Ivan Dela Cruz check-called the A♣J♣6♥8♠ turn for 100,000 and then checked the 5♣ on the river. Edilberto Gopez announced all-in and Dela Cruz quickly folded the A♠ face-up.
Ivan Dela Cruz check-called the A♣J♣6♥8♠ turn for 100,000 and then checked the 5♣ on the river. Edilberto Gopez announced all-in and Dela Cruz quickly folded the A♠ face-up.
Renato Villanueva raised the button to 25,000 and was called only by Gursimran Brar in the big blind. They checked the K♣Q♠4♠ flop before Brar check-called the 4♣ turn for 50,000 and the A♣ river for 90,000. Brar called both times and mucked against the A♥K♠ of Villanueva.
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Renato Villanueva raised it up to 21,000 from under the gun and Patrick Clarke opted to shove from the cutoff for 229,000. Henrik Tollefsen in the big blind asked for a count and folded, while Villanueva instantly called.
Patrick Clarke: A♥3♥
Renato Villanueva: 10♣10♦
The 10♥5♥2♣ flop would have likely gotten the chips in the middle anyways with top set versus gutshot wheel draw and the nut flush draw. Nothing changed on the Q♠ turn but Clarke spiked the 4♦ on the river to double.
Dylan Yip had been carefully nursing a short stack for seemingly the entire day and secured several pay jumps en route to reaching the final three tables. He then defended the big blind and got the chips in after the 10♥9♥3♠ flop against Henrik Tollefsen.
Dylan Yip: 8♥4♥
Henrik Tollefsen: 10♦9♦
The flush draw was live but only until the 10♣ turn when Tollefsen improved to an unbeatable full house to make the 4♠ river a formality.
On the main feature table, a preflop raising war got the chips into the middle between Edilberto Gopez and Rene David with the former at risk for 544,000 - an incredible 54 big blinds in the new level.
Edilberto Gopez: A♥K♦
Rene David: J♠J♥
This time, pocket jacks didn't hold on the A♣10♦2♥8♦4♥ runout and Gopez became a chip millionaire.
Level: 28
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 10,000
In a three-bet pot to the 7♠6♣3♣ flop, Badrudin Ampatuan checked over to Edilberto Gopez who made it 55,000 to go. Ampatuan check-raised small to 120,000 and Gopez stuck around to the 3♦ turn.
Ampatuan now pushed all-in for 684,000 total and the clock was on Gopez once again, who didn't have any time bank extensions left. Thirty seconds ran down without a decision and his hand was dead, the cards went into the muck.
Qi Xia pushed all-in for 96,000 first to act and was called by Patrick Clarke in middle position, the rest of the table got out of the way.
Qi Xia: 3♣3♠ [all-in]
Patrick Clarke: A♣Q♣
The K♠K♦6♦K♣5♠ runout kept the mighty pocket pair ahead all the way for Xia to stay in contention.
In a duel big blind versus button, Jonard Arcilla defended against the open raise of Michael Concepcion and then simply check-raised all-in after the K♠10♦9♦ flop for what appeared to be around 245,000 in chips. Concepcion quickly called after his continuation bet of only 17,000 and the cards were revealed.
Jonard Arcilla: 8♦8♣
Michael Concepcion: K♣Q♦
No help came with the 9♠ turn and the 3♣ river ended the run of Arcilla in 25th place for PHP 104,800.