Mar 3, 2023
Photo: Day 1B Chipleaders Pim van Wassenberg (left) and Gary Lin (right) were seated side-by-side at the end of the day.
There were another 435 entries on Friday for Day 1B, increasing the tournament total to 705, and building the prizepool up to AUD $1,269,000.
They were planning to play down to the final 55 players, but after simultaneous eliminations during Hand #2 of hand-for-hand play, action ended with 54 survivors who bagged up chips and advance to Day 2.
Here are the official chip counts for the 54 players who survived Day 1B:
Gary Lin – 1052,000
Pim van Wassenberg – 928,000
Jun Wang – 537,000
Joe Sandaev – 527,000
Andreas Vasiliou – 503,000
Sheng Ye – 395,000
Meer Hussaini – 388,000
Dylan Foster – 387,000
Dean Boskovic – 374,000
Wai Au – 372,000
Dejan Boskovic – 333,000
Po Wen Fang – 326,000
Yu Chen – 316,000
James Siu – 310,000
Sung Ki Cho – 298,000
Mo Haidary – 276,000
Michael Clair – 264,000
Nebojsa Blanusa – 258,000
Adrian Indovino – 257,000
Peter Apostolou – 249,000
Christopher Zenonos – 237,000
Hongzhuang Fang – 230,000
Michel Bouskila – 207,000
Shane Baxter – 205,000
Naj Ajez – 200,000
Jeison Berdugo – 194,000
Niklas Warlich – 193,000
Yang Lei – 181,000
Daniel Murphy – 181,000
Ash Gupta – 178,000
Anthony Xu – 176,000
John Apostolidis – 165,000
Yita Choong – 164,000
Benjamin Richardson – 161,000
Deborah James – 156,000
Guiliano Nobili – 146,000
Fletcher Smith – 140,000
Matt Pongrass – 139,000
Daniel Hachem – 137,000
Stevan Chew – 134,000
Luke Edwards – 124,000
Jason Chahine – 123,000
Chen Yi Liu – 115,000
Mathew Ryan – 113,000
Tommy Handelaar – 98,000
Joel Cohen – 89,000
Jian Long – 86,000
Mark Greer – 72,000
Ricky Kroesen – 71,000
Josh Norvock – 71,000
Anthony Hachem – 71,000
Owen Whish – 70,000
Martin Ward – 63,000
Jesper Henrich – 46,000
Action ended tonight with 22:25 remaining in Level 15, with blinds at 3,000-6,000 with a 6,000 ante. Day 2 will begin with the blinds where they ended in whichever flight finished the earliest, which will be no later than Level 14, with blinds at 3,000-5,000 with a 5,000 ante.
The final starting flight (Day 1c) begins tomorrow at 11:30 am, and registration remains open with unlimited re-entries until about 4:15 pm.
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