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Day 3 play is set to begin in a few hours down under. The APPT Melbourne Main Event is in full swing and New Zealand's Phil Willcocks leads the final 37 players into today's play.
Willcocks will have a close to 2:1 chip lead over Aussie James Obst once play resumes at the Crown Casino later today. PokerStars Team Online player Keiran Harris is currently fourth in chips.
A prizepool of over 1 million dollars awaits the top 28 players (meaning that nine of the remaining players will be shoutout) - including a $330,000 top prize to the winner of APPT Melbourne.
Here are the payouts (in AUD):
1st $330,000
2nd $207,600
3rd $116,000
4th $88,600
5th $73,300
6th $58,000
7th $45,800
8th $36,700
9th $27,500
10th-12th $18,300
13th-16th $15,300
17th-20th $12,200
21st-24th $9,800
25th-28th $8,600
Here are the Top 10 chip counts:
Phillip Willcocks 774000
James Obst 454900
Koray Turker 424400
Keiran Harris 389000
Norah Greer 382000
Luke Edwards 356100
Marcus Lau 317400
Julius Colman 315400
Jackson Zheng 282000
Antonis Kambouroglou 272200
PTPR TIER 3 EVENT
Asian Pacific Poker Tour Melbourne
APPT Melbourne NLH Main Event
July 29-August 1, 2011
Crown Casino | Melbourne
Buy-in: $5,500 | Prizepool: $1,341,512 | Entries: 260
PTS AT STAKE:
1st position 102
2nd position 62
3rd position 37
4th position 27
5th position 20
6th position 12
7th position 10
8th position 7
9th position 7
