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.
An interesting situation arise in a table, where Tsun Wai Yue raised preflop, and it was folded around to the big blind. The big blind player was missing from his seat, and his stack was less than a big blind, so he was automatically all in.
Yue was holding 
, and the "empty seat" had 
. The flop came 
, and Yue was still ahead, but his opponent had six more outs to make a straight now.
The 
on the turn didn't change anything, but the 
brought some laughs on the table, since the "empty seat" doubled up, while Yue hit a set with his pair.
Still, no threat for Yue, since he is up to more than 350,000 chips.
The player on the button raised to 11,000 and Lester Ian Pinto then three-bet all in for 61,000 from the big blind. With the action back on his opponent, Pinto cut an increasingly frustrated figure with his opponent taking his time.
Eventually, the clock was called but the player soon called.
Lester Ian Pinto: 
Opponent: 
The flop 
gave his opponent a flush draw, but the 
turn and 
river were both bricks and Pinto doubled up.
Da Quan was left with her six last big blinds, and she put them in the middle after Marcuss Liow's raise. Liow called and they went to showdown.
Marcuss Liow: 
Da Quan:
Quan was a big favorite to double up, but the 
on the flop turned things around, in Liow's favor. The 
on the turn, and the 
on the river didn't change anything, and Quan left her seat.
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.
Level: 15
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 4,000
As Max Curtis reported on the PokerNews team, he got his aces cracked, and lost a part of his stack. He three-bet preflop to 22,000 after his opponent's raise, getting a call to see a 
flop.
Curtis checked, his opponent shoved, and he called with aces, only to see his opponent having pocket threes with a set. The set held until the river and Curtis doubled up his opponent.
Alexis Gillot was spotted in a hand with the board showing 
, and he was facing a 27,500 bet.
He tanked for a couple of minutes, and finally called, only to muck against his opponent's full house with 
.
Saeha Yamane was found all in, with the flop reading 
, and he was holding 
, while his opponent had a big lead with pocket fours and a set.
The 
gave some outs to Yamane but the on the river sent him to the rail.
Xiabo Zhou moved all in for 29,500 from middle position. It folded to Sparrow Cheung in the big blind who called.
Xiabo Zhou: 
Sparrow Cheung:
There was an eight on the 
flop and Cheung could not catch an ace or a jack on the 
runout, and Zhou doubled up.
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