From a starting field of 1,135 just 319 remain here in the ₱65,000 APPT Manila Main Event at Okada Manila.
Leading the way is China's Jingzhi Wang who has a clear chip lead after bagging 468,000 as the chip leader on Day 1a. Wang finished fourth in the ₱100,000 Shot Clock side event for ₱392,500 ($7,698) and will be hoping for another deep run, with clear water between her and second place.
Behind her comes Patrick Takayuki (340,500), Edgar Eui Kim (317,000) and Day 1b chip leader Tautvydas Jonikas (276,500).
Of the remaining players, just 135 are guaranteed to be in the money with a min-cash worth ₱129,000 (~$2,499). A seat at the final table of nine will be worth ₱1,097,075 (~$21,249) and the winner of the APPT Manila Main Event will walk away with ₱13,042,000 (~$252,608).
Place
Payout (PHP
Payout (USD)
1
₱13,042,000
$252,608
2
₱8,050,500
$155,929
3
₱4,830,500
$93,561
4
₱3,523,000
$68,236
5
₱2,383,000
$46,156
6
₱1,739,000
$33,682
7
₱1,481,500
$28,695
8
₱1,288,000
$24,947
9
₱1,097,075
$21,249
10
₱902,000
$17,471
11-12
₱709,000
$13,732
13-15
₱579,500
$11,224
16-18
₱451,000
$8,735
19-21
₱386,500
$7,486
22-24
₱335,000
$6,489
25-27
₱283,500
$5,491
28-36
₱257,500
$4,987
37-45
₱231,500
$4,484
46-54
₱205,500
$3,980
55-63
₱181,000
$3,506
64-81
₱167,500
$3,244
82-99
₱154,500
$2,992
100-117
₱141,500
$2,741
118-135
₱129,000
$2,499
Blinds will resume at 1,500/3,000 when cards are back in the air at 1 p.m. The levels will also increase to 60 minutes in length, with the plan for the day to play ten levels.
PokerNews will bring you all the action from the APPT Manila Main Event, so stay tuned!
There are three former champions still in the APPT Manila Main Event field, hoping to become the third two-time APPT Main Event winners after Aaron Lim (APPT Seoul 2013 & APPT Manila 2015) and Yifan Zheng (APPT Macau 2016 & APPT Macau 2018)
APPT National Manila runner-up Linh Tran is in the best position with almost double average. He won this event back in 2016 for ₱6,135,000.
Sparrow Cheung took down the APPT Incheon Main Event back in April for KRW 198,100,000, with Huidong Gu (pictured) the most recent winner, winning the APPT Jeju Main Event in June for KRW 183,695,000.
Jingzhi Wang bagged the Day 1a chip lead with around 40 big blinds more than her nearest rival. Today she's shown that that was no fluke, having increased her chip lead to now sit on a stack of 700,000 with the blinds at 2,000/4,000.
Florencio Campomanes was just spotted in his table with a chip leading stack. As the table informed the PokerNews team, there was a straight over straight hand that Campomanes won and busted an opponent, to go over 700,000 chips.
Now he has one of the biggest stacks in the field.
The Main Event was hand-for-hand for the bubble period, and it took five hands for the bubble to burst. Lester Ian Pinto was the unlucky player who will be the last one to leave empty-handed, ensuring that everyone left in their seats will get the minimum payout of ₱129,000.
The hand that burst the bubble started with Wenlong Song opening from under-the-gun. Pinto was seated two seats on Song's left, and shoved all in for 125,000 chips. The action folded back to Song who tanked for about a minute, and then decided to call. Everyone gathered around the table, as the players were waiting for the tournament director's signal to open their hands. All other tables finished their hands, without any more all ins, so it was time for the crucial showdown.
Wenlong Song:
Lester Ian Pinto:
Pinto had a great chance to double-up with a dominating hand, but the board would be the one that determines the outcome of the hand.
The flop came , and it didn't change anything, except giving some extra odds for a split.
The on the turn changed more, since it gave a flush draw to both players, but Song had the bigger one with the in his hand.
The on the river was accompanied by a big shout from all the surrounding players, since it sent Pinto to the rail, in 136th place, in a brutal way.
The clock has been resumed, and the tournament went back to normal, with no more hand-for-hand.
Xixiang Luo appears to be the first player over the million chip mark. With almost $2m in lifetime earnings, Luo sits eighth on the Chinese all-time money list and is sitting on a healthy stack with fewer than 100 players remaining in the APPT Manila Main Event
Day 2 of the 2019 PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour Manila Main Event is over, and when everything was done, it was a European name that led the counts. Thijs Hilberts hails from the Netherlands, and managed to bag 2,460,000 chips at the end of the day, earning the badge of the chip leader for Day 2.
Hilberts had a great day, where he seemed as if he was only going up after each level. He started Day 2 with 75,500 in chips, and in the second level of the Day 2 he was already up to 260,000. To achieve that, he hit a full house in a battle of the blinds, and he got paid on the river. When the bubble burst, Hilberts was up to 810,000 in chips, and in the final level he skyrocketed to almost 2.5 million in chips. In one of the last hands he busted Anant Purohit, with ace-king against queen-jack, when a jack hit the flop, but an ace came on the river to give him the pot.
The second place of the chip counts belongs to Hirotaka Nakanishi who amassed 1,840,000 in chips. In order to collect this amount of chips, he busted Day 1b's chip leader, Tautvydas Jonikas, with king-queen versus king-ten, in a preflop all in. Nakanishi reached to more than 2.4 million chips at some point, but lost a couple of pots in the end, and bagged 1,840,000.
Out of the two Day 1 chip leaders, Jingzhi Wang had a better day that her Lithuanian counterpart, since she bagged 940,000, to almost double her start-of-Day-2 stack. However, her day wasn't all smiles and wins, since she was down to less than 300,000 at some point. But the fact is that she will carry her stack to the final day, and it is the outcome that matters.
The day started with 319 players taking their seats in the PokerStars LIVE poker room, here in Okada Manila. The first goal of the field was to reach the payouts, and with 135 players getting paid, it meant that almost 200 of them would leave empty-handed. The flurry of eliminations started early, and some names that busted before the money were Alexis Gillot, Max Curtis, Edgar Eui Kim, and former APPT Main Event champions Huidong Gu, and Sparrow Cheung.
Hand-for-hand play started with 136 players left in the field, and it took five hands for the bubble to burst. The unlucky player was Lester Ian Pinto, who not only busted in the bubble, but also had to suffer a brutal beat, in order to leave the event with empty pockets. He was all in with ace-king against Wenlong Song's ace-jack, and a jack hit the river to sent all the remaining players into the payouts.
The action continued to be rapid, with eliminations following one after the other, and some of the players who busted in the money were Lee Wang Yong (127th - ₱129,000), Joven Huerto (98th - ₱154,500), Frederick Hernandez (88th - ₱154,500, Eran Shaham (63rd - ₱181,000), Czardy Rivera (58th - ₱181,000), and Xiaosheng Zheng (55th - 181,000).
Linh Tran was the only former APPT Main Event champion, that managed to get in the money, but he was eliminated in 92nd place for ₱154,500. He got his chips in good, with ace-king of diamonds in a board with queen-jack-three and two diamonds, but he was up against aces and never managed to get there.
When the clock was paused, and the last hands of the day were completed, there were 36 players left in the field. They will all return tomorrow for Day 3, which will be the last day of the Main Event, and the APPT Manila festival, in total. Day 3 will start at 1:00 p.m. local time, and the starting level will be Level 24: 15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 big blind ante. The 36 players have already secured a payout of ₱257,500, but they will all have their eyes in the first place prize of ₱13,042,000.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be on hand, to bring you all the action from the conclusion of the Main Event in 2019 APPT Manila.