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2014 Aussie Millions Main Event – Day 2 Report
Posted by: James Carter. - Fri, 2014-02-07 04:29
The second day of the 2014 Aussie Millions saw the field convene under the same roof for the first time. The three Day 1 flights generated a starting field of 355 players for Day 2. After 9 levels of green felt hostilities, that number went down to 109. The player who had the largest stack bagged was Phillip Willcocks. Sorel Mizzi had an outstanding day as well, and so did Gareth Dwyer.
Other players who had healthy stacks bagged were Martin Rowe (he finished with 463.9k), Darren Rabinovitz (368k) and Antonio Esfandiari (the Magician finished with 349.8k chips to his name). Heinz Kamutzki and Julian Track were among the healthy stacks at the end of the day too.
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PokerStars pro was well-represented on Day 2, and indeed, several of its members managed to have their Day 2 tickets punched. Jonathan Duhamel, Randy Lew and Angel Guillen all managed to make it past the Day 2 hurdle.
Given that registration was open till the beginning of the day, Day 2 was the one that finally capped the speculations regarding the size of the starting field and that of the prize-pool. Before the action kicked off, 9 players tossed their buy-ins into the prize-pool, so in the end, the total on the starting field was 668 players - the largest starting field of the last 3 years.
The prize-pool was set to AUD$6.68 million, which means that the winner will walk away with AUD$1.6 million. A total of 72 players will finish in the money.
Interestingly, one of the players who bought in late was none other than Gus Hansen. The bad luck-ridden Dane managed to get something going early on, and he doubled his starting stack, but eventually Lady Luck caught up with him and slapped him on the wrist yet again. He was bounced together with Dan Smith and Tony Bloom.
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