Main Event Day 1c | 2017 PokerStars Festival Manila

08-06-2017 00:51 UTC+8

PokerStars Festival Manila Main Event Smashes Guarantee; Yang Leads

RazorSharpPro

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

An impressive 207 players stumped up the PHP55,000 entrance fee for Day 1c of the PokerStars Manila Main Event.

With the format offering unlimited re-entry, there were another 78 bullets fired to bring the total number of entries up to 285 for the day. That brought the total number of entries up to 594, easily surpassing the ₱20 million (~$397,230) guarantee. That astounding figure creates the largest international tournament in the history of the Philippines with a buy-in of ₱30,000 or more, ballooning the prize pool to a hefty ₱28,809,000 (~$572,190).

However, it is the ₱5,515,000 (~$109,536) first prize that all will have their eye on and the man best positioned to take that down is Woohyuk Yang. The Korean bagged up a monstrous 417,400, nearly five times the average stack and over 110,000 in chips more than next closest rival – Day 1b frontrunner Michael Falcon (307,100).

Yang made the majority of his chips after clashing in a huge hand with one-time chip leader Mazyar Misaghian, who made an ill-timed river bluff shortly before the last break of the day with a missed straight draw.

Unfortunately for Misaghian, Yang had flopped top two pairs and made the call to send the Australian player to the cash desk to re-buy, though he was unable to recreate his early run of form and bowed out before the close of play.

Japan’s Masatoshi Tanaka finished the day as Yang’s next closest rival after a late gift from Vietnam’s Chien Huu Nguyen on the last hand of play.

Tanaka – who had flopped the nut flush holding a suited ace-eight – moved all in on a paired turn in a three-bet pot, with Nguyen making the call with top pair and an open-ended straight draw.

The Japanese player faded Nguyen’s full house re-draw to bag up 287,800 while Nguyen took a big hit but finished the day with a stack of 117,600. It was another Japanese player, Yo Seb Rhee, who rounded out the day’s top three stacks, finishing with a very respectable 265,300.

Just 87 of the Day 1c entrants managed to successfully circumnavigate the tournament minefield to join the 38 Day 1a survivors and 43 Day 1b survivors.

Other notables to make it though included High Roller Shot Clock champion Peter Plater (40,900), Manila Megastack 7 champion Po-Yi Wu (30,200), Malaysia’s Boon Leong Tan (260,600) and Sam Nee (99,500), Finland’s Antti Halme (159,900) and Australia’s Geoff Mooney (82,500).

Notables who failed to make the cut included India’s first (joint) World Series of Poker bracelet winner Aditya Sushant as well as fellow countryman Dhaval Mudgal, Japan’s Iori Yogo, the Philippines’ top eight tournament earner Flo Campomanes and High Roller Shot Clock final tablist Hermann Lee.

With 73 unique players, the Philippines dominated the player pool, representing 22% of the total players. Following closely behind were Korea and Singapore which each brought in 34 unique players and roughly 20% of the total field together. India and Malaysia also showed up in full force with 25 (roughly 7% of the total field) and 33 (roughly 10%) unique players respectively.

A total of 167 players will be returning for Day 2 when play resumes at 2pm local time (GMT+7) on Sunday 6 August as Brandon Shim made it through on Day 1b and 1c. Shim will pilot the larger of his two stacks with the other being removed from play.

The PokerNews live reporting team will be on the tournament floor all day as the PokerStars Festival Manila Main Event plays into the hallowed money spots and beyond so join us then.

Day 2 Seat Draw

Table	Seat	Name	Country	Chips	Big Blinds
1	1	Xingbiao Zhu	China	125,500	52
1	2	Pete Chen	Taiwan	165,300	69
1	3	Ddingxiang Ong	Singapore	96,400	40
1	4	Tran Hung Manh	Vietnam	180,700	75
1	5	Kien Seng Loo	Malaysia	24,900	10
1	6	James Mendoza	USA	29,900	12
1	7	Yii Shyang Lai	Malaysia	53,500	22
1	8	Boon Leong Tan	Malaysia	260,600	109
1	9	Segundo Barte	Philippines	151,000	63

2	1	Jensen Chow	USA	52,300	22
2	2	Kian Weng Choong	Malaysia	169,600	71
2	3	Vikram Palanisamy	India	79,600	33
2	4	Corbin White	USA	44,300	18
2	5	Kuldeep Pawar	India	71,800	30
2	6	Jiunn Ng	Singapore	50,200	21
2	7	Richard Marquez	Philippines	117,900	49
2	8	Changha Woo	Korea	102,500	43
2	9	Trung Hieu Le	Vietnam	118,000	49

3	1	Sok Meng Hun	Cambodia	82,000	34
3	2	Kenneth Buck	Australia	61,800	26
3	3	Jean Issa	UK	83,100	35
3	4	Peter Plater	Australia	40,900	17
3	5	Yoshiniri Tsuji	Japan	69,700	29
3	6	Yan da Tyronne Soh	Singapore	124,000	52
3	7	Hoang Anh Do	Vietnam	125,000	52
3	8	Yow Hui Ng	Singapore	97,300	41
3	9	Uday Bansal	India	148,300	62

4	1	Jesse Rosen	South Africa	136,200	57
4	2	Euryd Rivera	Philippines	100,500	42
4	3	Ronnie Tate	USA	71,300	30
4	4	Geoff Mooney	Australia	82,500	34
4	5	Sparrow Cheung	Hong Kong	120,200	50
4	6	Andre Peters	Germany	241,500	101
4	7	Duc Nguyen	Vietnam	92,700	39
4	8	Eugene Khoo	Malaysia	95,500	40
4	9	Eric Tsai	Taiwan	112,500	47

5	1	Jae Wook Shin	Korea	71,100	30
5	2	Celine Lee	China	101,200	42
5	3	Hoa Thinh Nguyen	Vietnam	206,200	86
5	4	Jae Chul Chang	Korea	32,600	14
5	5	Seun Oluwole	UK	79,600	33
5	6	Kevin Ang	Malaysia	20,300	8
5	7	Zhi Han Neo	Singapore	104,300	43
5	8	Daryl Loh	Singapore	203,900	85
5	9	Badri Kedar Gosavi	Australia	117,000	49

6	1	Tung Wing Wong	Hong Kong	29,100	12
6	2	Shinji Katsushima	Japan	171,900	72
6	3	Johnson Tan	Philippines	42,400	18
6	4	Jongjun Park	Korea	114,100	48
6	5	Vi Khoa Duong	Vietnam	55,600	23
6	6	Michael Falcon	Denmark	307,100	128
6	7	Ming Ken Thoo	Malaysia	97,500	41
6	8	Sam Nee	Malaysia	99,500	41
6	9	Franklin Acfalle	USA	89,900	37

7	1	Jin Hwang Yong	Malaysia	257,500	107
7	2	Zhe Li	China	102,000	43
7	3	Po-yi Wu	Taiwan	30,200	13
7	4	Xiang Wei Lee	Singapore	212,500	89
7	5	Junghwan Oh	Korea	137,800	57
7	6	Chi Thinh Nguyen	Vietnam	192,900	80
7	7	Paphawin Laodee	Thailand	73,400	31
7	8	Min Soon Lim	Singapore	150,600	63
7	9	Stuart Brodie	South Africa	27,900	12

8	1	Duc Bui	Vietnam	50,300	21
8	2	Woohyuk Yang	Korea	417,400	174
8	3	Dhane Chainani	India	235,200	98
8	4	Jongyoung Moon	Korea	171,100	71
8	5	Du-ming Tsai	Taiwan	66,700	28
8	6	Wai Hong Wong	Malaysia	59,000	25
8	7	Jun Obara	Japan	174,400	73
8	8	Kai Loon Ang	Singapore	126,900	53
8	9	Hoon Chai Ra	Korea	87,100	36

9	1	Hassen Judeh	UK	33,500	14
9	2	Alan Lau	Hong Kong	42,600	18
9	3	van Sang Nguyen	Vietnam	115,400	48
9	4	Lai Heng Foo	Malaysia	78,100	33
9	5	Seung Soo Jeon	Korea	114,800	48
9	6	Tien Than Nguyen	Vietnam	156,700	65
9	7	Naohito Tamaya	Japan	91,800	38
9	8	Mike Takayama	Philippines	118,300	49
9	9	Francis Villamar	Philippines	27,600	12

10	1	Seung Yong Yi	Korea	178,400	74
10	2	Niilo Heinikangas	Finland	84,500	35
10	3	Ming Kee Liow	Malaysia	42,600	18
10	4	Soon Ann Gan	Malaysia	51,900	22
10	5	Zhining Chen	China	4,200	2
10	6	Jack Wu	Taiwan	53,800	22
10	7	Freddy Wei	Singapore	124,700	52
10	8	Wei Han Wang	Taiwan	139,700	58
10	9	Victor Chong	Malaysia	148,600	62

11	1	James Chong	Malaysia	125,100	52
11	2	Aki Virtanen	Finland	156,300	65
11	3	Brandon Shim	Australia	80,500	34
11	4	Heng Seng Lau	Singapore	55,700	23
11	5	Jeffrey Shultz	USA	65,400	27
11	6	Hyung Chul Hyun	Korea	129,400	54
11	7	Michael Brunner	Switzerland	211,400	88
11	8	Alexander Grocott	Australia	157,200	66
11	9	Siddarth Singhvi	India	135,800	57

12	1	Roger Spets	Sweden	42,100	18
12	2	Abhineet Jain	India	75,200	31
12	3	Masato Nikawadori	Japan	145,400	61
12	4	Yo Seb Rhee	Korea	265,300	111
12	5	Jaehyun Lim	Korea	125,100	52
12	6	Mark Pagsuyuin	Philippines	61,600	26
12	7	John Dalessandri	Australia	76,300	32
12	8	Tzu Chieh Lo	Taiwan	86,900	36
12	9	Yau Shern Yen	Malaysia	99,100	41

13	1	Toshifumi Hashimoto	Japan	124,100	52
13	2	Anna Bajas	Philippines	149,600	62
13	3	Kunal Patni	India	10,300	4
13	4	Anton Widjaya	Indonesia	41,300	17
13	5	Sam Razavi	UK	57,200	24
13	6	Andy Xueyan Li	Singapore	218,000	91
13	7	Tze Yen Wong	Malaysia	15,400	6
13	8	Pranay Kapoor	India	115,000	48
13	9	Van Tran Thanh	Vietnam	51,900	22

14	1	Reigin Leongson	Philippines	33,800	14
14	2	Antti Halme	Finland	159,900	67
14	3	Jun Yi Ong	Singapore	61,600	26
14	4	Bruce Fabillaran	Philippines	24,900	10
14	5	Christopher Morrison	UK	70,100	29
14	6	Daniel Benor	Israel	53,600	22
14	7	Wendell Barte	Philippines	102,900	43
14	8	Joseph Sia	Philippines	41,800	17
14	9	Tsun Ming Chan	Hong Kong	74,200	31

15	1	Rajeev Kanjani	India	11,600	5
15	2	Kwangyeop Choi	Korea	66,800	28
15	3	Anthony Gabitan	Philippines	64,400	27
15	4	John Sayo	Philippines	23,200	10
15	5	Anh Nguyen	Vietnam	56,300	23
15	6	Si Yang Phua	Singapore	92,400	39
15	7	Jun Zhong Loo	Malaysia	50,000	21
15	8	Mark Amparo	Philippines	73,100	30
15	9	Kwok Chun Lai	Hong Kong	28,400	12

16	1	Mc Yeldarb Mantos	Philippines	80,900	34
16	2	Linh Tran	Canada	194,300	81
16	3	Adones Carmona	Philippines	236,100	98
16	4	Joohyun Park	Korea	49,400	21
16	6	Wenceslao Sombero	Philippines	59,100	25
16	7	Khanh Le Ngoc	Vietnam	80,400	34
16	8	Wendell Garcia	Philippines	148,000	62
16	9	Raphael Gall	Germany	141,400	59

17	1	Elan Zak	Philippines	234,000	98
17	2	Frederick Dimayuga	Philippines	42,200	18
17	3	Wai Kiat Lee	Malaysia	26,300	11
17	4	Kok Hou Toh	Malaysia	150,100	63
17	5	Ming Suan Tan	Malaysia	92,600	39
17	6	Manuel Mascunana	Philippines	85,200	36
17	7	Vikram Verma	India	61,900	26
17	9	Tom Or-Paz	Israel	186,500	78

18	1	Chien Huu Nguyen	Vietnam	117,600	49
18	2	Jannodin Riga	Philippines	184,800	77
18	4	Mun Fei Chow	Malaysia	56,700	24
18	5	Thanh Ha Duong	Vietnam	137,600	57
18	6	Hisashi Ogi	Japan	90,300	38
18	7	Thomas Lee	Canada	156,100	65
18	8	Sejin Park	Korea	261,300	109
18	9	Masatoshi Tanaka	Japan	287,800	120

19	1	Soo Jo Kim	Korea	56,500	24
19	2	Chee Sun Tong	Singapore	99,100	41
19	4	Romit Advani	India	38,100	16
19	5	Kenny Shih	USA	67,400	28
19	6	Vijay Narula	Australia	146,700	61
19	7	Ken Okada	Japan	121,000	50
19	8	Hoang Huy Tran	Vietnam	93,300	39
19	9	Wan Yusuf	Malaysia	57,500	24

Tags: Chein Huu Nguyen Michael Falcon Woohyuk Yang Yo Seb Rhee

08-05-2017 23:00 UTC+8

Polishetty Busts in Three-Way All In

Christian Zetzsche

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

Eric Tsai raised to 4,400 and Sam Polishetty from one seat over for what appeared to be 29,000. The small blind called all in for slightly less and Tsai quickly called.

Sam Polishetty:
Small Blind:
Eric Tsai:

The button, friends with Polishetty, was asking for an eight and, while the blank flop changed nothing, had reason to celebrate the turn. However, the on the river let the table erupt in gasps and Polishetty's stack was chopped up to leave him empty-handed.

Player	Chips	Progress
Eric Tsai	135,000	135,000
Sam Polishetty	Busted

Tags: Sam Polishetty Eric Tsai

08-05-2017 21:25 UTC+8

Yang Seizes Lead

RazorSharpPro

Level 10 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

A huge hand played out just before the break that saw former frontrunner Mazyar Misaghian dust off his whole 200,000 stack to Korea’s Woohyuk Yang, who now holds a commanding lead.

According to Misaghian’s tablemate, Peter Plater, the Australian and Yang became involved in a hand right at the close of level nine that saw Yang flop top two pairs and Misaghian a straight draw.

Misaghian missed his draw and pulled the trigger as a bluff on the river and Yang made the call to win the massive pot and climb to 375,000 in chips and Misaghian bust, though he has re-entered and is sitting with a brand new 30,000 stack over on table nine.

Player	Chips	Progress
Woohyuk Yang	375,000	160,000
Mazyar Misaghian	Busted

Tags: Mazyar Misaghian Woohyuk Yang

08-05-2017 19:40 UTC+8

Monster Pot Shoots Misaghian Further in Front

RazorSharpPro

Level 7 : 300/600, 100 ante

We came running when we heard excited shouting from High Roller Shot Clock champion Peter Plater’s table and arrived in time to see three player’s stacks being counted down.

The three players in question were Rajesa Rajpopat, Peter Plater and Mazyar Misaghian, the latter two of whom were kind enough to talk us through the hand.

According to Plater and Misaghian, a player in early position had opened the action with a raise to 1,500 and Misaghian had called from middle position before Plater re-raised to 4,500 from the button.

Rajesa Rajpopat, sitting in the blinds, made the cold call, the original raiser folded and Misaghian called to bring the action three-way to a flop of .

Rajpopat checked and both Misaghian and Plater checked it back to keep the action three-way to the turn and all three players checked once more.

The river is where the fireworks happened with Rajpopat choosing to lead for a pot-sized 12,000 bet, which sent Misaghian into the tank for a minute or so before he announced he was all-in.

Plater, sitting on around 14,000 called off the last of his chips as did the player in the blinds, who had a stack of around 45,000 and the cards were turned over, which was where we picked up the hand.

Rajesa Rajpopat:
Mazyar Misaghian:
Peter Plater:

There were some questions thrown in Misaghian’s direction by Plater involving the calling of re-raises out of position with speculative hands, but being as the two know each other from Perth, Western Australia, this was mainly just friendly banter.

Plater scooped the main pot to climb to 76,000, Rajpopat left so fast he left a trail of dust on his way to the rail and Misaghian won the side pot to further extend his lead and climb to 192,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Mazyar Misaghian	192,000	17,000
Peter Plater	76,000	48,900
Rajesa Rajpopat	Busted

Tags: Mazyar Misaghian Peter Plater

08-05-2017 17:45 UTC+8

Misaghian Plays Sheriff

RazorSharpPro

Level 5 : 200/400, 50 ante

With the player in the big blind was away from the table Mazyar Misaghian decided to play sheriff, warning the table in no uncertain terms that any attempt to steal the free 400 on offer would be met with swift retribution.

Apparently, Pranay Kapoor and Akash Chandrashekhar were not listening however, with Kapoor making it 900 to go from early position and Chandrashekhar making the call in the hi-jack.

Misaghian splashed out a sizable re-raise, along with some stern words.

“I told you not to steal that 400,’ Misaghian lectured the pair “now look what you’ve made me do, I warned you what would happen with me on the button…”

After being ear-bashed for 30-seconds or so Kapoor made the fold but Chandrashekhar seemed keen to continue.

“You’ve made my friend [Kapoor] look bad now,’ joked Chandrashekhar, “I might have to defend his honor.”

After tanking for a couple of minutes Chandrashekhar moved all-in for close to 45,000 and was beaten into the pot by Misaghian, who it seemed, had a had to go along with all his trash talk.

Akash Chandrashekhar:
Mazyar Misaghian:

Unfortunately for Chandrashekhar, his pocket pair was dominated by Misaghian’s bigger pair and the Indian player received no help when the board ran out .

Misaghian stacked up to 110,000 while an unhappy looking Chandrashekhar headed for the cash desk for a re-buy.

Player	Chips	Progress
Mazyar Misaghian	110,000	110,000
Akash Chandrashekhar	Busted

Tags: Akashi Chandrasekhar Mazyar Misaghian Pranay Kapoor

08-05-2017 17:15 UTC+8

Tan Serves Up Sickness

RazorSharpPro

Level 4 : 150/300, 50 ante

A massive three-way pot played out between Jaydeep Dawer, Johnson Tan and Hishahi Ogi that left a bad taste in Dawer’s mouth and his stack in ruins.

Pre-flop it was Dawer who was the initial aggressor, making it 800 to go from middle position with Tan and Ogi making the call in the hi-jack and cutoff respectively to take the action three-way to a flop of .

Dawer continuation bet a close to pot-sized 2,400 with Tan making the call before Ogi juiced it up to 7,500, with both Dawer and Tan making the call.

The turn saw Dawer shove for 30,200 with Tan calling off for his tournament life and the action was on Ogi who looked unsure of what to do. Eventually, the Japanese player folded and the cards were turned over.

Jaydeep Dawer:
Johnson Tan:

While Dawer had the lead Tan was drawing extremely live and the hit the river like a thunderbolt from the poker gods to give Tan the hand, much to Dawer’s displeasure. Dawer is down but not out with 10,400, Ogi dropped back down to the 30,000 starting stack and Tan climbed to 64,500.

Player	Chips	Progress
Johnson Tan	64,500	64,500
Hisashi Ogi	30,000	30,000
Jaydeep Dawer	10,400	-32,600

Tags: Hisashi Ogi Jaydeep Dawer Johnson Tan

08-05-2017 14:26 UTC+8

Disastrous Start for Gruendemann

Christian Zetzsche

Level 1 : 50/100, 0 ante

In one of the first hands of the day, Jaydeep Dawer flopped a gutshot royal flush draw and rivered the for broadway with to take a big pot off Mark Gruendemann and the Irishman would take another big hit to his stack soon after.

Gruendemann defended his big blind to a raise by Hoang Lam Bui from under the gun and check-called a bet of 350 on the flop. On the turn, both players checked and the appeared on the river. Gruendemann check-raised from 850 to 3,000 and called a reraise to 10,000 by Bui only to get shown for a flush.

Player	Chips	Progress
Hoang Lam Bui	43,000	43,000
Jaydeep Dawer	39,000	39,000
Mark Gruendemann	10,500	10,500

Tags: Hoang Lam Bui Jaydeep Dawer Mark Gruendemann

08-05-2017 12:44 UTC+8

The Final Starting Day of the PokerStars Festival Manila Main Event Kicks Off at 2pm

Christian Zetzsche

Who will rack up the most chips on Day 1c?

The PokerStars LIVE poker room in the City of Dreams casino complex is once again calling poker aficionados from near and far for the third and final day of the 2017 PokerStars Festival Manila Main Event in the smoke-free Grand Ballroom area. The tournament comes with a price tag of PHP55,000, which equals approximately $1,092.

Throughout the previous two starting days, a field of 309 entries emerged to not only put the event on track to meet but eclipse the guaranteed prize pool of PHP20 million and action will get back underway at 2 p.m. local time. So far, 81 players have bagged up chips for Day 2 on Sunday August 6th 2017 and all those unfortunate enough not to carry over a stack yet can re-enter the competition today.

Michael Falcon leads the field of survivors thus far with a stack of 307,100, followed by Andre Peters (241,500) and Dhane Chainani (235,200), while Day 1a chip leader Elan Zak sits in fourth place overall with 234,200.

The eventual winner of the Main Event will be crowned on August 7 and all participants receive 30,000 in starting chips, the late registration and re-entry period lasts until the end of level nine and following break. A total of 12 levels of 45 minutes are scheduled for Day 1c and play concludes at approximately 11.30 p.m. local time, while the late registration of the players party at the nearby Chaos night club lasts until two in the morning.

PokerStars Festival Manila Main Event starting days (times are listed in local time):

Day 1a – August 3 at 2 p.m. (45-minute levels): 132 entries, 38 survivors
Day 1b – August 4 at 2 p.m. (45-minute levels): 177 entries, 43 survivors
Day 1c – August 5 at 2 p.m. (45-minute levels)

The survivors for each of the Day 1s will reconvene for Day 2 (August 6) and play will restart with one-hour levels. All players remaining after Day 2 will continue on Day 3 (August 7), and the level duration will increase to 75 minutes each while the tournament will play down to a winner.

Here's a look at the level structure for Day 1c:

Level	Duration	Small Blind	Big Blind	Ante
1	45 min	50	100
2	45 min	75	150
3	45 min	100	200	25
4	45 min	150	300	50
5	45 min	200	400	50
6	45 min	250	500	75
7	45 min	300	600	100
8	45 min	400	800	100
9	45 min	500	1,000	100
10	45 min	600	1,200	200
11	45 min	800	1,600	200
12	45 min	1,000	2,000	300

As usual, the PokerNews live reporting team will provide all the action from the tournament floor until the last river card is dealt, so make sure to tune back in regularly.

Tags: Andre Peters Dhane Chainani Elan Zak Michael Falcon