Dinner Break; Former Champions Engel and Stavropoulos Out
The remaining players in the 2019 Aussie Millions Main Event Day 1a are going on their dinner break and will return at 8:50 pm AEDT.
With over 160 entries so far on Day 1, plenty of home favourites, ring winners and former Main Event champions have joined - and left - the field.
David Gorr is the only Main Event champion left standing after Ari Engel and Manny Stavropoulos were both eliminated. 2019 Mix Max champion Engel is lost with jack-ten against the kings of Heidi May, while Stavropoulos lost straight over straight in one of the last hands before the dinner break.
Other notable eliminations during the first four levels include Michael Moore, who was gone inside the first level, along with Kenny Hallaert, Sorel Mizzi, and last year's seventh-place finisher Johan Schumacher.
Schumacher shoved sixes into jacks midway through the first four levels of the day, but said that he had been "running bad" in a number of spots including set over set and making a straight against a better straight.
Australian Poker Hall of Fame member Graeme Putt meanwhile was eliminated shoving jacks into the pocket aces of Quan Zhou, moving Zhou up into the top ten chip counts.
Currently, it is Anthony Kingston who leads the way after a string of bustouts propelled him to well over 150,000 in chips.
Other notables still in include 2019 8 Game champion Michael Gathy and 2019 Shootout champion Justin Liberto along with the likes of Benny Glaser, Aymon Hata, Dzmitry Urbanovich, Paul-Francois Tedeschi, Vojtech Ruzicka and Jackie Glaser .