Ross Grammer Bags Biggest Stack on Day 1c of the WSOPC Sydney Main Event
On a packed day in the poker room at The Star in Sydney a total of 279 entries showed up for Day 1c of the WSOPC Sydney Main Event. Just 47 of them found a bag by the end of fourteen levels. Chip leader at the end of the night was Ross Grammer who bagged an impressive 563,000 to finish as the only player above half a million in chips.
Grammer won a large pot in the last level of the night, eliminating George Mitri in the process, to take the chip lead which he wouldn’t relinquish. That hand saw the board read 
. Mitri had moved all in with 
for the nut flush but Grammer improved to a full house holding 
.
Trailing Grammer is Greg Russell (452,000) and Sam Ioannou (387,000) who round out the top three, and are the only players advancing with more than 300,000 in their stack.
Some other notable stacks moving on from this flight include; Marc Camphausen (292,500), Tom Rafferty (263,000), 2009 Aussie Million Main Event champion Stewart Scott (253,000), Vincent Wan (220,000), Trevor Saunders (213,500), Rehman Kassam (212,000), Michel Bouskila (212,000), Nauv Kashyap (206,500), Travis Endersby (173,000), James Broom (170,000), Julien Sitbon (138,000) and Tino Lechich (107,000).
There were several notables that were in this flight but did not manage to find a bag including; 2019 WSOP Player of the Year Robert Campbell, 2017 Aussie Million Main Event champion Shurane Vijayaram, Tristan Bain, Zack Lowrie, Jason Pritchard, defending WSOPC Sydney Main Event champion Alex Lynskey, Ricky Kroesen, Craig Blight, Tam Truong, Daniel Laidlaw, Michael Kanaan, Corey Kempson, Luke Edwards, Danny Huynh, Jarred Graham and Gary Benson.
The tournament has now completed it's third of four flights and players will have one last chance to run up a stack for Day 2 on Saturday, December 7th. The last Day 1 flight will commence tomorrow, Friday 6th, at 12:30pm local time.
The PokerNews team will be bringing full coverage of the last flight as well as the remainder of the main event so stay tuned.
and Rafferty checked. Blanusa tossed out 15,000 which had Rafferty's 14,400-stack covered. Rafferty called. 
on the turn didn't change anything, however, the 
, improving Austin to a pair, awarding him the pot.
and the action checked to Psarras who bet 4,000. Only Stang called. 
dropped on the turn and Stang checked. Psarras bet 12,500 which had Stang's 12,100-stack covered. Stang called shortly after. 
completed the board and Stang was sent to the rail.
and the big blind checked. Kroesen continued for 1,900. Both opponents called. 
and the big blind checked. Kroesen bet 6,700. The button called. The big blind folded. 
completed the board and the big blind jammed which had Kroesen's remaining 12,000 covered. Kroesen tanked for three minutes then called. 
for two pair, and took down the pot, after his opponent mucked his hand but not before letting Kroesen know how bad he played.
against 
.
spiked on the river to give Scott's opponent the winning hand with trip sixes. 
dropped on the turn and Strang fired another 1,100. Camphausen called. 
