Another three levels have been completed to reduce the field from the 47 Day 1 survivors all the way to just 13 hopefuls. They all aim to reach the nine-handed final table but that will have to wait at least 15 minutes for the next break, during which the T-1,000 chips are raced off.
Diana Tan three-bet shoved her severe short stack of 223,000 and Ronn Mesina looked her up for the following coin flip showdown.
Diana Tan: 4♥4♠ 
Ronn Mesina: A♦Q♠
Mesina took the lead on the Q♥8♥2♥ flop but needed to dodge fours and hearts. No help for Tan came with the 9♦ turn and the K♣ river was another blank to end her run in 14th place.
Qi Xia raised to 40,000 and Gursimran Brar called in the next seat. Marlon Laxamana then three-bet to 140,000 and it folded back to Xia, who used one time bank to fold. Brar came along and both players then checked the K♦4♦3♥ flop as well as the 4♥ turn.
Brar let his action clock run down to five seconds before he declared a bet of 270,000 on the 6♠ river. Laxamana called without hesitation and then sighed when Brar revealed his 6♦6♥ for sixes full. He snapped a picture with his phone while also revealing his 9♥9♦.
In a battle of the blinds, Henrik Tollefsen jammed into Renato Villanueva and the latter called in a duel of shorter stacks on the final two tables.
Renato Villanueva: A♣K♦
Henrik Tollefsen: A♠7♠
The Q♠7♣4♠ flop not only gave Tollefsen a pair with his weaker kicker but also the flush draw as well. No help came for Villanueva on the 9♣ turn and 10♣ river to end his run in 15th place.
The action folded all the way to Marlon Laxamana in the small blind and he limped in, Patrick Clarke checked his option to the 10♥10♣2♣ flop. Laxamana bet 25,000 and called a raise to 75,000 before the K♣ followed on the turn.
Laxamana now check-called a bet of 225,000 to then declare all-in on the 3♥ river. Clarke verified with the dealer that his table neighbour had gone all-in and instantly called within the same motion thereafter.
Clarke tabled his 2♠2♦ for the flopped full house and Laxamana's A♣7♣ for the ace-high flush was no good.
On the tail end of a [AsQh5d7dJd| board, Hyunsik Nam check-raised a bet of 135,000 by AJ Acdal to 350,000 in a duel big blind versus cutoff. Acdal used two time bank extensions and folded, which Nam seemingly wasn't happy about.
Benjamin Ebarle had been grinding a shorter stack for pretty much the entire day and especially so in the last couple of hours. He was part of five-way action to the 9♦8♠4♦ flop on which he moved all-in for 125,000 in the cutoff. Gursimran Brar and Marlon Laxamana check-called to then check down the K♣ turn as well as the 2♥ river.
Ebarle flashed his A♦7♦ for the missed nut flush draw and was beaten by the 6♣4♣ of Laxamana.
"Can I muck?" Brar asked but since it was an all-in showdown, he had to reveal his 6♠5♠ as well before tossing the cards into the muck.
The SiGMA Asia ambassador Ebarle fell not too far from the final table and bowed out in 16th place for PHP 176,500.
Level: 31
Blinds: 10,000/20,000
Ante: 20,000
Gursimran Brar added some chips when he forced out Renato Villanueva and then defended out of the big blind against an under-the-gun raise by chip leader Marlon Laxamana as did Qi Xia in the small blind. They checked the J♥9♣2♠ flop to the 4♣ turn on which Xia checked again.
Brar now bet 55,000 and Laxamana raised to 140,000 thereafter, forcing out Xia. Brar pondered about it for a few seconds and folded amid some visible confusion.
Tsun Yin Wong has taken over the chip lead on table three after he jammed into the shorter stack of Diana Tan on the 10♦6♦3♣K♦4♣ river. The player from Hong Kong offered to expose one card and Tan grabbed one, while Alexis Lim jokingly selected the other.
Only the J♦ was actually flipped over, though.
Tan was then all-in for 267,000 with 10♠10♦ against the A♦K♥ of AJ Acdal and survived thanks to the Q♥Q♦6♦3♣2♣ runout.
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