Flight B Day 1 chip leader Seunghee Park
The second starting flight of the 2026 Gods of Poker Manila Main Event has come to a conclusion, albeit just for the five scheduled levels of play on Day 1. After nine hours of play, a total of 34 entries were recorded and 15 players bagged up chips with South Korea's Seunghee Lee way out in front holding a stack of 757,500.
With very aggressive play, Lee climbed up on the leaderboard in the second half of the day inside of the Grand Ballroom at the five star City of Dreams Manila Luxury Hotel Resort & Casino before he then notched up several big pots to finish atop the leaderboard.
In three-way action against Ville Pohjalainen and Doyoung Lee, he turned a full house with king-four and Pohjalainen paid off his chunky river bet when he improved to the ace-high flush. Pohjalainen made it through with more than two times the starting stack and advanced with 253,500 whereas Lee then lost a flip to Park with ace-queen against pocket tens to bust.
Another player from Finland sits in second place and that is Petteri Miettinen (424,500), while fellow South Korean Eunseok Choi (393,000) is third. Shenglai Zhang, who has already won a trophy during The Arena of Champions, bagged up a very healthy 388,000 and Pandora's Mystery Bounty runner-up Lukasz Jankowski follows with 369,000.
Flight B End-of-Day 1 Chip Counts:
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blind Day 2 |
| 1 | Seunghee Lee | South Korea | 757,500 | 189 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Petteri Miettinen | Finland | 424,500 | 106 |
| 3 | Eunseok Choi | South Korea | 393,000 | 98 |
| 4 | Shenglai Zhang | China | 388,000 | 97 |
| 5 | Lukasz Jankowski | Poland | 369,000 | 92 |
| 6 | San Kang | South Korea | 355,000 | 89 |
| 7 | Czardy Rivera | Philippines | 322,000 | 80 |
| 8 | Ville Pohjalainen | Finland | 253,500 | 63 |
| 9 | Jonald Garcia | Philippines | 206,000 | 51 |
| 10 | Rodolfo Dela Fuente | Philippines | 188,000 | 47 |
| 11 | AJ Acdal | Philippines | 149,000 | 37 |
| 12 | John Tech | Philippines | 95,000 | 24 |
| 13 | Ronald Haverkamp | Netherlands | 85,000 | 21 |
| 14 | Young Min Kang | South Korea | 81,500 | 20 |
| 15 | Dmitrii Belikov | Russia | 59,500 | 15 |
Lukasz Jankowski
Among the shorter stacks making it through are John Tech (95,000) and Ronald Haverkamp (85,000) whereas the late registration for Flight B remains open until the cards go back in the air for level three at 12.30 p.m. local time on August 26, 2026.
The recommencing blinds will be 2,000-4,000 with a big blind ante of 4,000 and that gives all late entrants a total of 30 big blinds. As has been the case in Flight A and will be the case for the three remaining flights thereafter, tomorrow's field will be whittled down to the money with approximately 13.5% set to advance. The level duration for Day 2 of Flight B will be 60 minutes each throughout.
Flight C is also scheduled to run alongside tomorrow as well with the start set for 2 p.m. local time. Two 120-minute levels of late registration will be followed by 35-minute levels until the bubble has been burst. The final two flights take place on Thursday, August 27, 2026.