Okada Millions (8,000 PHP)

Big day at the PokerStars LIVE Okada Manila Millions flagship tournanemt, Okada Millions, with 263 storming in for the third entry flight. This boosted the prize pool past its PHP 5M guarantee, and with four more flights to complete, it is headed for a record breaker!

The bubble burst before the ninth hour with Junghyun Lee knocking out Gilson Chan on a flip. This determined the final 31 survivors advancing to the money round. Commanding the counts was the lone Saudi Arabian player in the field, Fahad Alanazi, with a massive 598,000 (59 bb) in chips. Alanazi was already the leader when he exploited the bubble round to send him surging well over half a mil.

Though not close but bagging a commendable second in chips was Singapore's Norbert Koh with 498,000 and local player Arnel Caquejo rounding out the top three with 352,000. Another qualifier was Warm Up champion Richard Marquez, though it cost him a second bullet. And Singapore's Ajay Abrol became the first double qualifier having also bagged at Flight B. Abrol amassed a larger stack today of 286,000 which means his other 92,000 stack will be removed from play at Day 2.

Among the fallen was two-time champion Jose Colada however he still has time to make the grade at the remaining flights.

The survivors have a day's rest before returning on April 13 for the final race to glory. They join the 45 qualifiers from the first two flights with Christian Lortie Cloutier still the player to catch with 700,000 in chips.

Flight A: 202 entries / 24 ITM

Flight B: 171 entries / 21 ITM

Flight C: 263 entries / 31 ITM

Ajay Abrol bumps it up from under the gun and nearly steals the blinds and ante when the big blind Kenneth Isip defends. When the board runs 2♥ Q♦ Q♥ 3♦ , Abrol barrels 6000 and another 6000, Isip check-calls both to complete the board J♦ . Abrol quickly folds to award Isip the pot without a fight.

Action heavy preflop starts with a raise from cutoff that gets re-raised to 1600 by Fahad Alanazi on the button. Small blind Kenneth Isip calls then big blind Roxanne Victorino adds more in with a four-bet of 3500. Only Alanazi and Isip call to take the bout to the flop 2♠ 8♣ 7♣ . Victorino remains unrelenting and continues for 6000 which is good enough to take down the pot.

Kenneth Isip finds two callers to his 500 raise to bring the action to the flop 2♠ 4♠ T♣ . Big blind Yohn Paredes takes command with a 700 bet and only Isip wants to take it further. The turn then comes 8♣ and both players check. The river K♣ has Paredes test-bet 1000, Isip calls to keep Paredes honest but Paredes mucks to award the pot to Isip without having to show.