A total of 95 players started day two but it wasn’t until the early hours of Monday morning that the final hand was dealt. Local player Tom Wing finished as the only player with more than one million in chips (1,027,000 to be exact) ahead of 2009 ANZPT Queenstown champ Danny Chevalier (883,000) and 2006 Aussie Millions champion Lee Nelson (750,000).
Having finished runner-up in both APPT and ANZPT events, Kiwi Phillip Willcocks is again handily poised to go one better, lying fifth with 559,000. Play is scheduled to kick-off at 2pm Melbourne time.
ANZPT Melbourne Main Event chip count after day 2
Tom Wing 1,027,000
Danny Chevalier 883,000
Lee Nelson (NZ) 750,000
Justin Sanchez 635,000
Phil Willcocks (NZ) 559,000
Seong Lee Ang 530,000
Brett Chalhoub 530,000
Karan Punjabi 372,000
Erich Stadler (NZ) 267,000
Nick Georgoulas (249,000)
Stephen Eliesen (219,000)
• In other events, Lorraine Craig won the $125 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack event, with Peter Aristidou collecting a impressive fourth cash for this relatively short tournament series.
Event 11: $125 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack (165 players; 20 players paid; total prizepool $14,850)
1 Lorraine Craig $3415
2 Busra Kaluntakasuwun $2225
3 Dion Themilis $1780
4 Matthew Hill $1485
5 Izzy Kranz $1185
6 Joel Douaglin $890
7 Stephen Hansen $740
8 Peter Aristidou $590
9 Arnold Bathan $445
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