The Star Gold Coast Champs is off to a cracking start, with 156 entries taken in for the first flight of the $750 buy-in Opening Event and generating a current prize pool worth $105,300.
From the 26 survivors to have bagged up at the end of Day 1A, French import Antoine Follet has emerged as chip leader after securing a massive double-up with one of the last hands of the day with pocket kings.
Brenton Buttigieg, Nathan Harvey, Anthony Cierco and Mark Ericksen round out the top five, however Ricky Kroesen, Mike Maddocks, Mina Gerges and Jaisan Patel were amongst those to have hit the rail.
STAR GOLD COAST CHAMPS OPENING EVENT – END OF DAY 1A CHIP COUNTS
| Player | Chips |
| Antoine Follet | 454,000 |
| Brenton Buttigieg | 398,000 |
| Nathan Harvey | 337,000 |
| Anthony Cierco | 330,000 |
| Mark Ericksen | 285,000 |
| Abdul Nooroin | 250,000 |
| Josh Gold | 231,000 |
| Bert Perry | 223,000 |
| Harrison Kelly | 214,000 |
| Hung-Ta Shih | 199,500 |
| Michael Richards | 196,000 |
| Geoff Milner | 196,000 |
| Ben Margin | 149,000 |
| Mick Glen | 145,500 |
| Chris Zenonos | 133,000 |
| Cam Lopez | 124,000 |
| Jeison Berdugo | 113,000 |
| Jacob Faull | 112,000 |
| Martin Ward | 108,000 |
| Robert Damelian | 99,000 |
| Sam Haddad | 84,500 |
| Wai Kin Cheung | 82,000 |
| Alex Vidler | 70,000 |
| Alexander Portelli | 66,000 |
| Constantine Sincari | 59,500 |
| Mark Crier | 30,000 |
PokerMedia Australia will resume its coverage of the Opening Event with Day 1B tomorrow from 11:30am local time; for our full Day 1A Live Reporting blog, click here.
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