Main Event (45,000 PHP)

Flight D Turbo concluded at level 19 with 12 out of 79 rounding out our day 1 qualifiers. Joseph Talamayan already sat on a massive stack when we started our coverage and ended the flight in 1st place with 310,000, closely followed by Jester Initia with 306,000 and Kim Yongkyun with 285,000.

With 512 entries over all four flights, resulting in a total prize pool of P20,113,920 we have found our 78 finalists that will have to continue to bring their a-game tomorrow to have a chance at clinching the title and take home the P3,713,920 first prize.

Play will resume at 13:00 with everyone guaranteed a min cash of 75,000

Flight D complete chip counts :

After another 15 levels of Day 1 play in the Main Event are under our belts we reached the final 19 out of a starting field of 126 advancing to Day 2 on Saturday 13:00.

With the top 5 eclipsing yesterdays Flight A chip leader we saw Mystery Bounty's biggest winner Fransisco Sanchez come out on top with 379,000 to his name, after another stellar performance. In close quarters we have 2nd in chips Kim Jaejoong bagging 367,000 and David Rene Mar in 3rd with 341,000.

For all the players missing out today, we have Flight C on Friday at 13:00 with the usual 10 levels of late registration until around 20:10.

Enjoy the rest of your night and see you tomorrow for another round of live updates!

Our 19 qualifiers all in on place:

Kim Sehyeon wakes up with A♦ A♠ and makes it 8,000, SB Chua Woo Hian picks up A♥ K♥ for a 54,500 jam and everyone comes over to watch. The dealer gives a little tease with 2♥ 9♣ K♠ , but leaves Chua Woo Hian hanging by completing the board 8♥ 3♠ , thereby bursting the bubble and ending play for today.

With 24 out of 126 remaining we are inching closer to the cut-off with 19 players qualifying for day 2. Here are the top chip counts:

Big stack Kim Sehyeon opens 5,000 from HJ and takes BU Edgar Asehan to the flop 8♦ Q♦ 6♦ , unicolor again. Sehyeon continues for 4,000, gets called and both players are happy to check it to the river A♣ 5♣ with Kim Sehyeon flipping over the winner K♣ Q♥ .

Kim Sehyeon kicks of the action with a raise to 1,700, HJ Santos Sergius jams for 5,700 and a cold call from CO. Kim Sehyeon successfully isolates with a 33,000 shove holding A♣ K♣ . Sergius Santos flips over A♦ 8♠ looking for help and the dealer obliges by hitting the felt 2♠ J♦ 4♦ 8♣ 2♦ leaving Sergius Santos in the game with a triple up.

With the pot at 26,000 and the board showing T♠ 5♥ K♠ 6♦ 9♣ , Kim Sehyeon jams 12,400 with K♥ J♠ and gets check-called by Oliver Duran's tow pair 9♠ 6♠ .