After another eight hours of play here at Crown Casino our official final table is about ultimately. Originally of the day there have been 62 still in contention and now only seven remain in quest of the APPT Main Event title, the trophy, and A$235,875.

Leading the best way is Ashish Gupta who played the role of terminator while accumulating 2.22 million in chips. Gupta eliminated four players within the later stages of proceedings to secure the highest spot going into tomorrow. The last of these eliminations came when Gupta sent Richard Zebrovius home with pocket aces against pocket tens for a 650,000 chip pot.

Chip leader - Ashish Gupta

Gupta has amassed $238,951 in live career earnings to this point and his biggest score so far was A$66,235 back in January for third place in an Aussie Millions Six Max event. He'll wish to finish a minimum of fourth to eclipse that record here this week and has found himself in an excellent position to do so.

While Gupta have to be ecstatic the similar cannot be said for Peter Aristidou. He was eliminated within the final hand of the day to earn the title of our official final table bubble boy. Aristidou was a non-believer in a hand against Trung Tran and called off for his tournament life with J♥J♦ on board reading 2♣Q♠4♥Q♥2♠. It was no good with Tran tabling K♣Q♣ to send Aristidou packing and signal the tip of play.

Peter Aristidou

Start-of-day chip leader Tristan Bain also found the rail within the second half the day. He had a rollercoaster ride at the felt but ultimately ran the last of his chips into Tran's Q♥Q♣ holding just T♦9♦. Bain couldn't take the lead and must be at liberty with a 15th place finish.

For now though it is a night of rest before our final seven return from 12:15pm tomorrow. You will see the table draw below to peer where individuals are sitting and the way they stack up.

APPT Melbourne Final Table Seat Draw

Seat 1) Trung Tran - 2,065,000Seat 2) Jay Prasad - 2,160,000Seat 3) Tu Lan - 755,000Seat 4) Raymond Ou - 795,000Seat 5) Ben McLean - 845,000Seat 6) Ashish Gupta - 2,220,000Seat 7) Shawn Lee - 1,325,000

Who will navigate the general table and emerge triumphant on this APPT10 Melbourne Main Event? Join us tomorrow to determine as we have now the blow by blow of the entire action here at the PokerStars Blog!

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