Mit seinem überarbeiteten Live-Turnierkonzept will Branchenführer PokerStars neue Märkte erobern, und besonders interessant sind natürlich die bevölkerungsreichen Länder in Asien und Südamerika.
In Manila reichte es beim Main Event des PokerStars Festivals zu einem neuen Teilnehmerrekord in der Geschichte der Philippinen, denn noch nie wurden bei einem Turnier mit einem Buy-In von umgerechnet knapp €1.000 stolze 594 Entries erzielt.
Damit wurde auch die Preisgeldgarantie um fast die Hälfte übertroffen, und der Gewinner darf sich am Ende auf umgerechnet über €90.000 Siegprämie freuen.
Mittlerweile sind alle drei Starttage absolviert, und 167 Spieler qualifizierten sich für den heute stattfindenden Tag 2.
Bezahlt werden die ersten 87 Spieler, fast die Hälfte geht also noch leer aus.
Glänzende Aussichten auf eine vordere Platzierung haben der Deutsche André Peters und der Schweizer Michael Brunner, die sich eine hervorragende Ausgangslage erarbeitet haben.
Chipleader ist Woohyuk Yang, der an Tag 1C die beste Performance hinlegte und 417.400 eintütete.
PokerStars Festival Manila, Main Event, Stand vor Tag 1c
| Name | Country | Chips | Table | Seat |
| Woohyuk Yang | Korea | 417400 | 8 | 2 |
| Michael Falcon | Denmark | 307100 | 6 | 6 |
| Masatoshi Tanaka | Japan | 287800 | 18 | 9 |
| Yo Seb Rhee | Korea | 265300 | 12 | 4 |
| Sejin Park | Korea | 261300 | 18 | 8 |
| Boon Leong Tan | Malaysia | 260600 | 1 | 8 |
| Jin Hwang Yong | Malaysia | 257500 | 7 | 1 |
| Andre Peters | Germany | 241500 | 4 | 6 |
| Adones Carmona | Philippines | 236100 | 16 | 3 |
| Dhane Chainani | India | 235200 | 8 | 3 |
| Elan Zak | Philippines | 234000 | 17 | 1 |
| Andy Xueyan Li | Singapore | 218000 | 13 | 6 |
| Xiang Wei Lee | Singapore | 212500 | 7 | 4 |
| Michael Brunner | Switzerland | 211400 | 11 | 7 |
| Hoa Thinh Nguyen | Vietnam | 206200 | 5 | 3 |
| Daryl Loh | Singapore | 203900 | 5 | 8 |
| Linh Tran | Canada | 194300 | 16 | 2 |
| Chi Thinh Nguyen | Vietnam | 192900 | 7 | 6 |
| Tom Or-Paz | Israel | 186500 | 17 | 9 |
| Jannodin Riga | Philippines | 184800 | 18 | 2 |
| Tran Hung Manh | Vietnam | 180700 | 1 | 4 |
| Seung Yong Yi | Korea | 178400 | 10 | 1 |
| Jun Obara | Japan | 174400 | 8 | 7 |
| Shinji Katsushima | Japan | 171900 | 6 | 2 |
| Jongyoung Moon | Korea | 171100 | 8 | 4 |
| Kian Weng Choong | Malaysia | 169600 | 2 | 2 |
| Pete Chen | Taiwan | 165300 | 1 | 2 |
| Antti Halme | Finland | 159900 | 14 | 2 |
| Alexander Grocott | Australia | 157200 | 11 | 8 |
| Tien Than Nguyen | Vietnam | 156700 | 9 | 6 |
| Aki Virtanen | Finland | 156300 | 11 | 2 |
| Thomas Lee | Canada | 156100 | 18 | 7 |
| Segundo Barte | Philippines | 151000 | 1 | 9 |
| Min Soon Lim | Singapore | 150600 | 7 | 8 |
| Kok Hou Toh | Malaysia | 150100 | 17 | 4 |
| Anna Bajas | Philippines | 149600 | 13 | 2 |
| Victor Chong | Malaysia | 148600 | 10 | 9 |
| Uday Bansal | India | 148300 | 3 | 9 |
| Wendell Garcia | Philippines | 148000 | 16 | 8 |
| Vijay Narula | Australia | 146700 | 19 | 6 |
| Masato Nikawadori | Japan | 145400 | 12 | 3 |
| Raphael Gall | Germany | 141400 | 16 | 9 |
| Wei Han Wang | Taiwan | 139700 | 10 | 8 |
| Junghwan Oh | Korea | 137800 | 7 | 5 |
| Thanh Ha Duong | Vietnam | 137600 | 18 | 5 |
| Jesse Rosen | South Africa | 136200 | 4 | 1 |
| Siddarth Singhvi | India | 135800 | 11 | 9 |
| Hyung Chul Hyun | Korea | 129400 | 11 | 6 |
| Kai Loon Ang | Singapore | 126900 | 8 | 8 |
| Xingbiao Zhu | China | 125500 | 1 | 1 |
| James Chuah Chong | Malaysia | 125100 | 11 | 1 |
| Jaehyun Lim | Korea | 125100 | 12 | 5 |
| Hoang Anh Do | Vietnam | 125000 | 3 | 7 |
| Freddy Wei | Singapore | 124700 | 10 | 7 |
| Toshifumi Hashimoto | Japan | 124100 | 13 | 1 |
| Yan da Tyronne Soh | Singapore | 124000 | 3 | 6 |
| Ken Okada | Japan | 121000 | 19 | 7 |
| Sparrow Cheung | Hong Kong | 120200 | 4 | 5 |
| Mike Takayama | Philippines | 118300 | 9 | 8 |
| Trung Hieu Le | Vietnam | 118000 | 2 | 9 |
| Richard Marquez | Philippines | 117900 | 2 | 7 |
| Chien Huu Nguyen | Vietnam | 117600 | 18 | 1 |
| Badri Gosavi | Australia | 117000 | 5 | 9 |
| van Sang Nguyen | Vietnam | 115400 | 9 | 3 |
| Pranay Kapoor | India | 115000 | 13 | 8 |
| Seung Soo Jeon | Korea | 114800 | 9 | 5 |
| Jongjun Park | Korea | 114100 | 6 | 4 |
| Eric Tsai | Taiwan | 112500 | 4 | 9 |
| Zhi Han Neo | Singapore | 104300 | 5 | 7 |
| Wendell Barte | Philippines | 102900 | 14 | 7 |
| Changha Woo | Korea | 102500 | 2 | 8 |
| Zhe Li | China | 102000 | 7 | 2 |
| Celine Lee | China | 101200 | 5 | 2 |
| Euryd Rivera | Philippines | 100500 | 4 | 2 |
| Sam Nee | Malaysia | 99500 | 6 | 8 |
| Yau Shern Yen | Malaysia | 99100 | 12 | 9 |
| Chee Sun Tong | Singapore | 99100 | 19 | 2 |
| Ming Ken Thoo | Malaysia | 97500 | 6 | 7 |
| Yow Hui Ng | Singapore | 97300 | 3 | 8 |
| Ddingxiang Ong | Singapore | 96400 | 1 | 3 |
| Eugene Khoo | Malaysia | 95500 | 4 | 8 |
| Hoang Huy Tran | Vietnam | 93300 | 19 | 8 |
| Duc Nguyen | Vietnam | 92700 | 4 | 7 |
| Ming Suan Tan | Malaysia | 92600 | 17 | 5 |
| Si Yang Phua | Singapore | 92400 | 15 | 6 |
| Naohito Tamaya | Japan | 91800 | 9 | 7 |
| Hisashi Ogi | Japan | 90300 | 18 | 6 |
| Franklin Acfalle | USA | 89900 | 6 | 9 |
| Hoon Chai Ra | Korea | 87100 | 8 | 9 |
| Tzu Chieh Lo | Taiwan | 86900 | 12 | 8 |
| Manuel Mascunana | Philippines | 85200 | 17 | 6 |
| Niilo Heinikangas | Finland | 84500 | 10 | 2 |
| Jean Issa | UK | 83100 | 3 | 3 |
| Geoff Mooney | Australia | 82500 | 4 | 4 |
| Sok Meng Hun | Cambodia | 82000 | 3 | 1 |
| Mc Yeldarb Mantos | Philippines | 80900 | 16 | 1 |
| Brandon Shim | Australia | 80500 | 11 | 3 |
| Khanh Le Ngoc | Vietnam | 80400 | 16 | 7 |
| Vikram Palanisamy | India | 79600 | 2 | 3 |
| Seun Oluwole | UK | 79600 | 5 | 5 |
| Lai Heng Foo | Malaysia | 78100 | 9 | 4 |
| John Dalessandri | Australia | 76300 | 12 | 7 |
| Abhineet Jain | India | 75200 | 12 | 2 |
| Tsun Ming Chan | Hong Kong | 74200 | 14 | 9 |
| Paphawin Laodee | Thailand | 73400 | 7 | 7 |
| Mark Amparo | Philippines | 73100 | 15 | 8 |
| Kuldeep Pawar | India | 71800 | 2 | 5 |
| Ronnie Tate | USA | 71300 | 4 | 3 |
| Jae Wook Shin | Korea | 71100 | 5 | 1 |
| Christopher Morrison | UK | 70100 | 14 | 5 |
| Yoshiniri Tsuji | Japan | 69700 | 3 | 5 |
| Kenny Shih | USA | 67400 | 19 | 5 |
| Kwangyeop Choi | Korea | 66800 | 15 | 2 |
| Du-ming Tsai | Taiwan | 66700 | 8 | 5 |
| Jeffrey Shultz | USA | 65400 | 11 | 5 |
| Anthony Gabitan | Philippines | 64400 | 15 | 3 |
| Vikram Verma | India | 61900 | 17 | 7 |
| Kenneth Buck | Australia | 61800 | 3 | 2 |
| Mark Pagsuyuin | Philippines | 61600 | 12 | 6 |
| Jun Yi Ong | Singapore | 61600 | 14 | 3 |
| Wenceslao Sombero | Philippines | 59100 | 16 | 6 |
| Wai Hong Wong | Malaysia | 59000 | 8 | 6 |
| Wan Yusuf | Malaysia | 57500 | 19 | 9 |
| Sam Razavi | UK | 57200 | 13 | 5 |
| Mun Fei Chow | Malaysia | 56700 | 18 | 4 |
| Soo Jo Kim | Korea | 56500 | 19 | 1 |
| Anh Nguyen | Vietnam | 56300 | 15 | 5 |
| Heng Seng Lau | Singapore | 55700 | 11 | 4 |
| Vi Khoa Duong | Vietnam | 55600 | 6 | 5 |
| Jack Wu | Taiwan | 53800 | 10 | 6 |
| Daniel Benor | Israel | 53600 | 14 | 6 |
| Yii Shyang Lai | Malaysia | 53500 | 1 | 7 |
| Jensen Chow | USA | 52300 | 2 | 1 |
| Soon Ann Gan | Malaysia | 51900 | 10 | 4 |
| Van Tran Thanh | Vietnam | 51900 | 13 | 9 |
| Duc Bui | Vietnam | 50300 | 8 | 1 |
| Jiunn Ng | Singapore | 50200 | 2 | 6 |
| Jun Zhong Loo | Malaysia | 50000 | 15 | 7 |
| Joohyun Park | Korea | 49400 | 16 | 4 |
| Corbin White | USA | 44300 | 2 | 4 |
| Alan Lau | Hong Kong | 42600 | 9 | 2 |
| Ming Kee Liow | Malaysia | 42600 | 10 | 3 |
| Johnson Tan | Philippines | 42400 | 6 | 3 |
| Frederick Dimayuga | Philippines | 42200 | 17 | 2 |
| Roger Spets | Sweden | 42100 | 12 | 1 |
| Joseph Sia | Philippines | 41800 | 14 | 8 |
| Anton Widjaya | Indonesia | 41300 | 13 | 4 |
| Peter Plater | Australia | 40900 | 3 | 4 |
| Romit Advani | India | 38100 | 19 | 4 |
| Reigin Leongson | Philippines | 33800 | 14 | 1 |
| Judeh Hassen | UK | 33500 | 9 | 1 |
| Jae Chul Chang | Korea | 32600 | 5 | 4 |
| Po-yi Wu | Taiwan | 30200 | 7 | 3 |
| James Mendoza | USA | 29900 | 1 | 6 |
| Tung Wing Wong | Hong Kong | 29100 | 6 | 1 |
| Kwok Chun Lai | Hong Kong | 28400 | 15 | 9 |
| Stuart Brodie | South Africa | 27900 | 7 | 9 |
| Francis Villamar | Philippines | 27600 | 9 | 9 |
| Wai Kiat Lee | Malaysia | 26300 | 17 | 3 |
| Kien Seng Loo | Malaysia | 24900 | 1 | 5 |
| Bruce Fabillaran | Philippines | 24900 | 14 | 4 |
| John Sayo | Philippines | 23200 | 15 | 4 |
| Kevin Ang | Malaysia | 20300 | 5 | 6 |
| Tze Yen Wong | Malaysia | 15400 | 13 | 7 |
| Rajeev Kanjani | India | 11600 | 15 | 1 |
| Kunal Patni | India | 10300 | 13 | 3 |
| Zhining Chen | China | 4200 | 10 | 5 |
