The final day of the PokerStars P1M Guarantee Main Event will see the return of the 51 players, they all having qualified on the previous day one flights. Individuals are already guaranteed P4000 with Filipino player Pedro Gutierrez getting a double up as he was the one player who qualified with two stacks. Though that may be indeed a cheerful reward for everybody having survived the grueling day one flights, the actual target today is to capture the primary place purse of P190,000. Along with the money prize, the highest 5 players will receive a seat worth P25,000 to the Manila Megastack 5.

Entering the day because the overall chip leader is Filipino player Julius Lagman with 262,500 chips. That is nearly 2.5x the typical stack of the day. Right behind him is China's Zhinning Chen with 237,500 chips, followed by Filipino Vivencho Nachor with 219,000 chips, and Christopher Mateo also from the house country with 213,000 chips. These four players are the one survivors who crossed the 200k chip mark.

Joining the leaders is Frenchman David Perreau who bagged up essentially the most chips, 184,500, on the final heat of the primary Event last night. Other notable players who also won nearly all of their battles and secured a seat today were China's Yao Hui, PokerStars regular Nickolai Alexandrov, Joseph Sia, Dave Erquiaga, Manny Padernal, and Anacleto Quijano.

Along with the massive stacks today are many short stacks needing to get beefed up early. Among those are Edwin Marzan, John King, and Julius Clark Trance. It's worth acknowledging that Trance is one to observe out for as he almost definitely earned the title of getting probably the most lives at yesterday's final heat.

For individuals who bust out early, to not fret as there may be more poker in store with the Deepstack Turbo Freezeout kicking off at 215PM. Buy-in for this event is P5000 accompanied by a starting stack of 10,000 chips. Later within the evening, at 7pm, the multi functional handed shootout event, famously referred to as Flipout, might be happening, and can certainly enliven the hearts of these feeling lucky.

We may be posting random updates at the action today. We even have updates on one of the vital action at yesterday's day 1d heats.

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