Graeme Siow Leads APPT Manila ₱500,000 Super High Roller

After Day 1 in the APPT Manila ₱500,000 Super High Roller, just 20 of the 51-player field remain in the largest buy-in of the 2019 festival.

Late registration and re-entry was open for nine levels today, and we saw plenty of action with Team PokerStars Pro Celina Lin, Sejin Park, Bobby Zhang, Pachara Wongwichit, Sparrow Cheung and Bobby Zhang all joining the field.

Sadly, none of them were able to find a bag ahead of Day 2.

The chip leader heading into Day 2 is Graeme Siow who looked to be the only player over one million in chips after bagging 1,104,000. However, Xia Qing Jin also managed to sneak into seven-figure stack territory, bagging 1,002,000.

Then comes 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), Mike Takayama (604,000), 2019 WSOP bracelet winner Abhinav Iyer (551,000), APPT Jeju Main Event champion Huidong Gu (539,000), Xixiang Luo (299,000) and Raymond Wu (249,000).

Payouts were confirmed late on Day 1 and with the top seven places sharing a prize pool of almost ₱24,000,000, there will be a massive first prize of ₱7,558,000 awaiting the winner.