Eagle Cup Day 1B Updates

It's Day 1B of the Metro Card Club Davao's 1st Eagle Cup.  With P10,000 buy in plus P1,000 registration fee, it's a freeze out tournament.  Starting stack is at 20,000 with blinds going up every 45 minutes.

Scheduled to play today are mostly players from out of town.  Among the highly anticipated players are Metro Card Club's Neil "Dirty Ice Cream" Arce and Jojo Tech who won the May 1 1M Tournament at the MCCD last year.  Adding to the excitement is 1991 WSOP Champion Brad Daugherty who is currently based in Negros Oriental.

Local veteran player JVA is also in the tournament.  7 lady players are in, only Lala Mejaro is from Davao.

110 players total for Day 1B.

The action starts in a few minutes.




2:30 pm Former champion Lala "Lady" Mejaro is the first out of the game for Day 1B. Richard Sharpe who place 9th in the WSOP is already out.

3:13 pm Jojo Tech is out with a lower straight which went against a nuts straight.

4 pm Players are now on a break.

5 pm Kent del Rosario is out.

5:30 pm JVA is out.  Karloz Alba is out.
Neil Arce loses a three way pot while holding pocket Aces.  He is against pocket 9s and pocket dueces.  Pocket 9s gets a set on the flop, dueces gets a set on the turn.  Arce, whose stack covers both players' stacks, pushes all in at the turn.  Arce loses chips.  Pocket 9s win.

6 pm Neil Arce manages to stay alive when his AQ went against a QQ.  Arce gets a straight on the river.



7 pm Players are on a break.  77 players remaining.

Chip leaders before the dinner break:

1. Tony Jarman - 68,825
2. Franklyn  Llamado - 66, 525
3. Marvin Uursal - 65, 575
4. Michael Dalidig - 64,150
5. Chino dela Serna - 63,625
6. Martin Cepeda - 60,850
7. Bambi Imano - 58,125
8. Ilwon Kim - 53,500
9. Francis Ku - 50,250
10. Arnold Kwon - 46,525
11. Dodo Soco - 44,975
12. Koko Gotil - 42,475
13. Mac Mantos - 41,900
14. Macao Macalinao - 39,775
15. Benhur Ybarsabal - 35,050
16. Albert "The Emotional" Crave - 29,800

Sunshine Samson seems to be the only female contender left in Day 1B.

8:28 pm Neil Arce is out.  Went all in with KQ.  Opponent held AA.

12 am Day 1B is finished.  Only 38 players survived the action.

1. Tony Jarman – 216,800
2. Kenneth Tan – 168,700
3. Martin Cepeda – 155,500
4. Mia Amor Oano – 115,000
5. Amparo Marie Colendres – 97,100
6. Bambi Imano – 86,300
7. Koko Gotil – 79,000
8. Sunshine Samson – 76,500
9. Ali Lee – 70,900
10. Christine Lim – 70,400
11. JR Vasquez – 64,500
12. Mon Santos – 61,100
13. Shin Suguira – 59,100
14. Chino dela Serna – 58,100
15. Marthin Corpus – 52,100
16. Jason Porter – 50,500
17. Mark Pagsuyuin – 50,200
18. Marvin Ursal – 49,700
19. Albert Crave – 43,800
20. Trisa Cabacho – 43,200
21. Joseph Galang – 42,000
22. Bryan Lim  - 41,800
23. Michael Dalidig – 40,000
24. Lester Edoc – 39,400
25. Jam Alonto – 38,900
26. Herbert Canaya – 36,700
27. Mohamad Tumog – 34,900
28. Arnold Kwon – 34,200
29. Rinah Garcia – 33,200
30. Francis Ku – 30,500
31. Nina Castro – 29,400
32. Sonny Ugalde – 28,500
33. Aron Angeles – 27,700
34. Franklin Llamado -  27,000
35. Digno Camacho – 21,700
36. Jimmy Abesamis – 17,400
37. Edwin Marzan – 16,600
38. Manuel Regis – 11,600

Photos courtesy of Bong Gallego and Maggie Lim: