping over the . The river bricked and the Indian took a huge hit to his stack.
"Now everybody knows, bullet number three." Winfred Yu joked after taking his seat close to the media desk. "I gonna play tight today, not calling all ins with pocket jacks." This is what happened early on Day 1a when he lost most of the first stack to the pocket aces of Gab Yong Kim.
Since players are allowed to participate in both starting days and carry over the bigger stack for Day 2, the High Roller is back in it and try to better the 19,800 he bagged up last night.
Florencio Campomanes final-tabled the Asia Pacific Poker Tour event in Macau two months ago and shares a table with Henrik Tollefsen as well as PokerStars Team Pro Kosei Ichinose. The Japanese is already up nicely early on.
Singapore's Jack Liew keeps firing away here in Manila and has it up close to 50,000 now as Level 2 comes to a close.
First he found a back door into a full house versus a flush to drag a massive pot early, then he fired four bullets at a board, finally getting his heads-up opponent to fold on the river to collect even more chips.
. Both players checked and the Austrian then check-raised the 
turn from 1,500 to 5,200. The opponent of the Austrian tanked for a fair amount of time, stared at the board and eventually mucked the cards to allow the table captain another pot.
flop was checked through. On the 
turn the raising war started again and Liang ended up all in for his last 11,625 with the 
.
. The 
river bricked and the Indian took a huge hit to his stack.
board, finally getting his heads-up opponent to fold on the river to collect even more chips.
