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2:15pm: Play resumes
Level 9: Blinds 500/1,000 (100)
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2:00pm: First break
Players have left the tournament area for their first 15-minute break of the day. Play will resume shortly.
1:55pm: Chen-an Lin makes an exit
Level 8: Blinds 400/800 (100)
We arrived at the table just in time to see Chen-an Lin getting up from his seat, the recent-made PokerStars Team Pro had [ad][as] in front of him with the board reading [th][2h][jh][qd][3d].
The pot, however, was being pushed the way of Stephen Chidwick who had [js][jc] for a flopped set to crack the overpair.
Lin headed for the exit while Chidwick stacked up 110,000 chips in total.
1:50pm: Enigma in the building
Level 8: Blinds 400/800 (100)
We just overheard an interesting conversation on table 57. A player wearing a shirt covered in question marks was engaged in some banter with Fabian Quoss.
"They call me Enigma. I've won the Sunday Million and come fourth in it before" the player boasted to Quoss.
"That's impressive," Quoss replied, "I've never even made a deep run in it."
It turns out Enigma's story checks out. According to Pocketfives.com Tony 'ENIGMA4UME' Poulengeris did indeed finish fourth in the PokerStars Sunday Million in 2013 for $75,000, and chopped the tournament heads up just last August for $138,000.
The two traded some more comments about luck and patience before Poulengeris made it clear he didn't know about Quoss's accolades.
"Do you play any big tournaments?" Poulengeris asked, not knowing Quoss has almost $7,000,000 in lifetime earnings and has locked up a seat on the $100,000 Challenge final table this week.
Quoss responded that he did play in the big games and the two agreed that in that case they had probably come across each other at some point.
Time will tell how Poulengeris and Quoss fare here on Day 2. Stay with us for all your live reporting needs to find out.
1:40pm: Obst crushing
Level 8: Blinds 400/800 (100)
James Obst is continuing his giant-killing ways out on the back corner of the satellite room.
After eliminating a player on the previous hand, we watched Obst raise to 1,800 preflop. He picked up one caller in position to see a [kh][7c][3c] flop. Both players checked before Obst check-called for 1,600 on the [as] turn.
When the [7d] river paired the board, Obst bet out enough 20,000 which was enough to put his opponent all-in. The play quickly folded and Obst raked in another pot to climb to 280,000 chips.
1:20pm: Two-outer hurts Chew
Level 8: Blinds 400/800 (100)
It looked like things went four-way to a paired [ac][ah][7d] flop.
One player checked before a shortstack led for 6,000 into the three others in the hand. Next-to-act Stevan Chew made the call before Chance Kornuth on the button and the fourth runner both folded their hands.
The [2c] appeared on the turn and the flop bettor tossed his last 9,700 into the middle. Action now back on Chew, he scratched his head and sipped his coffee. After a few minutes deliberating he decided to commit the chips and saw he'd made a great call.
Chew: [9c][9d]
Opponent: [7h][6h]
Chew had his opponent dead to two outs but lo and behold the [7c] rolled off to give the other player a full house. Still sitting with a healthy stack after that hit, Chew has around 90,000 to play with here on Day 2.
1:00pm: Some early casualties
Level 8: Blinds 400/800 (100)
Plenty of Team PokerStars Pros made it through to Day 2 of the Main Event, but unfortunately one is an early casualty as Celina Lin was just spotted making her exit from the poker room.
She tweeted the details of her bustout saying that she three-bet shoved with ace-queen but her opponent held ace-king.
Also on the rail is Michael O'Grady who must've used all of his good fortune by scoring a "free upgrade" to front row tickets at the tennis last night. O'Grady recalled to us that he check-raised all in with [as][ks] on a jack-high flop with two spade, but his opponent called with jack-ten. O'Grady added a straight draw on the turn, but the river bricked to send him crashing to the rail.
12:50pm: Feature table stacked
Level 8: Blinds 400/800 (100)
Players have just taken their seats and some might be a little frustrated with their tough table draw.
Our feature table is lined with familiar faces, consisting of Jeff Gross, Seet Pin Tan, Julius Colman, Pratyush Buddiga, Oliver Speidel, Richard Ashby and Xuan Liu.
Speidel won this event back in 2012 and while he only starts the day with 43,600 in chips, Speidel will be looking to spin it up and make another impressive run at the title.
And speaking of champions, Table 46 sees WSOP Main Event winners Martin Jacobson and Australia's own Joe Hachem seated together. We'll be keeping an eye out to see if the two tangle in any big pots.
12:35pm: Late registrations
Level 8: Blinds 400/800 (100)
Registration for the Main Event is open until the end of Level 8, which means that latecomers have the rest of this level to plonk down $10,600 and jump into the action.
Already today there have been five players who have taken advantage of that. With the blinds at just 400/800/100, they'll start with almost 40 big blinds which is plenty to get busy with.
12:30pm: Play under way on Day 2
Level 8: Blinds 400/800 (100)
The players have unbagged their chips and taken their seats for Day 2 of the Aussie Millions Main Event. Over the first two days we've seen over 720 players come through the doors of the Crown Poker Room and after the first day of carnage, just 376 players remain with dreams of fame and fortune.
We'll be playing a shorter day today with just five levels and no dinner break. That means we'll finish some time around 9:00pm which is just in time for tonight's Player's Party at Club 23 here at Crown.
Crown Poker Tournament Director Joel Williams has given the final instructions and the cards are in the air!
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