Marcuss Liow had dropped to a short stack after losing a big pot early on during which he mentioned to have had pocket aces cracked. He managed to spin it back up only to get short again and then "took a gamble" in three-way action with 8♠7♠ before the flop. Yosuke Takagi scored the knockout on a king-high runout with the A♦A♥.
Soon after, Takagi sent another opponent to the rail and joined six figures.
Yasuhiro Waki entered recently after chatting with Jun Obara and then greeted a familiar face on his table, as Florencio Campomanes took a seat. Another of the up and coming Pinoy poker pros had also jumped in with newly minted content creator David Erquiaga.
Day 1b continues to grow with up to 558 entries of which around 415 players still in contention.
With a big pot of already 34,000 brewing to the Q♣10♥6♣9♥ turn, Yoo Sin Kang from South Korea moved all-in for the last 10,700. Chierro De Leon pondered about it for half a minute and asked for an exact count. He had the bigger stack by some margin but eventually folded to drop back near the starting stack.
Woojong Ha asked for a king when he was on the verge of elimination and the wish wasn't granted as his cards were instantly mucked. Seigo Miyazaki claimed the chips with his K♥7♥ which made the best hand on the J♣9♦2♣2♠7♦ runout.
On the tail end of a Q♥8♦3♣9♥2♠ river, Edwin Dela Cruz paid off a bet worth 6,000 by Japan's Atsutoshi Iwasaki but couldn't beat the J♣10♦ for the turned queen-high straight.
Level: 6
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 600
Rebel Magdagasang squeezed to 4,300 preflop on the button and earned callers in John Perez Bell and Sam Alkhamisi. They headed to the A♦7♦4♦ flop on which it checked to the three-bettor. Magdagasang continued for 5,500 only for Perez Bell to check-shove. Alkhamisi reluctantly moved all-in and Magdagasang folded the A♣K♥ face-up with a smirk on the face.
John Perez Bell: 9♦5♦
Sam Alkhamisi: 4♥4♠
The 2♣ turn and 10♣ river were blanks as Perez Bell doubled for 26,300, leaving Alkhamisi very short.
Hyun Hong Lim raised to 1,000 and Richard Marquez was among the three callers. Andrew Nguyen then popped it up to 7,000in his very first hand out of the big blind. "I like it," Marquez grinned. There was no call as Nguyen raked in the pot.
One table over appears to be the current chip leader as South Korea's Siyoung Lee already increased his stack five-fold.
Day 1b has already attracted a staggering 517 entries to push the overall field size to more than 900 and the second flight is only in level five.
With some 15,200 in the middle to the 8♠4♥2♦ flop, Jaejung Kim bet 5,000 and Jose Colada called after some consideration. The 5♦ fell on the turn and Kim pushed all-in near instantly. Colada called after a few seconds for 20,400 and was ahead.
Jose Colada: 9♦9♠
Jaejung Kim: A♣K♣
The 6♣ river was a brick and Kim was left short.
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