PHP 215,000 High Roller
Day 2 Started
2017 PokerStars Festival Manila
PHP 215,000 High Roller
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2017 PokerStars Festival Manila
Buy-in
215,000 PHP
Prize Pool
9,118,000 PHP
Entries
47
Level
22
Blinds
10,000 / 20,000
Ante
3,000
Who Will be Crowned High Roller Shot Clock Champion in Manila?
In one hour from now as of 1 p.m. local time, the 2017 PokerStars Festival Manila PHP215,000 (~$4,260) High Roller Shot Clock will get back underway for its second and final day. With 36 entries so far, a prize pool of PHP6,790,000 has been created, but both numbers can still increase with the registration remaining open throughout the first 60-minute level and following break.
Leading the field of 18 Day 1 survivors is Israel's Tom Or-Paz with 219,000. Or-Paz registered late and soared to the top of the counts in the last level of the night, edging out Sathesh Muthu (156,700) and Timofey Asmolov (154,400). Both Muthu and Asmolov were among those that fired an additional bullet in this tournament and ran much better in their second attempt.
Other big stacks notables still in contention here at the PokerStars LIVE Manila poker room include Linh Tran (144,400), live satellite qualifier Peter Plater (133,000), Mansour Matloubi (113,900), Celine Lee (105,900), Lester Edoc (103,900), and Victor Chong (96,400). Former Asian player of the year Pete Chen is among the short stacks with 33,700 when the action resumes at blinds of 1,000/2,000 with a running ante of 300 in the Grand Ballroom at City of Dreams Manila.
The tournament is played with a 30-second shot clock, and all participants received three 30-second time-bank chips upon registration. For Day 2, three new time banks will be granted and once they are gone, the players only have 30 seconds to act on each decision.
The PokerNews live reporting team will provide all the action until a winner is crowned, and you can also follow the updates of the Main Event as well with Day 1a getting underway as of 2 p.m. local time.
Day 2 Seat Draw
| Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | Timofey Asmolov | Russia | 154,400 | 77 |
| 1 | 4 | Linh Tran | Canada | 144,400 | 72 |
| 1 | 5 | Sathesh Muthu | Singapore | 156,700 | 78 |
| 1 | 7 | Lester Edoc | Philippines | 103,900 | 52 |
| 1 | 8 | Tom Or-Paz | Israel | 219,000 | 110 |
| 2 | 1 | Victor Chong | Malaysia | 96,400 | 48 |
| 2 | 3 | Yo Seb Rhee | Japan | 45,800 | 23 |
| 2 | 5 | Jun Obara | Japan | 85,500 | 43 |
| 2 | 6 | Aki Virtanen | Finland | 56,900 | 28 |
| 2 | 7 | Mansour Matloubi | UK | 113,900 | 57 |
| 3 | 4 | Konstantin Pogodin | Russia | 35,400 | 18 |
| 3 | 5 | Hermann Lee | Singapore | 81,000 | 41 |
| 3 | 7 | Celine Lee | China | 105,900 | 53 |
| 3 | 8 | Ken Okada | Japan | 43,000 | 22 |
| 4 | 1 | Peter Plater | Australia | 133,000 | 67 |
| 4 | 4 | Antti Halme | Finland | 24,700 | 12 |
| 4 | 6 | Pete Chen | Taiwan | 33,700 | 17 |
| 4 | 7 | Hoa Thinh Nguyen | Vietnam | 147,900 | 74 |
Four New Entries for Day 2
Before the cards will go up in the air shortly, there are already four new entries confirmed. While Van Sang Nguyen has re-entered, Sparrow Cheung, Alex Lee and Xingbiao Zhu are new participants and start the tournament with 25 big blinds each.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
|
50,000 | |
|
50,000 | |
|
50,000 |
Level: 12
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 300
Three New Time-Banks; Three Further Players
Level 12
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
All players received an additional three time-bank chip and new entries received a total of six chips as a result. Among those to benefit from that were Alan Lau as re-entry, as well as Shengyu Li and Tsun Ming Chan as new entries.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
50,000 | |
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
|
50,000 |
Pogodin More Than Doubles
Level 12
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Van Sang Nguyen raised to 5,000 from the hijack and Konstantin Pogodin moved all in for 31,200 from the cutoff. Sparrow Cheung asked for a count and moved all in over the top from the small blind, which forced a fold from Nguyen with 
being sent to the muck face up.
Konstantin Pogodin: 
Sparrow Cheung: 
The board came 
and Pogodin got there with aces and tens to more than double up. Over on table four, Alex Lee also won a few pots to almost double his stack early on.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
95,000 | 45,000 |
|
73,000 | 37,600 |
|
|
44,000 | -6,000 |
|
|
19,000 | -31,000 |
Orpaz Drops Two Pots
Level 12
: Blinds 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Tom Orpaz found himself at a table with fellow big stacks and took two hits to the stack early on to surrender the chip lead.
First he called a bet of 13,000 by Lester Edoc on the 
turn and did so again for 18,000 on the 
river. Edoc showed 
and that won the pot.
Soon after, Sathesh Muthu check-raised a flop of 
from 10,000 to 26,000 out of the big blind and Orpaz called. The 
fell on the turn and Muthu's bet of 25,000 was called before the river resulted in a bet of 40,000 by Muthu and a fold by Orpaz.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
210,000 | 53,300 |
|
135,000 | -84,000 |
|
130,000 | 26,100 |
Burns Arrives and Chips Up
Level 12
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Aditya Sushant and Simon Burns registered a few moments ago to bump up the attendance to 45 entries. Burns was immediately in the big blind and faced a raise to 5,000 by Alex Lee on the button. Burns three-bet to 12,000 and Lee called to see a flop of 
. The continuation bet of 9,000 by Burns forced a fold from Lee and the table was shown 
by the Brit.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
82,000 | -13,000 |
|
65,000 | 65,000 |
|
50,000 |
Cheung Hits the Rail
Level 12
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
On a flop of 
, Alex Lee in late position called a bet of 14,000 by Hoa Thinh Nguyen on the button and checked again the on the turn. Nguyen moved all in for effectively 55,000, as that's what Lee had left, and Lee folded after having used one time-bank.
Over on table three, Sparrow Cheung moved all in for the second hand in a row. This time, he found a caller as Ken Okada re-shoved from the button with slightly more chips.
Sparrow Cheung: 
Ken Okada: 
The board came 
and the kicker played to eliminate Cheung.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
140,000 | -7,900 |
|
65,000 | 22,000 |
|
|
55,000 | -27,000 |
|
|
Busted |
Pogodin In Need of a Miracle
Level 12
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Sparrow Cheung re-entered and that brought the number of entries up to 47, while his new table provided some fireworks.
On a flop of 
, Konstantin Pogodin and Hermann Lee got into a raising war with near-identical stacks and Pogodin turned over 
. Lee had 
for the flush draw and straight draw, and immediately got there on the turn. On top of that, Lee even improved to a flush on the 
river and Pogodin was left with a mere 700 chips. He first quadrupled up and then tripled up with versus 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
165,000 | 84,000 |
|
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
|
|
10,000 | -63,000 |