The day may have started slowly, but day 1B in the MAIN EVENT finished with a flurry as the field of 301 players was whittled down to 183 after 11 levels of 30 minutes in the poker room at Crown Melbourne.
The excitement was palpable as qualifiers from APL and 888PL venues throughout New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia converged for their shot at MAIN EVENT glory.
The two players who finished 1-2 in the inaugural MAIN EVENT – Nathan Gauci and Marion Fisher – were among the notables in action. Gauci bowed out after a tough start to the day, but Fisher remains in the race for a slice of the $461,000 prizepool after the field was confirmed at 461 players.
There may have been twice as many chips in play today compared to day 1A, but the day 1B chip leader John Wilson (171,700, pictured) lies only fifth overall heading into day two.
Peter Kassiotes was among the chip leaders all day, and lies seventh overall. Indeed, a staggering 273 players of the 461 starters will be back for the start of day two. Play kicks-off at 10am.
MAIN EVENT day 1 overall chip count
Ben Lynton 196,300
Russ McDonald 192,500
John Yianni 189,400
Michael Breheny 180,300
John Wilson 171,700
Alexandre Samarian 163,300
Peter Kassiotes 141,800
Stephen Long 134,000
Ryan Hunter 128,600
Colleen McCloskey 127,400
Alan Casas 126,000
John Mouawad 123,700
Matthew Muir 118,800
Frank Lovato 117,000
Matthew Luketic 110,900
Gail Jackson 107,800
Paul Rich 107,600
Dean Goodwin 105,500
Saviour Agius 105,400
John Saratsopoulos 105,000
James Meem 104,300
Craig Ivey 103,100
Joshua Parsons 103,100
Rene Bischoff 100,600
Troy Valentini 98,300
Geoff Eason 97,100
Alexandre Averianov 96,600
Alya Manji 94,100
Fady Alam 93,800
George Venianakis 91,400
Michael Pambos 91,100
Joshua Matthews 87,700
Michael Richardson 87,300
Peter Stathakis 85,300
Constantine Gatis 84,300
Abrahim Daoud 84,300
Vic Duncan 83,100
Shaun Dredge 82,400
Frank Laoulach 80,000
Sabine Randall 77,600
David Logan 77,400
Bradley Rowland 77,000
Raymond Griffin 76,500
Stephen Day 76,100
Ian Dalidowicz 75,700
Fadi Shnoudi 75,500
Paul Collings 74,900
Rebecca Catterwell 74,700
Khalil Shnoudi 74,400
Larry Adams 74,100
Mohamed Taleb 73,800
Shivan Abdine 73,100
Grant Meyer 73,100
Jamie Farley 72,000
Kenneth Skinner 71,700
Alexander Pitty 71,400
Mitchell Gallard 71,000
Troy McMillan 70,800
Corey Blazely 69,700
Neil Evans 67,900
Sandra Soper 67,600
Darren Schneider 67,500
Huo Phan 67,200
Billy Allen 66,200
Mala Kita 65,900
John Degiambattista 65,600
Sonia McCabe 64,700
Adrian Hodge 63,600
Con Diakovasilis 63,500
Justine Camilleri 63,200
Paul Sayers 63,000
Ben McDonald 62,300
Jason Wright 62,100
Arthur Davis 61,100
Joshua McNaughton 61,000
Anthony Moss 60,600
Adnan Muarem 60,600
Michael Kearin 60,600
Marion Fisher 60,400
Jeffrey Szeto 59,400
Quin James 59,300
Matthew Winter 59,100
Jason McDonald 58,800
Alex Keshishian 58,600
Michael Doumani 58,600
Tristan Pace 58,300
Mark Wallis 58,000
James Nonnenenmacher 57,900
Christopher Vale 57,600
Jason Featherstone 57,100
Paul McIntyre 57,000
Kahle Burns 56,500
Lauren Brownlee 56,400
Joel Wealands 56,200
George Palermo 56,000
William McBride 55,700
Christopher Byrne 55,000
David Snelson 54,900
Maria Garcia 54,700
David Heycott 54,600
Nicole Ferrett 52,000
Emmanuel Svourenos 51,900
Jesse Chung 51,200
Jeff Vallance 51,000
Phillip Dong 50,000
Archie Logan 50,000
Dean Yuen 49,600
Mario Puglisi 49,400
Richard Hutchens 48,400
Alex McConaghy-Beasley 47,500
Tobias Giles 47,300
Alex White 46,900
Annemaree Friederichs 46,000
David Brownlee 45,900
Karen Shilleto 45,600
Jeremy Guiheux 45,600
David Collins 45,200
Peter Matthews 45,100
Thomas Cooper 45,000
Andres Poblet 43,600
Richard Allen 43,500
Colin Lee 43,300
Gavin Thorpe 42,900
Paul James 42,200
Konstantinos Kapsalis 42,200
Daniel Kidd 42,000
Vicki Sylvester 41,900
Adi Dahari 41,500
Damien Stanley 41,200
Michael Annells 41,200
Gloria Tyas 41,200
Ross Davies 41,000
Justin Ghattas 40,800
Desmond Zahl 40,600
Yousif Yousif 40,600
Nicole Summerside 39,900
Wete Haare 39,800
Brad Dohlberg 39,500
Mohammad Shalbaf 39,000
Mark Beckett 38,800
Rob Campbell 38,800
Alex Wayne 38,500
Allan Russell 38,300
John Dearie 38,100
Matthew Presland 37,400
Paul Whitehouse 36,800
Stephen Harmon 36,800
Justin Watson 36,700
Kelvin Wu 36,200
Scott Webster 35,500
Phillip King 35,400
Darrell Kerr 35,200
Sam Sainsbury 35,000
Casey Alexander 33,500
Caleb Evans 33,200
Stephen Smith 33,200
Keith Walker 33,100
Pauline Kennedy 32,900
Zoran Stanojevic 32,600
Glenn Bennet 32,200
Stephen Tognolini 32,100
Nathan Purton 31,900
Matthew Hanna 31,400
Linda Gilmore 31,300
Peter Gruyters 31,200
Scott Murrin 30,900
Mark Allerby 30,700
Sean Bermingham 30,600
Michael Subacius 30,400
Mitchell Oates 30,200
John Jolly 29,900
Mathew Hampton 29,300
Emil Dannaoui 29,100
Cody Edwards 28,900
Aaron Young 28,600
Garry James 28,000
Michael Rogers 28,000
Christopher Paewai 28,000
Kushlani Sitsabesan 27,800
James Mace 27,300
Michael O’Connell 26,900
Hunter Clavan 26,600
Aaron Purdue 26,600
Tina Kennedy 26,400
Olataga Tafea 26,400
Olivier Baux 26,200
Melissa Hawker 26,200
Robert McKim 26,100
Troy Pathon 26,100
Shaun Elliott 26,000
Peter Alber 25,700
Clay Bremner 25,400
Randy Gibson 25,100
Connie Diakovasilis 24,800
Jack Beynon 24,600
Matthew Free 24,600
Mark Detering 24,300
Brett Johnson 24,300
Mark Tuainepare 24,000
Brian Sockalingum 23,900
Andrew McCracken 23,600
Scott Dumay 23,400
Carmino Desciscio 23,200
Tony Grosso 23,200
Dean Schneider 23,000
Harry Manikas 22,800
David Taylor 22,700
Zachary Durkin 22,200
Craig Micallef 22,200
Gary Waddell 21,900
Joshua Klaer 21,600
Alan Lane 21,400
Jean Close 20,900
John Erikson 20,800
Amanda Brient 20,500
Louie Elias Srour 20,400
Steven McMahon 20,100
Sean Henderson 19,900
Kirsty Wisby 19,700
Sergio Kacanas 19,100
Melissa Bolger 18,900
Graeme Cutler 18,800
Gary Ross 18,700
Joseph Giaquinta 18,200
Daniel Keast 18,100
Dora Sarantakos 17,000
Kimberley Gibbs 16,800
David Mathieson 16,400
Marius Wytenburg 16,300
Barbara Gibson 16,000
George Elias 15,700
Mark Reay 15,500
Dorothy Bagshaw 15,500
Alec Luke 15,300
Barry King 14,700
Gregory Hopkins 14,600
Carly Cox 14,500
Jonas McDonald 13,800
Phillip Hansen 13,700
Adam Berry 13,400
Tony Allen 13,000
Pat Dillon 12,900
Stephen Gordon 12,700
Geoffrey Sparkes 11,100
Kodie Drew 10,400
Ergun Behattin 10,000
Kevin Tufnell 10,000
Steven Ramsey 10,000
Manoj Kapoor 10,000
Daryl Lee 10,000
James White 10,000
Peter Read 10,000
Alexander Parisi 10,000
Cheryl Allerby 10,000
David Camilleri 10,000
Marianne Crane 10,000
Sarah Gatt 10,000
Alexander Johnston 10,000
Paul Ayre 10,000
Hagop Keshishian 10,000
Minhhai Tran 10,000
Robert Relph 10,000
Tony Mosca 9900
Shane Peart 9900
Achim Weissegger 9800
Roberto Fratti 9500
Jack Mears 8800
Adam Watts 8300
Mohamed Ismail 7600
Calum Wilson 5600
Michael Craig 1600
Joanne M Furner 1400
Roy Adams 1000
Prizepool
1 $101,800 ($85,000 cash plus Bracelet, Aussie Millions Main Event and Feb/March Main Event Entry valued at $16,800)
2 $61,800 ($50,000 cash plus Aussie Millions Main Event and Feb/March Main Event entry valued at $11,800)
3 $46,800 ($35,000 cash plus Aussie Millions Main Event and Feb/March Main Event entry valued at $11,800)
4 $36,800 ($25,000 plus Aussie Millions Main Event and Feb/March Main Event entry valued at $11,800)
5 $31,800 ($20,000 plus Aussie Millions Main Event and Feb/March Main Event entry valued at $11,800)
6 $21,200 ($20,000 cash plus Feb/March Main Event entry valued at $1200)
7 $14,200 ($13,000 cash plus Feb/March Main Event entry valued at $1200)
8 $14,200 ($13,000 cash plus Feb/March Main Event entry valued at $1200)
9 $11,200 ($10,000 cash plus Feb/March Main Event entry valued at $1200)
10 $11,200 ($10,000 cash plus Feb/March Main Event entry valued at $1200)
11-12 $6000
13-16 $4500
17-20 $3500
21-30 $2500
31-40 $2200
41-50 $1900
Be the first to comment