Be sure to check out all the video coverage from our week in Manila including a handicapping of the field with Daniel Negreanu, a chat with Vanessa Rousso, and the trash-talking, prop-betting, and overall shenanigans at a golf outing that included Daniel, Joe, and Emad Tahtouh.
Players are being given last-minute instruction on how to make sure their cards are visible to the hole card cameras, and the final touches are being made to the set.
From late position, Nicholas Bamman raises to 17,000. Roger Spets on his immediate left reraises to 55,000. Bamman lays it down and Spets collects the pot.
Ira Blumenthal limps from late position, as does Maor Feldinger, and Kazuhiro Sato completes his small blind. Van Marcus checks his big blind and the players see a flop of:
Sato checks and Van leads out for 20,000. Each player folds one by one and Van takes the pot.