Welcome to Day 1A of the 2018 WSOP Circuit Sydney Main Event
Day 1A of the World Series of Poker Circuit Main Event at The Star in Sydney gets underway today at 12:30pm with six days of poker to look forward to as the Sydney series reaches It's marquee event.
Some of the players who have already had a successful week during the start of the series and will be looking to add another circuit ring to the collection include; Opening Event champion Jun Wang, Ladies event champion Victoria Boast, Turbo champion Jarryd Godena, Masters champion Michel Bouskila, and last nights $5K Challenge champion Matt Wakeman.
This time last year it was Australia’s Michael Kanaan (pictured) who beat fellow countryman Michael Fraser heads-up to take home a whopping $394,837 after conquering a big field of 1,067 to be crowned champion.
The main event is a $2,200 entry with a guaranteed prize pool of $2,100,000. Being a repechage event, players are allowed to re-enter each day as they attempt to move through to Day 2. Each starting flight will have each player start with a stack of 30,000 and play 14 levels of 45 minutes with breaks scheduled after each three levels.
Day 1B will continue on Saturday. Day’s 1C and 1D will follow-up next Thursday and Friday, December 13 and 14, before Day 2 on Saturday and Day 3 on Sunday switch to hour-long levels and play down to a winner and a new champion.
Follow all the action over the upcoming days right here as the PokerNews live reporting team keep you up to date with all the action from the Main Event.