![[user80015]](/img/avatars/avatar.svg){kind=avatar}
We at PokerNews.com strive to provide the best tournament reporting coverage in the world.
Unfortunately some things are out of our control, and currently in the Star City Poker Room, there are technical issues regarding connection to the network.
Please bear with us as we look to not only solve this problem, but also provide continuous updates from the PokerStars.net APPT Sydney Grand Final.
Level: 8
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
Welcome back to the Star City Casino for Day 2 of the PokerStars.net APPT Sydney Grand Final!
The 289-player field has been reduced to just 163 with play expected to play down until we reach the money of thirty-two players before play is paused for the night with everyone guaranteed a AU$12,145 payday. Expected to take more than the intended seven levels of play, the following players are best placed to make a run at leading the end-of-day counts.
Day 2 Top Ten Chip Counts:
| Place | Player | Country | Chip Count |
| 1 | Daniel Neilson | Australia | 164,100 |
| 2 | Aaron Tran | Australia | 147,200 |
| 3 | Manuel Hansimikali | Australia | 136,600 |
| 4 | Reza Vakili | Australia | 129,800 |
| 5 | Aleks Brkovic | Australia | 129,100 |
| 6 | Brent Bibby | Canada | 128,800 |
| 7 | Antonis Kambouroglou | Australia | 119,200 |
| 8 | Vijayan Nagarajan | Malaysia | 118,300 |
| 9 | Jai Kemp | Australia | 108,600 |
| 10 | Andrew Hiscox | Australia | 107,600 |
Local player and tournament circuit regular Daniel Neilson is the man everybody is chasing after amassing a 164,100-chip stack; and if things continue in this way, he top off his sensation year that includes the PokerNetwork Player of the Year for his three wins (including a main event and high rollers victory) and twelve other final table finishes.
Team PokerStars Pros Daniel Negreanu, Lee Nelson and Joe Hachem are still in the field, while Aussie Millions Champions Tyron Krost and Stewart Scott, as well as previous winners Martin Rowe and Grant Levy still remain in contention for a shot at the AU$459,510 first prize.
PokerNews will again be on the floor providing the exclusive live updates as we play down to the money in the PokerStars.net APPT Sydney Grand Final. Make sure to stay tuned to your laptops, mobiles or iPads from 12:30 pm AEST for all the action live from the Star City Casino!
Table 6
Seat 1: Giuseppe Scaravilli (35500)
Seat 2: Lee Nelson (15100)
Seat 3: Bassam Habib (32900)
Seat 4: Jarred Graham (93000)
Seat 5: Joseph Moussa (16600)
Seat 6: Rabii Maatouk (58000)
Seat 7: Antoine Amourette (90100)
Seat 8: Andrew Hiscox (107600)
Seat 9: Ali Khalil (84900)
Table 7
Seat 1: Todor Kondevski (64100)
Seat 2: Alan Bustany (70300)
Seat 3: Colin Morris-Denby (18200)
Seat 4: Mishel Anunu (15500)
Seat 5: Daniel Neilson (164100)
Seat 6: Ben Gilholme (31500)
Seat 7: Antonis Kambouroglou (119200)
Seat 8: Jonathan Karamalikis (83500)
Seat 9: Eddy Sabat (79200)
Table 8
Seat 1: Maksim Semisoshenko (75500)
Seat 2: Jim Ghobrial (48500)
Seat 3: Francois Fanniere (20600)
Seat 4: David Giang (40800)
Seat 5: Bas Prens (16700)
Seat 6: Emad Moaref (31600)
Seat 7: Michael Pedley (75400)
Seat 8: David Saab (94900)
Seat 9: Ruggiero Ambrosino (59300)
Table 9
Seat 1: Casey Kastle (45400)
Seat 2: Daniel Negreanu (57400)
Seat 3: Tony Guoga (47800)
Seat 4: Aaron Benton (59400)
Seat 5: Wayne Carlson (18500)
Seat 6: Peter Dykes (52700)
Seat 7: To Be Identified 3 (35950)
Seat 8: Hugo Bolzan Silveira (45200)
Seat 9: Jackson Zheng (87900)
Table 10
Seat 1: Andrew Stergiotis (52000)
Seat 2: Hugh Cohen (75200)
Seat 3: Koray Turker (49400)
Seat 4: Phillip Willcocks (32900)
Seat 5: Andrew Kanaridis (96800)
Seat 6: Omer Silatozija (27900)
Seat 7: Elias Srour (13000)
Seat 8: Con Angelakis (25800)
Seat 9: Roy Vandersluis (21400)
Table 11
Seat 1: Miray Badaoui (93100)
Seat 2: Andrew Gaw (52500)
Seat 3: Stewart Scott (18500)
Seat 4: Angelo Scicchitano (52900)
Seat 5: Tyron Krost (100800)
Seat 6: Tristan Earl (11900)
Seat 7: Linas Leonovis (79600)
Seat 8: George Moussa (67200)
Seat 9: Vijayan Nagarajan (118300)
Table 12
Seat 1: Manuel Hansimikali (136600)
Seat 2: Chris Bianco (86000)
Seat 3: Tamara Ben-Moha (30600)
Seat 4: Jovo Skekic (24400)
Seat 5: Michael Tran (21600)
Seat 6: Sam Muir (51900)
Seat 7: John Maklouf (44500)
Seat 8: Julian Cohen (46900)
Seat 9: Gordon Huntly (54700)
Seat 10: Silkin Mong (56500)
Table 13
Seat 1: Camil Debsia (8100)
Seat 2: Rodney Louie (22500)
Seat 3: Martin Rowe (24100)
Seat 4: Cale Callaway (39300)
Seat 5: Joe Hachem (46050)
Seat 6: Kristina Jeney (70200)
Seat 7: David Saghabi (97700)
Seat 8: Josh Barrett (16500)
Seat 9: Edi Harbas (37200)
Table 14
Seat 1: Michael Fraser (27100)
Seat 2: Roel Pijpers (64000)
Seat 3: Anthony Tarabay (7500)
Seat 4: Roland de Wolfe (83200)
Seat 5: Norman Doucette (90000)
Seat 6: Stephen Wise (21900)
Seat 7: Grant Levy (92900)
Seat 8: Sam Capra (38200)
Seat 9: Liam O'Rourke (65700)
Table 15
Seat 1: Alexander Dickinson (29200)
Seat 2: Abbas Karroobee (35900)
Seat 3: Con Karamanlis (39900)
Seat 4: George Boustani (28700)
Seat 5: Aleks Brkovic (129100)
Seat 6: Peter Mathias (68100)
Seat 7: Simon Watt (59200)
Seat 8: Heinz Kamutzki (79200)
Seat 9: Stanley Wu (50000)
Table 16
Seat 1: Mitch Carle (32600)
Seat 2: Mark Rebeira (60000)
Seat 3: David Munsie (53700)
Seat 4: Michel Bouskila (20200)
Seat 5: Rennie Carnevale (36800)
Seat 6: David Felton (41600)
Seat 7: Benjamin Mclean (42700)
Seat 8: Billy Argyros (54200)
Seat 9: Daniel Ward (59100)
Table 17
Seat 1: Martin Drewe (22200)
Seat 2: Dean Nyberg (60800)
Seat 3: Jesse Mckenzie (22200)
Seat 4: Jason Brown (83000)
Seat 5: Reza Vakili (129800)
Seat 6: Joe Marchal (45000)
Seat 7: Vesko Zmukic (26600)
Seat 8: Joel Dodds (61900)
Seat 9: Konstantin Bücherl (38175)
Table 18
Seat 1: Brent Bibby (128800)
Seat 2: Stephen Holloway (6100)
Seat 3: John Bockos (41500)
Seat 4: Rami Hakim (30300)
Seat 5: Brad Walker (44200)
Seat 6: Stefan Streifeneder (60200)
Seat 7: David Allan (45800)
Seat 8: Ismail Ismail (46100)
Seat 9: Eng Chang (24100)
Table 21
Seat 1: Esan Tabrizi (50600)
Seat 2: Dongying Ling (10000)
Seat 3: Leo Boxell (36900)
Seat 4: David Gorr (52500)
Seat 5: Barry Forrester (107200)
Seat 6: Enh Phengsavanh (80500)
Seat 7: Craig Bourke (68900)
Seat 8: Yann Pauchon (73400)
Seat 9: Aleksej Baranovski (41400)
Table 22
Seat 1: Andrew Hinrichsen (64000)
Seat 2: Asuncion Orna (23600)
Seat 3: Jose Pacheco De Noronha (63500)
Seat 4: Heng Zhang (47300)
Seat 5: Aaron Tran (147200)
Seat 6: Jaime Kaplan (22600)
Seat 7: Qi Xu (23000)
Seat 8: Rikki Papesch (49400)
Seat 9: Tom Grigg (36500)
Table 23
Seat 1: Tom Rafferty (73400)
Seat 2: Nigel Brine (43000)
Seat 3: Joachim Chia (34100)
Seat 4: Chris Ayoub (21300)
Seat 5: Anthony Kanaan (91400)
Seat 6: Jason Gray (55700)
Seat 7: Paul O'Brien (45900)
Seat 8: Craig Blight (27600)
Seat 9: Rodney Sahyoun (26100)
Table 24
Seat 1: Sean Dunwoodie (95400)
Seat 2: Brendon Rubie (46700)
Seat 3: Kamyar Ekrami (10500)
Seat 4: Kent Hunter (21175)
Seat 5: Danny Huynh (45400)
Seat 6: Jonyson Azzi (56100)
Seat 7: Jackie Glazier (48600)
Seat 8: Thomas Wing (21100)
Seat 9: Ben Toni (38500)
Table 25
Seat 1: Jai Kemp (108600)
Seat 2: Chris Levick (19600)
Seat 3: To Be Identified (8200)
Seat 4: Jay Kinkade (82500)
Seat 5: Wolfgang Wurzer (25000)
Seat 6: Sal Fazzino (60000)
Seat 7: Jong-Hyun Lim (42000)
Seat 8: In Wook Choi (66500)
Seat 9: Peco Stojanovski (82100)
Main Event
Day 2 Started
