₱500,000 APPT Super High Roller
Day 2 Started
2019 PokerStars APPT Manila
₱500,000 APPT Super High Roller
Day: 2
Who Will Be Crowned Inaugural APPT Manila Super High Roller Champion?
Just 20 players remain in the ₱500,000 APPT Manila Super High Roller as we crown a winner later today in the biggest buy-in event of the festival.
Leading the remaining field is Singapore's Graeme Siow, one of two players with a seven-figure stack when play resumes at 1 p.m. local time.
Siow has over $100,000 in lifetime earnings, with his biggest cash coming back in April 2017 when he finished 27th in the PokerStars Championship Macau Main Event for HK$130,500 ($16,791).
Close behind Siow is Xiaqing Ji who took down a short deck side event at the APPT stop in Incheon back in April.
Big stacks following closely behind Siow and Ji are Malaysia's Lee Wai Kiat (910,000), Wayne Heung (897,000) and Lester Edoc (888,000).
Plenty of big names are left in contention, including Junichi Nakanowatari (728,000), WSOP bracelet winners Mike Takayama (604,000) and Abhinav Iyer (551,000), APPT Jeju Main Event champion Huidong Gu (539,000), Xixiang Luo (299,000) and Raymond Wu (249,000).
The top seven places will be paid, and here are the payouts for the Super High Roller:
| Place | Payout (PHP) | Payout (USD) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ₱7,558,000 | $148,738 |
| 2 | ₱5,458,000 | $107,411 |
| 3 | ₱3,479,000 | $68,465 |
| 4 | ₱2,639,000 | $51,934 |
| 5 | ₱2,039,000 | $40,127 |
| 6 | ₱1,560,000 | $30,700 |
| 7 | ₱1,259,950 | $24,795 |
PokerNews will be bringing you all the action not only from the Super High Roller, but also from Day 1a of the Main Event, which also gets underway today.
Level: 12
Blinds: 8,000/16,000
Ante: 16,000
Huang Eliminates Luo
Level 12
: 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante
In one of the first hands of the day, Xixiang Luo was all in for around 250,000 against Yiqing Huang.
Xixiang Luo: 
Yiqing Huang: 
The board came 
with Huang making a flush to eliminate his opponent.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,050,000 | 318,000 |
|
Busted |
Ji Moves Into Chip Lead With Gu Elimination
Level 12
: 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante
On a 
flop Xiaqing Ji bet 38,000 and Huidong Gu raised to 98,000. Ji then re-raised to 238,000 and Gui used a time extension before re-raising all in for 530,000. Ji called.
Huidong Gu: 
Xiaqing Ji: 
Gu got it in with king-high and surprisingly was ahead of the straight draw of Ji. However, the 
left him drawing dead as Ji completed his straight and the river was too little too late.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,500,000 | 479,000 |
|
Busted |
Final Two Tables (full)
Level 12
: 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante
| Seat | Name | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yiqing Huang | China | 1,120,000 | 70 |
| 2 | Mike Takayama | Philippines | 510,000 | 32 |
| 3 | Abhinav Iyer | India | 570,000 | 36 |
| 4 | Xinglong Huang | China | 350,000 | 22 |
| 5 | Xiaqing Ji | China | 1,650,000 | 103 |
| 6 | Lifeng Yang | China | 745,000 | 47 |
| 7 | Graeme Siow | Singapore | 875,000 | 55 |
| 8 | Junichi Nakanowatari | Japan | 560,000 | 35 |
| 1 | Wai Kiat Lee | Malaysia | 770,000 | 48 |
| 2 | Kun Jiang | China | 1,040,000 | 65 |
| 3 | Wayne Heung | Hong Kong | 1,220,000 | 76 |
| 4 | Chaofei Wang | China | 590,000 | 37 |
| 5 | Jinho Hong | South Korea | 400,000 | 25 |
| 6 | Raymond Wu | USA | 175,000 | 11 |
| 7 | Lester Edoc | Philippines | 1,100,000 | 69 |
| 8 | Yilin Yang | China | 425,000 | 26 |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,650,000 | 150,000 |
|
1,220,000 | 323,000 |
|
|
1,120,000 | 70,000 |
|
1,100,000 | 212,000 |
|
1,040,000 | 208,000 |
|
875,000 | -229,000 |
|
770,000 | -140,000 |
|
745,000 | -85,000 |
|
590,000 | -54,000 |
|
570,000 | 570,000 |
|
560,000 | -168,000 |
|
510,000 | -94,000 |
|
425,000 | -118,000 |
|
350,000 | 50,000 |
|
175,000 | -74,000 |
Level: 13
Blinds: 10,000/20,000
Ante: 20,000
Nakanowatari Doubles Through Siow
Level 13
: 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante
It hasn't gone Graeme Siow's way so far today. The start of day chip leader was looking to get things back on track with Junichi Nakanowatari all in for 341,000.
Junichi Nakanowatari: 
Graeme Siow: 
Siow had the opportunity to knock out his opponent, but wasn't in great shape against pocket queens. The board was 
and Nakanowatari doubled up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
680,000 | 120,000 |
|
|
335,000 | -540,000 |
Ji Extends Chip Lead
Level 13
: 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante
Xiaqing Ji continues to dominate with close to two million in chips.
He opened from the button to 55,000 and Graeme Siow defended his big blind. The pair checked the 
flop and turn and the river was the . Siow check-folded to 40,000 as the start-of-day chip leader fell to the bottom of the chip counts.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,900,000 | 250,000 |
|
|
200,000 | -135,000 |
Hong Eliminated by Lee
Level 13
: 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante
Wai Kiat Lee opened to 40,000 and Jinho Hong three-bet all in for 351,000 from the big blind. Lee asked for a count before quickly calling.
Wai Kiat Lee: 
Jinho Hong: 
There was a queen on the 
flop to give Lee top pair and there was no help on the 
run out and Hong was eliminated.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,500,000 | 730,000 |
|
Busted |