Sep 23, 2023
Photo: Adrian Pacheco will begin Day 2 as the overall chipleader with 580,000 (232 big blinds).
There were 305 entries today for Day 1B, creating a total field of 600, and a prizepool worth exactly AUD $4.5 million (~US $2.9 million). The full list of official payouts will be released overnight, though we expect the final 75 players to finish in the money.
There were 116 players who survived Day 1B, and the chipleader is Adrian Pacheco with 580,000 (232 big blinds). Pacheco held a massive chip lead for the last few hours of Day 1B. Here are the official chip counts of the 116 survivors from Day 1B:
Adrian Pacheco – 580,000
Shivan Abdine – 394,500
Zhifan Ye – 361,500
Chao Duan – 331,500
Richard Lee – 330,500
Ankit Ahuja – 326,500
Daniel Ao – 321,500
Michael Tomeny – 304,000
Longpei Lu – 285,000
Brendan Pettit – 269,000
Ken Demlakian – 266,000
Zhengmin Zhang – 265,000
Paris Sitzoukis – 258,500
Peter Lin – 253,000
David Luong – 240,500
Namhyung Kim – 231,500
Luis Arrilucea – 230,000
Akhilesh Bhatia – 212,000
Cuong Le – 211,000
Charles Caris – 210,000
John Apostolidis – 206,000
Emmanuel Derecho – 201,500
Nil Esteve Magrane – 197,000
Hauman Darbani – 196,500
Jarrod Thatcher – 191,500
Jon Peter Rounce-Sue – 187,000
Dale Marsland – 182,500
Hal Rotholz – 180,500
Hari Varma – 180,000
Sherif Derias – 174,500
Ricardo Bono – 173,500
Ali Ghezelbash – 168,500
Nhan Tran – 168,500
Brayden Jinks – 164,000
Krishna Nimmagadda – 162,000
Daniel Allan – 160,500
Nozomu Shimizu – 159,500
Wan Gan – 158,500
Yoon Kang – 157,000
Daniel Dessmann – 156,500
Janet Wyvill – 155,000
Kwai Ying – 145,500
Dylan Kehoe – 143,500
Daewoong Song – 142,500
Weiran Pu – 141,000
Yizhou Wang – 140,500
Julius Colman – 139,000
Michael Egan – 138,000
Filipp Mamedov – 137,500
Emanuel Seal – 136,000
Adam Cusenza – 134,500
Robert Campbell – 131,000
Shunsuke Tokoo – 130,500
Lachlan Crilly – 130,000
Stephen Topakas – 128,000
Hirokazu Kobatashi – 121,000
Mitchel Caton – 121,000
Andrej Senic – 119,500
Jeison Berdugo-Rojas – 119,000
Joseph Vinecombe – 119,000
Riccardo Tallarico – 113,000
Ori Ohana – 111,000
Martin Kozlov – 109,000
Paawan Bansal – 108,000
Jasper Brennan – 108,000
Tomas Molina De La Maza – 105,500
Slav Rypinski – 103,500
Lawford Edwards – 102,500
Matthew Bennett – 102,000
Yang Lei – 101,500
Peter Sun – 100,500
Patrick Vo – 100,000
Simon Taberham – 98,500
Armon Van Wijk – 98,000
Matthew Carlson – 97,500
Wei Zhu – 95,500
Tu Le – 89,000
Nino Marotta – 87,500
Qi Xu – 86,500
Sheng Ye – 84,000
Luis Vargas – 81,000
Ruiyang Wang – 80,500
Wiliiam Jia – 79,000
Noman Mirza – 76,500
Joshua Emerton – 75,500
Jun Wang – 73,500
Takara Stutchbury – 71,000
Sean Ragozzini – 69,000
Mark Lasarow – 66,500
Khal Fayad – 65,000
Jason Lee – 64,000
Yuhang Chen – 64,000
Meer Hussaini – 63,500
Liam Jehu – 63,000
Michael Kalin – 61,000
David Moxon – 60,000
Tu Christopher Tran – 58,500
William Bolton – 58,000
Mitchell Watson – 54,500
Kenta Ito – 53,000
Julian Warhurst – 52,000
Anton Lu – 52,000
Pooria Asaadi – 49,000
Omer Silajdzija – 45,500
Daniel Murphy – 45,000
Punjabi Karan – 40,000
Alexander Trevallion – 39,500
Kai Yeung – 35,000
Dima Gershenzon – 32,500
Adam Kharman – 32,000
Hayato Kitajima – 28,000
William Wong – 27,500
Nathan Agosta – 25,000
Rodrigo Meneses – 23,500
Kiavash Arbabi – 17,000
Lee Dam – 12,500
Day 2 begins tomorrow (Sunday) at 11:30 am, and the field is scheduled to play six 90-minute levels, with the same schedule for Day 3 on Monday. Day 4 (Tuesday) will also have 90-minute levels as they play down to the final table, and Wednesday will be the WPT Australia Final Table.
Stay tuned to WPT.com for our continuing coverage of WPT Australia.
Photography by Joe Giron / PokerPhotoArchive.com