Welcome to Day 1A of the 2019 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 seven 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; Monster Stack champion Pravishil Singh, Turbo champion Hunter Song, NLH 6 Max champion Nathan Susnig, and last nights $5K Challenge champion Shivan Abdine.
This time last year it was Australia’s Alex Lynskey (pictured) who beat fellow countryman Matt Pongrass heads-up to take home a whopping $422,796 after conquering a record field of 1,191 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.
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.