12 Nov Who Will Be Crowned The 2024 RVS CUP Champion?
From a field of 899 entries, the RVS CUP Philippine Poker Championship is down to the final 18 players! The Metro Card Club’s beloved homegrown tournament will soon crown its newest champion and award the largest ever first prize of ₱3,750,000 (~US$ 64,000) in the richest RVS Cup in history.
To determine the finalists, 124 players battled it out at Day 2 led by Flight F chip leader Anthony Castro. When the final two tables was reached. Castro remained at the helm, backed by a strong 4,180,000 stack, equivalent to 70 bb. He is far ahead of second ranked Richard Nakila with 2,935,000 (49 bb).
Castro has been running deep at Metro events and nearly won a title at the Metro Walk To A Million finishing in 2nd place. He was recently crowned champion at the RVS Cup Mystery Bounty. Could it be his year?
Down the rung were RVS Cup champions Lester Edoc (2014) and Richard Marquez (2015), both looking to be the event’s first multi champion. Others in contention include two of the country’s most decorated, Mike Takayama, Marc Rivera, and young gun Maxwell Rosete who won a Metro major back in 2022.
You can follow the action via the Metro YouTube livestream starting at 2pm.
Date: November 7-12, 2024
Buy in: ₱22,000 (~US$ 375)
Guarantee: ₱20,000,000 (~US$ 345,850)
Entries: 899
Prize pool: ₱20,000,000 (~US$ 345,850)
ITM: 127 players
Chips in play: 26,766,000
Average stack: 1,487,000 (24 bb)
Final Day starting blinds: 30,000-60,000 ante 60,000
Level duration: 40 minutes
Final 18 Players
| Player | Table | Seat | Stack | BB |
| Anthony Castro | 20 | 4 | 4,180,000 | 70 |
| Richard Nakila | 23 | 9 | 2,935,000 | 49 |
| Mike Takayama | 20 | 5 | 2,565,000 | 43 |
| Lester Edoc | 20 | 9 | 1,995,000 | 33 |
| Lemmor Patulot | 23 | 7 | 1,920,000 | 32 |
| Manuel Geronimo | 23 | 4 | 1,395,000 | 23 |
| Alexis D Cruz | 20 | 7 | 1,320,000 | 22 |
| Milbert Bautista | 23 | 2 | 1,100,000 | 18 |
| Maxwell Rosete | 23 | 8 | 1,080,000 | 18 |
| Gandy Sapsal | 20 | 2 | 1,075,000 | 18 |
| Ghie Rivera | 20 | 3 | 950,000 | 16 |
| Benhur Ybarsabal | 23 | 6 | 945,000 | 16 |
| Losentes Leonell | 23 | 3 | 895,000 | 15 |
| Jester Intia | 20 | 1 | 885,000 | 15 |
| Tracy Crisostomo | 23 | 5 | 830,000 | 14 |
| Richard Marquez | 20 | 8 | 815,000 | 14 |
| Marc Rivera | 23 | 1 | 640,000 | 11 |
| Michael De Leon | 20 | 6 | 635,000 | 11 |
Remaining Payouts
| Place | Payout in PHP |
| 1 | 3,750,000 |
| 2 | 2,123,000 |
| 3 | 1,240,000 |
| 4 | 800,000 |
| 5 | 560,000 |
| 6 | 420,000 |
| 7 | 340,000 |
| 8 | 260,000 |
| 9 | 220,000 |
| 10-11 | 180,000 |
| 12-14 | 160,000 |
| 15-18 | 140,000 |
RVS CUP Past Winners
A brief look back at the RVS CUP’s beginnings, it was first introduced in 2014 attracting 282 runners. That number increased every year after with 2017 drawing the largest crowd of 1,176 entries followed by 2023 of 1,080 entries. Listed below are the past champions. Who will be the next?
- Lester Edoc – 2014 champion
- Richard Marquez – 2015 champion
- Anacleto Quijano – 2016 champion
- Christopher Chua – 2017 champion
- Marco Almerez – 2018 champion
- Jeffrey Calma – 2019 champion
- Ian Brion – 2021 champion
- Vamerdino Magsakay – 2022 champion
- Edilberto Gopez – 2023 champion
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