The third of four Day 1 flights in the WSOP-C Gold Coast Main Event has now been completed, with 46 more players finding a bag for Sunday’s Day 2 to join the 31 from Day 1A and 1B combined. Day 1C dwarfed the previous two flights; 195 entries in total including rebuys more than doubling the number of entries prior to the start of the day.
Noman Mirza had the chip lead at every break and held onto it to bag a massive 415,000 at the end of the flight, well clear of the next biggest stacks from Day 1C in Cuong Le (323,000), Matt Pongrass (311,000), and Shuai Chang (300,000). It’s still Iran’s Kamyar Ekrami, who bagged 497,000 in Day 1A, leading the way overall.
Others to find a bag included Gary Lin (208,000), Billy “The Croc” Argyros (205,000), and Liam Murray (209,500), while the likes of Gavin Best, Ehsan Amiri, and Romain Morvan will have to try again tomorrow to put something together.
Speaking to PokerMedia Australia briefly before heading off for a good nights rest, Mirza said he didn’t have any goals to speak of going into the day, only to “play the best poker I could and not think about the buy-in, try not to think about how much I want to bag. Today, it worked out well for me in the end.”
Mirza has had a very impressive 2023 thus far with a long string of results on his HendonMob profile; asked if he put that down to anything he said he’s been putting a lot of work into his poker, and that his “games definitely improved, especially in the bigger buy-ins and bigger fields. I think I still have a while to go, particularly because I’ve had some big spots where I haven’t really converted [to a win] in these big fields – so hopefully this is the one!”
Some of those results include a final table appearance at WPT Prime Gold Coast in March, as well as a deep run in the WPT Australia Main Event at the same venue in September, both for sizeable five-figure paydays.
2023 WSOP-C Gold Coast Main Event – Day 1C full chip counts
| Player | Chips |
| Noman Mirza | 415,000 |
| Cuong Le | 323,000 |
| Matt Pongrass | 311,000 |
| Shuai Chang | 300,000 |
| Khac Trung Tran | 278,500 |
| Matt Morris | 270,000 |
| Terence Clee | 219,500 |
| Chao Li | 215,500 |
| Liam Murray | 209,500 |
| Gary Lin | 208,000 |
| Jimmy Tran | 206,500 |
| Billy “The Croc” Argyros | 205,000 |
| Robert Kwan | 203,000 |
| Qais Shanasa | 197,000 |
| Sam Capra | 193,500 |
| Hugo Dief | 188,500 |
| Mishel Anunu | 185,500 |
| Dylan Kehoe | 185,500 |
| Darren Ooi | 166,500 |
| David Martell | 164,000 |
| Hussein Hassan | 160,000 |
| Ruiyang Wang | 152,500 |
| Andrew Hindmarsh | 149,000 |
| John Apostolidis | 142,000 |
| Joel Feldman | 130,000 |
| Nick Wright | 120,500 |
| Mina Gerges | 100,500 |
| Adrian Pacheco | 95,000 |
| Mark Fester | 91,000 |
| Rob Spano | 84,000 |
| Chin Yan Chan | 80,500 |
| Jun Wang | 75,500 |
| Bowen Liu | 75,000 |
| Anthony Beck | 68,000 |
| Adam Kharman | 60,500 |
| Wei Zhu | 56,000 |
| Andrew Menzies | 51,000 |
| Michael Egan | 47,500 |
| Justin Cohen | 40,500 |
| Thibaut Klinghammer | 39,000 |
| Emmanuel Seal | 37,000 |
| Ivan Icosic | 31,500 |
| Fabian Geisel | 27,000 |
| Blain Robertson | 25,500 |
| Geoff Marther | 18,500 |
PokerMedia Australia will be back in The Star Gold Coast poker room tomorrow from the earlier start of 12:30 local time to bring you all of the action from buy-in to bust-out of Day 1D. With the current total number of entries sitting at 295, we’re hopeful to see the last flight take the Main Event up and over 500 entries.
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