Entering the day as the overall chip leader is Ayhan Agdas from the United Kingdom with 156,800 chips. Running second in chips is Julian Hasse from Germany with 139,600. Richard Marquez from the home country is in third position with 128,600 chips.
Players are already at their seats, cards are now flying and chips are shuffling around the room! Good luck to all the qualifiers!
We will have updates on some of the action of the day so stay tuned!
Deep Stack NLH
Side event #2, the Deep Stack NLH event registered 58 entries with play lasting through the wee hours of the night. Some of the players unable to make the cut into day 2 of the Warm-up event were seen dishing it out at this event, players such as Kai Paulsen (Norway), Sam Razavi (England), and Srinivas Polishetty (India), to mention a few. An hour past the witching hour, it was Fu Bang “pipi” Huang who reigned victorious after defeating Juyoung Lee at the heads up round. Huang collected the first place cash prize of PHP340,040.
List of payouts: 7 players (in PHP)
1- Fu Bang “Pipi” Huang (Chinese Taipei) 340,040
2- Juyoung Lee (South Korea) 216,300
3- Renan Morales (Philippines) 144,200
4- Makoto Takahashi (Japan) 113,300
5- Victor Raul Onoja Perez (Peru) 82,400
6- Iori Yogo (Japan) 72,100
7- Yen Han “Pete” Chen (Chinese Taipei) 61,800