What an ideal day of poker that was. The overall table of the APPT10 Manila Main Event didn't disappoint here within the PokerStars LIVE room Manila throughout the City of Dreams. After fewer than six hours of play, the trophy and ₱6,135,000 went to Linh Tran from Canada. He defeated Sam Razavi after a brief heads up battle.

The final hand of the tournament saw the short-stacked Razavi move all-in from the button with ace-deuce only to run smack bang into pocket aces. The Brit flopped a deuce but couldn't discover a third to crack them aces. Razavi wasn't disappointed in any respect as he came into the day eighth of nine and managed to nurse a brief stack all of the strategy to finish second for ₱3,466,000.

All eyes have been on Jessie Leonarez at the beginning of the day as he had an awesome chip lead over his competitors but, for the second one year in a row, he finished in third place. Two hands defined his day they usually both went the best way of the eventual champion. One was a regular flip, where his ace-king couldn't overcome Tran's pocket jacks, the opposite one was anything but standard. He three-bet with ten-nine, then three-bet all-in at the turn of a nine high board just for Tran to name with a suite of sixes and send him to the rail.

Leonarez's pal Mike Takayama was the fourth place finisher. He admirably held on for a very long time with a sub ten big blind stack but eventually fell in a battle of the blinds to Tran. If a prize was given out for hand of the day though, he would've walked it. It looked as though he'd raised his 4.5 big blind stack all-in from the button, but he's actually held an ante back. Leonarez had aces within the big blind and called and opened his hand thinking he was calling an all-in. Takayama held back his 10,000 until he saw a 5♣6♥2♣ flop appear, the whooped so the entire room could hear and opened 3♥4♥ for a flopped straight!

Four handed play actually lasted a reasonably very long time as Bruno Tzu Chieh Lo, Seongsu Kong, Joven Huer, Alan Lau and Sanyong Lee all departed in a frantic opening level and three-quarters before a 3 level period where no person hit the rail. Lo made a move with T♦9♦ but bumped into Lee's K♦K♥; Kong also bumped into kings (with A♣2♣) to bust; Huer made a move with 7♠5♠ but Tran was waiting with pocket nines; 2015 Asia Player of the year Lau was bad beaten by Leonarez when his dominating king was flushed away; and Lee couldn't come from behind with A♣T♣ to overcome Razavi's jacks, despite flopping a flush draw.

To re-live all those exits in additional detail read back throughout the live coverage archive from the overall day. That's all from Manila but those of you looking forward to your next Asian poker fix could be happy to understand that the Macau Poker Cup 25 could be happening at PokerStars LIVE Macau from August 26 to Sep 11. The 17-day poker festival features the legendary Red Dragon event, which comes with a HK$6 million prize pool guarantee.

PokerStars Blog reporting team in Manila: Brad Kain and Marc Convey. Photos by Kenneth Lim Photography.

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