₱33,000 APPT National Day 2 | 2019 PokerStars APPT Manila

₱33,000 APPT National

Day 2 Completed

07-30-2019 23:40 UTC+8

Linh Tran Holds Massive Lead After 2019 APPT Manila National Day 2

Ernestok

Level 25 : 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante

After twelve 40-minute levels, Day 2 of the 2019 PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour Manila ₱33,000 National is over. With 16 players remaining in the field, Linh Tran has a commanding chip lead over the field with 4,350,000, which equals to more than twenty percent of the total chips in play.

Tran didn't gather much attention during Day 2, but after the redraw in the last three tables, it seemed as if he was winning every small or medium-sized pot. At 27 players left, he was on a three-way all-in with kings against tens, and ace-jack, where he won the side pot versus the tens. At that point, he had 2.5 million chips, and without playing almost any all in at all, he managed to win almost two more million chips until the end of the day.

In total, 178 players got in their seats at the beginning of Day 2, which was the combined number of players from Day 1a and Day 1b, all with the hope of getting at first a spot into the money. This was one of the quickest bubbles ever witnessed since even the tournament officials had to review the last hands to figure out who was the player that finished last before the money. Eventually, it was proved that it was Soo Jo Kim's hand that brought the final elimination before the money, guaranteeing all 81 players a min-cash for ₱62,000.

The eliminations came rapidly after the bubble burst, with Christophe Devaux (64th|₱66,000), Gyeong Byeong Lee (56th|₱70,000), Soo Jo Kim (51st|₱77,500), and Day 1a's chip leader Alex Lee (25th|₱105,000), among those that busted in the money.

In the second place of the chip counts, it is Benigno Jr Ledina who bagged 2,570,000 chips, after a big double up on one of the last hands of the day. Ledina was holding tens and he was facing a shove from Arravind Udayakumar on a jack-jack-nine flop. He eventually called to see his opponent opening eight-nine for a worst pair, with the turn and the river keeping the lead for him. Udayakumar was left with only three big blinds at this point, but he managed to find a couple of double-ups at the end to reach ten blinds, which was his closing stack for the day.

Eran Shaham from Israel is the player who rounds up the top three stacks, and his biggest pot was an ace-king hand that he slowplayed versus Weing He, where he was holding top two pair and He shoved with top pair and zero equity in the hand.

The 16 remaining players are all guaranteed ₱156,000, and they will fight tomorrow for the big prize of ₱4,174,500, along with the National's trophy for the champion.

Day 3 Seat Draw Assignments

Seat	Table 1	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Ting Shum Kwok	Hong Kong	255,000	5
2	Hogyun Kang	South Korea	1,425,000	29
3	Linh Tran	Vietnam	4,350,000	87
4	Thijs Hilberts	Netherlands	620,000	12
5	Yang Li	China	365,000	7
6	Arravind Udayakumar	Singapore	410,000	8
7	Benigno Jr Ledina	Philippines	2,570,000	51
8	Empty
9	Jason Kyle Magbanua	Philippines	805,000	16

Seat	Table 2	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Eran Shaham	Israel	2,295,000	46
2	William Kang	United Kingdom	895,000	18
3	Tetsuro Tomita	Japan	805,000	16
4	Si Yang Phua	Indonesia	490,000	10
5	Kok Wei Sim	Malaysia	320,000	6
6	Tae Hoon Han	New Zealand	890,000	18
7	Lee Wang Yong	South Korea	2,000,000	40
8	Jiang Yongbo	China	1,530,000	31
9	Empty

The remaining payouts for the players are as follows:

Place	Prize (PHP)	Prize (USD)
1	₱ 4,174,500	$81,805
2	₱ 2,586,500	$50,686
3	₱ 1,602,000	$31,393
4	₱ 1,213,500	$23,780
5	₱ 825,000	$16,167
6	₱ 631,000	$12,365
7	₱ 524,500	$10,278
8	₱ 437,500	$8,573
9	₱ 370,766	$7,266
10	₱ 310,500	$6,085
11-12	₱ 253,000	$4,958
13-15	₱ 204,000	$3,998
16	₱ 156,000	$3,057

Day 3 will start at 2:00 p.m. local time on Wednesday 31 July, while this will not be the only covered event for tomorrow, as the ₱500,000 APPT Super High Roller starts at 15:00. Stay tuned to PokerNews for all the action as it unfolds, during the final day of the National, and the beginning of the Super High Roller.

Tags: Alex Lee Benigno Jr Ledina Christophe Devaux Eran Shaham Gyeong Byeong Lee Linh Tran Soo Jo Kim

07-30-2019 23:15 UTC+8

End of Day Chip Counts

Will Shillibier

Level 25 : 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Linh Tran	4,350,000
Benigno Jr Ledina	2,570,000
Eran Shaham	2,295,000
Lee Wang Yong	2,000,000
Yongbo Jiang	1,530,000
Hogyun Kang	1,425,000
William Kang	895,000
Tae Hoon Han	890,000
Tetsuro Tomita	805,000	805,000
Jason Kyle Magbanua	805,000
Thijs Hilberts	620,000
Si Yang Phua	490,000
Arravind Udayakumar	410,000
Yang Li	365,000
Kok Wei Sim	320,000
Ting Shum Kwok	255,000

07-30-2019 22:57 UTC+8

Udayakumar Crippled by Ledina

Ernestok

Level 25 : 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante

Another big hand took place in the last two tables, resulting in Arravind Udayakumar being left with three big blinds.

The action started from Hogyun Kang who opened to 80,000, with Linh Tran calling from the next seat on his left. Next to act was Udayakumar who reraised to 330,000 from the small blind, and Benigno Jr Ledina was in the big blind. He tanked enough time, causing one of the players to call the clock, which prompted him to call the bet after some more deliberation.

He had 745,000 behind him, and they went heads up to the flop with Udayakumar, after folds of the first two players.

The flop came and Udayakumar quickly pushed the rest of his stack in the middle, slightly covering Ledina.

Ledina was struggling to make a decision, with the table calling the clock again on him. He stood up and sat down again more than three times, making the call in the end.

Ledina:
Udayakumar:

It took some time to Ledina to realize that he is ahead, as he said that he thought his opponent was holding nines for a full house. He started celebrating saying "Oh, i am ahead!", and the dealer brought the on the turn and the on the river to give him a crucial and big double up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Benigno Jr Ledina	2,300,000	700,000
Arravind Udayakumar	130,000	-470,000

Tags: Benigno Jr Ledina Arravind Udayakumar

07-30-2019 22:47 UTC+8

Last Six Hands

Will Shillibier

Level 25 : 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante

Tournament officials have drawn for the number of hands to be dealt before players bag up at the end of the night. There will be six hands played before the day concludes.

07-30-2019 22:45 UTC+8

Qi Xu Eliminated in 17th Place (₱156,000; $3,070)

Will Shillibier

Level 25 : 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante

Eran Shaham opened to 85,000 from under the gun. It folded to Qi Xu in the big blind who shoved for 610,000. Shaham called.

Eran Shaham:
Qi Xu:

The flop came and the gave Xu a flush draw. Not that she'd noticed as she had already gotten to her feet, thinking she was drawing dead. The river was the , however, and she was eliminated in 17th place.

Player	Chips	Progress
Eran Shaham	2,175,000	750,000
Qi Xu	Busted

Tags: Eran Shaham Qi Xu

07-30-2019 22:38 UTC+8

Hilberts Saved by the River

Ernestok

Level 25 : 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante

Hilberts got very close to elimination, but he found the river he wanted to not only stay alive, but also double up.

He was left with 340,000, equally to almost 8 big blinds, and he shoved after Jason Kyle Magbanua opened from early position. Magbanua made the call eventually with , to see that he is behind Hilberts' .

The board until the turn was really bad for Hilberts, with the giving a flush to Magbanua.

The on the river though gave a better flush to the Dutch player who managed to double up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Thijs Hilberts	720,000	370,000

Tags: Jason Kyle Magbanua Thijs Hilberts

07-30-2019 22:27 UTC+8

Tran Chips Up Further

Will Shillibier

Level 25 : 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante

Three players saw a flop of . Benigno Jr Ledina checked to Hogyun Kang who bet 60,000. Chip leader Hoai Linh Tran raised to 170,000 and Kang was the only caller.