Bentley Leads APPT Melbourne; Defending Champ, Boxell Close Behind
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It took just under 12 hours, but finally Day 2 of the PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour Melbourne Main Event has come to an end. There were 167 players who started the day with high hopes of surviving the night, but only 44 managed to bag up some chips. Of those players, Wayne Bentley snagged the chip lead with a stack of 450,000. Close behind Bentley is, amazingly, the defending champ, Leo Boxell.
Boxell, who took down $330,000 for winning this event in 2011, could become the first player to win two of the same APPT events in back-to-back years.
Some of the players who fell by the wayside during the early stages of the day include World Series of Poker bracelet winner Andrew Hinrichsen, James Broom, Julian Cohen, Van Marcus, Tim English and Team PokerStars Pros Raymond Wu and Celina Lin.
It didn’t take long for the field to be cut in half and at this point, Haibo Chu was far and away the chip leader, while Tom Grigg, Michael Kanaan and Bentley all held the lead at one point during the evening. Unfortunately for Grigg, he would fall way down the leader board during the last level, and while he would survive, the rest of the above players survived with far healthier stacks.
Some of the other players who won’t be joining the Day 3 field include Aaron Benton, Jai Kemp, Didier Guerin and Jay Kinkade as they all found their way to the rail throughout the night.
Those who will are still alive and well heading into Day 3 include Sam Razavi, James Bills, Billy Argyros, Jarred Graham, Krsitian Lunardi, Gary Benson and PokerStars Team Online member, Roy Bhasin. Joining Bentley and Boxell at the top of the counts will be the likes of Brendon Rubie, Dale Marsland and Benn Skender. See below for a full list of survivors.
It is the top 28 players who guaranteed a min-cash, so join us tomorrow as we play into the money and move on our way to the final table. Day 3 kicks off at 12:30 PM local time. Until then, poker fans!
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showed up, and Bhasin decided to check again. Bentley didn't want to see a river just yet as he bet 29,000. This got Bhasin to shove, and he put his 145,500 chips at risk. Bentley tanked for a long time, but eventually he decided to let it go.
, and Cusenza called the 3,100-chip continuation bet. On the turn the 
popped up while the board remained rainbow. Lin fired out 5,200, and Cusenza called once more.
, and Lin moved all in for around 16,000 chips. Cusenza called with a set of sevens, after which Lin mucked. She claimed to have had ace-high, and got caught bluffing.
, and the action was checked to Grigg. Grigg fired out 6,200, and the player in the small blind gave him action. He moved all in for around 22,000 more, and the other players folded. Grigg called as soon as the action got back to him.
, and the table roared when the dealer put out the 
on the river. Grigg hit a straight flush and beat his opponent's nut flush.
, but didn't improve. Just now, Dillion added more chips to his stack when he knocked out 