The Final Opening Flight of the Main Event Set to Commence
The fourth and final starting flight for the WSOP International Circuit Main Event kicks off at 12:30pm local time at The Star here in Sydney. Day 1c, which was played out yesterday, received 279 entries, and today’s field is expected to smash that number out of the park.
The first three Day 1’s drew a combined total of 719 entries and 118 players have already bagged chips. Leading the way at the moment are Diarmuid O’Kane (968,500) from Day 1a, Ross Grammer (563,000) from Day 1c and Marc Seymour (502,000) from Day 1b.
Alongside the current chip leaders, a whole slew of familiar faces have already advanced to Day 2. Among them are Ryan Bownds (279,500), Michael Hahn, (279,500), Tom Rafferty (263,000), 2009 Aussie Millions champion Stewart Scott (253,000), Ash Gupta (252,000), Andrew White (231,000), Billy Argyros (220,000), Michel Bouskila (212,000), Nauv Kashyap (206,500), last year’s runner-up in this event Matt Pongrass (183,500), Hamish Crawshaw (182,500), Dean Blatt (182,000) and 2019 WPT Gold Coast champion Hari Varma (178,500).
All Day 1’s play out over the course of fourteen 45-minute levels and every player begins with 30,000 starting chips. Late registration will remain open until the end of level 6. This is everyone's last chance to find a bag as they try to progress to Day 2.
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with two clubs and the hijack checked. Kroesen continued for 3,000. His opponent raised to 9,500. Kroesen called. 
and Kroesen's opponent moved all in and had Kroesen covered. Kroesen tanked for several minutes before opting to call for his tournament life. 
completed the board.
and Issa immediately tossed out 1,300. Zreika snap-called. Ljudevit got out of the way. Abdine called. 
and Issa threw out another 1,300. Zreika instantly raised to 4,400. Abdine called. Issa also obliged. 
completed the board and Issa checked. Zreika reached for his chips and bet 7,000. Abdine paused for a minute then moved all in for 15,600. Issa snap-folded. Zreika didn’t seem pleased with the shove opting to muck his hand shortly after.
, improving Xu to a higher pair on the flop, resulting in Campbell's pocket kings being cracked sending the 2019 WSOP POY to the rail early in proceedings.
and the small blind continued for 5,000. Only Boskovic called. 
and 6,500 had accumulated in the pot. 
completed the board and the big blind checked. Attenborough then moved all in for 41,000. His opponent went into the tank for several minutes before finally making the call. 
for a set of eights, and took down the pot, after his opponent revealed 
Mark Rebeira had moved all-in from the small blind for 98,300 and his opponent in the hand Chris 'the crusher' White was waiting for a count of Rebeira's stack. 
turn and 
river were not all that helpful and Rebeira took a big hit to drop to 20,000, while White stacked up to 200,000 with that timely gift.
