A long, long day of poker finally wrapped up just before sunrise this morning with nine players remaining in the hunt for the first prize of $172,500 in the PokerStars tour event at Crown Melbourne.
It took more than 16 hours on day two to whittle the 141 starters down to the line-up for the ANZPT Melbourne Main Event final table, with Ashley Warner emerging at the head of the chip count holding a handy lead over his closest challengers Michael Lo Giudice and Peter Matusik.
Day 1B chip leader Paul Hockin survived the session to lie fourth in chips while 2012 ANZPT Player of the Year* runner-up Anthony Aston and Michael Guzzardi also remain in contention for the title.
Play on the final table bubble continued for more than an hour until Tam Truong’s short stack was ground into the felt. Others who cashed included Bryan Huang (12th), Hugh Cohen (13th), Minh Hau Nguyen (20th), Bill Jordanou (22nd), Kyle Cheong (29th), Matthew Wakeman (33rd), Kristian Lunardi (35th), Amanda De Cesare (37th), Patrick Dillon (38th) and James Bills (39th).
ANZPT Melbourne final table chip counts (with thanks to Crown Poker)
Ashley Warner 1,565,000
Michael Lo Giudice 1,071,000
Peter Matusik 1,058,000
Paul Hockin 801,000
Anthony Aston 680,000
Michael Guzzardi 509,000
Ismail Ismail 350,000
Karan Punjabi 235,000
Igal Augarten 173,000
Payouts
1 $172,500
2 $109,710
3 $61,065
4 $47,610
5 $37,950
6 $31,050
7 $24,150
8 $18,975
9 $13,800
10 Tam Truong $9660
11 Jie Gao $9660
12 Bryan Huang $9660
13 Hugh Cohen $7935
14 Shane Stark $7935
15 Aron Della Vedova $7935
16 Lik Lui $6900
17 Nicholas Polias $6900
18 Dean Blatt $6900
19 Ti Tran $5865
20 Minh Hau Nguyen $5865
21 Nali Kaselias $5865
22 Bill Jordanou $5175
23 Fabrice Ho $5175
24 Petar Vujic $5175
25 Gautam Dhingra $4485
26 Christopher Wood $4485
27 Manny Stavropoulos $4485
28 Luis Arrilucea $4140
29 Kyle Cheong $4140
30 Omer Silajdzija $4140
31 Dean Francis $4140
32 Davor Derek $4140
33 Matthew Wakeman $3795
34 Jeric Roche $3795
35 Kristian Lunardi $3795
36 Robbie Stewart $3795
37 Amanda De Cesare $3450
38 Patrick Dillon $3450
39 James Bills $3450
40 Martin Ward $3450
41 Najib Moubayed $3450
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