Hey, poker playas!
We are now on the last day of the first major poker tour in Manila.
Yeah, it was a great ride but then sometimes it has to end. But there are still quite a few events for today.
Player of the Series
APT PHILIPPINES 2022
Player of the series
Mike Takayama
Metro Team Pro
1 title
8 ITM
Metro Team pro, Mike Takayama, is crowned APT player of the series.
Although it was a neck and neck battle until the last few days. in the end, Mike Takayama last few events performances sealed the title.
Vamerdino Magsakaya was the APT Vietnam player of the series but was not as active in this series.
Mike was not actually gunning for the title until going into midweek when he was able to gain considerable ground. After that, he set his sight on the player of the series and started gunning for it. And what Mike Takayama wants, Mike Takayama gets.
Renniel Galvez took in the second spot as he was not active in some of the other events in the APT while Niroshan was a last-minute game clincher.
Niroshan scored huge points on the Monster Stack and jump right in the Highroller event.
He has accumulated good points due to finishing 3rd in the main but his sudden win on the monster stack gave him the encouragement to just gun for it.
Event 21 – Single day High Roller result – Result
Champion – Niroshan Loganathan – PHP 651,800
2nd place – Shun Poker – PHP 279,400
The last event of the tour started slowly as most players preferred to come in late when the blinds are much deeper.
The event started with only 3 players but had a late surge in entries during the break.
Jumping to a total of 12 entries that included Mike Takayama and Edgar Asehan.
Chris “the bigtime” Mateo was also in the high roller event but went before the break and was trying to duke it out.
Niroshan Loganathan fresh from his win on the monster stack also jumped in at the last minute, hoping to seal a player of the series trophy.
it was 2 tables after the break and slowly the game progressed.
Vemrdino Magsakay and Niroshan Loganathan were dominating the game as they were chip leaders when it became one table. both players have the same fundamentals as they play online as well and understood the odds. Raising on the right position and the right ranges, it was them that had the stack when it hit the break
After the break, We saw Vamerdino chips go down and a player was able to take a good amount of his stack. Vamerdino was not able to take revenge and gain his stack as both Niroshan and Shun poker was the one who was able to get it from the player that took the stack of Vamerdino.
Vamerdino tried to make a comeback and had a chance to double up when he shoved his hand and there were only 3 players left.
Shun poker was the big blind and called with 7 5 offsuit which was against Vamerdino 10 5 suited diamond. Vamerdino was almost going to double up until 7 came out of the river halting Vamerdino run thus making him the bubble.
It was now a heads up. Although both players ran deep in the main and had both had a trophy under their belt. Niroshan was still the odds on favorite.
This is due that Shun poker having to keep creating content while his crew was on standby and he had to divide his time making content and speaking to the camera. a very crucial mistake.
Although Shun Poker was able to take a huge chunk of Niroshan chips in a preflop all-in situation. Niroshan had Aj while Shun poker had pocket 8. the flop was in favor of Niroshan but 8 came out on the turn. Shun is now ahead in chips.
But Niroshan was able to grind his way back. It was clear that Nirsohan had the experience advantage against Shun poker.
The final hand also proved this, the last hand was a board of board 5♦ 9♦ 8♦ 9♠ K♣, Loganathan had made action and induce Shun poker to call.
Shunpoker called each bet and when the river came out King and Niroshan went all in. When Shun poker called,
Niroshan jumped in excitement as he called out that Shun poker had a king and revealed his hand to be 3♦ 7♦ that made a flush on the flop.
He jumped in joy excitedly and ran a few feet away from the table and did not even wait for Shun poker to reveal his hand as he was confident about his read.
Shunpoker revealed he had K♦ 6♣, thus ending the game.
Jose Cheung was the first person to take 2 trophies on a single tour. but Niroshan up the ante by taking 2 trophies in a single day.
Event 19 – Deep Stack Turbo – Result
Buy in: Php 5,500 (~US$ 105)
Entries: 86
Prize pool: Php 417,100 (~US$ 7,960)
ITM: 15 places
Champion – Ramdrick Aznar – PHP 111,400
2nd place – Lam Cheuk Nam Jai – PHP 74,300
3rd place – Mamerto Reyes – PHP 74,300
4th place – Eric Boras – PHP 37,300
5th place – Warren Tolentino – PHP 37,300
6th place – Jay Doria – PHP 21,500
7th place – Deguit Ethelbert – PHP 17,100
8th place – Carlos Monton – PHP 17,100
Event 20 – Deep Stack Turbo – Result
Buy in: Php 5,500 (~US$ 105)
Entries: 86
Prize pool: Php 417,100 (~US$ 7,960)
ITM: 15 places
Champion
Jose Cheung
PHP 111,400
Jose Cheung had a good run during the series, He already had a title on another DST and cashed in on the championship ending in 10th place.
However, that was not enough for Jose Cheung, he wanted more and he did.
Jumping on the second to the last event. Jose Cheung took down SIde event 20
2nd place – Renniel Galvez – PHP 59,500
3rd place – Hideki Azuma – PHP 41,500
4th place – Yoshiro Noguchi – PHP 30,000
5th place – Carter Yap – PHP 22,400
6th place – Ng Shu Yih – PHP 19,300
7th place – Ramdrick Aznar – PHP 13,700
8th place – Kong Khai Kent – PHP 11,200
9th place – Steven Ho – PHP 9,300
10th place – Yuta Murakami – PHP 7,800
11th place – Angelo Meija– PHP 7,800
Event 18 – Monster Stack – Final Result
Buy in: Php 27,500 (~US$ 525)
Entries: 120
Prize pool: Php 2,910,000 (~US$ 55,540)
ITM: 20 places
Champion
Niroshan Loganathan
A Candian mortal engine
PHP 655,700
Niroshan Loganathan is a Canadian online poker player and there are not many records of his live event achievements. Although some sources say this is his first live trophy. We highly doubt it.
However, we do not believe so and there is definitely more to this man than he let on.
One thing is for certain, he is a good player. The fact he ended up in the final table of the main event and won this event really does prove he is good.
AS for his wins online. there might be a hint to this when we saw him play.
When you play online, the biggest absence is you can not read your opponent’s tell. hence, the biggest asset of any online player is the player’s hand percentage guide on what to play in certain situations.
For example, if a game is short-handed and your hand is x and in x position. The guide tells you whether to raise, call or fold. There was an inkling he was using this method as a guide.
However, there were certain situations where he was trying to get a read on his opponent. He tried to ask questions to get his opponent to answer which does mark he knows this and only with experienced can you try to read it.
Coming here because some of his friends invited him but flying out soon to attend his best friend’s wedding. We do know he is a future poker superstar in the making. We hope he visit us again int he future.
2nd place – John Paul Flores
PHP 550,000
3rd place – John Carlo Sayo
PHP 325,000
Entering final 3, a deal was actually proposed, Niroshan had the chip advantage and offered both JC and John Flores a deal where he does not mind losing out a bit of the ICM chop as long as being the chip leader he keeps the trophy.
At this point, although Niroshan covers both of them. JC Sayo was closer to the Niroshan chip.
The lead was more or less if we use Flores chip as a guide, JC had 2 times the chip of Flores, and Niroshan had 3 times more.
Both 3 wanted the trophy so no deal was made.
However, there was an action pot that changed all that, Nirsoshan made a raise which was met by a reraise by Sayo.
Nirosohan called and the board ran 10 high. We miss the action whether it became a check-raise by Sayo or it was a raise by Sayo on the flop. However, Sayo was all-in on the flop.
Nirosohan stood up, you could see he was thinking about the probabilities that Sayo might have an overpair. He knew the possibilities. He tried to get Sayo to speak asking all sorts of questions. But in the end, he just could not fold his hand.
Finally, he called.
Sayo had pocket Kings while Niroshan had Ace-10. But the turn came out an Ace which put Niroshan ahead now with 2 pairs. the king came out brick which ends JC Sayo’s run and finished third place.
Understand his disadvantageous situation with Niroshan now having a huge lead. Flores took the safer route and ask for an ICM chop and requested additional money and Niroshan agreed as long as he get to keep the trophy.
after this Niroshan jumped in on the Highroller event which was still opened.
4th place – Thomas Lee – PHP 242,000
5th place – Ryoko Hayani – PHP 181,100
6th place – Joshua Chargualaf – Php 139,700
7th place – Junya Kubo – Php 111,000
8th place – Junya Kubo – Php 90,400
9th place – Sasaki Seiji – PHP 75,300
Championship – Final 8
Champion
Moe “Jiggy” Saquing
PHP 3,008,400
Championship – Final 8
2nd place
Czar Ian Marcos
PHP 2,065,600
19:00 – Championship – Final 8
3rd place
David Erquiaga “Dave Spade”
ActionPH
PHP 1,435,900
Dave Spade’s exit from the Championship event was quite a brutal one.
Moe was able to maintain the chip lead during the final 8. while slowly Dave Spade’s stock went down.
More had more than half of the chips in play while the other half was split Between Dave and Ian.
Due to the lead, an ICM chop was almost impossible. Hence the game pushed on.
David Erquiaga and Czar Ian Marcos clashed preflop and the Result was bad for Dave.
Dave Erquiaga had A♠ 9♣, while Marcos A♦ 9♥.
the board ran 2♥ 4♣ A♥ 8♥ K♥ giving Marcos a flush to Marcos.
After a chip count was done. Marcos was ahead by 10k in chips thus the founder of ActionPH had to settle for third place.
15:45 – Championship – Final 8
4th place
Thomas Ward
PHP 1,037,200
5th place
Ahmed Ibrahimi
PHP 775,600
15:45 HRS – Event 20 – Deep Stack Turbo – Level 8 – 1,000/1,500/1,500 – 26/64 players
Registration is now close for the deep stack turbo but it still attracted quite a good number.
there are a lot of good players on the field hoping to win the event.
too bad this is the last day. the lovely Fritz will certainly be missed.
15:45 – Championship – Final 8
7th place
Lam Cheuk “Nam Jai”
PHP 475,400
Nam Jai came in with the shortest stack but tried to fight as bravely as he could.
Sadly he lost the fight but still end up with a good score for the championship
Congratulations
15:30 – Event 18 – Monster Stack – Level 22 – blinds 6,000/12,000/12,000 – 12/120
Tsekwa is still in the monster stack. A monster among monsters. He was not as active on this tour as before.
But can he bad the monster?
13:30 – Championship – Final 8
Moe is maintaining his chip lead, Dave Spade is slowly getting more chips.
The battle of champions continues in the championship event and not one is willing to give up because everyone wants to become the champion.
15:00 HRS – Event 19 – Deep Stack Turbo – Level 5 – 300/600 – 45/50 players
There are only 2 events you can join today but 4 events are running.
Championship – Final 8
Event 18 – Monster stack – Day 2
Event 20 – Deep stack Turbo – ongoing
Event 21 – High Roller – will start soon
13:30 – Championship – Final 8
8th place
Thijs Hilberts
PHP 387,300
Hilberts was the first player to go out when his pocket jack met against Ibrahimi AK in an all-in preflop shove.
The flop was in favor of Ibrahimi and even gave Ibrahimi a full house.
Still, it was a great fight.
Must read
For more info on the Final 8
13:00 – Event 18 – Monster Stack – Level 18 – blinds 2,500/5,000/5,000 – 20/120
Monsters in the monster stack
Players of the monster stack return today to battle for the title. 20 players came back and slowly the numbers are going down.
Now down to 20 players. the back to back champion of the Okada Manila Million is still in.
