Today at the Aussie Millions

From a starting field of 1,665 total entries, just 221 players remain in the 2020 Aussie Millions Opening Event with Day 2 set to get underway later today at 12:10pm

Several well-known players are still in contention for the ANTON Jewellery Championship ring, but first they will have to make the money, with 162 players paid.

Flight	2019 Entrants	Players Advancing	2020 Entrants	Players Advancing	%change
1	166	18	242	28	+45.78%
2	191	24	255	38	+33.51%
3	213	26	307	40	+44.13%
4	446	56	268	35	-39.91%
5	736	138	593	80	-19.43%
Total	1,752		1,655

Only six players bagged at least 200,000 in chips, with David Tang the overall chip leader with 277,300. Julien Sitbon bagged up exactly 200,000 on the first flight of the tournament. He then finished second in Event #2: H.O.R.S.E. and will be hoping for another deep run in this tournament

Opening Event Top Six Chip Counts

Player	Chip Count
David Tang	277,300
Jason Giuliano	248,100
Keiron Laifoo	237,400
Nicholas Suter	217,300
Zackery Lowrie	213,800
Julien Sitbon	200,000

Payouts were also confirmed overnight, with a total of 162 places paid, witha min-cash worth A$2,730 (~US$1,884).

Making the final table of eight will guarantee a player A$32,452 (~US$22,373) and the winner will walk away with A$341,325 (~US$235,514) and the coveted ANTON Jewellery Championship ring.

Opening Event Payouts

Place	Payout (AUD)	Payout (USD)	Place	Payout (AUD)	Payout (USD)
1	$341,325	$235,514	19-21	$9,555	$6,593
2	$210,775	$145,435	22-24	$8,360	$5,768
3	$125,445	$86,557	25-27	$7,165	$4,944
4	$90,625	$62,531	28-36	$5,975	$4,123
5	$61,450	$42,401	37-45	$5,290	$3,650
6	$44,375	$30,619	46-54	$4,780	$3,298
7	$37,550	$25,910	55-72	$4,435	$3,060
8	$32,425	$22,373	73-90	$4,095	$2,826
9	$27,315	$18,847	91-108	$3,755	$2,591
10	$20,825	$14,369	109-126	$3,415	$2,356
11-12	$16,555	$11,423	127-144	$3,070	$2,118
13-15	$13,825	$9,539	145-162	$2,730	$1,884
16-18	$11,095	$7,656

Opening Event Day 2 Seating Draw

table	Seat	Player	Chip Count
25	1	Gautam Dhingra	170,900
25	2	Amanda Onions	70,000
25	3	Yunye Lu	144,400
25	4	Cameron Bisset	99,500
25	5	Robbie Stewart	83,500
25	7	Loni Harwood	30,200
25	8	Shoshiro Karita	24,900
25	9	Keiron Laifoo	237,400

26	1	Christian Nolte	120,000
26	2	Jordan Tentori	149,200
26	3	Philipp Kampf	39,000
26	4	Steven Morris	49,900
26	5	Andrew White	62,300
26	6	Robert Sanchezcallol	28,900
26	8	Bridges Roe	96,700
26	9	Gyeongbyeong Lee	32,800

27	1	Vikrant Gupta	161,700
27	2	Maximilian Lehmanski	80,500
27	3	Luc Meritan	63,100
27	4	Steve Pappas	63,100
27	5	Weichung Auyong	88,200
27	6	Ivan Sergeyev	37,100
27	7	Sean Ragozzini	122,800
27	8	Ramin Hurmuzniya	60,000
27	9	Paul Hockin	84,500

28	1	Pierce Mckellar	54,100
28	2	Yee Lee	18,500
28	3	Florian Ferroni	44,900
28	4	Scott Wilson	49,200
28	5	Xingwei Tong	109,000
28	6	Taryn Boden	32,700
28	7	Roy Agresta	173,100
28	8	Soren Vohrs	77,600
28	9	Daniel Gabriel	112,000

29	1	Nipun Java	55,700
29	2	Richard Balkau	72,200
29	3	Javad Etaat	102,900
29	4	Raymond Ou	28,800
29	5	Andrew Yates	83,200
29	6	Tristan Bain	91,000
29	7	Antonio Fazzolari	152,600
29	8	Michael Kosmis	70,200
29	9	Samuel Deering	49,000

30	1	Quan Zhou	51,900
30	2	John Lombardo	80,900
30	3	Michel Bouskila	5,400
30	4	Connie Graham	60,900
30	5	Nali Kaselias	23,200
30	6	Jamie Maddox	42,400
30	7	Dean Brown	98,500
30	8	Wei-cheng Yin	36,800
30	9	Maxwell Young	17,100

31	1	Haven Ten	50,500
31	2	David Rodwell	47,900
31	3	Jeremy Pekarek	91,700
31	4	Kristy Moreno	50,400
31	5	Jim Giannoukos	25,100
31	6	Julian Dight	71,600
31	7	Sohrab Rezvanpour	140,800
31	8	Sean Dorgan	37,800
31	9	Lucas Morritt	46,000

32	1	Peter Lai	39,400
32	2	Robert Raymond	93,900
32	3	Travis Endersby	74,700
32	4	James Gilbert	87,700
32	5	Sik Chan	19,600
32	6	Sladjan Pantos	111,700
32	7	Florian Fuchs	47,300
32	8	Izuchukwu Oparaocha	169,400
32	9	Joey Weissman	12,200

33	1	Paul Abela	89,800
33	2	Giovanni Massa	39,000
33	3	Yang Lei	32,900
33	4	Ryan Henry	86,500
33	5	Benjamin Richardson	23,200
33	6	Aboozar Azarnoush	58,800
33	7	Ivan Deyra	80,300
33	8	Darren Mundy	20,000
33	9	En-ching Wu	76,200

34	1	Rahul Rastogi	41,300
34	2	Joshua Mcswiney	69,900
34	3	Jonathan Karamalikis	65,900
34	4	Aurelien Chenais	64,600
34	5	Kuo Hung	56,300
34	6	David Kelly	59,600
34	7	Thomas Donaldson	43,300
34	8	Arif Mustafa	75,800
34	9	Tim Coumuolidis	96,800

35	1	Joo Snell	161,000
35	2	Pereda Guillen	111,000
35	3	John Thomson	36,300
35	4	James Frazer	86,100
35	5	Daniel Clemmet	140,900
35	6	Ehsan Amiri	102,800
35	7	Petros Aristidou	24,500
35	8	Luke Edwards	78,000
35	9	Andrew Shanahan	108,200

36	1	Omer Silajdzija	97,400
36	2	Michael Rattigan	25,800
36	3	Davor Derek	60,400
36	4	Myeong Park	93,300
36	5	Wu-wei Dai	27,800
36	6	Simon Burns	99,500
36	7	Katsuya Sotsuka	124,100
36	8	Zackery Lowrie	213,800
36	9	Ante Kutlesa	37,500

37	1	Wan Gan	52,700
37	2	Niko Koop	53,900
37	3	Martyn Ward	94,600
37	4	Russell Mildon	45,300
37	5	Amit Shorey	98,600
37	6	Iii Spinella	139,400
37	7	Jackson Warne	64,700
37	8	Landen Lucas	93,000
37	9	Teresaann Natoli	52,400

38	1	David Yan	30,800
38	2	Michael Harb	122,300
38	3	Adrian Salter	26,200
38	4	Hun Lee	73,400
38	5	Samuel Salt	58,800
38	6	Rayner Loi	59,000
38	7	Wei Zhang	140,300
38	8	Nathan Goodall	51,400
38	9	Gino Provenzano	26,900

39	1	Rabindranath Nadarajan	77,300
39	2	Colton Blomberg	50,200
39	3	Bo Jin	99,900
39	4	Jun Jia	103,000
39	5	Carmino Desciscio	41,000
39	6	Nathan Susnig	90,100
39	7	Kohei Miura	35,100
39	8	Jamie Lee	68,700
39	9	Benedikt Eberle	47,700

40	1	Nicholas Suter	217,300
40	2	Yixin Wen	40,400
40	3	Paul Hill	97,500
40	4	David Veigli	38,800
40	5	Alexandros Palantinis	37,100
40	6	Thomas Gleeson	85,600
40	7	Nathan Obrien	55,300
40	8	Zhankang Chen	81,300
40	9	Dejan Boskovic	123,400

41	1	Daniel Wojcik	67,200
41	2	Stevan Krmpotic	15,100
41	3	Jensen Chow	95,400
41	4	Naim Mouchaileh	147,200
41	5	Joshua Mansellnilsson	77,000
41	6	Eoghan Odea	44,800
41	7	Roland Rokita	135,600
41	8	Marc Macdonnell	153,200
41	9	Daneil Hinh	36,100

42	1	James Hawketts	78,000
42	2	David Wells	35,900
42	3	Corentin Ropert	78,800
42	4	Michael Tran	126,900
42	5	Christopher Smitton	13,600
42	6	Kwang Nguyen	167,600
42	7	Quanbin Zhong	27,900
42	8	Tanya Hill	57,800
42	9	Alan Xerri	66,200

43	1	Panayotis Flourentzou	57,100
43	2	Qiang Fu	119,800
43	3	Joseph Antar	62,900
43	4	Daniel Hachem	56,800
43	5	Bjorn Ostby	65,100
43	6	Michael Behnert	47,600
43	7	Rody Kaka	78,100
43	8	Fadi Sayegh	48,000
43	9	Rehman Kassam	143,000

44	1	Paul Altis	121,500
44	2	Sarkiss Osalian	43,200
44	3	Jinsoo Kang	41,800
44	4	Brett Murtagh	42,600
44	5	Julien Sitbon	200,000
44	6	Jacob Howes	52,400
44	7	Tatjana Zizic	24,200
44	8	Josh Mitchell	38,800
44	9	Michael Egan	165,000