The 2013 Sydney Poker Championships have started in record-breaking fashion at The Star with a massive field of 914 players signing up for the $330 buy-in No Limit Hold’em Opening Event, and the last of the three day one flights wrapping up yesterday.
You didn’t need a grant to come up with the buy-in, but it helped to be one – Grant Curran leads the field heading into day two on 195,100 while Star Poker ambassador Grant Levy is second in chips on 151,300. Fresh from her runner-up finish in the Ladies Championship event at the 2013 WSOP, Leanne Haas is just outside the top 10 with 157 players returning to the felt at Star Poker today from 12.30pm in pursuit of a spot in the money.
The list of players who survived day one included Kristina Griffiths (117,400), Rafe Aman (98,600), 2012 Sydney Champs Main Event winner Dean Yuen (65,800), Nabil Edgtton (59,900), Andrew Scarf (51,800), Antonis Kambouroglou (49,300) and Tony Kondevski (46,800).
Sydney Champs $330 No Limit Hold’em Opening Event w/ repechage (914 players, 157 players remain, prizepool $274,500) end of day 1 chip count
Grant Curran 195,100
Grant Levy 151,300
Rory Young 151,100
Yibo He 137,000
Ricky Lim 132,400
Nas Lavulo 132,400
Rined Namrood 123,900
Faysal Kurdi 121,400
Adam Cosgrave 118,900
Kristina Griffiths 117,400
Player #320964 117,300
Leanne Haas 113,800
Victor Teng 113,400
Colm Galloway 111,500
Mazvydas Simaitis 110,300
Ahmed Eid 106,200
Daniel Franks 106,100
Tony Sama 103,400
Mark Abrahim 101,700
Keyan Ghezelbash 99,900
Dean Boskovic 99,100
Warren Lewis 99,100
Rafe Aman 98,600
Michael Doumani 97,900
Michael Kyriakou 95,700
Malte Polley 94,400
Peter Haddad 93,500
Trent Adams 91,800
Cassandra Mintin 90,800
Kacper Kurpiewski 90,600
Mladen Avramovski 88,200
Quang Tran 87,400
Manuel Hansimikali 85,200
Colin McFee 84,500
Michael Davy 84,200
Murat Ceyhan 83,700
Jason Sarkis 82,700
Andrew Zapantis 81,100
Luke Spano 80,800
Trevor Saunders 78,400
Daniel Braun 75,900
Gabi Levi 74,000
Lior Segre 72,900
Wei Bing Low 71,500
Peter Apostolou 71,400
Kamyar Ekrami 69,200
Andrew Negre 69,000
George Karageorge 69,000
David Sebesfi 67,200
Nobeel Khan 66,700
Dean Yuen 65,800
Melanie Britt 65,100
Garry George 64,600
Jeffrey Lipman 64,400
Douglas Elliot 64,400
Hassib Younan 63,600
Brooke Eisenhuth 63,300
Thomas Bilby 63,300
Daniel Simons 62,300
Michael Levy 62,200
Nhon Ta 61,500
Alastair Boast 61,200
Nabil Edgtton 59,900
Lisa Smit 59,600
David Campion 57,100
Nicholas Porta 57,000
Gokhan Kocaman 56,600
Hadia Yawanis 56,400
Ben Phillips 55,800
Julian Malki 55,500
Player #320962 55,400
David Mason 55,000
Bruce Hall 54,900
Michael O’Brien 54,900
Peter Mathias 53,800
Joseph Alvaro 53,300
Cezary Klimczak 52,600
Andrew Scarf 51,800
Louie Elias Srour 51,800
Todd Humphries 51,200
David Roberts 50,800
Kevin Lo 50,800
Antonis Kambouroglou 49,300
Matthew Pongrass 49,100
Zachary Tunbridge 47,900
Omar Nuch 47,900
Na Wei Segon 47,300
Mark Sarkis 47,100
Shivan Abdine 47,000
Tony Kondevski 46,800
David Hirst 46,400
Leo Wai 43,700
John Thomson 43,600
Douglas Dillon 43,600
Yu Liang Zhong 43,200
Joseph Selwyn 41,900
Wiremu Payne 41,900
David Haas 41,400
Allan Casas 41,100
Player #255456 40,500
Carmen Vella 40,500
Ron Oakley 39,900
Benjamin Zhang 39,800
Bradley Mitchell 39,800
Brad Stott 39,800
Michael King 39,600
Vera Milinkovic 39,100
Atua Tofaeone 37,400
Jordan Kilner 37,200
Michael Angeles 37,100
Paul Tartak 36,300
Neil Karpin 36,000
Artur Campos 35,700
Daniel Giang 34,800
Timothy Murray-Leslie 34,600
Matthew Dapollonio 34,000
Craig Blight 32,500
Karam Bahi 32,200
Paul Bennett 31,400
Fred Madon 30,900
Andrew Scuglia 29,600
Jin-ah Min 29,600
Benjamin Paolini 29,300
Player #320968 28,100
Mark Matthews 27,900
Michael Doodson 27,700
Angelo Gutierrez 27200
Jeff Brian 26,600
Phillip Shepherd 26,400
John Ryan 26,000
Miray Badaoui 25,900
Peter Natoli 25,600
Abbas Karroobee 25,400
Jun Lin 25,100
Kenny Huynh 25,100
Alecsander Lawrence 24,700
Rick Solomon 24,300
Vince Green-Gibson 24,100
David Chanduloy 22,600
Timothy A Smith 21,800
Josh Thiel 20,300
Jamie Porra 20,200
Michael Roth 20,000
Wayne Walker 18,500
Natalie Andruschko 17,800
Justin Gendle 17,700
Tina Aukusitino 17,500
Alicia Wilkinson 17,400
Andrew Benfield 17,300
John Kouriel 16,600
Benn Sowerby 16,200
Nick Williams 15,000
Richard Wong 14,700
Robert Moh 14,400
Ramin Mansour-Seperghan 14,300
Raad Ali 12,000
Pandeli Kambos 11800
Andrew Michael 10,000
2013 Sydney Champs schedule (events to come)
August 3
12.30pm Event 1: $330 No Limit Hold’em Opening Event (repechage) day 2
August 4
12.30pm Event 2: $1100 PokerMedia Australia Six-Handed No Limit Hold’em (40-minute levels, starting stack 15,000)
4pm Event 1: $330 No Limit Hold’em Opening Event final table
August 5
12.30pm Event 3: $550 No Limit Hold’em Semi-Shootout (30-minute levels, starting stack 8000)
4pm Event 2: $1100 PokerMedia Australia Six-Handed No Limit Hold’em final table
6.15pm $300 Sydney Champs Mega Satellite (25-minute levels, starting stack 6000)
August 6
12.30pm Event 4: $440 Mixed No Limit Hold’em/Pot Limit Omaha (30-minute levels, starting stack 8000)
4pm Event 3: $550 No Limit Hold’em Semi-Shootout final table
6.15pm Event 5: $440 No Limit Hold’em Teams Event (20-minute levels, starting stack 8000)
August 7
12.30pm Event 6: $550 Pot Limit Omaha w/ re-entry (40-minute levels, starting stack 10,000)
6.15pm $300 Sydney Champs Mega Satellite (25-minute levels, starting stack 6000)
August 8
12.30pm $300 Sydney Champs Last Chance Mega Satellite (25-minute levels, starting stack 6000)
6.15pm Event 7: $3000 Sydney Champs Main Event No Limit Hold’em day 1 flight 1 (60-minute levels, starting stack 20,000)
August 9
12.30pm Event 7: $3000 Sydney Champs Main Event No Limit Hold’em day 1 flight 2 (60-minute levels, starting stack 20,000)
August 10
12.30pm Event 7: $3000 Sydney Champs Main Event No Limit Hold’em day 2
6.15pm $550 $5K Challenge No Limit Hold’em Satellite (25-minute levels, starting stack 6000)
August 11
12.30pm Event 8: $440 Turbo No Limit Hold’em (20-minute levels, starting stack 8000)
2pm Event 7: $3000 Sydney Champs Main Event No Limit Hold’em day 3/final table
4pm: Event 9: $5000 No Limit Hold’em Challenge (45-minute levels, starting stack 15,000)
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