This coming October The Metro Card Club turns 4 years old!

In celebration of its 4th year anniversary the Metro Card Club is once again holding a major tournament this October 20-25, 211 and guarantees 5 MILLION PESOS for a buy-in of Php10,000.

We are now at the final table of APT Asian Series Manila 2011.

FINAL TABLE
s5 - Kent Del Rosario - 583,000 (Philippines)
s6 - Emman Segismundo - 1,689,000 (Philippines)
s10 - Marc Rivera - 334,000 (Philippines)
s3 - Mark Benasa - 292,000 (Philippines)
s1 - Jojo Tech - 654,000 (Philippines)
s7 - Vic De Guzman - 347,000 (Philippines)
s8 - Linh Tran - 500,000 (Canada)
s9 - Sunny Jung - 440,000 (Korea)
s4 - Tetsuya Tsuchikawa - 394,000 (Japan)
s2 - Tom Alner - 708,00 (England)

you can follow the final table action at

http://www.pilipinaspoker.com/forum/index.php/topic,5157.new.html#new

396 players.... only one victor!

CHAMPION - P 5,359,000 vic de guzman

2nd - 2,858,000 jojo tech
3rd - 1,250,000 linh tran
4th - 893,000>eman segismundo
5th - 714,000>sunny jung
6th - 536,000> Kent Del Rosario
7th - 357,000> Tom Alner
8th - 322,000> Tetsuya Tsuchikawa
9th - 304,000> mark benasa
10th - 286,580 >marc rivera

37-45  80,000
45 Cris Hillana
44 Tan Peng
43 Tatima Badausova
42 Yasyhiro Waki
41 Jerick Medina
40 Ben Abraham
39 Mark Pagsuyuin
38 Yukina Masaki
37 William Perez


28-36  125,000
36 Farid Karkar
35 Terry Tay
34 Jeng Wong Seo
33 Chan Choi
32 Zhang Xu
31 Joel Lusinier
30 Hajime IWAKUZA
29 RUTH PELIPOG
28 John Rian


19-27  152,000
27 Edizon Marzan
26 Jaehok Kim
25 Kwon Eun Ho
24 Joshua Nohak
23 Oliver Spiedel
22 Xiagoang Lin
21 Manuel Regis
20 Victor Chong
19 Benji Lim


16-18  188,000
18 Tran Tuan
17 Michi Ko
16 Onofre De Guzman


13-15  223,000
15 Howard Lee
14 Dae Gon Lee
13 David Kim


11-12  268,000
12 Chris Allan Edgar
11 Zhang Qinghong

Total prize pool P17,861,580

It took a little time but finally, PilipinasPoker caught up with the Lagman brothers, Julian and Julius. The former took down the last Metro Independence Day Special (MIDS) title while the latter placed 4th in the same tournament, which had a prize pool of over 2M pesos.  Safe to say, these brothers play excellent poker and safe to say, it runs in the family…

DAY 1A

Despite the heavy rains the night prior, the Metro Card Club was packed to the brim with players all wanting to get a piece of that 2 million guaranteed prize pool of the Metro Independence Day Tournament.

The Metro Card Club Independence Day Tournament, which guarantees Php 2,000,000 for a buy-in of Php3,000, started off today with a field of 232 runners for Day1a.  Notable names that played today were professional poker players Eric Sia, Don Carmona, Mark Rivera, Melvin “The Miracle” Matibag, Wally Sombero, Martin Gonzales, Event #30 WPT Southern Poker Championship Russell Blattberg, and our very own APT Champion Neil “Dirty Ice Cream” Arce.