APPT Manila Championship: Mike Takayama, Rene Mar David, Fujita Haruma Among Winners

• Date: October 26, 2024
• Buy in: PHP 70,000 (~US$ 1,200)
• Entries: 165
• Prize Pool: PHP 3,601,125 (~US$61,500)
• ITM: 23 players

Final Table Payouts

1st Rene Mar David – PHP 988,000 (~US$ 16,800)
2nd Vincent Chauve – PHP665,000 (~US$ 11,300)
3rd Itsuki Chiba – PHP 300,000 (~US$ 5,100)
4th Hirohito Owaki – PHP 266,000 (~US$ 4,500)
5th Matzusaki Hiroyuki – PHP 160,000 (~US$ 2,700)
6th Michael Calunsod – PHP 150,000 (~US$ 2,500)
7th Rishi Marpuri – PHP 100,000 (~US$ 1,700)
8th Yusuke Takagi – PHP 98,000 (~US$ 1,600)
9th Peter John Steiner -PHP 70,125 (~US$ 1,200)

PokerStars Red Dragon – Day 1B

Day 1B of the PokerStars Red Dragon (PHP 25M GTD) also kicked off today.  A total of 260 international entries put in the PHP 70,000 (~US$ 1,200) buy-in to compete for the PHP 25,000,000 (~US$ 428,300) guaranteed prize pool. 

The top 39 survivors of the 260 entries bagged their chips to compete again tomorrow for the Day 2 Final along with the 22 other survivors of yesterday’s Flight A.

The top chip leader of Flight B is Chan Truong of Vietnam who bagged 429,000 chips. Malaysian poker pro Joshua Tjan is shoulder to shoulder with 426,000 chips while American Joey Weissman is just a whisper away with 413,000 to round up the top three.

PokerStars Red Dragon

• Date(s): Oct 25 to 27, 2024
• Buy in: PHP 70,000 (~US$ 1,200)
• Entries: 260
• Guarantee: PHP 25,000,000 (~US$ 428,300)
• ITM: 39

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Day 9 Winners

The highly anticipated APPT ONE Million Challenge played its Day 2 today with 14 millionaire entries building a prize pool of PHP 13,172,600 (~US$ 225,000). Only the top three players found their way to the payout circle with the Philippines’ very own Mike Takayama coming out as the champion. Takayama added another PokerStars spade trophy to his collection and took in an additional PHP 6,587,600 (~US$ 112,000) for his coffers.

APPT One Million Challenge

Payouts

1st Mike Takayama – PHP 6,587,600 (~US$ 112,000)
2nd Stevan Chew – PHP 3,950,000 (~US$ 67,000)
3rd Michael Soyza – PHP 2,635,000 (~US$ 45,000)

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Fujita Haruma of Japan was crowned the champion of The Ladies Event (Event #50). 41 entries chipped in the friendly fee of PHP 15,000 (US$ 260) to create a prize pool of PHP 524,964 (~US$ 9,000).  Fujita Haruma took the champion’s share from that prize pool worth PHP 181,964 (~US$ 3,100) to go along with a PokerStars spadie.

Weixuan Wang of China raised the PokerStars spadie as the champion of the 6+ Holdem (Event #51). Wang outlasted a field of 17 entries and also took home a first place payout of PHP 192,230 (~US$ 3,300) from the PHP 445,230 (~US$ 7,600) prize pool. 

Naohiro Matsuda of Japan bested a field of 84 entries to become the champion of the Flipout (1 in 7) ITM – Hyper and took home PHP 196,000 (~US$ 3,300) from the PHP 733,320 (~US$ 12,500) prize pool and a PokerStars spade trophy.

Troy McLean of Australia came out on top of 46 entries to win the Showtime Hold’Em Turbo (Event #55)  and earned a PokerStars trophy champion’s prize of PHP 202,984 (~US$ 3,400) from the PHP 588,984 (~US$ 10,000) total prize pool. This was Troy’s fourth cash in this series, three were final table berths. 

Tomorrow will be the closing day of the series with much more in store. Certainly, there won’t just be a bang, there will be fireworks!

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