We are back at PokerStars Live Manila today for Day 1b! That is the general flight to get into the Manila Megastack 5 Main Event which starts promptly at 2pm. Buyin to the primary Event is P25,000 with unlimited re-entries. Players begin with an overly deep starting stack of 30,000, that's 600x the starting blinds. What this implies is, a number of playing time to rake in those chips. Blinds escalate every 30 mins and late registration / re-entry could be open for four hours, a complete of eight rounds.

At yesterday's day 1a flight, the Grand Ballroom of City of Dreams Manila was bustling with tables stuffed with hungry poker players early within the day, while a protracted line of latecomers were also eagerly awaiting to get within the action. Inside the day, chips were shuffling everywhere in the room and by the tip of late registration, an incredible turnout of 220 entries was within the books. That is the biggest field ever recorded for an afternoon 1a of the Manila Megastack series. Players also couldn't help drooling on the total prize pool generated, just over P4.8M, and with today's flight, the overall consensus is, there's a strong likelihood that the P6M guarantee might be surpassed.

There were a complete of 49 players who survived the serious heat of day 1a, and popping out on top was Chinese Taipei's Hao-Cha Luo who accumulated 345,500 chips; one in all Singapore's top pros, Alex Lee bagged the second one largest with 272,500 chips, and trailing just a bit behind him was the 2015 Asia Player of the Year champion, Hong Kong's Alan "Kinglune" Lau with 249,500 chips. For a read at the action of Day 1a, head to the Manila Megastack 5 Day 1a Updates post.

Just before the beginning of the primary Event, there'll be a final Chance Satellite to the principle Event at 12PM. Buyin is P6,000. So in case you don't have your ticket in and need to get one at a lower cost, this might be the way in which for you. With one of these lucrative Main Event prize pool, you certainly don't need to overlook out.

In addition to the principle Event, there'll be a Saturday Superstack side event on deck at 9pm. It is a two-day event with an entry fee of P15,000.

We could be posting updates at the action at Day 1b so be in search of that. Day 1a chip counts may also be posted so that you can take a look at who survived and where they stand.

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