Karamalikis, Lybaert and Harwood All Bag in Opening Event Flight 2
There were a total of 255 entries in the second flight of the 2020 Aussie Millions Opening Event, bringing the overall number so far to 497.
The tournament comes with a $1,000,000 guarantee, and with three flights to go, they are well on their way to surpassing that amount and perhaps even challenge the record of 1,752, set last year when Muhammad Asad won the largest 1k tournament in the Southern Hemisphere for A$219,980 (US$158,385) after a three-way deal.
From Flight 2, just 38 advanced bringing the total number of players through to Day 2 at 66. Notables advancing include 2019 Australian Poker Hall of Fame Inductee Jonathan Karamalikis (65,900), last year's fifth-place finisher Pierce McKellar (54,100), Kristy Arnett (50,400), Bart Lybaert (49,900), 2018 Opening Event champion Benedikt Eberle (47,700) and Loni Harwood (30,200).
Here is a full list of the 38 advancing:
End of Day Chip Counts
Player | Chip Counts |
---|---|
Izuchukwu Oparaocha | 169,400 |
Amir Minagar | 139,600 |
Egor Bulychev | 122,100 |
Daniel Gabriel | 112,000 |
Angel Guillen | 111,000 |
Xingwei Tong | 109,000 |
Simon Burns | 99,500 |
Bridges Roe | 96,700 |
Weichung Auyong | 88,200 |
James Gilbert | 87,700 |
Andrew Yates | 83,200 |
Ivan Deyra | 80,300 |
Glen Marshall | 79,900 |
Jarrod Holmes | 78,300 |
En-ching Wu | 76,200 |
Joshua Mcswiney | 69,900 |
Christopher Ozer | 66,700 |
Jonathan Karamalikis | 65,900 |
David Kelly | 59,600 |
Pierce Mckellar | 54,100 |
Wan Gan | 52,700 |
Teresaann Natoli | 52,400 |
Kristy Arnett | 50,400 |
Bart Lybaert | 49,900 |
Steven Morris | 49,900 |
Samuel Deering | 49,000 |
Benedikt Eberle | 47,700 |
Tolly Sakellariou | 47,100 |
Sarkiss Osalian | 43,200 |
Peter Lai | 39,400 |
Philipp Kampf | 39,000 |
Ante Kutlesa | 37,500 |
Loni Harwood | 30,200 |
Raymond Ou | 28,800 |
Gino Provenzano | 26,900 |
Jim Giannoukos | 25,100 |
Alexander Everitt | 23,200 |
Stevan Krmpotic | 15,100 |
Tomorrow sees two starting flights in the Opening Event. The first (Flight 3) gets underway at 12:10 pm and the second (Flight 4) starts at 6:10 pm.
Players will receive 15,000 starting chips and have twelve 40-minute levels to navigate if they want to make it to Day 2.
PokerNews will be bringing you continued highlights, interviews and more from the first week of the Aussie Millions before the live reporting gets underway later on in the month.