Welcome to Day 2 of the Pokerstars.net 2015 APPT9 Manila
After two starting days of nine levels each, the impressive field of 585 entries in the PHP 50,000 PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour Manila stop in Season 9 has been whittled down to only 175 survivors. The top 72 spots will get paid and the money will be definitely reached today when 10 one-hour levels are expected to be played. Whether the final table for tomorrow will already be reached is another story though.
The action restarts in half an hour from now at 14:00 local time with level 10 and blinds at 700-1,400 and a running ante of 200. Leading the field is Day 1b top dog Dong Il Kim with 242,700 followed by Douglas Olsson (207,500) and Rolf Galasen (203,800), who were in charge of Day 1a. Australia's Aaron Lim (201,800) and PokerStars Team Pro Bryan Huang (172,900) are in the overall top 10 as well with Huang's team mates Vivian Im (132,900) and Celina Lin (74,900) also made it through.
Other notables include defending APPT Manila champion Thanh Ha Duong (99,500), Manuel Blaschke (90,500), APPT8 Seoul winner Chane Kampanatsanyakorn (83,200), Lester Edoc (81,000), KC Wong (59,300) and UK's Sam Razavi (50,500). Yaxi Zhu (36,100), Thomas Ward (20,600) and Winfred Yu (19,800) are among the short stacks.
Follow along with the PokerNews live reporting team to see who makes the money and comes one step closer to the first-place payout of PHP 6,016,250.