Kick-off

After an eventful day we have our final 13 players of Flight A with Jess Dalipe coming out on top, bagging 379,000 after chipping up early and a pivotal hand at level 9, holding A♣ A♠ against Chogo Kento's A♥ K♥ for all the chips to go in pre, ending with a crucial double up.

Rounding out the top 3 are Moon Kyung Ho with 334,000 and Eric Ceret bagging 331,000.

One of the most active players of the day was Darren Moves with 232,000 to his name and bringing the day to an end by busting Shirai Hiroto in the bubble with Ace-Queen versus Ace-Six.

The full leaderboard looks like this :

Darren Moves wakes up with A♠ Q♦ the next hand to open for 10,000. Button Shirai Hiroto looks at A♥ 6♦ and tries to take it down with a 75,000 all-in. Easy call for Darren Moves, the dealer can't find a six on the board T♥ 3♠ J♦ A♦ 4♣ and Shirai Hiroto exits in the bubble.

UTG, CO and BB all paying the minimum, we see the flop 7♥ T♦ A♣ . Checked to CO Darren Moves, he leads 7,000 with Jimin Lim and Shirai Hiroto both wanting to see the turn 5♠ . Darren Moves slides out another 25,000 and bags the pot.

With A♣ 9♠ and five BB left, UTG Kiril Gelev jams and gets a call from button Christian Bulpett with A♠ T♦ . The dealer has no surprises in store for us, tabling 3♦ 4♦ 7♣ A♥ T♣ and we are down to the bubble for today.

With Darren Moves risking his last 38,000 from CO with A♠ J♦ and BB Shirai Hiroto defending with J♠ 9♥ the dealer delivers all blanks 3♥ 8♦ 6♦ 4♣ 8♣ for Darren Moves to double.

UTG Kiril Gelev makes it 10,000, called by HJ and a jam for 60,000 from CO Shirai Hiroto. Gelev calls for a showdown.

Shirai Hiroto jams a tiny stack from the button with Chogo Kento and Jimin Lim defending their blinds. Checked to the river Q♦ T♣ 5♦ K♦ 3♥ Shirai Hiroto flips over K♥ 6♥ for top pair and a triple up against Kento's Q♥ 2♥ and a muck.

Tetsura Ogura looks at 9♠ 9♣ in the CO and announces all-in for 59,000. Easy call for BB Xia Qi with K♦ K♥ and the dealer tables 2♣ Q♣ 6♣ K♣ Q♥ with Tetsura Ogura improving to a flush, but Xia Qi still takes it down with kings full.

Button Christian Bulpett starts us off with a raise to 8,000 and SB Manalo Nichols defending to see the flop Q♣ J♦ 6♦ . Christian Bulpett fires three streets for 8,000, 11,500 and 18,000 and check-called all the way by Manalo Nichols for the board to complete with Q♠ 6♠ . Bulpett shows T♥ 9♠ for ten high and Nichols starts scooping the pot with Q♦ 9♦ .

Three limps from UTG, BU and SB has BB Miyamoto Masakazu wave his option to see the flop 9♠ J♠ A♦ . Dalipe Jess leads 8,000 from UTG, gets called by Miyamoto Masakazu and we check to the river T♣ 9♥ for Miyamoto Masakazu to table A♣ 3♥ and Dalipe Jess mucking.

Button Tetsura Ogura opens 6,000 to attack the blinds and finds a caller in Christan Bulpett defending his BB to see the flop 5♥ K♥ 5♣ . A 5,000 c-bet and a call reveals the turn 8♠ which gets checked around to the river Q♦ . Christan Bulpett puts out a small lead of 7,000, gets called and flips over K♠ 9♠ . Enough to make Tetsura Ogura throw it in the muck.

Patrick Wahlquist is all-in for 31,000 from +1, with HJ and BU calling. The flop 3♠ 4♥ 2♥ has button Johnson Tan slide out 40,000, enough to isolate and we have another player at risk.

UTG Kiril Gelev wants to be in the drivers seat, decides to jam for 51,000 with A♠ K♣ and BB Inada Honoka forks over the last 22,500 for a call and the dealer gets ready. The board K♦ 8♣ T♥ Q♣ K♥ has Inada Honoka improve to a full house and double.

With Sham Wing Sheuk jamming A♥ 7♥ from +1 for 33,500 and BB Arima Shinnosuke defending with K♠ Q♠ the dealer tables 4♠ J♣ K♣ A♦ 6♠ and lets Sham Wing Sheuk stay in the tournament.

Darren Moves starts the action from CO with a 6,500 open, answered by a 48,000 jam from BB Murakami Junichi and a call. All eyes to the dealer flipping cards.

HJ Oyama Ricky shoves his micro stack with Q♠ J♠ and BB Moon Kyung Ho has an easy call with A♣ J♣ for the dealer to flip over 5♠ 5♣ A♠ 5♥ 3♥ , thereby eliminating Oyama Ricky.

Miyamoto Masakazu opens 4,500 from CO, BB Liu Li Ming defends to see 7♦ 6♦ 4♥ with Liu Li Ming electing to donk-bet 5,000 and a call for the turn 7♥ . Another 8,000 lead is answered with a 25,500 raise by Miyamoto Masakazu, who incorporates the pot into his stack.

With HJ Kim Jongsu raise-calling all-in after BB Tan Johnsons put 60,500 in the middle, the dealer goes to work.

With HJ, SB and BB all jamming their last chips we see the dealer arrange the cards and deal.

With the action folded to SB Yokoo Kazuyoshi the last 11,000 go in the middle with 9♠ J♦ and quickly gets called by Patrick Wahlquist with A♠ 6♣ . The dealer tables K♣ A♥ 2♥ 6♠ K♥ and Yokoo Kazuyoshi is out.

With HJ Leo Santos open-jaming 14,500 and button Manalo Nichols trying to isolate with a jam of his own for 37,000, BB Looi Tek Wye Jonathan sticks around to have the dealer pick the winner three-way.

CO Michael Bueza opens 3,000 with Darren Moves defending his big blind to see the flop T♦ 6♣ 8♠ . After a 5,000 c-bet and a call, Darren Moves decides to lead for 10,000 on the 8♣ turn and Michael Bueza flicks his cards in the dealer's direction.

With the board showing T♣ 9♣ 2♥ J♠ and 24,000 in the pot, CO Hatsushiba Ryu check-calls his last chips with 9♠ 8♠ after button Quijano Anacleto over-bet 50,000 with A♣ J♥ . The dealer has no help in store for the underdog and sends Hatsushiba Ryu packing with the river T♠ .

The same protagonists from the previous hand are at it again with HJ Darren Moves limp-calling CO Huang Yen Chih's 5,000 raise. Checked to the river 2♥ T♥ Q♦ K♣ 5♥ Huang Yen Chih forks over his last 1,000 chip and shows K♦ J♥ which sends him packing against Darren Moves' Q♣ Q♠ .

Picking up the action on 8♣ T♥ K♦ with 19,000 in the middle, SB Darren Moves goes all-in with A♣ A♠ for 6,600 and button Huang Yen Chih calls with Q♣ 9♣ . The board completes A♦ 5♠ and Darren Moves doubles up.

A 2,500 open from HJ and three callers move us to the flop 4♥ J♠ 3♦ with BB Sia Joseph sliding his last 11,400 in the middle holding T♠ 3♥ and button Jimin Lim the only one calling with top pair K♣ J♦ the dealer thins the field further by flipping over K♠ 5♠ to eliminate Sia Joseph.

Xia Qi starts the action with a 2,700 raise UTG and finds two costumers in the button and BB for a flop K♦ J♥ 7♥ . Not slowing down, Xia Qi c-bets for 3,000 and BB Nakabo Hirotoshi is the only one to stay around for the turn 3♥ . Another 5,000 and a call give us the river 9♣ and we check to show down.

After a 15,000 open from UTG Chogo Kento and a 76,900 jam from Dalipe Jess we have the eyes on the dealers hands once more.

When faced with a +1 2,500 open and a call, CO George Salud looks down at 7♥ 7♠ and says all-in for 10,000. Only initial raiser Alexis Lim elects to call with A♠ Q♦ and the dealer tables A♦ 3♣ 5♥ 6♠ 8♦ to deliver another blow for a pair in a flip.

Another preflop shove and a call with Masakazu Miyamoto dominating.

No other way than the chips flying in the middle for Michael Bueza with A♦ K♦ and Darren Moves with Q♥ Q♦ who is at risk. The dealer seals it for Michael Bueza with A♣ 2♥ 4♣ 9♣ J♠ to eliminate Darren Moves.

With a 28,000 pot and the board showing 6♣ 9♦ T♣ 8♥ T♠ we see Bryan Roseman check-call Alexis Lim's 13,800 jam who flips over 9♥ T♥ which is enough against Bryan Roseman's 8♣ 2♠ .

With two limps in front, the SB makes it 2,500, followed by a 7,400 jam from Kiril Gelev in the BB and only Johnson Tan calls from +1.

UTG Nachor Vivencio starts us off with a 2,500 open, countered by a 6,500 three-bet from HJ Looi Tek Wye Jonathan and we see the flop K♦ K♥ 8♠ . Looi Tek Wye Jonathan continues for a small 2,500 which is enough to take it down.

UTG Komaki Minami opens 2,000 and button Junita Ishikawa makes it 6,000 with the CO calling twice in the middle we see the flop 9♠ 5♠ 3♠ three-way. Junita Ishikawa c-bets 5,000, with only Komaki Minami continuing, who decides to let it go when facing another 7,000 bet on the turn 4♠ .

Picking up the action on 2♦ J♥ 7♠ with 25,000 in the pot we see BB Sham Wing Sheuk shoving K♣ K♥ for 17,900 and Kiril Gelev calling with J♠ 2♠ . Sham Wing Sheuk sees the good news when the dealer tables 7♦ 8♦ to outdraw Kiril Gelev.

We see another preflop all-in from Shah Chirag for 12,000 and a call from George Salud for the dealer to start flipping cards.

A 1,600 open from Alexis Lim in UTG, three-bet 3,500 from CO and four-bet shove 15,000 from SB Bryan Roseman has Alexis Lim slide in his remaining chips to call.

With Inada Honoka making it 2,000 from UTG with K♠ K♥ and button Manalo Nichols jaming 5,800 with Q♠ Q♥ the dealer tables 6♠ K♣ T♠ A♣ 3♥ and Manalo Nichols is out.

Tetsura Ogura opens 1,800 from +1 with SB Nachor Vivencio defending. The flop 9♠ 8♠ Q♠ has Tetsura Ogura continue for 1,100 that gets called for a check around turn T♠ to see the river 4♠ . Nachor Vivencio leads 3,000 and has to let it go when faced with an 8,000 raise from Tetsura Ogura.

Facing a 1,500 UTG open and two callers, BB Reynaldo Ong puts his last 16,000 in the middle and we are heads-up for a show down.

The action starts with +1 making it 1,200 with the blinds defending to see the flop K♠ T♥ 2♣ that gets checked around to the turn J♠ . BB Kiril Gelev leads 2,500 and 4,500 on the river 5♦ with SB Jimin Lim calling both times to throw his cards in the muck when looking at Gelev's T♠ T♦ .

Button Patrick Wahlquist three bets 4,000 with initial raiser Jeffrey Ballester in HJ and CO Jongsu Kim calling for a 5♥ A♣ T♣ flop. A 5,500 c-bet is enough for Patrick Wahlquist to pick up the chips.

UTG Inada Honoka makes it 1,000 and calls the raise to 3,500 from Cuevillas Kiko to his left to see Q♠ 2♠ 9♠ . A 2,000 donk-bet and a 6,500 raise from Cuevillas Kiko has the dealer flip over 7♠ and Inada Honoka lead for 5,000. Kiko calls, to see the 6♠ all spade board and puts 15,000 in the middle with Q♠ Q♦ to get called by Honoka, who takes it down with K♠ T♣

HJ Komaki Minami opens 1,200 with SB Junita Ishikawa calling to see the flop 5♣ 9♣ 5♥ . Leading 1,500, 2,500 and 5,000 to complete the board 2♥ T♦ , Junita Ishikawa doesn't want to pay again.

Picking up the action on 7♣ J♠ 8♠ with 11,000 in the pot, CO Brian Nielsen three-bet shoves 7♠ 9♠ for 18,600 with BB Looi Tek Wye Jonathan calling J♥ J♦ and staying on top after the dealer flips over 4♣ 3♦ to eliminate Brian Nielsen.

Manalo Nichols starts us off with 1,000 from +1 and finds three customers to see 4♥ 6♥ J♦ . A 2,000 c-bet eliminates the big blind and we see the 3♣ . Checked to him, button Cuevillas Kiko slides 7,900 in the middle and only Nichols calls for the A♠ that has both players check with Cuevillas Kiko's 7♥ 6♠ coming out on top against Manalo Nichols' 8♥ 9♥ missed draws.

With an open to 1,100 from UTG, Kiril Gelev takes two players to the flop 9♥ 8♥ T♣ and continues for 1,600. Only CO Rebadulla Edmon elects to see the turn 8♠ and raises to 5,000 when faced with another 1,600 lead. After calling and seeing the A♦ river, Kiril Gelev makes it 1,600 again, gets called, tables 9♠ 9♣ and gobbles up some more chips to aid his future adventures.

Komaki Minami is first to act and gives us an 800 open with the blinds defending again to see the flop 7♥ 9♥ 7♣ . Keeping his foot on the gas, Komaki Minami leads 2,000 and after two calls we see the turn K♣ . When faced with another 3,000 lead, Jeffrey Ballester raises to 8,000 and bags the pot.

CO starts with a raise to 700 and both blinds defend for a check around to the river A♠ J♣ J♦ A♣ K♠ which has SB Nachor Vivencio lead for 1,500 and BB Christian Bulpett calls to table K♥ 9♠ for the win.

With Kiril Gelev making it 800 from the button and two limp-calls the dealer reveals the flop 9♦ Q♣ J♣ and Kiril Gelev continues for 2,500. Only Manalo Nichols hangs around for the turn Q♥ and a check around for the river K♠ . Leading 5,000, Nichols ends up calling Gelev's 13,500 all-in who shows J♦ Q♠ to secure a double up.

Komaki Minami starts the action with 800 from UTG, Mike Blomvan makes it 2,300 from the SB and Junita Ishikawa calls twice from the button and we see the flop 4♠ K♥ Q♦ three-way. Checked around to the 4♠ , Mike Blomvan leads 1,500 and Komaki Minami makes it 5,000 to end the hand right there.

Arima Shinnosuke starts the action with 500 from UTG, button Cuevillas Kiko makes it 1,500 and Kiril Gelev calls from the BB for another three-way to the flop 5♥ J♥ A♦ that gets checked around to the turn 7♥ . Checked to him, Cuevillas Kiko slides 3,000 in the middle and after two calls we see the river 3♣ . Slow playing with no action behind has Arima bag the chips with 6♥ 8♥ flush.

UTG Tan Xiaohui starts us off with 500 and finds opposition in Arima Shinnosuke for 2,000 to see the flop 2♠ 3♥ K♠ . A lead of 1,700 and a call shows the T♥ and Arima Shinnosuke forks out another 4,000 to take the pot.

Arima Shinnosuke opens 500 from the button, followed by a three-bet to 1,500 from Jegal Gun to his left. The flop 8♦ 3♠ 7♥ has Gun lead 500 and we see the turn Q♠ . Gun's 3,800 is enough to bag the pot.

Tan Xiaohui opens 500 from CO and finds two callers in BU Leo Santos and BB Arima Shinnosuke for a flop 9♠ Q♣ 8♣ which is checked to the turn A♥ . A delayed c-bet from Tan and two calls we see the river 2♣ and all players wanna show down. A♦ K♠ for Santos is enough to take it down.

Welcome to the live updates for the Kick-Off Flight A. With the sun setting outside, the cards go flying inside!

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Starting stack: 30,000

Prizepool: Php 3,000,000 (~US$ 51,190)

Level increases: 25 minutes

End of Registration: start of Level 10 / 9:30pm

Buy in: PHP 12,000 (~US$ 205)

Guarantee: PHP 1,000,000 (~US$ 17,000)

Entries: 119

Prize pool: PHP 1,218,941 (~US$ 20,800)

Starting stack: 40,000

Average stack: 67,042

Level 10: 600 -1,200 ante 1,200

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