Suguitan, Estrella enter KoS roster of champs

PAUL Suguitan bested Jessie  Leonarez and Ryan Magbutay  to rule the P300,000-event, while J .C. Estrella  thwarted Bruce Pabilaran and Jay-R Villanueva to top the P200,000-competition in King of Sports Open poker tournaments at KoS  Resto Bar, Pacific Century Tower in Quezon Ave., Quezon City, recently.

Suguitan emerged as the winner in the  three-day competition, which lured 128  players—37  on the first day, 31 on the second day and 60 on the final day.

Earlier,  Estrella stamped his class in the three-day, P200, 000-event which attracted 123 participants.

The wins enabled  both  Suguitan and  Estrella to join KoS roster of champions that also included  Emong Sevilla, Domingo  “Magic” Ylanan,  Bing Soriano, Rey  “Bagyo” Osete,  Venoni “Bong” Paltep Jr.,  Rommel Angeles, Christopher Carabido, Michael  de Leon, Robert Panlilio, Eman Segismundo, Maxwell Rosete,  Shin Kyun Choi of Korea, R. R. Noquiz.  Chuck Peregrino and Howard Lee. .
The final  event for the year is the P500,000-event which  started with the first day of elimination  last Dec. 26. The championship is  on  Dec. 30.

Meanwhile, King of Sports  will welcome 2016 with a lucrative schedule which has a total guaranteed cash prizes of P2.5M.

KoS general manager Mike Mariano said the series will kick off with a  P150,000-GTD on  Jan. 2 and 3 and  P200,000-event on Jan. 4 to 7.

The  biggest cash prize that will be up for grabs will be P1M—a six-day event scheduled on Jan . 22 to 26 (eliminations) and Jan . 27 (final day).
All tournaments will start at 3 p.m. with free meal for every seated player.
King of Sports, which is duly supervised by Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (Pagcor), also features  e-games, billiards  and live entertainment.

For details, call  KoS poker manager Jeff Lopez  at 0917-7311173.