In an effort that has blown our best predictions out of the water of our seven qualifiers that played in the APPT Sydney main event five have charged their way to day two of play.

Leading the way is young Brazilian BatataSC, he has been one of our chip leaders since he started play, right along with our second highest stack Halo77. Both players have taken hits but bounced right back and end day one with 107,000 and 101,000 respectively.

Next on our list is dannyboy904, he showed great patience early and the late double up sees him end day one with 56,700.

Right behind him is bradfish who had a high of about 75,000 but just couldn’t find that extra hand to keep him up. He took down some big pots but just couldn’t get that back to back pot to really give him a lift. At one stage he looked like he might not survive after the last break, but he played his cards well and finished with 31,100, just enough chips to make an early move.

Our last player through to day two is flail1, he came through day 1b with 15,500 and while I suggested it might be worth moving all-in in the dark first hand, he is taking the safer approach of seeing what he can find in that first orbit before the blinds and antes take him out.

It was great to see all of our qualifiers do well, even the two players who couldn’t survive day one can hold their heads high after playing some great poker. The quality of play from this group has been unbelievable.

Its just 12 hours till we shuffle up and do it all again, hopefully this great play will continue and we can see a couple of players taking home some cash!

Here is the list:
BatataSC 107,000
Halo77 101,000
dannyboy904 57,600
bradfish 31,100
flail1 15,500

Shane @ APPT Sydney