Early big stack on Day 1b, now bust after carrying over a short stack into Day 2. Khanh Le Ngoc's all in found a reshove by Hayato Kitajima from three seats over and everybody else got out of the way. Ngoc only had the and failed to improve against the of the Japanese on a board of .
What a drama for the PokerStars Team Pro Celina Lin. After a flop of , Tsuyoshi Ishibashi check-called a bet of 3,600 out of the small blind and then led the turn for 12,000, which was called by Lin. On the river, the Japanese fired 18,000 and the Team Pro moved all in with pocket deuces only to see Ishibashi snap her off with pocket nines for the higher set.
After two starting days of nine levels each, the impressive field of 585 entries in the PHP 50,000 PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour Manila stop in Season 9 has been whittled down to only 175 survivors. The top 72 spots will get paid and the money will be definitely reached today when 10 one-hour levels are expected to be played. Whether the final table for tomorrow will already be reached is another story though.
The action restarts in half an hour from now at 14:00 local time with level 10 and blinds at 700-1,400 and a running ante of 200. Leading the field is Day 1b top dog Dong Il Kim with 242,700 followed by Douglas Olsson (207,500) and Rolf Galasen (203,800), who were in charge of Day 1a. Australia's Aaron Lim (201,800) and PokerStars Team Pro Bryan Huang (172,900) are in the overall top 10 as well with Huang's team mates Vivian Im (132,900) and Celina Lin (74,900) also made it through.
Other notables include defending APPT Manila champion Thanh Ha Duong (99,500), Manuel Blaschke (90,500), APPT8 Seoul winner Chane Kampanatsanyakorn (83,200), Lester Edoc (81,000), KC Wong (59,300) and UK's Sam Razavi (50,500). Yaxi Zhu (36,100), Thomas Ward (20,600) and Winfred Yu (19,800) are among the short stacks.
Follow along with the PokerNews live reporting team to see who makes the money and comes one step closer to the first-place payout of PHP 6,016,250.