Who Will Be Crowned Inaugural APPT Manila Super High Roller Champion?
Just 20 players remain in the ?500,000 APPT Manila Super High Roller as we crown a winner later today in the biggest buy-in event of the festival.
Leading the remaining field is Singapore's Graeme Siow, one of two players with a seven-figure stack when play resumes at 1 p.m. local time.
Siow has over $100,000 in lifetime earnings, with his biggest cash coming back in April 2017 when he finished 27th in the PokerStars Championship Macau Main Event for HK$130,500 ($16,791).
Close behind Siow is Xiaqing Ji who took down a short deck side event at the APPT stop in Incheon back in April.
Big stacks following closely behind Siow and Ji are Malaysia's Lee Wai Kiat (910,000), Wayne Heung (897,000) and Lester Edoc (888,000).
Plenty of big names are left in contention, including Junichi Nakanowatari (728,000), WSOP bracelet winners Mike Takayama (604,000) and Abhinav Iyer (551,000), APPT Jeju Main Event champion Huidong Gu (539,000), Xixiang Luo (299,000) and Raymond Wu (249,000).
The top seven places will be paid, and here are the payouts for the Super High Roller:
| Place | Payout (PHP) | Payout (USD) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ?7,558,000 | $148,738 |
| 2 | ?5,458,000 | $107,411 |
| 3 | ?3,479,000 | $68,465 |
| 4 | ?2,639,000 | $51,934 |
| 5 | ?2,039,000 | $40,127 |
| 6 | ?1,560,000 | $30,700 |
| 7 | ?1,259,950 | $24,795 |
PokerNews will be bringing you all the action not only from the Super High Roller, but also from Day 1a of the Main Event, which also gets underway today.