Welcome to Day 2 of the WSOP International Circuit Sydney $5K Challenge Event

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 local time.

The ‘big blind ante’ format was applied to this event for the second year running and yesterday’s Day 1 saw 203 entrants take part. Of that number, 15 players will return.

George Mitri (709,000) has the chip lead and has a sizeable gap from James Obst (534,000), Honglin Jiang (455,000), Charlie Hawe (447,000) and Shivan Abdine (435,000) who round out the top five.

Other notables to have survived to today include Adrian Attenborough (333,000), Marc Camphausen (326,000), Chao Duan (294,000), Tam Truong (285,000) and Patrick Laoyont (10,000) who starts the day as the shortest stack with one big blind.

Play will continue with 45-minute levels with 10-minute breaks coming after every three levels. 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 15 faces try to take down this exciting event.

Day 2 Seat Draw

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
32	1	Ryan Bownds	Australia	284000	28
32	2	Empty	-	-	-
32	3	Ehsan Amiri	Australia	327000	33
32	4	Chao Duan	China	294000	29
32	5	George Mitri	Australia	709000	71
32	6	Charlie Hawe	Australia	447000	45
32	7	Adrian Attenborough	Australia	333000	33
32	8	Michael Doumani	Australia	165000	17

31	1	Empty	-	-	-
31	2	Vincent Huang	Australia	339000	34
31	3	Honglin Jiang	New Zealand	455000	46
31	4	James Obst	Australia	534000	53
31	5	Tam Truong	Australia	285000	29
31	6	Sosia Jiang	New Zealand	138000	14
31	7	Marc Camphausen	Germany	326000	33
31	8	Shivan Abdine	Australia	435000	44
31	9	Partick Laoyont	Australia	10000	1