button in SafariDay 1A Comes to a Close
The sun may have set over Melbourne hours ago, but the action was still going strong deep into the night in the first starting flight of the AUS $1M GTD $1,500 Opening Event. Now, the curtain has officially fallen on the tournament’s opening flight.
From the initial 403 entries, just 56 players successfully cleared the first hurdle and secured a bag for Day 2.
PokerNews will have the full end-of-day chip counts Saturday morning, but in the meantime, here are some assorted chip counts.
| Player | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|
| Yuanting Wong | 563,000 | 56 |
| Stephen Quan | 510,000 | 51 |
| Kurt Burum | 500,000 | 50 |
| Rayan Zare | 490,000 | 49 |
| Prateek Datt | 461,000 | 46 |
| David Xie | 438,000 | 44 |
| Minh Tran | 423,000 | 42 |
| Zhenyi Lia | 410,000 | 41 |
| Josh Duce | 402,000 | 40 |
| Michael Zhang | 402,000 | 40 |
| Hayden Doughty | 396,000 | 40 |
| Luke Martinelli | 212,000 | 21 |