That's All From Day 1b

We're all done here for the last of the opening days of the 2009 PokerStars.net APPT Auckland Main Event. Tomorrow the survivors from both of the day one flights come together and continue our run towards a champion.

Today was packed with thrills and spills. Some of the more interesting hands happened towards the end of the day including Ali Khalil losing most of his stack to a one-outer on the river.

Some of the other high profile players fared a little better with Soren Eriksen (84,600), Raj Ramakrishnan (59,700), Tony Hachem (53,400) and Eric Assadourian (34,700) amongst approximately 64 players who survived the day.

Our flight chipleader is Lance Climo with 134,400.

Play resumes tomorrow just after midday local time, and we look forward to your company then!