Former Crown Poker Room Tournament Director Jonno Pittock started the day as the shortest stack in the tournament, but now sits behind a respectable 30,000 in chips. We didn't catch the action, but apparently Pittock doubled up holding pocket queens and then doubled again pocket kings.
The following players are no longer in their seats and so at the early stages of Day 2, we can surmise that they have been eliminated.
This morning Oliver Gill had aspirations of finishing as a potential chip lead at the end of the day after his comments via social media.
“Dean Schneider and [Removed:17] at my table today, feels like one of us should be chipleader by the end of the day.”
We missed the action but could overhear Oliver Gill explaining to Daniel Levy that he ran his 
into [Removed:17]’s 
on the third hand of the day to be eliminated.
It has just been announced by APPT President Danny McDonagh that we will be playing seven levels today, with a dinner break at 6.15pm AEST.
The players have scrambled into their seats, the bags have been broken open, the chips are out on the felt and the cards are in the air!
At this point it is uncertain how many levels will be played today, but we would venture a guess of somewhere around seven to nine levels. Oh, and by the way, levels are now 75 minutes level until the end of tournament as apposed to the 60 minute levels from Day 1.
Let's go!
Level: 8
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
Welcome back to the Crown Poker Room in Melbourne, Australia for continued action from Season 7 of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour.
Today will see Day 2 of the APPT Melbourne Main Event kick off with 168 players still in contention to go all the way and claim the $217,000 first-place prize.
Leading the way with 163,100 in chips is Yanji Ge, while the likes of [Removed:17], Daniel Botta, Ryan Boswell, Dean Schneider and Mat Hawker aren't too far behind.
With so many players still alive and well including notable names like Joe Cabret, Jason Gray, Brendon Rubie, Jonathan Karamalikis, Daniel Neilson and Andrew Hinrichsen, the 2013 APPT Melbourne title is certainly anyone's for the taking.
All the action on Day 2 is set to kick off at 12.30pm local time and once again PokerNews will be here all day long bringing you live updates from the floor. Stay tuned!
| Table | Seat | Player | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | Christopher Ozer | 50600 |
| 1 | 3 | Seng Ong | 49600 |
| 1 | 4 | Hung-Tu (Henry) Wang | 50600 |
| 1 | 5 | Ashley Mason | 45000 |
| 1 | 6 | Petar Vujic | 24400 |
| 1 | 7 | Oliver Gill | 57200 |
| 1 | 8 | [Removed:17] | 154000 |
| 1 | 9 | Dean Schneider | 126500 |
| 2 | 1 | Didier Guerin | 53900 |
| 2 | 2 | Phillip Willcocks | 24100 |
| 2 | 3 | Beng Hooi Beh | 31800 |
| 2 | 4 | Miltiadis Papadopoulos | 20800 |
| 2 | 5 | George Giannopoulos | 35700 |
| 2 | 6 | Paul Altis | 46700 |
| 2 | 7 | Vasilios Argyros | 19500 |
| 2 | 8 | Jason Pritchard | 40700 |
| 2 | 9 | Najib Moubayed | 74300 |
| 3 | 1 | Srdjan Jovan | 23200 |
| 3 | 2 | Billy Seri | 59800 |
| 3 | 3 | Neil Jervis | 45800 |
| 3 | 4 | David Munday | 52300 |
| 3 | 5 | Darryl Gassali | 26700 |
| 3 | 6 | Murray Roach | 55500 |
| 3 | 7 | Brett Chalhoub | 50200 |
| 3 | 8 | Brant Baum | 26600 |
| 3 | 9 | Julius Colman | 54200 |
| 4 | 1 | Tom Rafferty | 61300 |
| 4 | 2 | Khoo Dean | 42500 |
| 4 | 3 | Busra Kaluntakasuwun | 50100 |
| 4 | 4 | Benjamin Breadsell | 51700 |
| 4 | 5 | Daniel Chevalier | 40800 |
| 4 | 6 | Nazih Sibaei | 37800 |
| 4 | 7 | Morry Edelstein | 27100 |
| 4 | 8 | Aaron Benton | 10900 |
| 4 | 9 | Chiman Kwan | 31100 |
| 5 | 1 | Samuel Kennedy | 45200 |
| 5 | 2 | Ross Parkhill | 22800 |
| 5 | 3 | Amanda de Cesare | 45800 |
| 5 | 4 | Ruggiero Ambrosino | 105200 |
| 5 | 5 | Chris Colaneri | 75000 |
| 5 | 6 | Rene Eller | 33200 |
| 5 | 7 | Stefan Sudar | 45600 |
| 5 | 8 | Ricky Kroesen | 35000 |
| 5 | 9 | Michael Allmrodt | 26200 |
| 8 | 1 | Ryan Drossel | 104000 |
| 8 | 2 | Benjamin Pockett | 64200 |
| 8 | 3 | Khac Trung Tran | 87000 |
| 8 | 4 | Robert Jackson | 58900 |
| 8 | 5 | David Tang | 55300 |
| 8 | 6 | Rajkumar Ramakrishnan | 46600 |
| 8 | 7 | Bryan Huang | 50300 |
| 8 | 8 | Nick Dallimore | 83500 |
| 8 | 9 | John Lombardo | 128200 |
| 10 | 1 | Milan Gurung | 34100 |
| 10 | 2 | Jazz Mathers | 40300 |
| 10 | 3 | Jess Edwards | 31800 |
| 10 | 5 | Bowdy Tolhopf | 53300 |
| 10 | 6 | Andy Zarro | 76600 |
| 10 | 7 | Tam Truong | 39200 |
| 10 | 8 | Alex Lynskey | 38400 |
| 10 | 9 | Hai Bo Chu | 50200 |
| 11 | 1 | Charles Caris | 36900 |
| 11 | 2 | Ravindran Maravar | 34100 |
| 11 | 3 | Ryan Boswell | 131300 |
| 11 | 4 | Benjamin Volpe | 41800 |
| 11 | 5 | Nicholas Burkitt | 10700 |
| 11 | 6 | Luke Edwards | 56500 |
| 11 | 7 | Sal Fazzino | 122800 |
| 11 | 9 | Yanji Ge | 163100 |
| 13 | 1 | Daniel Mayoh | 98900 |
| 13 | 2 | Joseph Hachem | 20000 |
| 13 | 3 | Dean Blatt | 19900 |
| 13 | 4 | Brian Grieve | 45300 |
| 13 | 5 | Chane Kampanatsanyakorn | 99300 |
| 13 | 6 | Stewart Ballard | 20100 |
| 13 | 7 | Andrew Rogers | 95100 |
| 13 | 8 | Matthew Wakeman | 64900 |
| 13 | 9 | Ivan Zalac | 60000 |
| 14 | 1 | Jonathan Pittock | 8900 |
| 14 | 2 | Alan Mcmaster | 39500 |
| 14 | 3 | Shaun Hughes | 67700 |
| 14 | 4 | Stephen Boyd | 33800 |
| 14 | 5 | Laurence Hall | 22000 |
| 14 | 6 | Ashley Warner | 107000 |
| 14 | 7 | Ben Mclean | 34600 |
| 14 | 8 | Jarred Graham | 11900 |
| 14 | 9 | Fady Alam | 23400 |
| 15 | 1 | Manfred Tschirsch | 15900 |
| 15 | 2 | Kwong Phung | 83000 |
| 15 | 3 | Martin Kozlov | 44500 |
| 15 | 4 | Jonathan Karamalikis | 83400 |
| 15 | 5 | Joseph Abulnour | 32400 |
| 15 | 6 | Paul Juliusz Giza | 54700 |
| 15 | 7 | David Wang | 35000 |
| 15 | 8 | Phucnam Le | 64600 |
| 15 | 9 | Yesha Desai | 51600 |
| 18 | 1 | Jordan Westmorland | 45600 |
| 18 | 2 | Jeremy Simon | 10400 |
| 18 | 3 | Jason Gray | 97300 |
| 18 | 4 | Julian Powell | 25300 |
| 18 | 5 | Sarkiss Osalian | 59600 |
| 18 | 6 | Daniel Levy | 48300 |
| 18 | 7 | Christopher Green | 53100 |
| 18 | 8 | Dejan Boskovic | 122200 |
| 18 | 9 | David Allan | 32400 |
| 19 | 1 | Mat Hawker | 135900 |
| 19 | 2 | Brendon Rubie | 75100 |
| 19 | 3 | Patrick Dillon | 23100 |
| 19 | 4 | Nigel Brine | 82000 |
| 19 | 5 | Joshua Ting | 49800 |
| 19 | 6 | Phi Luu | 14900 |
| 19 | 7 | Graeme Howard Putt | 50700 |
| 19 | 8 | David Leas | 65900 |
| 19 | 9 | Robert Damelian | 72300 |
| 20 | 1 | Bobby Zhang | 36800 |
| 20 | 2 | Michael Fadersen | 115400 |
| 20 | 3 | Michel Bouskila | 19800 |
| 20 | 4 | Luke Brabin | 41700 |
| 20 | 5 | Henry Szmelcer | 86800 |
| 20 | 6 | Tino Lechich | 79800 |
| 20 | 7 | Cole Swannack | 48400 |
| 20 | 8 | Ion Cheran | 110200 |
| 20 | 9 | Fabian Craib | 15600 |
| 24 | 1 | Hugh Cohen | 38900 |
| 24 | 2 | Qi Xu | 70400 |
| 24 | 3 | Dean Yuen | 49900 |
| 24 | 4 | David Heskin | 121500 |
| 24 | 5 | Kevin Clark | 67000 |
| 24 | 6 | Michael Subacius | 35700 |
| 24 | 7 | Kahle Burns | 42900 |
| 24 | 8 | Dale Kayrooz | 28200 |
| 24 | 9 | Dean Stevenson | 31300 |
| 25 | 1 | David Shiell | 57900 |
| 25 | 2 | Peter Sheary | 26500 |
| 25 | 3 | Andrew Chang | 23800 |
| 25 | 4 | Jason Giuliano | 73800 |
| 25 | 5 | Rainer Quel | 49600 |
| 25 | 6 | Jason Lee | 116100 |
| 25 | 7 | Christophe Laurent | 51300 |
| 25 | 8 | Davor Derek | 52000 |
| 25 | 9 | William Jordano | 35000 |
| 28 | 1 | Matthew Caltieri | 61800 |
| 28 | 2 | Daniel Neilson | 25600 |
| 28 | 3 | Pravin Harji | 24600 |
| 28 | 4 | Andrew Hinrichsen | 80500 |
| 28 | 5 | Bradley Walker | 62400 |
| 28 | 6 | Andrew Scarf | 44900 |
| 28 | 7 | Matthew Edwards | 123600 |
| 28 | 8 | Daniel Botta | 148700 |
| 28 | 9 | Benjamin Hafenscher | 52200 |
| 31 | 1 | Joseph Cabret | 117200 |
| 31 | 2 | Luis Arrilucea | 15400 |
| 31 | 3 | Daniel Zgalin | 15900 |
| 31 | 4 | Matthew Rolfe | 56100 |
| 31 | 5 | Richard Harvey | 113000 |
| 31 | 6 | Ricki Pereira | 75400 |
| 31 | 7 | Jim Andreadis | 27800 |
| 31 | 8 | Peter Abbey | 41900 |
| 31 | 9 | Stefan Gruenewald | 23600 |
| 50 | 1 | Piyush Gupta | 62000 |
| 50 | 2 | Phillip Siddell | 42000 |
| 50 | 3 | Gary Benson | 28600 |
| 50 | 4 | Michele Guzzardi | 27200 |
| 50 | 5 | Iori Yogo | 50900 |
| 50 | 6 | Yuet Chee | 54600 |
| 50 | 7 | Jozef Ricciardello | 46500 |
| 50 | 8 | Stuart Kerr | 43400 |
| 50 | 9 | Joel Feldman | 51200 |
Main Event
Day 2 Started
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