APT Main Event (60,000 PHP)

Tsz Yip opened from middle-position and got called by Vlada Stojanovic from the big-blind.

On 4♣ 4♠ 4♦ Yip continued with a 7,000 bet.

Stojanovic called and the turn brought the 6♥ . Yip now escalated things quickly, by moving all-in, amounting for a big overbet. Stojanovic snap-called.

Vlada Stojanovic: 6♦ 6♣

Tsz Yip: A♥ K♦

The K♣ came to late to give any help to Yip who looses a huge chunk of his stack shortly before the end of day 1.

Last we looked up Vlada Stojanovic, he had a healthy stack of over 150,000. In just a few blinks, Stojanovic was all-in for his tournament life and his last 16,000. Matching the call was short-stacked Ashley Patterson.

Ashley Patterson K♠ 9♦

Vlada Stojanovic K♦ J♥

Board 4♥ K♣ A♣ 6♠ T♥

Stojanovic's kicker made the difference when both hit their kings.

A few hands after, Stojanovic had the all-in button arrow pointed his way and a pair of aces in front of him, dominating over the Ace Queen of Yu Wei Wang. The dealer had just mucked the board, but we did see the chips shipped Stojanovic's way.

Stojanovic doubled yet again to get him back on track.

Nevan Chang raised to 2,000. Ronald Yusuf, on the button, raised it to 5,500. When action went back to Chang, he made it 12,000. Yusuf called.

Both players saw a flop of J♣ 6♠ 9♠

Chang led out with 13,000 and Yusuf surrendered.

In the next hand, Vlada Stojanovic and Yusuf had built a pot of 20,000 with a board showing J♠ J♥ J♣ 7♠ 6♦

Both checked after the river. Stojanovic showed A♣ 8♣ which was good enough to take down the pot, and add some more damage to Yusuf's stack.