₱250,000 High Roller
Day 2 Started
2020 PokerStars Red Dragon Manila
₱250,000 High Roller
Day: 2
1 PM start for Final Day of the PokerStars Red Dragon Manila High Roller
Day 2 of the PokerStars Red Dragon Manila High Roller kicks off at 1 p.m. lol al time to award one of the final trophies of the festival to the eventual winner. Day 1 attracted 101 entries to the Okada Manila to create a prize pool of ₱23,022,950 ($450,262). At the end of the day, 13 players will have cashed while the winner will go home with the amazing first-place prize of ₱6,112,000 ($119,533).
Coming into Day 2 with the chip lead is Natalie Teh from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with a whopping 582,500 in chips worth 194 big blinds. She is trailed by Ngoc Anh Cao, Hwany Lee, Chongxian Yang, and Andres Korn in the top five of the chip count leader board.
But there are more players to keep an eye on, for example: Florencio Campomanes who won the Main Event yesterday and Martin Stausholm who finished in eighth place. And don't count out players like Sparrow Cheung, Nang Quang Nguyen, Dong Chen, Linh Tran, Phachara Wongwichit, Sahil Agarwal, and Yohwan Lim also known as "BoxeR" for example.
When the players return to play Level 13, it will feature a small blind of 1,500, big blind of 3,000, and a big blind ante of 3,000. A 15-minute break has been scheduled after every two hours of play. Players will receive 2 more time banks worth 30 seconds each to add to any time banks which might have been bagged on Day 1 at the start of the day. Another two will be handed out to each player when the final table has been reached.
PokerNews will be following all the action from the first raise until the final card has been sorted and a new High Roller champion has been crowned. So stick around!
Level: 13
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 3,000
Shuffle Up and Deal
Level 13
: 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
The dealers have been instructed to shuffle up and deal with the button in seat 1.
Lettau First to Bust
Level 13
: 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
Andre Lettau was the first player to bust for the fifth table to be broken up to balance the other four tables out.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
Tsai Falls to Thanarattrakul
Level 13
: 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
Ting Yi Tsai shoved from the middle position and was called by Kannapong Thanarattrakul in the small blind with the bigger stack.
Ting Yi Tsai: 
Kannapong Thanarattrakul: 
The flop came 
for Tsai to leap ahead with the pair of aces.
"No jack!" Tsai pleaded.
The turn was the 
which didn't change things and Tsai repeated his request.
The river completed the board with the 
to send Tsai to the rail.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
250,000 | 41,000 |
|
Busted |
Wysocki Busted by Hong
Level 13
: 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
The board read 
and Szymon Wysocki shoved from the big blind for around 45,000 and was called by Junyeob Song in the hijack. Wysocki tabled while Hong held 
.
Wysocki needed a seven to stay alive but the river completed the board with the 
to eliminate Wysocki.
Over on the other tables, Jinho Song was also eliminated.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
210,000 | 45,000 |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted |
Dream of Winning High Roller Over for Campomanes
Level 13
: 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
After winning the Main Event yesterday, Florencio Campomanes's dreams of winning the High Roller today have been dashed.
He shoved from the hijack with 
and was called by Hwany Lee in the cutoff. Lee held 
.
The board ran out 
for Lee to flop a set and eliminate Campomanes.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
360,000 | 48,500 |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted |
Hong Halted by Li
Level 13
: 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
Jiacheng Li raised to 6,500 from under the gun and action folded to Paul Hong in the cutoff who shoved for 74,000. The button and blinds folded for Li to consider his options until the final second of his first 30 seconds before making the call.
Paul Hong:
Jiacheng Li: 
The board ran out 
for Li to turn the set to end Hong's tournament run.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
205,000 | 55,000 |
|
Busted |
Level: 14
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 4,000