Day one of the Aussie Millions event kicked off in Melbourne’s Crown Casino on Friday with 342 players drawn to the felt on the opening round.

Familiar famous faces were found in the field including Australia’s Tony Hachem, Michael Chrisanthopoulos, Jamie Pickering and New Zealand’s own Graeme ‘Kiwi G’ Putt…

Day 1a action proved to be too fast paced for officials so they called the day to a close one level early, so as not to outpace the field for Day 1b. Play was halted at the end of eleven levels with only 54 players remaining.

At the end of the session, the chips stacked up like this:

David Griffiths 95,000
Christian Heich 71,200
Rodney Snider 69,600
Rob Price 68,300
David Saab 60,900
Graeme Putt 60,800
Jack Efaraimo 58,500
Gary Cleaver 58,100
Naz Sibaei 56,600
Jim Mastorakos 46,700

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