John Mendel - 74,000
Robert Bechara - 42,000
Mamouni Smain - 269,000
Anthony Rafter - 105,000
Jamie Pickering - 572,500
George Kassis - 205,000
David Kim - 41,000
Phillip Willcocks - 343,000
Table 9
Jason Pritchard - 157,000
Jason Gray - 308,500
Frank Bianco - 58,000
Roel Pijpers - 28,000
Graeme Putt - 29,500
Brendan Edmonds - 517,500
Christopher Lee - 171,000
Scott Smith - 201,500
Table 10
Michael Guzzardi - 142,000
Shane Dye - 139,500
Tony Basile - 343,500
Timothy English - 415,500
Wang Che Jung - 359,500
Michael Fraser - 69,000
Marlon Goonawardana - 404,000
Sam Capra - 82,000
Table 15
Frank Saffioti - 619,000 (chip leader)
Stewart Davidson - 347,500
David Lee - 21,500
Tom Rafferty - 293,000
Bassam Habib - 192,500
Raymond Lapitan - 415,500
Mark Deutsch - 103,000
Daniel Kowalski - 447,000
Table 16
Valerie Gigliotti - 32,500
Daniel Hameiri - 166,000
Minh Hau Nguyen - 69,500
Zhi Hong Ma - 36,500
David Gorr - 133,000
Thomas McLaughlin - 87,000
Ray Sukkar - 131,000
Eric Assadourian - 98,000
Table 18
Michael Harrington - 115,500
Hai Bo Chu - 66,000
Jimmy Wong - 112,500
Antonio Fazzolari - 366,000
Lisa Delellis - 103,000
Travers Nicholas - 123,500
George Lind - 113,000
Martin Rowe - 129,500
The chip accumulation process will start again on Day 3.
A long Day 2 produced a solid night of sleep for all involved -- players and media. Now forty eight fresh-faced players are set to return to the tables today at the APPT Sydney Grand Final for Day 3 play. They will be jockeying for position and chips to determine who among them will be the nine representatives at tomorrow's final table vying for the A$1,000,000 first prize.
The home team is well-represented on Day 3, with thirty nine of the forty eight combatants claiming Australia as their country of origin. The overnight chip leader, Frank Saffioti, is one of those thirty nine. They are joined by two New Zealanders, two Americans, and one player from each of the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Canada and the Netherlands.
At this stage of the tournament, the average stack is just shy of 200,000 chips. With the bubble having burst at roughly 2am local time last night, we expect that the severe short stacks will be only too happy to get their chips in the middle and collect a minimum of A$8,400 in prize money.
That should speed up the pace of play in the early going. With the final forty eight players playing down to a final table of nine, today promises to be a much shorter day than yesterday. We'll see if that promise holds true when the players hit the tables in about a half hour's time. See you then!
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