Asia Poker Championship – August 2022 – Day 3
Publish date: August 11, 2022

Hey, Poker Players!

Today is day 3 of the Asia Poker Championship or APC that is being held at the Metro Card Club Ortigas.

On the schedule today is

1 PM – Main event Day1C

7 PM – power button – buy-in PHP 11,000

The Main event is a 20 Million PHP Guarantee with the buy-in of only PHP 44,000 (40,000 + 4,000)

Day1A – 10/48 players
Day1B – 23/82 players

Here we go.

Side event – Power button – Final Table

Buddy Boy Blue

Champion
PHP 250,000

Bae Won Chul
Second place
PHP 168,000

Side event – Power button – Final Table

3rd place – Edzel Villarer – PHP 115,000

4th place – Duy Ho – PHP 80,000

5th place – Hwang Seong Il – PHP 60,000

6th place – John Mark Tan – PHP 50,000

7th place – Lester Edoc – PHP 40,000

8th place – Jun Woo Kim – PHP 35,000

9th place – Kim Ehyun – PHP 30,000

10th place – Vamerdino Magsakay – PHP 25,000

11th place – Christopher Mateo – PHP 20,000

Side event – Power button – Final Table

00:00 HRS – Side event – Power button – 18/90

Anton Diva

Ako Naman!

Last night’s final table guest host is today’s poker player!

This time she wants to prove she has the skills!

Can she make it?

22:30 HRS – Side event – Power button – 36/90

Power button

Ongoing side event

The power button is a very fun side event. Most poker players knows the power of the button. This time everytime you win you get to be the button again. 

With 90 players joining, it will be a good pot.

22:00 HRS – Main event Day1C Ends – 43/112

Lee Seok Young

Day1C chip leader
349,000

Lee Seok young is today chip leader, 43 players survived.

List to follow.

22:00 HRS – Level 11 – Blinds 800/1,600/1,600 ante – Last Level

Last Level

Marco Almerez

Bimby 

Renato Villanueva

Ricardo Singapan

Will they Survived

22:00 HRS – Level 10 – Blinds 800/1,600/1,600 ante – 50/112 players

One More level

More than 50 players still in

As the clock winds down. there are still 50 players still in play. How many will survived today

Stay tuned!

21:30 HRS – Level 9 – Blinds 600/1,200/1,200 ante – 57/112 players

Othere players in the Main Event

Darren Yu

Christopher “Serious time” Mateo

Alexis “Shoti” Lim

Renniel Galvez

 

Here are the other Metro players who are playing Day1C

20:00 HRS – Level 8 – Blinds 500/1,000/1,000 ante – 68/109 players

Dinner break 

30 minutes

Saan ka pa Kaibigan?
kung saan masarap ang Vigan
kung Ikaw ay talo
Idaan mo sa tocino
Natalo pocket queen?
Mayron nakahandang Kilawin
nariver ka na naman?
iorder ang dinakdakan!
Papachups!

20:00 HRS – Level 8 – Blinds 500/1,000/1,000 ante – 68/109 players

Dinner break after this level

30 minutes

Currently, the side event gets more attention than the main. Side event is ongoing and it is looking very healthy

17:30 HRS – Level 7 – Blinds 400/800/800 ante – 72/107 players

Team Metro

Mike Takayama

Marc Rivera

Euryd Rivera

William Ysmael

 Joven Huerto

Here are the other Metro players who are playing Day1C

17:15 HRS – Level 6 – Blinds 300/600/600 ante – 69/90 players

Peng Mendoza

Local Import

Peng Mendoza is back from the states and visiting the Philippines. He also bagged a Highroller event at a recently concluded event.

Now playing at the Metro and eying the APC Main event to add to his list of accomplishments.

So watch out. 

17:15 HRS – Level 5 – Blinds 200/400/400 ante – 68/81 players

Day 2 Recap

Entrees and Survivor for Main

Queens in the side event

More Updates to follow

16:30 HRS – Level 4 – Blinds 200/300/300 ante – 52/58 players

MAIN EVENT NOW HAS MORE THAN 50 Players

Champions are coming in

Players are now lining up to play, Even those who got busted out are rejoining.

15:45 HRS – Level 3 – Blinds 100/200/200 – 37/39 players

Team Metro

John Tech
Joseph Sia
Alexis Lim

3 from team Metro are playing Day 1C

15:00 HRS – Level 2 – Blinds 100/200 – 15/15 players

Rene Pacayra

Masters Poker APC Feeder seat winner

4 players won a seat to the APC Main event from Masters Poker Seat feeder.

Rene Pacayra will be carrying Masters Flag today in his quest to become a champion.

 

14:30 HRS – Level 1 – Blinds 100/100 – 14/14 players

Tournament started late

tournament started 13:58

We expect many late players for today

14:00 HRS – Level 1 – Blinds 100/100 – 14/14 players 

power button

Buy-in PHP 11,000

The tournament started at 2 PM today and the side event today is the power button.

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