APPT Sydney 2007: Day 1 Flight 1 Complete
Day 1, Flight 1 of the inaugural APPT Grand Final in Sydney has concluded, with a quiet and tentative final 15 minutes of play.
30 players remained on a day claiming several of the event's feature players including 2003 and 2004 World Champions Chris Moneymaker and Greg Raymer. Flight 1 also saw the exit of this year's WSOP finalist, Team PokerStars' Raymond Rahme, who held the chip lead for a large part of the day before having his pocket rockets cracked on the "heaviest" table in the venue - Table 13, where 4 of the chip leaders did battle for numerous blind levels.
More action is anticipated tomorrow, with plenty of online qualifiers competing on Day 1, Flight 2. In the presence of the lesser known players, will be highly credentialed pros including Team PokerStars' Lee Nelson and the very entertaining and popular former World Champion Scotty Nguyen.
At the current rate of elimination, Day 2 (Saturday) is shaping up to consist of about 100 runners.
Day 1, Flight 1 Final Chip Count:
- Davoud Khajeh 297,600
- Jason Lien 278,200
- TerrenceChan 253,200
- Lei He 241,100
- Michael Zowie 228,100
- Joseph Loruzzo 194,200
- Grant Levy 173,000
- Karib Karib 155,400
- John Donahue 145,200
- Luigi Apreda 130,800
- Tony Dunst 108,200
- Vijayan Nagarajan 108,000
- John Matwey 97,300
- David St Eloi 93,300
- Trudi Sultana 85,700
- David Foldy 85,100
- Chris Pisani 83,400
- Mark Ericksen 81,900
- Michael Frydman 79,700
- Mitchell Price 77,100
- Uzziah Thomas 75,000
- Patrick Fletcher 55,900
- John Colwell 53,200
- Angelo Scicchitano 42,300
- Mark Wong 41,800
- Ziv Bachar 41,600
- Henry Sun 41,500
- Trong Son Dao 28,100
- Vincent Green Gibson 17,600
- Vera Milinkovic 11,200
