Patrik Antonius Leads Day 1C of the Aussie Millions Main Event
Phil Ivey and Sam Trickett are also among the big stacks coming back for day 2 action tomorrow.
$10,000 Main Event Day 1C
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| Patrik Antonius Image: PokerNews.com |
The final starting flight of the Aussie Millions Main Event saw 269 players enter, making a final attendance of 622 - not a massive drop from last year's total of 659.
Today was the day that the real big guns of world poker came out to play. Phil Ivey, Joe Hachem, 
JensKyllonen, Sam Trickett, Nate Silver, Martin '0piggybank' Finger and MelanieWeisner all will be returning tomorrow for day 2.
But leading the charge is high stakes supremo Patrik Antonius, who is the day 1C chip leader with 204,800 chips.
Plenty of big names fell too on day 1C including Shane Warne, Gus Hansen, John Juanda and Antonio Esfandiari.
The official prize pool and payouts are expected to be announced tomorrow as day 2 begins.
Aussie Millions $10,000 Main Event
End of Day 1C Chip Counts |
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| Place | Name | Chips | ||
| 1st | Patrik Antonius | 204,800 | ||
| 2nd | Slade Fisher | 199,400 | ||
| 3rd | Kish Kumar | 134,600 | ||
| 4th | Sam Cohen | 128,800 | ||
| 5th | Julian Powell | 125,000 | ||
| 6th | Giacomo Fundaro | 120,000 | ||
| 7th | Hoang Anh Do | 115,000 | ||
| 8th | Chris Brammer | 110,000 | ||
| 9th | Sam Trickett | 110,000 | ||
| 10th | Gary Benson | 92,800 | ||
| ... | ||||
| - | Nate Silver | 89,700 | ||
| - | Dan Shak | 78,700 | ||
| - | Phil Ivey | 65,000 | ||
| - | Martin '0piggybank' Finger | 36,000 | ||
| - | JensKyllonen |
27,800 | ||
| Blinds: 400/800/100 | Players: 144 (269)| Prize pool: TBD |
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