2019 PokerStars APPT Manila

₱33,000 APPT National
Day: 2
Event Info

2019 PokerStars APPT Manila

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
aa
Prize
4,174,500 PHP
Event Info
Buy-in
33,000 PHP
Prize Pool
19,417,266 PHP
Entries
674
Level Info
Level
31
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
160,000

Linh Tran Holds Massive Lead After 2019 APPT Manila National Day 2

Level 25 : 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante
Linh Tran
Linh Tran

After twelve 40-minute levels, Day 2 of the 2019 PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour Manila ₱33,000 National is over. With 16 players remaining in the field, Linh Tran has a commanding chip lead over the field with 4,350,000, which equals to more than twenty percent of the total chips in play.

Tran didn't gather much attention during Day 2, but after the redraw in the last three tables, it seemed as if he was winning every small or medium-sized pot. At 27 players left, he was on a three-way all-in with kings against tens, and ace-jack, where he won the side pot versus the tens. At that point, he had 2.5 million chips, and without playing almost any all in at all, he managed to win almost two more million chips until the end of the day.

In total, 178 players got in their seats at the beginning of Day 2, which was the combined number of players from Day 1a and Day 1b, all with the hope of getting at first a spot into the money. This was one of the quickest bubbles ever witnessed since even the tournament officials had to review the last hands to figure out who was the player that finished last before the money. Eventually, it was proved that it was Soo Jo Kim's hand that brought the final elimination before the money, guaranteeing all 81 players a min-cash for ₱62,000.

The eliminations came rapidly after the bubble burst, with Christophe Devaux (64th|₱66,000), Gyeong Byeong Lee (56th|₱70,000), Soo Jo Kim (51st|₱77,500), and Day 1a's chip leader Alex Lee (25th|₱105,000), among those that busted in the money.

In the second place of the chip counts, it is Benigno Jr Ledina who bagged 2,570,000 chips, after a big double up on one of the last hands of the day. Ledina was holding tens and he was facing a shove from Arravind Udayakumar on a jack-jack-nine flop. He eventually called to see his opponent opening eight-nine for a worst pair, with the turn and the river keeping the lead for him. Udayakumar was left with only three big blinds at this point, but he managed to find a couple of double-ups at the end to reach ten blinds, which was his closing stack for the day.

Eran Shaham from Israel is the player who rounds up the top three stacks, and his biggest pot was an ace-king hand that he slowplayed versus Weing He, where he was holding top two pair and He shoved with top pair and zero equity in the hand.

The 16 remaining players are all guaranteed ₱156,000, and they will fight tomorrow for the big prize of ₱4,174,500, along with the National's trophy for the champion.

Day 3 Seat Draw Assignments

SeatTable 1CountryChip CountBig Blinds
1Ting Shum KwokHong Kong255,0005
2Hogyun KangSouth Korea1,425,00029
3Linh TranVietnam4,350,00087
4Thijs HilbertsNetherlands620,00012
5Yang LiChina365,0007
6Arravind UdayakumarSingapore410,0008
7Benigno Jr LedinaPhilippines2,570,00051
8Empty   
9Jason Kyle MagbanuaPhilippines805,00016
     
SeatTable 2CountryChip CountBig Blinds
1Eran ShahamIsrael2,295,00046
2William KangUnited Kingdom895,00018
3Tetsuro TomitaJapan805,00016
4Si Yang PhuaIndonesia490,00010
5Kok Wei SimMalaysia320,0006
6Tae Hoon HanNew Zealand890,00018
7Lee Wang YongSouth Korea2,000,00040
8Jiang YongboChina1,530,00031
9Empty   

The remaining payouts for the players are as follows:

PlacePrize (PHP)Prize (USD)
1₱ 4,174,500$81,805
2₱ 2,586,500$50,686
3₱ 1,602,000$31,393
4₱ 1,213,500$23,780
5₱ 825,000$16,167
6₱ 631,000$12,365
7₱ 524,500$10,278
8₱ 437,500$8,573
9₱ 370,766$7,266
10₱ 310,500$6,085
11-12₱ 253,000$4,958
13-15₱ 204,000$3,998
16₱ 156,000$3,057

Day 3 will start at 2:00 p.m. local time on Wednesday 31 July, while this will not be the only covered event for tomorrow, as the ₱500,000 APPT Super High Roller starts at 15:00. Stay tuned to PokerNews for all the action as it unfolds, during the final day of the National, and the beginning of the Super High Roller.

Tags: Alex LeeBenigno Jr LedinaChristophe DevauxEran ShahamGyeong Byeong LeeLinh TranSoo Jo Kim