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PokerStars APPT Auckland – Day 2 report
Posted by: James Carter. - Sun, 2010-09-19 10:04
The two day 1 flights of the PokerStars APPT Auckland’s Main Event came together for day 2 of the
poker tournament. 96 players returned to action, all looking to at least make it past the day before concocting further plans about possibly going all the way.
Nauv Kashyap and Noah Vogelman started the day with two of the biggest stacks, and Kashyap wasted no time increasing his by knocking opponents out left and right. He soon took over the chip lead too, being the first one over the 200k mark. Then he just ran out of steam and he hit the rail in the wake of a string of bad hands that befell him.
Lee Nelson of Team
PokerStars joined Kashyap at the rail when Leo Boxell’s A,J got the better of his K,Q on the river, with all the chips in the middle. Boxell went on to survive the day, moving on to day 3 in the middle of the pack.
There was no shortage of stars at the APPT tables on day 2: Victorino Torres, Richard Lancaster, Ricky Kroesen and Joel Dodds were all there. None of these guys attracted as much of the spotlight as start of the day short-stack, Tom Grigg though. Tom Grigg had survived his first day of action on a crippled stack, so when play began on day 2, he had less than what he’d started the tournament with.
Grigg played his cards right on day 2 though. He staved off elimination by working his way up slowly through the first few levels, then put his foot down, winning a 5-bet pot from Kashyap. He then won a huge pot from Rofati Toleafoa, on a nut flush vs flush match-up.
One thing led to another, and when the day got called, Grigg was sitting on a 546k stack.
