Mariakis on the March

Amongst some of the notables in tonight's flight include 2009 ANZPT Adelaide Main Event Champion Karl Krautschneider, Tony Green, Andrew Demetriou, Marc Des Anges, Amanda De Cesare and Melbourne poker icon Antonio Casale.

Michael Mariakis is also in the field and is leaving the bad memories of last year's APPT Cebu Main Event behind (first out on Day 1a), now up to around 20,000 in chips after a big hand on table 32 early on.

Mariakis raised preflop to 300 and found two callers into a flop of {8-Diamonds}