Main Event
Day 2 Started
Main Event
Day 2 Started
Name | Table | Seat | Chips |
Eugene Portlen | 7 | 1 | 42,800 |
Sumeet Brar | 7 | 2 | 42,800 |
Pascal Boulet | 7 | 3 | 31,300 |
Tim Whiteley | 7 | 4 | 40,700 |
Yuet Chee | 7 | 5 | 20,600 |
Katie Gooden | 7 | 6 | 43,100 |
Ivan Zalac | 7 | 7 | 92,800 |
John Lombardo | 7 | 8 | 44,000 |
Peter Sheary | 7 | 9 | 29,000 |
Tino Lechich | 8 | 1 | 67,100 |
Ryan Otto | 8 | 2 | 42,400 |
Adrian Indovino | 8 | 3 | 79,200 |
Ryan Hong | 8 | 4 | 57,000 |
Luis Chuquipiondo | 8 | 5 | 35,200 |
Gary Retallick | 8 | 6 | 79,200 |
Dylan Kehoe | 8 | 7 | 34,100 |
Sean Keeton | 8 | 8 | 28,500 |
Ross Grammer | 8 | 9 | 83,900 |
Julius Colman | 10 | 1 | 21,700 |
Corey Demartin | 10 | 2 | 65,700 |
Jesse McKenzie | 10 | 3 | 13,800 |
Emanuel Seal | 10 | 4 | 45,200 |
Petrit Abazi | 10 | 5 | 48,000 |
David Munday | 10 | 6 | 61,900 |
Thang Truong | 10 | 7 | 54,100 |
James Obst | 10 | 8 | 22,100 |
Paul Tartak | 10 | 9 | 34,600 |
Brent Taunton | 11 | 1 | 56,100 |
Tristan Bain | 11 | 2 | 85,200 |
Jamal Nagi | 11 | 3 | 64,800 |
George Tang | 11 | 4 | 18,000 |
Robert Allen | 11 | 5 | 44,800 |
Andrew Starr | 11 | 6 | 29,000 |
Jozef Ricciardello | 11 | 7 | 19,100 |
Steve Pappas | 11 | 8 | 18,600 |
Luis Pampliega | 11 | 9 | 40,100 |
Nigel Brine | 12 | 1 | 22,600 |
Min Jae Park | 12 | 2 | 118,500 |
Seyed Hosseininasab | 12 | 3 | 103,800 |
Hing Aik Shiung | 12 | 4 | 7,600 |
Josh Mitchell | 12 | 5 | 18,400 |
Peter Kotsiris | 12 | 6 | 41,500 |
Joseph Giaquinta | 12 | 7 | 9,500 |
Billy 'The Croc' Argyros | 12 | 8 | 33,500 |
Nathan Gubieski | 12 | 9 | 12,800 |
Ben Savage | 25 | 1 | 87,200 |
James Rann | 25 | 2 | 40,100 |
Joe Hachem | 25 | 3 | 10,000 |
Hyeong Choi | 25 | 4 | 131,100 |
Mark Schmelcher | 25 | 5 | 98,300 |
Roy Vandersluis | 25 | 6 | 13,500 |
Ben Jee | 25 | 7 | 30,500 |
Graham Cowan | 25 | 8 | 100,300 |
Carl Knox | 25 | 9 | 49,200 |
Darren Schneider | 26 | 1 | 20,100 |
Rahul Rastogi | 26 | 2 | 32,600 |
Scott Reid | 26 | 3 | 34,400 |
Cameron Bryce | 26 | 4 | 19,000 |
Jordan Tentori | 26 | 5 | 15,800 |
James Grosso | 26 | 6 | 72,500 |
Erdinc Ibrahim | 26 | 7 | 69,500 |
Ben Pockett | 26 | 8 | 11,400 |
David Lim | 26 | 9 | 28,810 |
Erich Stadler | 27 | 1 | 65,900 |
Selwyn Austin | 27 | 2 | 77,700 |
Stafford Hamilton | 27 | 3 | 25,600 |
Denis Bacino | 27 | 4 | 32,000 |
Philip Maker | 27 | 5 | 25,100 |
Marcial Dias | 27 | 6 | 53,300 |
Michael Pinzone | 27 | 7 | 78,000 |
Nick Oiberman | 27 | 8 | 16,700 |
Stephen Swirgoski | 27 | 9 | 25,900 |
Elizabeth Vanprooyen | 28 | 1 | 43,800 |
Arin Percy | 28 | 2 | 10,300 |
Mark Sawicki | 28 | 3 | 35,500 |
Aleks Brkovic | 28 | 4 | 66,900 |
Van Marcus | 28 | 5 | 30,200 |
Raiden Kan | 28 | 6 | 17,300 |
Nikolce Trajkovski | 28 | 7 | 20,100 |
Nikolaos Solomos | 28 | 8 | 60,800 |
Kurt Burum-Mikelat | 28 | 9 | 19,800 |
Stephen Goodridge | 29 | 1 | 15,000 |
Andrew Mclaren | 29 | 2 | 25,000 |
Phares Bouya | 29 | 3 | 56,100 |
Peter Baars | 29 | 4 | 20,100 |
Danny Boxell | 29 | 5 | 107,100 |
Samuel Rotar | 29 | 6 | 18,900 |
Yucheng Rong | 29 | 7 | 58,800 |
Tom Rafferty | 29 | 8 | 26,400 |
Brian Payne | 29 | 9 | 30,700 |
Kenn Langcake | 30 | 1 | 65,000 |
Michael Tomeny | 30 | 2 | 25,900 |
Anthony Legg | 30 | 3 | 21,300 |
Gideon Max | 30 | 4 | 57,200 |
Cyrille Rousset | 30 | 5 | 40,500 |
Vincent Chua | 30 | 6 | 66,800 |
John Haddad | 30 | 7 | 47,900 |
Luke Brabin | 30 | 8 | 94,200 |
Dean Yuen | 30 | 9 | 22,700 |
Daniel Christieson | 31 | 1 | 53,200 |
Christopher Eade | 31 | 3 | 49,200 |
Simon Chahine | 31 | 4 | 32,400 |
Jason Giuliano | 31 | 5 | 19,400 |
William Mitchell | 31 | 6 | 16,000 |
George Balandinos | 31 | 7 | 68,000 |
Angelo Scicchitano | 31 | 8 | 15,000 |
Paul Whiteman | 31 | 9 | 18,500 |
Joseph Cristallo | 32 | 1 | 83,400 |
Morry Edelstein | 32 | 2 | 46,400 |
Salvatore Fazzino | 32 | 3 | 9,600 |
Patrick Hanrahan | 32 | 4 | 95,800 |
Mansour Khorramshahi | 32 | 5 | 28,100 |
Gary Banks | 32 | 6 | 20,300 |
Robert Goodwin | 32 | 7 | 32,200 |
Mathew Hawker | 32 | 8 | 70,600 |
Anthony Aston | 32 | 9 | 42,400 |
Ian Parnell | 33 | 1 | 37,600 |
Michael Mackinnon | 33 | 2 | 13,800 |
Michael Matsioukkou | 33 | 3 | 23,000 |
George Tsatsis | 33 | 4 | 68,200 |
Tony Grosso | 33 | 5 | 46,800 |
Dib Yusuf | 33 | 6 | 15,800 |
[Removed:415] | 33 | 7 | 30,000 |
Luke Edwards | 33 | 8 | 38,500 |
Tam Truong | 33 | 9 | 41,600 |
Kan Lin | 37 | 1 | 37,900 |
Kheng Ong Chu | 37 | 2 | 84,000 |
Jeremiah Menzel | 37 | 3 | 66,800 |
Peter Matusik | 37 | 4 | 65,500 |
Yujen Lin | 37 | 5 | 48,400 |
Ricardo Jardim | 37 | 6 | 36,700 |
Charlie Pappalardo | 37 | 7 | 15,800 |
Chi Thanh Le | 37 | 8 | 30,300 |
Ngoc Dam | 37 | 9 | 78,800 |
Troy Barnett | 38 | 1 | 26,000 |
Frank Pezzaniti | 38 | 2 | 44,000 |
George Dimitriadis | 38 | 3 | 40,500 |
Christopher Wookey | 38 | 4 | 13,000 |
Sam Razavi | 38 | 5 | 11,700 |
John Jolly | 38 | 6 | 60,800 |
Mile Krstanoski | 38 | 7 | 9,400 |
Daniel Burich | 38 | 8 | 34,200 |
Michael Kanaan | 38 | 9 | 25,800 |
Mingmin Wu | 39 | 1 | 19,700 |
Naween Fernando | 39 | 2 | 38,300 |
Scott King | 39 | 3 | 47,400 |
Andrew Zarro | 39 | 4 | 42,900 |
Rody Kaka | 39 | 5 | 24,200 |
Sam Nee Aik-Chuan | 39 | 6 | 98,600 |
Mark Bradley | 39 | 7 | 40,800 |
Tien Pham | 39 | 8 | 24,100 |
Xiaoming Liang | 39 | 9 | 41,200 |
Brian Lockett | 40 | 1 | 21,700 |
Dale Townsend | 40 | 2 | 34,600 |
Weipeng Deng | 40 | 3 | 35,600 |
Adrian Attenborough | 40 | 4 | 20,200 |
Byron Silvers | 40 | 5 | 23,900 |
Michele Guzzardi | 40 | 6 | 33,500 |
Stewart Ballard | 40 | 7 | 34,300 |
Chris Diamantopoulos | 40 | 8 | 7,200 |
Adam Monaghan | 40 | 9 | 61,800 |
Henry Wang | 41 | 1 | 23,600 |
Yibo He | 41 | 2 | 65,600 |
Lin Shi | 41 | 3 | 27,800 |
Damon Smith | 41 | 4 | 76,900 |
Cale Callaway | 41 | 5 | 15,600 |
Evan Mijo | 41 | 6 | 88,500 |
Sarah Bilney | 41 | 7 | 63,500 |
Sasha Dare | 41 | 8 | 22,000 |
Sam Khoueis | 41 | 9 | 31,400 |
Senthi Subramaniam | 42 | 1 | 12,600 |
Anthony Ronalds | 42 | 2 | 22,100 |
Ernest Guthrie | 42 | 3 | 42,300 |
Paul Tadina | 42 | 4 | 27,100 |
Warren Taylor | 42 | 5 | 40,100 |
Rory Young | 42 | 6 | 75,000 |
Chengen Lee | 42 | 7 | 8,000 |
Stevan Chew | 42 | 8 | 58,700 |
David Evans | 42 | 9 | 40,400 |
Paul Khoury | 43 | 1 | 30,100 |
Darren Lukas | 43 | 2 | 60,800 |
Mark Betts | 43 | 3 | 27,500 |
Hun Lee | 43 | 4 | 57,700 |
Manuel Hansimikali | 43 | 5 | 38,600 |
Michael Subacius | 43 | 6 | 22,100 |
Jackie Glazier | 43 | 7 | 10,100 |
Warren Halverson | 43 | 8 | 45,400 |
Shao Liu | 43 | 9 | 34,000 |
Craig Blight | 44 | 1 | 14,500 |
Samuel Gorr | 44 | 2 | 30,100 |
Roberto Damelian | 44 | 3 | 58,200 |
Jack Orders | 44 | 4 | 8,600 |
Khylon Hanegraaf | 44 | 6 | 51,900 |
Hugo Robinson | 44 | 7 | 32,200 |
Adeel Shaikh | 44 | 8 | 14,800 |
Sam Higgs | 44 | 9 | 58,100 |
Gilles Daniel | 45 | 1 | 46,000 |
Daniel Bird | 45 | 2 | 44,000 |
Manny Stavropoulos | 45 | 3 | 59,800 |
Li Quan | 45 | 4 | 15,700 |
Seonglee Ang | 45 | 5 | 66,100 |
Sean Robey | 45 | 6 | 55,200 |
Nick Morales | 45 | 7 | 91,100 |
Brett McGrath | 45 | 8 | 61,400 |
Robert Lauren Saggio | 45 | 9 | 19,500 |
Christoph Colaneri | 46 | 1 | 57,300 |
Ali Ghezelbash | 46 | 2 | 77,400 |
Tony Disalvio | 46 | 3 | 13,700 |
Josh Kennedyspooner | 46 | 4 | 46,200 |
Danny Chevalier | 46 | 5 | 25,900 |
Laurence Aston | 46 | 6 | 16,500 |
Lukas Byrns | 46 | 7 | 12,600 |
Didier Grigis | 46 | 8 | 56,900 |
Ricardo Faura | 46 | 9 | 21,100 |
Ismael Bourne | 47 | 1 | 30,400 |
Liam O'Rourke | 47 | 2 | 80,700 |
Chen-An Lin | 47 | 3 | 60,900 |
Eric Grigaux | 47 | 4 | 57,600 |
Jay Smith | 47 | 5 | 33,300 |
Dimitrios Psaros | 47 | 6 | 57,800 |
Anthony Huynh | 47 | 7 | 21,200 |
Craig Duffy | 47 | 8 | 25,600 |
Dean Blatt | 47 | 9 | 43,800 |
Kevin Frame | 48 | 1 | 25,600 |
Charlton Hawes | 48 | 2 | 41,300 |
Milan Gurung | 48 | 3 | 33,100 |
Minh Hau Nguyen | 48 | 4 | 73,000 |
Tony Hachem | 48 | 5 | 30,100 |
Leevan Puyat | 48 | 6 | 23,700 |
Gerard Windsor | 48 | 7 | 47,500 |
Panayot Flourentzou | 48 | 8 | 64,100 |
Shivan Abdine | 48 | 9 | 58,800 |
Ku Chia-Chang | 49 | 1 | 86,900 |
Jonathan Wakefield | 49 | 2 | 11,200 |
Yihsun Chuang | 49 | 3 | 37,000 |
Arnold Bathan | 49 | 4 | 57,500 |
Sam Butters | 49 | 5 | 59,800 |
Charles Caris | 49 | 6 | 67,900 |
Claire Jackway | 49 | 7 | 65,000 |
Jarryd Godena | 49 | 8 | 43,100 |
Tauraki Terejim | 49 | 9 | 9,900 |
Welcome back to the Crown Casino! We are here for Day 2 of the 2015 ANZPT Melbourne Main Event. The dust has settled on two huge Day 1 flights and now the record-breaking 520-player starting field is down to 241.
Leading the way is Hyeong Wook Choi. A big Day 1b saw Choi amass a stack of 131,100. Chua will begin the day ahead of Day 1a’s chip leader Min Jae Park with 113,500.
There are dozens of notable players with plenty of chips including players from Day 1b like Danny Boxell (107,100), Luke Brabin (94,200) and Ivan Zalac (92,800) along with Day 1a players Graham Cowan (100,300), Tristan Bain (85,200) and Liam O’Rourke (85,200).
Some of the other still alive and kicking include Ben Savage (87,200), Rory Young (75,000), Minh Hau Nguyen (73,000), Aleks Brkovic (67,100), PokerStars Team Pro Chen-An Lin (60,900), Stevan Chew (58,700), Ryan Hong (57,000), Dean Blatt (43,800), Luke Edwards (38,500), Billy ’The Croc’ Argyros (33,500), Michael Gizzardi (33,500), Tony Hachem (30,100), James Obst (22,100), and 2005 WSOP main event champion Joe Hachem (10,000), just to name a few!
All of the returning players are hoping to keep their chance of claiming a piece of the $1,066,000 prize pool alive. It's the top 63 players who will finish in the cash, which is likely to be reached sometime in the later stages of Day 2.
Be sure to stay tuned to all the live updates from 12:30 p.m. local time as we start moving towards the business end of the action!
Level: 8
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
Chip bags have been ripped open and the cards are now in the air!
Day 2 kicks off at Level 8, with blinds at 500/1,000.
The plan is to play down to the money today.
There are 241 players returning, only 63 will make the money.
We arrived at the table to find the board spread out .
Raiden Kan had lost the hand holding against Kurt Burum-Mikelat's .
The dealer cut down Kan's 17,600 stack and determined he had been covered by Burum-Mikelat resulting in him hitting the rail.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Raiden Kan | Busted |
The action folded around to Warren Taylor on the button who raised it up to 4,600 in chips. Rory Young was seated in the small blind and bumped it up to 11,000 forcing a fold from the big blind. With the decision back on Taylor, he moved all in for around 25,000, and was snap called.
Taylor:
Young:
The board ran out to see Young hold with the higher pocket pair to see him rise to over 100,000 in chips.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Rory Young
|
112,000 | 52,000 |
Warren Taylor
|
Busted |
On a flop reading Marcial Dias checked his option from under the gun. Selwyn Austin then tossed out a bet totalling 12,600 from the cut off as the decision fell back on Dias. He then moved all in for 44,900 in chips sending Austin into the tank.
Austin counted out some chips, thought for a minute, before finally making the call.
Dias:
Austin:
It was all over for Dias when the spiked on the turn. The meaningless completed the board and Austin was left raking in a large pot as Dias was sent to the rail.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Selwyn Austin | 110,000 | 32,300 |
Marcial Dias
|
Busted |
Mark Schmelcher raised to 2,000 from early position and was called by Graham Cowan a few seats down.
The flop came down and Schmelcher threw out a continuation bet totalling 2,000. Cowan instantly raised it up to 5,000 and was snap called.
Schmelcher tossed out another 6,000 after the dropped on the turn and was faced with a min raise to 12,000 from Cowan. Again the bet was snap called before both players watched the complete the board.
This time Schmelcher opted to check prompting Cowan to fire out 15,000 in chips. Schmelcher quickly made the call and tabled for pair of nines with an ace kicker. It was good to enough to win the hand as Cowan showed his for the same pair with an inferior kicker.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Mark Schmelcher | 100,000 | |
Graham Cowan | 50,000 | -50,300 |
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Hyeong Wook Choi
|
145,000 | 14,000 |
Danny Boxell | 114,000 | 6,900 |
Min Jae Park | 102,000 | -16,500 |
Luke Brabin
|
46,000 | -48,200 |