$1,100 6-Max
Day 1 Started
2019 The Star Sydney Champs
$1,100 6-Max
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2019 The Star Sydney Champs
Buy-in
1,100 AUD
Prize Pool
356,000 AUD
Entries
356
Level
24
Blinds
20,000 / 40,000
Ante
5,000
The A$1,100 6-Max Starts at 12:30 PM at The Star Sydney Champs
At 12:30 p.m. local time, the first day of the $1,100 6-Max takes off here at The Star Sydney Champs. Last year’s edition attracted 243 runners and according to the tournament staff, this year’s action will be hot and heavy too as the 6-max format always creates heaps of liveliness. Hun Wei Lee (also known as Andy Lee) is the defending champion as he won this event last year for A$64,408.
Players like Nurlan Boobekov, Ali Ghezelbash, Michel Bouskila, Graeme Putt, Luke Martinelli, Hamish Crawshaw, and Grant Levy all made the money stages last time and might be showing up again to better their previous results.
The players will get 15,000 chips in their starting stacks, play 40-minute levels with a 10-minute break after every three levels. A 30-minute dinner break is scheduled after the ninth level of play. The late registration and unlimited reentry period will be open until the start of Level 7 which should be at approximately 4:50 p.m. local time. Fifteen levels of play are scheduled for Day 1 in this tournament which features the traditional ante that is paid by each player from Level 5 onwards.
Day 1 Structure
| Level | Duration | Small Blind | Big Blind | Ante |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 40 | 50 | 100 | |
| 2 | 40 | 75 | 150 | |
| 3 | 40 | 100 | 200 | |
| Break | 10 | |||
| 4 | 40 | 150 | 300 | |
| 5 | 40 | 150 | 300 | 25 |
| 6 | 40 | 200 | 400 | 50 |
| Break | 10 | |||
| 7 | 40 | 300 | 600 | 50 |
| 8 | 40 | 400 | 800 | 100 |
| 9 | 40 | 500 | 1,000 | 100 |
| Break | 30 | |||
| 10 | 40 | 600 | 1,200 | 200 |
| 11 | 40 | 800 | 1,600 | 200 |
| 12 | 40 | 1,000 | 2,000 | 300 |
| Break | 10 | |||
| 13 | 40 | 1,200 | 2,400 | 400 |
| 14 | 40 | 1,500 | 3,000 | 500 |
| 15 | 40 | 2,000 | 4,000 | 500 |
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Level: 1
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
Load Up Your Shoe!
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
The players have been welcomed to the poker room and the dealers have been instructed to load up their shoe and deal. Due to local regulation, a dealing shoe is being used to hold the deck and dealt from.
First Batch of Notables
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
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.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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15,000 | |
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15,000 | |
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15,000 | |
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15,000 | |
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15,000 | |
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15,000 | |
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15,000 |
Feature Table
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
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.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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15,000 | 15,000 |
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15,000 | 15,000 |
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15,000 | 15,000 |
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15,000 | 15,000 |
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15,000 | 15,000 |
Some More Familiar Faces
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
15,000 | |
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15,000 | |
|
15,000 | |
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15,000 | |
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15,000 | |
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15,000 | |
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15,000 | |
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15,000 |
Senic Claims Small Pot
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
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.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
15,800 | 15,800 |
Sitbon Claims One
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
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.
More Notables in the Field
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
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.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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15,000 | 15,000 |
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15,000 | 15,000 |
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15,000 | 15,000 |
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15,000 | 15,000 |
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15,000 | 15,000 |
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15,000 | 15,000 |
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15,000 | 15,000 |
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15,000 | 15,000 |
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15,000 | 15,000 |