Kapoor Amongst the Big Stacks
There are 158 players in contention, with one of the biggest stacks belonging to Akshay Kapoor, who is sitting on 216,000 and was kind enough to tell PokerNews how he amassed such a sizable stack.
Kapoor was responsible for showing $5 Challenge champion Shivan Abdine the door back on the 400/800 level after the two clashed in a hand on an ace-king-jack double club flop, which is when Abdine got the last of his chips in with . Kapoor had and hit running aces on to make the boat and bring Abdine's tourney to a close.
The first hand back after the break saw Kapoor rail another opponent in a multi-way pot, spiking top set with aces on a flop vs. two players in the blinds. While the small blind was able to escape on the turn in the hand, the big blind, holding two pair was not so fortunate and that pot shot Kapoor to the top of the counts.
Other notables with chips are as follows:
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Akshay Kapoor |
216,000
216,000
|
216,000 |
Jo Snell |
211,300
211,300
|
211,300 |
Adrian Attenborough |
210,000
102,500
|
102,500 |
Tony Kambouroglou |
199,100
39,100
|
39,100 |
Chris White |
166,500
-33,500
|
-33,500 |
Saidal Wardak |
165,000
165,000
|
165,000 |
Graham Cowan |
163,000
163,000
|
163,000 |
Brian O'Farrell |
160,000
160,000
|
160,000 |
Gazi Zreika
|
159,200
114,200
|
114,200 |
Sam Capra |
135,000
91,000
|
91,000 |
Mladen Vukovic |
125,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
Cameron Chen |
120,000
120,000
|
120,000 |
Dejan Boskovic |
100,000
-42,000
|
-42,000 |
Jason Pritchard |
95,000
42,000
|
42,000 |
Vincent Xu |
95,000
-20,000
|
-20,000 |
Christopher Zenonos
|
80,000
-1,000
|
-1,000 |
Gary Benson |
80,000
26,000
|
26,000 |
|
||
Andrian Chin |
80,000
-43,000
|
-43,000 |
Jonathan Karamalikis |
75,000
-5,000
|
-5,000 |
Bobby Zhang |
65,000
38,000
|
38,000 |
Liam Doyle |
60,000
35,500
|
35,500 |
Corey Kempson |
55,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
Michael Egan |
50,000
-16,000
|
-16,000 |
Con Angelakis |
40,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
Mark Rebeira
|
Busted | |
Alex Lee | Busted |