Amant Nauhria Leads Biggest ANZPT Auckland Day
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The third and final Day 1 flight of the Australia New Zealand Poker Tour (ANZPT) Auckland Main Event has come to a close!
It was the biggest day yet as 103 players would eventually whittle down to just 50. So, with 103 players today, 44 on Day 1a and 66 on Day 1b, we would see field of 213 total players create a NZ$426,000 prize pool. That field size is six more than last year and a great result for the team here at the ANZPT and at SKYCITY Auckland.
The eventual champion will lock up NZ$110,760 and of all the players from Day 1c, it was Amant Nauhria who put himself in the best position to go all the way. Nauhria finished the day with 107,200 in chips after apparently being down to just 3,500 at the beginning of the first break of the day. Nauhria’s stack is just a little bigger than that of Day 1b chip leader Anesone Bragouits and is enough to see Nauhria start Day 2 as the overall chip leader.
Nauhria went under our radar today and when we asked him how he got all those chips he said that he doesn’t remember playing one big hand, just winning lots of small pots all afternoon. That’s how’s it’s done.
Some of the players who will be joining Nauhria at the felt on Day 2 include Steven Zhou, Jan Suchanek, Team PokerStars Pro Bryan Huang, this year’s ANZ Player of the Year Iori Yogo and New Zealand’s only WSOP gold bracelet winner, Simon Watt. The 50 total survivors from Day 1c will join the 54 from the previous two starting flights and begin making their way toward a final table.
Be sure to check out all the end-of-day 1c chip counts and the full Day 2 table draw in the live reporting blog below.
While all of the aforementioned players will still be fighting it out to become the next ANZPT champion, some of those from Day 1c who weren’t able to progress include Luke Brabin, Tom Grigg, 2011 Aussie Millions champion David Gorr, Alicia Sale and Paul Hockin.
All the action on Day 2 will commence at 12.15 p.m. local time and the plan is to play ten levels or down to a final table. It’s not likely that we will make a final table in that amount of time, so ten levels it shall be. Be sure to join us then!