Defending APPT Manila champion Thanh Ha Duong raised to 12,000 from the button and Seokchan Hwang moved all in for 121,000 out of the big blind. Duong gave it a lot of thought and eventually called for more than half of his stack with the 
. To the surprise of everyone at the table, Hwang flipped over the monster 
and hit the rail after a board of 
.
"Wanna gamble?" start-of-the-day chip leader Dong Il Kim asked to Jack Liew and the latter obliged with 
. Kim had 
and failed to connect with the 
board.
The below players have all received PHP 89,800 for their efforts while the field has been whittled down to its last 61 hopefuls.
Another player has knocked out two opponents, but this time within the same hand. Thomas Lee has taken over the lead by knocking out Kwan Kit Kwok and Tsuyoshi Ishibashi after looking up the two short stacks with the 
. Ishibashi had 
while Kwok was at risk with the 
.
The Japanese was drawing to one out only after the 
flop and Lee immediately ducked and felt sorry for his table neighbor. "Give him a king," he said. The 
turn and river bricked and they shook hands, moments before the fresh beer of Ishibashi arrived.
First it was Hideki Azuma, who got his last few chips in with the 
and Iona Christopher Finkenrath made the call with 
. The 
board awarded the chips to the big stack and Azuma greeted everyone before heading to the payout desk, holding a beer in the hand and smiling.
Keunwoo Park followed shortly after with the against the 
of the German, who immediately spiked a set on the flop of a board.
After sliding down the leader board on the bubble, Svein Jorgen Kristensen is healthy again.
He raise-called an Amit Roshanlal Jain shove for some 130,000 with . Jain was on 
and busted out when kings did more than just hold on a 
board.
Harold Neal Ruaya moved all in from the cutoff and was called by Terry Fan in the small blind. It was the for Ruaya and Fan's that went into the showdown. The 
flop was save and Ruaya then begged the dealer loudly for a "number" so that tables nearby could hear.
The dealer in fact obliged, putting out the river and the entire table burst out in laughter. Ruaya had gotten exactly what he was asking for, but it was the wrong number, completing a straight for Fan.
There were two all in and a call at the same time. Hsein Ching Feng had shoved all in for less than eight big blinds from the hijack and Chen-an Lin made the call from two seats over. Everyone else folded and once the remaining tables were completed, this table was picked first to go into the showdown.
Feng:
Lin: 
The appeared right in the window and Feng grabbed his backbag, already prepared to leave the table. The rest of the board ran out 
and the bubble had definitely burst.
KC Wong was all in for 193,000 on a flop of 
while holding for bottom set. Azusa Maeda made the call with the for top two pair, but the turn and 
river both bricked to let Wong double up.
Level: 16
Blinds: 2,500/5,000
Ante: 500
The players are off on a 10-minute break with 73 still remaining.
Hand-for-hand play will continue when play resumes.
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