Assistant Sports Editor of the New Zealand Herald, Steven Holloway, has been crushing today. Late into the last level and he must have taken down another big pot as we returned from the break to find Holloway with a stack of 350,000 - enough for the chip lead.
The players are back from their break and the cards are back in the air.
The plan is to play out this level, then have a 30-minute dinner break before playing another five levels.
Level: 12
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 300
The 45 remaining players have been sent on a 10-minute break.
Check back soon for more ANZPT Auckland action!
There’s a problem on Table 6 right now. David Lim and Steven Holloway keep eliminating players, so their table was down to just six players, forcing them to wait for a table break and rebalance before they could play another hand.
The latest hand saw Holloway bust a short stack, with Holloway’s 
proving too strong for 
when the board ran out 
.
Holloway moves up to 240,000 with Lim currently holding 325,000.
Combined, they have about one eighth of the total chips in play and there’s still 45 players remaining!
The dinner break situation is somewhat unique today. So the plan is to take the normal scheduled 10-minute break at the end of the current level, then come back and play one more level before taking a 30-minute dinner break. Breaks will resume as schedule from then on out until ten levels have been played today.
David Lim has had a huge day at the felt, which all started when he cracked aces when he flopped quad queens.
Lim is currently the chip leader with 325,000 in chips and is currently the only player with a stack in excess of 300,000.
Henry Xu is the latest addition to the rail here on Day 2 of the ANZPT Auckland Main Event.
Xu moved all in for preflop for around 20,000 from early position holding 
. A flurry of cards went into the muck from every direction of the table and Prashant Arora was the lone caller from the big blind. He held 
.
The board ran out 
and that was it for Xu.
Angela Brewster has just managed a handy double up against Chris Ozer.
Brewster was all in preflop for 36,500 holding 
and had to come up against the 
of Ozer.
When the dealer rolled out a 
board, Brewster said, “Oh I made a straight.”
Indeed.
Steven Holloway has been known to write a piece or two about poker for the New Zealand Herald, but today he is at the felt and having a great day as he is now one of the chip leaders. This is what Holloway had to say on Twitter.
Moving day! Just won a 100k pot when I rivered the nuts. Over 215k now, prob top 3 stack. 49 left, 24 get paid. #ANZPTFollow @Shollow1
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