Bradley Wilson steals Day 1a chip lead at The Star Gold Coast

The Star Gold Coast Summer Series Main Event got off to a flying start on Friday, with a strong field of 212 entries resulting in 45 players bagging up for Sunday’s Day 2.

Our Day 1a chip leader is Bradley Wilson (pictured), who bagged up 501,000, with Gavin Best, (484,000), Najeem Ajez (467,000), Chris Costanza (407,000) and Sean Lannon (400,000) rounding out the top five.

Other players to have made the cut include Jennifer Cassells, Hassan Hussein, Jason Spencer, Will Davis, Qais Shanasa and Josh Norvock, while it wasn’t the greatest day at the office for Mike Maddocks, Brenton Buttigieg and Tony Seremet.

Fortunately, with the benefit of unlimited re-entries and the option to forfeit if you’ve bagged under 50K, players have the opportunity to refocus, reset and return on Saturday Day 1b, which kicks off at 12:30pm AEST (1:30pm AEDT).

Of course, PokerMedia Australia will be back ringside to bring you all the action, so be sure to bookmark your browsers to follow the action.

Day 1a final chip counts:

NAME	CHIPS
Brad Wilson	501000
Gavin Best	484000
Najeem Ajez	467000
Chris Costanzo	407000
Sean Lannon	400000
Josh Norvock	395000
Jason Spencer	382000
Matthew Howearth	368000
Qais Shanasa	362000
John Perry	355000
Wiremu Davis	341000
William Woolsey	329000
Paul Mummery	329000
Elliot Hall	312000
Damien Bennett	310000
Jennifer Cassell	306000
Shane Parker	284000
Dean Stevenson	281000
Paul Neville	276000
Robert Damelian	250000
Jaisan Patel	249000
Justin Lowe	247000
Yuwei Wei	247000
Andrew Batey	244000
Adam Bevis	209000
Jean Rey	191000
Fan Zhang	186000
Aroha Ngata	182500
Dean Williams	181000
Michael Clair	172000
Krishan Kara	170000
Mal Chapman	151000
Ben Karyar	150000
Adriano Scagnetti	148000
Qi Xu	141000
Curtis Stollery	113000
William Wong	112000
Joshua Hutchins	109000
Mina Gerges	102000
Fred Jones	83000
David Clark	57000
Tommy Handelaar	9300