The 27-year-old from London already has one huge score this year - a runner-up finish at the EPT Grand Fianl in April - and has the edge coming into this one.
Salter will table 3.2m in chips to get thing started today, about 1m ahead of American Scott Davies.
Davies himself has nine WSOP cashes this year and the rest of the final six are no slouches either with former WSOP Player of the Year Frank Kassela, local star Henry Wang, young gun Kyle Montgomery and Aussie Ang Italiano.
ESPN2 is broadcasting the event live (on a short delay) starting at 3:30 Melbourne time with commentary from the great Lon McEachern, Norman Chad and Antonio Esfandiari.
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