Who Will Be Crowned the $5k Challenge Champ?

Day 2 of the $5k Challenge in the The Star Sydney Champs is set to kick off at 2:15 p.m. local time with 14 players out of 129 entries returning to battle it out today. The winner will walk away with the lion share of the A$612,750 prize pool as the first-place prize is worth a whopping A$171,572. Every player who takes their seat at the table today is already guaranteed A$10,343 but they will all be aspiring to claim the title and the prize money that comes with it.

Charlie Hawes is ahead of the pack with 429,000 in chips. Hawes is followed by Ehsan Amiri (338,000), Sandy Sinclair (337,000), Ashish Gupta (298,000), and Andrian Chin (252,000). With the average stack amounting to 23 big blinds, the final day could go fast as levels last 45 minutes each and a 10-minute break will take place after every three levels.

A live stream will be available again with commentary provided by Jamie Kerstetter and Ashley Sleeth via the Run It Up Twitch channel with a security delay as the hole cards will be shown. The PokerNews live reporting team will be on hand to bring you all the updates in real-time until a champion has been crowned so stick around to find out who will take it down..

Final Day Seat Draw

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
30	1	Sandy Sinclair	Australia	337,000	34
30	2	Ebon Bokody	Australia	224,000	22
30	3	Timo Hettinger	Germany	153,000	15
30	6	Charlie Hawes	New Zealand	429,000	43
30	7	Ehsan Amiri	Australia	338,000	34
30	8	Vesko Zmukic	Australia	230,000	23
30	9	Majid Saab	Australia	249,000	25

32	1	Andrian Chin	Australia	252,000	25
32	2	Jason Gray	United Kingdom	122,000	12
32	4	Minh Nguyen	Australia	154,000	15
32	5	Mladen Vukovic	Australia	158,000	16
32	7	Ashish Gupta	Australia	298,000	30
32	8	Vincent Huang	Australia	211,000	21
32	9	Dejan Boskovic Sr	Australia	192,000	19