Sergi Leads Field into Day 2 of the Accumulator Event
Three starting flights of the 2016 Aussie Millions Poker Championship $A1,150 No-Limit Hold'em Accumulator Event have been played and a total of 656 entries took part with the field being reduced to 85 hopefuls after 12 levels each. They will return to the poker room of the Crown Entertainment Complex in one hour from now at 12.10 p.m. local time and the top 63 spots will get paid.
Leading the field of survivors is Six-Max Event #6 runner-up Francesco Sergi with 200,800 chips followed by Ronnie Bardah with 185,900. Jacob Balsiger has also made it into the overnight top 10 with 128,900 while other notables such as Max Silver (118,400), H.O.R.S.E. Event #2 LK Boutique championship ring winner James Obst (113,300), Matas Cimbolas (110,600), Jack Salter (106,100), Marc MacDonnell (105,100) and 2014 World Series of Poker Asia Pacific Main Event winner Scott Davies (104,400) also bagged up above-average stacks.
Other players to look out for include Manig Loeser (64,900), Shane Warne (61,500), Jessica Dawley (58,800) and Mix-Max runner up Ari Engel (41,400). Action recommences in level 13 with blinds of 1,200-2,400 and a running ante of 400. A maximum of 12 levels of one hour each will be played or until the final table of the last ten is reached, whichever of the two comes first. The minimum cash is worth A$2,690 whereas all eyes are set on the LK Boutique championship ring and first-place payout of A$147,930.
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