Event 9: $10,500 Aussie Millions Main Event Day 2 | 2010 Aussie Millions

01-27-2010 23:56 UTC+11

4 More Hands

[user141292]

The TD's up here in Studio 3 have announced there will be four more hands played tonight.

01-28-2010 00:02 UTC+11

Frieling Wins Monster

donpeters

David Frieling raised from the cutoff seat and John Lomardo called on the button. The flop came down {Q-Spades}

and Frieling checked. Lomardo fired 30,000 and then Frieling raised to 100,000. Lomardo went all in for 200,000 and Lomardo called.

Frieling: {3-Diamonds}

Lomardo:

The turn was the {K-Hearts}

and the river the {K-Spades}

to keep Frieling in the led and give him the massive pot. He's up to 535,000 chips and has taken over the chip lead. Lomardo was sent packing.

01-28-2010 00:03 UTC+11

Our Second Half-Mill Stack

[user141292]

Pierre Aoukar is now half way to a million when one of his opponents raised to 11,000 and saw Aoukar reraise to 42,000. His opponent moved all in and Aoukar made the call. Aoukar showed the {a-Clubs}

and his opponent {9-Clubs}

. The

flop, turn and river were good enough to win Aoukar the pot and get his stack right to the 500,000 mark.

Tags: Pierre Aoukar

01-28-2010 00:06 UTC+11

Two Big Stacks Collide

[user140344]

Preflop on the button, Sorel Mizzi made it 8,000 before Chad Wiedenhoeft in the small blind made it 12,000.

Mizzi made the call and the flop came down {j-Diamonds}

. Wiedenhoeft made a bet of 13,000 which Mizzi called.

The two checked the {j-Spades}

turn.

On the {5-Spades}

river, Wiedenhoeft made a bet of 36,500 and was called by Mizzi.

Wiedenhoeft said, "I have a king," and just showed the {k-Clubs}

. Mizzi said, "I have an ace," and tabled the {A-Spades}

and scooped up the pot.

Mizzi is now sitting on 360,000 and Wiedenhoeft is down to 480,000.

Tags: Chad Wiedenhoeft Sorel Mizzi

01-28-2010 00:13 UTC+11

Day 2 of the 2010 Aussie Millions Main Event is in the books. The remaining players from all three Day 1 flights met in the same room (well, same two rooms, if you count Studio 3) for the first time today.

Pierre Aoukar came into the day with the chip lead, but it was David Frieling who closed out the day atop the leaderboard with over 500,000 in chips as your unofficial chip leader. Not far behind him are Dan Shak, winner of the $100,000 challenge; Gus Hansen, winner of the 2007 Aussie Millions Main Event and Betfair's Sorel Mizzi.

In all, the 2010 version of the Aussie Millions attracted 746 entrants, bringing the total prize pool to $7.46 million AUD, with first place taking home $2 million AUD.

Of the 294 hopefuls who started Day 2, about 80 of them remain. We'll have the official numbers posted as soon as they are released by tournament staff.

Quite a few pros made it to day two, but made early exits, including Erick Lindgren, Tony G, WSOP last woman standing Leo Margets, Joe Hachem, Dan Harrington, James Akenhead and Mark Vos.

PokerNews will be back tomorrow afternoon at 12:30 p.m. local time when the remaining players work their way down to the final three tables. Join us then for our continued coverage of the 2010 Aussie Millions Main Event!

Event 9: $10,500 Aussie Millions Main Event

Day 2 Completed