Dhingra Through to Aussie Millions Opening Event Day 2
It was another busy flight of the Opening Event today, with Flight 3 the biggest so far attracting 307 entries.
The Exhibition Hall here at Crown Resorts Melbourne was full of several well-known Australian and international players such as former Aussie Millions Main Event winners Ami Barer and Leo Boxell, WSOP Main Event champion Joe Hachem as well as the likes of Harry Lodge, Joey Weissman, Fabien Quoss, Martin Finger, Tobias Peters, and Stefan Hubert.
From the 307 that started the day, just 40 made it through to Day 2, and the leader is David Tang whose stack of 277,300 is not only enough for the Flight 3 chip lead, but the overall chip lead so far with three of the five Opening Event starting flights complete.
Opening Event Flight 3 Chip Counts
| Player | Chip Count |
|---|---|
| David Tang | 277,300 |
| Gautam Dhingra | 170,900 |
| Vikrani Gupia | 161,700 |
| Jo Snell | 161,000 |
| Jordan Tehtodt | 149,200 |
| Lu Yunye | 144,400 |
| Anthony Soinella | 139,400 |
| Christian Nolte | 120,000 |
| Ehsan Amiri | 102,800 |
| Tristan Bain | 91,000 |
| Thomas Gleeson | 85,600 |
| Paul Hockin | 84,500 |
| Zhankamui Chen | 81,300 |
| Corentin Ropert | 78,800 |
| Arif Mustafa | 75,800 |
| Hun Wei Lee | 73,400 |
| Amanda Onions | 70,000 |
| Daniel Wojcik | 67,200 |
| Bjorn Ostby | 65,100 |
| Derek Danor | 60,400 |
| Rayner Loi | 59,000 |
| Kuo Chen Hung | 56,300 |
| Nipun Java | 55,700 |
| Paul Mischefski | 54,400 |
| Niko Koop | 53,900 |
| David Bodwelk | 47,900 |
| Florian Fuchs | 47,300 |
| Florian Ferroni | 44,900 |
| Costa Malerynakis | 41,600 |
| Sean Dorgan | 37,800 |
| Ivan Sergeyev | 37,100 |
| John Thomas | 36,300 |
| Kohei Miura | 35,100 |
| Yang Lei | 32,900 |
| Gyeong Byeong Lee | 32,800 |
| Max Gideon | 31,200 |
| Robert Sanchezcallol | 28,900 |
| Wo Wei Dai | 27,800 |
| Mck Kaselias | 23,200 |
| Quoc V Le | NA |
Behind Tang comes Gautam Dhingra (170,900) who will be hoping for more Aussie Millions success, after an incredible set of performances at the 2019 festival.
Dhingra notched up two fifth-place finishes at the in the A$25,000 Challenge and the A$1,150 Six Max. These cashes, coupled with a cash in the Opening Event saw him walk away with almost A$250,000 in cashes.
In fact, of Dhingra's seven Aussie Millions cashes, all but two of them have seen him make it to the final table.
Other well-known players through to Day 2 include Corentin Ropert (78,800), Nipun Java (55,700), and 2019 Main Event final tablist Gyeong Byeong Lee (32,800).
There are still two more flights remaining in this year's Opening Event before Day 2 takes place on Wednesday. At time of writing you can still enter Flight 4, with the final flight getting underway on January 7 at 12:10 pm.
Stay tuned to PokerNews for more live updates from the Crown as the 2020 Aussie Millions continues.