Majid Saab was not the first player to bust but has definitely hit the rail in the first level of play along with the following participants. All of them can still re-enter during the registration period to take another shot at the six-max action.
Level: 2
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 0
Over on the feature table, Aaron Li raised to 250 from the button and Mohamed Ali called in the small blind.
The flop came 
, Ali check-called the 150 continuation-bet of Li.
They then both checked through the 
on the turn and the 
on the river for Ali to claim the pot when the cards were shown.
Edwin Chiu raised the button to 250 and picked up one caller in the big blind. They checked the 
flop and the big blind led the 
turn for 300. Chiu raised to 1,025 and that won the pot without any further resistance, as his opponent eventually sent his cards into the muck.
The field size has already grown to 175 entries and new notables in the field can be found below including Ladies Event champion Suzy Khoueis, who also has the second-most cashes at The Star Sydney, only trailing Antonis "Toothpick Tony" Kambouroglou.
The flop read 
with 1,000 in the middle already.
Julien Sitbon checked in the small blind and so did the players in the big blind and hijack. The player in the cutoff bet 500 and action was back on Sitbon who raised to 1,600. The big blind and hijack quickly folded and the player in the cutoff made the call.
The turn brought them the 
, Sitbon now fired a bet of 2,600 over the line. His opponent took a few seconds and then opted to fold.
Some tables started short-handed and Andrej Senic was at one of them. His button raise was called by the big blind, who check-called a bet of 500 on the 
flop. On the 
turn, action checked to Senic and his second barrel for 1,050 total did the trick to scoop the pot.
One table has already been selected as the feature table which should be streamed with a 30-minute security delay on the Star Poker Twitch channel.
Currently seated at the table are Andrew White, Mohamed Ali, Aaron Li, Jayesh Raut, and Zac Vigar.
There is already a buzz in the poker room with more than 135 players registered right before the start and several notables that already took part in the $5k Challenge are back in action.
The waiting line to get a seat currently contains around 20 players.
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