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Level 7
: 300/600, 100 ante
There are 76 players still in the running out of the 119 entries with some of the notable stacks as follows:
2017 PokerStars Festival Manila
Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
2017 PokerStars Festival Manila
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
55,000 PHP
Prize Pool
28,809,000 PHP
Total Entries
594
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 594
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Level: 7
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 100
Level 6
: 250/500, 75 ante
The 82 remaining Main Event Day 1A players are on their second 10-minute break of the day.
Level 6
: 250/500, 75 ante
We caught Korea’s SJ Kim involved in a hand against Vijay Narula on a flop of 
just as the latter checked the action over to Kim on the button.
Kim threw out a bet of 1,500, which Narula called to bring in the 
turn, which saw both players check.
After Narula checked for a third time on the 
river Kim fired out a pot-sized bet, which was enough to take down the hand and he climbed to 49,500 while Narula dropped to 37,500.
The field shrunk a little more the following hand with Zhe Li the most recent casualty. Li had been nursing his short stack for the past few levels after losing that early big pot against Narula.
Pre-flop it was SJ Kim who was playing his rush, opening the action from the cutoff to 1,200. Li (button) moved all-in for his last 3,975 and Japan’s Ken Okada made a quick call from the small blind.
While he did not look too pleased at this turn of events Kim made the call after a brief visit to the think tank and the action went three-way to a flop of 
.
First to act Okada fired out a 5,000 bet, Kim folded immediately and the cards were turned over.
Ken Okada: 
Zhe Li: 
While Li had caught a piece of the flop Okada’s piece was bigger and the 
turn and 
river saw Li head for the rail while Okada stacked up to 35,000.
Level 6
: 250/500, 75 ante
The field has grown further and is up to 112 entries now, with 88 of those remaining in the running with High Rollers Linh Tran and Ken Okada just two of those to take their seats.
One of the recent arrivals is Manila Megastack 7 Champion Po-Yi Wu whom we caught involved in a hand against China’s Xingbiao Zhu.
Wu was the pre-flop aggressor, making it 1,200 to go from middle position with Zhu making the call on the button and Bach Hoang Nguyen coming along in the small blind to take the action three-way to a flop of 
.
Nguyen checked the action over to Wu, who continuation bet 1,500 into a pot of a little over 4,000. Zhu quickly raised to 4,000 with Nguyen quickly folding. Wu thought it over but decided to wait for a better spot and mucked as well. Wu dropped to 18,775 after the hand while Zhu climbed to 33,000.
Level: 6
Blinds: 250/500
Ante: 75
Level 5
: 200/400, 50 ante
The field has grown to 108 entrants, 87 of whom remain in contention. Some of the more recent arrivals include reigning Asia Player of the Year Jack Wu, Sweden’s Roger Spets and Ireland’s John Gallagher.
However, one man who is no longer in the running, unless of course he choses to re-buy, is Tom Or-Paz who busted at the hands of Korea’s Jae Wook Shin.
We missed Or-Paz’s exit hand but arrived in time to see Shin stacking up a pile of chips and Or-Paz’s seat conspicuously empty apart from his tournament receipt.
Shin chose to play his rush the very next hand, opening to 900 from late position with Sam Nee (small blind) and Kenneth Buck (big blind) making the call to take the action three-way to a flop of 
.
There was no more betting in the hand with all three players checking the flop, the 
turn and the 
river.
Nee turned over 
, Buck had the best pre-flop hand with 
but Shin, holding 
had out flopped the Australian and took down another pot.
Level 5
: 200/400, 50 ante
The number of entrants has risen to 100 though only 85 of these remain in contention with several players, including Pranay Kapoor, on their second bullet already.
While there have been plenty of early exits our timing seems a little off and we keep missing all the bust outs.
One player who does not look like busting anytime soon is Tom Or-Paz, and we arrived in time to see the Israeli win a small pot from Kunal Patni.
Or-Paz was the aggressor in this particular hand, making it 600 to go pre-flop with Patni the only caller in the big blind.
Patni checked the 
flop over to Or-Paz who tossed out a single 1k blue chip, which was enough to get Patni to give it up.
Malaysia’s Sam Nee has been fairly active and has taken down a few small pots uncontested, though he was picked off recently.
The first was against fellow countryman Ken Thoo, who called Nee’s 800 button raise in from the big blind to take play heads-up to a flop of . Thoo checked, Nee bet 1,075 and took down the hand.
Nee was at it again a couple of hands later, making it 900 to go from the cutoff with a player in the small blind making the call and the flop came down 
.
The small blind checked, Nee led for 1,500 and was called and the hit the turn. This brought checks from both players and after the small blind checked for a third time on the 
river Nee
Level: 5
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 50
Level 4
: 150/300, 50 ante
Junzhong Loo opened the action with a raise to 700 from the cutoff and Raphael Gall made the call from the button before a short-stacked Zhe Li moved all-in for a little under 4,000.
While Loo folded Gall made the call and the cards were turned over.
Zhe Li: 
Raphael Gall: 
Li was in bad shape and needed some help, which he duly received when the flop came down to give the Chinese player middle set.
The 
turn kept Li’s nose in front and he locked in the double and improved to a full house when the hit the river. Li climbed to 9,000 while Gall still has plenty of chips with a stack of 63,325.
