It was 2 Mill for first for a few years after. The reason for the reduction could be that they haven't reached 700 buy ins since 2012. But really don't know.
Yew Fatt 'Raiden' Kan 1775000 Andrew Chen 1165000 Brian Rast 1156000 Gerald Karlic 1085000 Richard Lyndaker 993000 Michael Addamo 867000 Lennart Uphoff 796000 Joel Douaglin 765000 Terence Clee 750000 Kwok Sze 'Calvin Ho 720000 James Rann 684000 Alexander Lynskey 671000 Dominic Coombe 670000 Jan Suchanek 657000 Ryan Yu 640000 Michael Pedley 538000 Jesse Mckenzie 487000 Anthony Legg 482000 Grant Levy 471000 Jonathan Roy 467000 David Longmate 465000 Amichai Barer 443000 Phillip Ivey 439000 Aristomenis Stavropoulos 410000 Tony Hachem 409000 Sarkiss Osalian 382000 Stevan Chew 355000 Jannis Bräuer 334000 Lita Hsu 261000 Michael Mcdonald 160000
Another bustout - the 19th within the first 2 Levels today! - leaves James one spot off a nice money ladder.
He is not in great shape, he has a million chips & sits tenth, but that is still around 40 Bigs, so the panic button does not need pressing yet awhile.
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On a side note - the top prize $1.6M(AUS) .. isn't that the same as when Gus won it? Is it always fixed at that amount?
TOP CHIP COUNTS
Play has ended for the day.
Just 30 players remain.
Our man?
Yew Fatt 'Raiden' Kan 1775000
Andrew Chen 1165000
Brian Rast 1156000
Gerald Karlic 1085000
Richard Lyndaker 993000
Michael Addamo 867000
Lennart Uphoff 796000
Joel Douaglin 765000
Terence Clee 750000
Kwok Sze 'Calvin Ho 720000
James Rann 684000
Alexander Lynskey 671000
Dominic Coombe 670000
Jan Suchanek 657000
Ryan Yu 640000
Michael Pedley 538000
Jesse Mckenzie 487000
Anthony Legg 482000
Grant Levy 471000
Jonathan Roy 467000
David Longmate 465000
Amichai Barer 443000
Phillip Ivey 439000
Aristomenis Stavropoulos 410000
Tony Hachem 409000
Sarkiss Osalian 382000
Stevan Chew 355000
Jannis Bräuer 334000
Lita Hsu 261000
Michael Mcdonald 160000
Gl James.
Latest news as at 0615 UK time......
Just 12 players remain, & James remains well in contention, in 7th place.
He has 1,300,000 chips, with the Blinds @ 10,000-20,000/3,000.
He is guaranteed A$95,000.
The next pay jump well be at 9th place, when it goes to A$120,000.
Run good James, run good.
Quite interesting to read the Live Updates by Poker News. They have barely ever mentioned James. Guess it's because he is a Brit.
If he goes much deeper, they will have to mention him.
Here's hoping.
...and then there were 11.
Another bustout - the 19th within the first 2 Levels today! - leaves James one spot off a nice money ladder.
He is not in great shape, he has a million chips & sits tenth, but that is still around 40 Bigs, so the panic button does not need pressing yet awhile.
They are now on their Dinner Break.
11 remain.
It looks like James took a hit just before dinner, & now sits plum last with just over 500,000.
Blinds will be, I assume, 15,000-30,000/5,000 when they return, so he has around 15 Bigs.
They will be playing short-handed, too - 1 x 5, & 1 x 6, so the Blinds whizz round, & those antes soon add up.
He'll need to find a spot quite soon, but I know he'll not be afraid to get it in, or let his stack dwindle too much.
Guess the next Level is when it will all happen, "double or bust".
Fingers crossed he gets the 2xUp.
wow what a call
nice double up for rann