Welcome to Day 2 of the $5K Challenge Event here at the WSOP International Circuit stop in Sydney at The Star where the play is set to get underway at 2:15pm.
The brand new ‘big blind ante’ format was introduced to this event for the first time this year and yesterday’s Day 1 saw 215 entrants take part. Of that number, 16 players will return.
Matt Wakeman (981,000) has the chip lead and has a large gap from Robert Spano (505,000), Dejan Boskovic (424,000), Hannah Lee (382,000) and Sam Khoueis (370,000) who round out the top five.
Other notables to have survived to today include Gautam Dhingra (350,000), Shivan Abdine (206,000), Australian Poker Hall-of-Famer Billy Argyros (204,000) and Simon Chihane (97,000) who starts the day as the shortest stack.
Play will continue with 45-minute levels with 10-minute breaks coming after every three levels. Once the final table is reached levels will be an hour long. Blinds will resume at 5,000/10,000/ with a 10,000 big blind ante.
Check back in with PokerNews from 2:15pm today when all the action begins as the remaining 16 faces try to take down this exciting event.
which gave both players a major piece with Dhingra making top pair and Chahine making a flush draw and straight draw.
turn, Dhingra killed a ton of Chahine's outs, taking away his two pair outs as well as some flush cards. 
which gave Chahine a bit of hope, as he made a flush, but upon second inspection, Dhingra actually made a full house, so with that, Chahine was eliminated. For his run in this event, Chahine will collect $13,062 for his 16th place finish.
giving Wakeman two pair. With that, Vukovic hit the rail in 13th place. For his run in this event, he will collect $15,077.
and the 
river, so with that, he was eliminated, taking home $37,859 for seventh place. Lau took down the pot and moved over 800,000 after the pot.
