$10,600 Main Event Day 1c | 2018 Aussie Millions

$10,600 Main Event

Day 1c Completed

01-31-2018 01:23 UTC+10

The 2018 Aussie Millions Main Event Sets a New Attendance Record!

Christian Zetzsche

Level 7 : 300/600, 100 ante

Frank Pezzaniti bagged up the lead on Day 1c

When the third and final starting day of the 2018 Aussie Millions A$10,600 Main Event got underway, there were already more players registered than in both previous flights and the numbers continued to climb throughout the day. After the dinner break it was official that the previous record of 781 entries, set back in 2008, had been surpassed and the efforts of the entire Crown Casino Melbourne team had paid off.

Satellites for the Main Event started as early as March 2017 and more than 400 players won their entry through the various qualifiers in the biggest casino of the Southern hemisphere. Aussie Millions Tournament Director, Joel Williams said “We knew we would get close to breaking the record but to actually do it well before the registrations close tomorrow at 2:15pm AEST is incredible. The team has worked hard to make this year’s tournament the biggest and best yet and this proves that we are well on our way to achieving that as we expect to confirm even more entries overnight.”

Thanks to the 212 entries on Day 1a, 196 entries on Day 1b and astonishing 379 participants in the final flight, the total number entries currently stands at 787 unique players. The registration remains open until the end of the first level and following break on tomorrow's Day 2 at approximately 2.15 p.m. local time on January 31st, 2018, and Fedor Holz is expected to be among those to join the action before the end of the registration period.

Crown Casino Melbourne Poker Room — New record set at the 2018 Aussie Millions Main Event

Australian cricket legend Shane Warne got the action underway at lunch time and the poker room of the Crown Casino was buzzing with almost all of the tables in use, as will be at the start of Day 2 with approximately 370 hopefuls still in contention.

Three former Aussie Millions champions took to the felt on Day 1c including defending champion Shane Vijayaram, Ami Barer and Ari Engel. One year ago, Vijayaram's cinderella story of winning a seat via $130 satellite and turning that into a $1.6m score had inspired many locals. This time, it wasn't meant to be for the Aussie as Vijayaram limp-shoved pocket jacks into the pocket queens of former WSOP Main Event finalist Federico Butteroni to bow out in the penultimate level.

Engel was in early trouble and quickly found himself with just one third of the starting stack in level one. The Canadian never lost his cool and more than doubled with middle set against a straight and flush draw to bag up 61,900. Barer consistently built his stack throughout the seven 90-minute levels and advanced to Day 2 with 117,500.

At the top of the leader board it was a close race for the chip lead and Frank Pezzaniti claimed the overnight spotlight with a stack of 199,000. Close behind are Ludovic Riehl (194,600) and Kitty Kuo (190,000) after scooping big pots in the last levels of the night. Kuo flopped best with pocket queens to send Felix Schulze with pocket kings to the rail and also dispatched Craig McCorkell with aces versus queen-jack on a jack-high flop. Riehl's nut flush took care of Jan Suchanek, who held two pair and ended a wild roller coaster ride not far away from bagging and tagging.

Other big stacks and notables that survived the final flight include three-time WSOP bracelet winner Benny Glaser (153,000), Ludovic Geilich (136,900, Matt Affleck (130,600), Jarred Graham (129,100), Artur Koren (92,800), Federico Butteroni (91,500), Antonis “Toothpick Tony” Kambouroglou (91,000), Bart Lybaert (88,700), Martin Kozlov (88,300), Stevan Chew (74,900) and Australian Poker Hall of Famer Leo Boxell (55,500). Tony Hachem will join his brother Joe and his two nephews Anthony and Daniel on Day 2 after bagging up 57,800.

The sun wasn't shining for all big names Down Under at the poker tables today, though. Among those to run out of chips on Day 1c were former $25,000 Challenge champion Chance Kornuth, Sam Greenwood, Mustapha Kanit, Felipe Ramos, Kevin MacPhee, Michael Addamo, Allen Kessler and Dzmitry Urbanovich.

The survivors of all three starting flights will combine and the action in the Crown Casino poker room recommences at 12.30 p.m. local time with level 8 and blinds of 400/800 with a running ante of 100. A total of five levels of 90 minutes each are scheduled on Day 2 and the PokerNews live reporting team will be back on the floor to provide exclusive updates.

Tags: Allen Kessler Ami Barer Antonis Kambouroglou Ari Engel Benny Glaser Chance Kornuth Craig McCorkell Dzmitry Urbanovich Federico Butteroni Felipe Ramos Felix Schulze Frank Pezzaniti Jan Suchanek Kevin MacPhee Kitty Kuo Ludovic Geilich Ludovic Riehl Martin Kozlov Matt Affleck Michael Addamo Mustapha Kanit Sam Greenwood Shane Warne Shurane Vijayaram Stevan Chew Tony Hachem

01-31-2018 00:47 UTC+10

Day 2 Seat Draw

Webjoker

Level 7 : 300/600, 100 ante

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	1	Haki Sejnovski	Australia	52,300	65
1	2	Max Silver	United Kingdom	44,900	56
1	3	Alessandro Furneri	Italy	125,000	156
1	5	Lukas Byrns	Australia	65,200	82
1	6	Tash Roussety	Australia	11,600	15
1	7	Davin Georgi	Germany	36,000	45
1	8	Chen An Lin	Taiwan	50,700	63

2	1	Stephen Woodhead	United Kingdom	16,200	20
2	3	Fabian Quoss	Germany	22,400	28
2	4	Jason Pritchard	Australia	74,500	93
2	5	Adrian Indovino	Australia	31,500	39
2	6	Ana Marquez	Spain	36,000	45
2	7	Michael Rosenfield	Australia	49,600	62
2	8	Brian Yoon	United States	70,400	88

3	2	Gregory Woodman	Australia	25,600	32
3	3	Craig Zwies	Australia	66,600	83
3	4	Orien Rasmussen	Australia	54,200	68
3	5	David Olson	Australia	31,500	39
3	6	Michael Egan	Australia	126,700	158
3	7	Eli Loewenthal	Australia	38,000	48
3	8	Gurpreet Lubana	Canada	65,100	81

4	1	Tu Lan	China	32,600	41
4	2	Winfred Yu	Hong Kong	56,900	71
4	3	Gianluca Speranza	Italy	15,300	19
4	4	Rithy Chhay	Australia	58,500	73
4	5	Qiu Wenjian	China	102,900	129
4	6	Laszlo Molnar	Hungary	69,000	86
4	7	Xu Wang	China	37,200	47
4	8	Andreas Klatt	Germany	29,700	37

5	1	Andrew Shanahan	Australia	81,100	101
5	2	Michael Smith	Canada	53,800	67
5	3	David Gorr	Australia	35,600	45
5	4	Pasquale Ragozzino	Australia	52,500	66
5	5	Liang Xu	China	90,400	113
5	6	Daiva Byrne	United Kingdom	12,100	15
5	7	David Bonadio	Australia	20,800	26
5	8	Yin Liu	China	48,700	61

6	1	Jordan Westmorland	United States	20,800	26
6	2	Nicholas Jones	Australia	62,200	78
6	3	Joe Hachem	Australia	56,100	70
6	4	Rodrigo Meneses	Australia	57,400	72
6	5	Tony Shlemon	Australia	74,500	93
6	6	Marc Macdonnell	Ireland	74,600	93
6	7	Glenn Cymbaluk	Canada	105,500	132
6	8	Craig Blight	Australia	65,400	82

7	1	Tony Hachem	Australia	57,800	72
7	2	Milton Trickey	Australia	56,800	71
7	3	Peter Aristidou	Australia	32,800	41
7	4	William Dunn	Australia	32,400	41
7	6	John Overbeek	Australia	164,400	206
7	7	Joe Caruso	Australia	106,900	134
7	8	Brett Judd	Australia	27,300	34

8	2	Julian Powell	Australia	112,400	141
8	3	Amanda De Cesare	Australia	13,600	17
8	4	Heinz Kamutzki	Germany	31,900	40
8	5	Sam Grafton	United Kingdom	118,000	148
8	6	Max Young	United States	112,800	141
8	7	Laszlo Bujtas	Hungary	20,400	26
8	8	Zeljko Josipovic	Australia	19,300	24

9	1	Robert Lieu	Australia	23,100	29
9	2	Tanner Millen	United States	29,000	36
9	3	Tobias Hausen	Germany	156,000	195
9	4	Louis Salter	United Kingdom	32,800	41
9	5	David Leas	Australia	84,400	106
9	6	Justin Stein	United States	19,400	24
9	7	Helen Capp	Australia	63,300	79
9	8	Christopher Costanzo	Australia	22,300	28

10	1	Yucheng Rong	China	21,200	27
10	2	Dennis Huntly	Australia	84,800	106
10	3	Troy Wilson	Australia	27,900	35
10	4	Raiden Kan	Hong Kong	24,700	31
10	5	Yu-Chang Cheng	China	21,400	27
10	6	Ryan Pignatelli	Canada	40,200	50
10	8	Federico Butteroni	Italy	91,500	114

14	1	Russell Thomas	United States	15,300	19
14	2	Gillian Epp	Canada	55,200	69
14	3	Chad Awerbuch	Australia	100,200	125
14	4	Dinesh Velupillay	Australia	89,700	112
14	5	Victor Chong	Malaysia	15,500	19
14	6	Sarah Bilney	Australia	37,600	47
14	7	Mathew Velcic	Australia	53,000	66
14	8	Julius Colman	Australia	98,600	123

15	1	Martin Jacobson	Sweden	50,800	64
15	2	Trent Adams	Australia	24,200	30
15	3	George Vassilopoulos	Australia	56,700	71
15	4	Cole Swannack	New Zealand	197,300	247
15	5	Con Krousoratis	Australia	68,500	86
15	6	Yuen Lai	Hong Kong	78,700	98
15	7	Anthony Hachem	Australia	102,600	128
15	8	Tim Wei	Australia	44,600	56

16	1	Ying Kit Chang	Hong Kong	67,200	84
16	2	Karen Rahilly	Australia	15,500	19
16	3	Kabeelan Rajamurthy	Australia	64,300	80
16	4	Ashley Whitfield	United Kingdom	69,500	87
16	5	Ken Okada	Japan	29,500	37
16	6	Kee Lim	Australia	22,400	28
16	7	Xiaojun Zhang	Australia	49,900	62
16	8	Mel Judah	Australia	86,900	109

17	1	Toby Joyce	Ireland	25,200	32
17	2	Xing Yu Zhu	China	19,900	25
17	3	Joseph Foleti	Australia	59,300	74
17	4	Walter Treccarichi	Italy	61,100	76
17	5	Dominykas Karmazinas	Lithuania	43,400	54
17	6	Ken Demlakian	Australia	83,000	104
17	7	Yosuke Sekiya	Japan	50,600	63
17	8	Panayotis Flourentzou	Australia	28,600	36

25	1	Shane Currey	Canada	107,700	135
25	2	James Bills	Australia	23,700	30
25	3	Lawrence Ma	Australia	30,800	39
25	4	Michael Nolton	Australia	21,700	27
25	5	Daniel Demicki	Poland	32,500	41
25	6	Matthew Smith	Australia	17,800	22
25	7	Ami Barer	Canada	117,500	147
25	8	Jamie Sadlier	Australia	29,700	37

26	1	Yang Zhang	China	81,700	102
26	2	Lukas Soucek	Czech Republic	28,600	36
26	3	David Stanton	Australia	17,600	22
26	4	Oliver Weis	Germany	14,200	18
26	5	Leary O'Brien	Australia	38,200	48
26	6	Sotirios Kiokpasoglou	Australia	21,000	26
26	7	Takao Shimizu	Japan	92,200	115
26	8	Michael Hahn	United States	42,800	54

27	1	Jason Gray	Australia	39,500	49
27	2	Stuart Kerr	Australia	36,100	45
27	3	Dara O'Kearney	Ireland	29,300	37
27	4	Justin Victor	Australia	72,100	90
27	5	Chi Zhang	United Kingdom	36,800	46
27	6	Samuli Spilia	Finland	65,100	81
27	7	Farhad Mohajerani	Iran	57,000	71
27	8	Michael Laming	Australia	32,100	40

28	1	Shane Moran	Australia	95,900	120
28	2	James Clarke	United Kingdom	71,600	90
28	3	Fabian Craib	Australia	23,200	29
28	4	Eddie Puia	Australia	89,500	112
28	5	Reagan Leman	United States	54,500	68
28	6	Tristan Bain	Australia	38,200	48
28	7	Matt Salsberg	United States	55,000	69
28	8	Tony Matteo	Australia	78,700	98

29	2	Thomas Grigg	Australia	53,400	67
29	3	Dave Heskin	Australia	49,300	62
29	4	Ross Grammer	Germany	100,000	125
29	5	Liam O'Rourke	Ireland	79,100	99
29	6	Robert Glasspool	Australia	23,100	29
29	7	Marc Foggin	United Kingdom	84,500	106
29	8	Daniel Neilson	Australia	59,000	74

30	1	Kim Au	Australia	59,200	74
30	3	Rob Raymond	Australia	33,800	42
30	4	Mathias Sijander	Australia	33,000	41
30	5	Craig Mason	United States	113,200	142
30	6	Anthony Luong	Australia	59,800	75
30	7	Robert Colcheedas	Australia	13,600	17
30	8	Victor Teng	Australia	108,400	136

31	1	Johan Lees	Australia	25,500	32
31	2	Manig Loeser	Germany	10,100	13
31	3	Casey Kastle	Slovenia	33,100	41
31	4	Steve Karp	United States	44,300	55
31	5	Peter Mordaunt	Australia	68,000	85
31	7	Nicholas Howard	United States	135,600	170
31	8	Hung-Sheng Lin	Taiwan	65,300	82

32	1	David Loonstra	Australia	37,000	46
32	2	Francesco Sergi	Italy	6,600	8
32	3	Michael Tran	Australia	19,400	24
32	4	Rody Kaka	Australia	47,500	59
32	5	Beau Palmer	Australia	102,700	128
32	6	Paul Hockin	Australia	28,800	36
32	7	Hai Chu	Australia	55,700	70
32	8	Benjamin Winsor	United Kingdom	131,100	164

33	1	Jonas Lauck	Germany	58,100	73
33	2	Bradley Corbett	Australia	41,500	52
33	3	Collin Tran	Australia	15,900	20
33	4	Paawan Bansal	India	92,200	115
33	5	Jarryd Godena	Australia	34,000	43
33	6	Johan Schumacher	Belgium	61,700	77
33	7	Antoine Saout	France	80,500	101
33	8	Scott Davies	United States	107,800	135

34	1	John Parker	Australia	40,300	50
34	2	Yankai Fan	China	10,900	14
34	3	Ashley Sleeth	United States	46,800	59
34	4	Taylor Black	United States	55,800	70
34	5	Trevor Saunders	Australia	23,800	30
34	6	Darren Paganoni	Australia	29,500	37
34	7	Nicholas Wright	Australia	29,900	37
34	8	Andrew Dackas	Australia	12,900	16

35	1	Andrew Locke	Australia	98,400	123
35	2	Anto Klasan	Australia	34,700	43
35	3	Steve Katakis	Australia	69,100	86
35	4	Arif Mustafa	Australia	56,800	71
35	5	Mark Vos	Australia	36,700	46
35	6	Brendan Hurtig	Australia	54,600	68
35	7	Michael Tchong	Australia	68,900	86
35	8	Christopher Bolek	United States	63,500	79

36	1	Szymon Wysocki	Poland	117,500	147
36	2	Martin Kozlov	Australia	88,300	110
36	3	Giuseppe Reina	Australia	75,700	95
36	4	Jarred Graham	Australia	129,100	161
36	5	James Ho	Australia	50,700	63
36	6	Nathaniel Palombo	United States	43,200	54
36	7	Brandon Ageloff	United States	85,400	107
36	8	Sean Giesbrecht	Canada	171,000	214

37	1	Najeem Ajez	Australia	150,800	189
37	2	Simon Burns	United Kingdom	44,100	55
37	3	Kitty Kuo	Taiwan	190,000	238
37	4	Gareth Pepper	Australia	108,500	136
37	5	Bridges Roe	Australia	3,700	5
37	6	Kevin Clark	Australia	89,400	112
37	7	Zdravko Duvnjak	Croatia	69,900	87
37	8	Stefan Huber	Switzerland	74,300	93

38	1	Kahle Burns	Australia	28,600	36
38	2	[Removed:321] Sharifkazemi	United Kingdom	92,300	115
38	3	Pratik Mehta	Australia	117,400	147
38	4	Hugh Cohen	Australia	15,800	20
38	5	Joshua Abady	United States	77,600	97
38	8	Kristen Bicknell	Canada	19,900	25
39	1	Barry Forrester	Australia	55,800	70

39	2	Neel Murthy	United States	31,300	39
39	3	Scott Margereson	United Kingdom	103,500	129
39	4	Preben Stokkan	Norway	50,000	63
39	5	Jamie Pickering	Australia	118,300	148
39	6	Muneer Bodagh	Australia	63,400	79
39	7	Wan Gan	China	50,900	64
39	8	Cale Treacy	Australia	151,000	189

40	1	Martin Rowe	Australia	69,600	87
40	2	Mark Evans	United Kingdom	32,100	40
40	3	Corentin Hillion	France	44,300	55
40	4	Paul Sharbanee	Australia	40,900	51
40	5	Terry Roberts	Australia	19,000	24
40	6	Bart Lybaert	Belgium	88,700	111
40	7	Chi Thinh Nguyen	Vietnam	76,400	96
40	8	Brian Payne	Australia	121,000	151

41	1	Jeremiah Menzel	Australia	20,000	25
41	3	Stephen Moreschi	United Kingdom	51,000	64
41	4	Espen Solaas	Norway	66,100	83
41	5	Yevgeniy Timoshenko	Ukraine	25,500	32
41	6	Lance Patison	Australia	130,700	163
41	7	Richard Kellett	United Kingdom	134,500	168
41	8	Matt Rolfe	Australia	48,100	60

42	1	Adrian Bolzonello	Australia	59,800	75
42	2	Vincent Huang	Australia	40,400	51
42	3	Emanuel Seal	Australia	25,700	32
42	4	Chris Rekalis	Australia	47,800	60
42	5	Timothy Mitchell	United Kingdom	74,800	94
42	6	Paul Hoefer	Germany	7,700	10
42	7	Aaron Lim	Australia	63,000	79
42	8	Jianyu Chen	China	91,900	115

43	2	Andrew Hinrichsen	Australia	37,000	46
43	3	Adriano Scagnetti	Australia	51,200	64
43	4	Dean Blatt	Australia	61,700	77
43	5	James Siu	Australia	18,100	23
43	6	Hon Cheong Lee	Hong Kong	29,300	37
43	7	Manuel Rodrigues	Australia	19,100	24
43	8	Darryl Lapthorne	Australia	70,500	88

44	1	Rinaldo Piastrino	Australia	67,500	84
44	2	Dan Barry	United States	85,700	107
44	3	Duy Ho	United States	128,500	161
44	4	[Removed:415]	Australia	81,700	102
44	5	Ludovic Riehl	France	194,600	243
44	6	Seet Pin Tan	Singapore	28,900	36
44	7	George Mamacas	Australia	123,600	155
44	8	Shivan Abdine	Australia	41,800	52

45	1	Larry Karambis	United States	27,200	34
45	2	David Hanlon	Australia	34,100	43
45	3	Jesse Sylvia	United States	11,300	14
45	4	Jacky Wong	Hong Kong	35,400	44
45	5	Ari Engel	Canada	61,900	77
45	6	Benjamin Richardson	Australia	47,700	60
45	7	Josh Reichard	United States	21,000	26
45	8	[Removed:3]	Australia	112,800	141

46	1	Chul-Hyon Park	Australia	127,200	159
46	2	Mazyar Misaghian	Australia	20,300	25
46	3	Benny Glaser	United Kingdom	153,000	191
46	4	Gregory Cook	Australia	12,300	15
46	5	Hamish Crawshaw	Australia	82,700	103
46	6	Mai Ha	Australia	13,700	17
46	7	Nino Marotta	Australia	57,100	71
46	8	Andrew Saliba	Australia	81,600	102

47	1	Jan Pettersson	Australia	114,000	143
47	2	Jordan Tentori	Australia	71,600	90
47	3	Stephen Graner	United States	145,800	182
47	4	Huidong Gu	China	38,500	48
47	5	Collin Ho	Singapore	81,800	102
47	6	Savvas Ioannou	Cyprus	42,600	53
47	7	Nurlan Boobekov	Australia	72,900	91
47	8	Peter Matusik	Australia	21,600	27

48	1	Vincent Chua	Australia	58,700	73
48	2	Chris Cannon	Australia	70,800	89
48	3	Alex Foxen	United States	86,900	109
48	4	Shih Li	Australia	90,300	113
48	5	James Broom	Australia	114,000	143
48	6	Martin Ward	Australia	13,600	17
48	7	Frank Pezzaniti	Australia	199,000	249
48	8	Sung Joo Hyun	South Korea	76,400	96

49	1	Erika Layton	Australia	37,000	46
49	2	Joep Raemaekers	Netherlands	34,500	43
49	3	Benjamin Jee	Australia	45,000	56
49	4	David Tang	Australia	37,400	47
49	5	Jack Salter	United Kingdom	68,300	85
49	6	Nelson Maccini	Australia	70,500	88
49	7	Andrew Michael	Australia	25,600	32
49	8	Aki Pyysing	Finland	21,300	27

50	1	Tom Alner	United Kingdom	46,000	58
50	2	Robert Campbell	United States	56,800	71
50	3	Mufit Brahim	Australia	26,700	33
50	4	Saijes Mundadan	Australia	68,700	86
50	5	Jamie Crawley	United Kingdom	30,400	38
50	6	Barry Long	Australia	71,500	89
50	7	Artur Koren	Australia	92,800	116

51	1	Joonhee Yea	South Korea	14,600	18
51	2	Martin Finger	Germany	48,300	60
51	3	Bobby Zhang	Australia	108,200	135
51	4	Adam Agresta	Australia	17,300	22
51	5	Matthew Wakeman	Australia	10,700	13
51	6	Alex Lee Lin Hwaa	Malaysia	151,900	190
51	7	Kah Boon Teh	Malaysia	45,500	57
51	8	Mike Del Vecchio	United States	153,800	192

52	1	Kyle Frey	United States	55,400	69
52	2	Sean Ragozzini	Australia	104,500	131
52	3	Zachary Tay	Australia	83,200	104
52	4	Manny Stravropoulos	Australia	105,200	132
52	5	Rory Young	Australia	60,000	75
52	6	Alexander Trevallion	Australia	43,200	54
52	7	Ronald Pike	Australia	24,000	30
52	8	Dimitrios Pizanias	Australia	67,800	85

53	1	Leo Boxell	Australia	55,500	69
53	2	Eric Wasylenko	Canada	38,000	48
53	3	Duncan Packington	Australia	47,100	59
53	4	Eiji Matsumura	Japan	37,700	47
53	7	Edward Holyoke	United States	22,100	28
53	8	Connie Graham	Australia	16,500	21

54	1	Benny Spindler	Austria	75,700	95
54	2	Antonis Kambouroglou	Australia	91,000	114
54	3	Hyung Tai Kim	South Korea	55,300	69
54	4	Amar Anand	United States	37,100	46
54	5	Benjamin Leblond	Canada	41,800	52
54	6	Simon Thwaites	Australia	50,600	63
54	7	Xiangxiang Ni	China	75,200	94
54	8	Matthew Moss	United States	119,500	149

55	1	Tyron Krost	Australia	33,200	42
55	2	Gerald Trass	Australia	41,300	52
55	3	Matt Waxman	United States	23,900	30
55	4	Haoran Zhang	Australia	72,400	91
55	5	Ryan Otto	Australia	12,400	16
55	6	Sam Panzica	United States	93,000	116
55	7	Marton Czuczor	Hungary	31,100	39
55	8	Jonathan Karamalikis	Australia	137,100	171

56	1	Daniel Hope	Australia	104,300	130
56	2	Matt Affleck	United States	130,600	163
56	3	Jack O'Neill	United Kingdom	85,200	107
56	4	Thomas Wing	Australia	16,500	21
56	5	Arne Ruge	Germany	83,900	105
56	6	Paul Michaelis	Germany	100,800	126
56	7	Jon Kyte	Australia	22,200	28
56	8	Jan-Eric Schwippert	Germany	62,400	78

57	1	Lee Armstrong	Australia	165,400	207
57	3	Terry Schumacher	Belgium	19,400	24
57	4	Gino Provenzano	Australia	25,700	32
57	5	Jack Brown	Australia	143,100	179
57	6	Ize Bourne	Australia	68,900	86
57	7	Nicolaos Georgoulas	Australia	29,500	37
57	8	James Hopkins	Australia	75,100	94

59	1	David Stonehouse	United Kingdom	69,900	87
59	2	Denis Jankovic	Australia	40,800	51
59	3	Claas Segebrecht	Germany	59,300	74
59	4	Ryan Smith	Australia	26,900	34
59	5	Edel Maher	Australia	63,100	79
59	6	Chris Kostoulas	United States	58,800	74
59	7	Harry Demetriou	United Kingdom	83,200	104
59	8	Yuri Mamistvalov	Australia	91,100	114

60	1	Joseph Abdulnour	Australia	68,100	85
60	2	Prithwiraj Roy	Australia	51,900	65
60	3	Daniel Hachem	Australia	56,700	71
60	4	Glen Chadwick	Australia	51,900	65
60	5	Raphael Tenenbaum	Australia	57,300	72
60	6	Fedon Phaedonos	Australia	78,700	98
60	7	Diego Biba	Australia	72,200	90

70	2	Duff Charette	Canada	96,700	121
70	3	Stevan Chew	Australia	74,900	94
70	4	Tung Nguyen	Australia	121,600	152
70	5	Sherif Derias	Australia	71,900	90
70	6	Peter Brasile	Australia	20,700	26
70	7	Ludovic Geilich	United Kingdom	136,900	171
70	8	Carl Booth	Australia	117,200	147

71	1	Paul Wilcock	Australia	66,700	83
71	2	Toby Lewis	United Kingdom	32,800	41
71	3	Joshua Clancy	Australia	69,200	87
71	4	Daniel Laidlaw	Australia	75,200	94
71	5	Tony Tartaglia	Australia	141,700	177
71	6	Robert Pearson	Australia	85,000	106
71	7	Nick Solomos	Australia	40,200	50
71	8	Tamara Volkoff	Australia	153,300	192

01-31-2018 00:46 UTC+10

End-of-Day Chip Counts (full)

Yori Epskamp

Level 7 : 300/600, 100 ante

The full chip counts will be published when PokerNews receives them and a recap of today's action is to follow.

Player	Chips	Progress
Frank Pezzaniti	199,000	44,000
Ludovic Riehl	194,600	-5,400
Kitty Kuo	190,000	5,000
Sean Giesbrecht	171,000	143,000
Benny Glaser	153,000	17,000
Ludovic Geilich	136,900	-3,100
Nicholas Howard	135,600
Richard Kellett	134,500
Benjamin Winsor	131,100	16,100
Matt Affleck	130,600	600
Jarred Graham	129,100	129,100
Duy Ho	128,500	-100
Chul-Hyon Park	127,200	-7,800
Alessandro Furneri	125,000	125,000
Brian Payne	121,000
Matthew Moss	119,500
Ami Barer	117,500	18,500
Max Young	112,800	20,200
Julian Powell	112,400
Gareth Pepper	108,500
Victor Teng	108,400	-9,600
Bobby Zhang	108,200
Joe Caruso	106,900
Glen Cymbaluk	105,500	-19,500
Daniel Hope	104,300	40,300

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01-31-2018 00:45 UTC+10

Day 1c Finished

Yori Epskamp

Level 7 : 300/600, 100 ante

All starting days have come to an end. The clock shows 202 out of 379 entrants have made their way to Day 2. An assortment of end-of-day chip counts and an extensive recap will follow.

01-31-2018 00:41 UTC+10

Speranza Loses Most of Stack

mnuwwarah

Level 7 : 300/600, 100 ante

We found Gianluca Speranza deep in the tank on the river. He was on the button with having run out and a player bet 15,000 into him, a pot-sized wager. Speranza thought for several minutes and then called but got shown for a rivered boat.

Player	Chips	Progress
Gianluca Speranza	14,200	-30,800

Tags: Gianluca Speranza

01-31-2018 00:38 UTC+10

Riehl and Kuo Near the Top

Christian Zetzsche

Level 7 : 300/600, 100 ante

Jan Suchanek is no longer in his seat while Ludovic Riehl has a monster pile of chips of nearly seven times the starting stack in front. According to Riehl, Suchanek's two pair were no good against his nut flush and the Kiwi departed in the last level of the night.

Kitty Kuo has also added further chips to her stack. Craig McCorkell raised from the button and ultimately got his remaining short stack in after a flop of . McCorkell showed for top pair, but Kuo had the for a big blind special. Neither the turn nor the river were of help for the Brit and he busted just before bagging and tagging.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ludovic Riehl	200,000	80,000
Kitty Kuo	185,000	35,000
Craig McCorkell	Busted
Jan Suchanek	Busted

Tags: Craig McCorkell Jan Suchanek Kitty Kuo Ludovic Riehl

01-31-2018 00:33 UTC+10

Four More Hands

Yori Epskamp

Level 7 : 300/600, 100 ante

The clock has been paused with ten minutes remaining in the level. Four more hands will be played until chips are bagged and tagged for the night.

01-31-2018 00:30 UTC+10

Yang Zhang Picks Off Sekiya

mnuwwarah

Level 7 : 300/600, 100 ante

Yosuke Sekiya had 7,700 in front of him in the big blind with the community reading . Yang Zhang called in the hijack and they saw an fall. Sekiya shoved to set Zhang in for his last 27,000 or so, the same size as the pot give or take a few thousand. Zhang tanked awhile and then called, and he only had to beat for a bricked draw. The did just fine.

Player	Chips	Progress
Yang Zhang	84,000	29,000
Yosuke Sekiya	51,000	-5,000

Tags: Yang Zhang Yosuke Sekiya

01-31-2018 00:21 UTC+10

Five-Bet Pot Sees Chi Zhang Get Short

mnuwwarah

Level 7 : 300/600, 100 ante

A player opened with two T1,000 chips in front of her and got three-bet to 4,500 by cutoff. Chi Zhang made it 11,000 on the button and called the ship of the opener for about 23,000.

Zhang:
Opponent:

The board was missing help for Zhang and he had to ship a double for most of his chips.

Player	Chips	Progress
Chi Zhang	13,300	-17,700

Tags: Chi Zhang