₱110,000 Main Event Day 1b | 2020 PokerStars Red Dragon Manila

01-07-2020 16:31 UTC+8

Gu Shoves on Takarabe

Shirley Ang

Level 5 : 200/400, 400 ante

Huidong Gu min-raised from under the gun and Kenichi Tarakabe three-bet to 2,300 from the hijack. Action folded back to Gu who made the call.

The flop came , Gu check-shoved for 13,400 when Tarakabe continued with a bet of 2,900. Tarakabe looked at his cards once more before folding.

Player	Chips	Progress
Kenichi Takarabe	62,000 -6,000	-6,000
Huidong Gu	21,600 21,600	21,600

Tags: Huidong Gu Kenichi Tarakabe

01-07-2020 16:43 UTC+8

Tsai Immediately More Than Doubles

Shirley Ang

Level 5 : 200/400, 400 ante

Ting Yi Tsai only just sat down a short while ago and raised to 1,000 from the hijack. He was called by the players in the cutoff and the button. The player in the small blind three-bet to 5,000, the big folded while Tsai and the cutoff called and the button folded.

The flop came , the small blind continued with a bet of 10,000, Tsai shoved, the cutoff folded, and the small blind called for the 21,200 he had behind.

Small Blind:
Ting Yi Tsai:

The small blind had flopped a flush while Tsai was sitting on two pair.

The turn brought them the which didn't change things but the on the river gave Tsai the upper hand with the full house to eliminate his opponent.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ting Yi Tsai	70,000

Tags: Ting Yi Tsai

Level: 6

Blinds: 200/500

Ante: 500

01-07-2020 17:19 UTC+8

Recent Chip Counts

Shirley Ang

Level 6 : 200/500, 500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Alexis Lim	130,000
Yefei Hui	54,000
Martin Stausholm	33,000 33,000	33,000
Dong Chen	32,000

Andre Lettau	30,000 30,000	30,000
Florencio Campomanes	30,000
Ying Kit Chan	30,000
Edgar Kim	30,000 30,000	30,000
Vincent Li	16,000
Xiao Ling Li	10,500

01-07-2020 17:28 UTC+8

Jin Triples Up

Shirley Ang

Level 6 : 200/500, 500 ante

Ge Jin shoved from under the gun in the last hand of before the break and Sin Ren Chen three-bet to 17,300 in the early position. Action folded to Zeyu Zhang in the small blind who also shoved. The big blind folded and Chen asked for a count. The dealer confirmed Zhang had 38,700 behind. Chen counted out calling chips and looked at the remainder of his own stack before making the call.

Ge Jin:
Zeyu Zhang:
Sin Ren Chen:

The board ran out for Jin to hold and triple up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sin Ren Chen	42,000 42,000	42,000
Zeyu Zhang	32,000 32,000	32,000
Ge Jin	27,900 18,400	18,400

Tags: Ge Jin Sin Ren Chen Zeyu Zhang

01-07-2020 17:30 UTC+8

Second Break of the day

Shirley Ang

Level 6 : 200/500, 500 ante

With 304 entries showing on the tournament clock, the 242 remaining players have been sent for another 15-minute break.

With registration still open for another three levels, only four more players are needed to reach the guaranteed prize pool of ₱50,000,000!

Level: 7

Blinds: 300/600

Ante: 600

01-07-2020 17:57 UTC+8

Prize Pool Guarantee Surpassed

Shirley Ang

Level 7 : 300/600, 600 ante

With 322 entries showing on the tournament clock for Day 1b and the 213 entries collected on Day 1a, the ₱50,000,000 guarantee that was put on the Main Event has already surpassed while registration or reentering is still possible until the start of Level 10 or even for the first nine levels of Day 1c which starts in about 2 hours with twelve 20-minute levels of play scheduled.

01-07-2020 18:13 UTC+8