The live poker scene is burning. Not only we have the EPT Prague going on the Chzech capital, but in the other side of the globe, the PokerStars.net APPT Grand Final has just kicked off at the Star City Casino.

A total of 81 players played on day 1a, and we lost 30 of them during the day: only 51 of them will return on friday for day two. A lot of known faces have attended the tournament as the poker pro Eric Assadourian, the PokerStars player Lee “Final Table” Nelson and some of the region thoughest competitors.

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Tony “bond18″ Dunst leads the pack at the end of Day 1a

Within the entrants we found the names of Aussie players Jason Gray, Jamie Pickering, Michael Pedley, Kent Hunter, Mike Ivin, Graeme “Kiwi G” Putt, Peter Aristidou, Joel Dodds, Steve Leonard, Julian Powell, Julian Cohen, Tony Dunst, Daniel Kochan and Donna Ciric. We will see what happens to them in the following days.

But there were not only locals on the field today, as Casey Kastle, Dennis Waterman and PokerStars Supernova player Dustin Dorrance-Bowman took their seats on Day 1a.

After seven and a half hours of play, the American (borned in Australia) Tony “bond18″ Dunst seats at the top of the hill with 104.300 in chipss. But some others are following him at the top of the leaderboard, as the australian Carmelo Graziano (104.000) or the british Alan Brown with 99.300.