Closing Time

Day 2 of the 2010 Aussie Millions Main Event is in the books. The remaining players from all three Day 1 flights met in the same room (well, same two rooms, if you count Studio 3) for the first time today.

Pierre Aoukar came into the day with the chip lead, but it was David Frieling who closed out the day atop the leaderboard with over 500,000 in chips as your unofficial chip leader. Not far behind him are Dan Shak, winner of the $100,000 challenge; Gus Hansen, winner of the 2007 Aussie Millions Main Event and Betfair's Sorel Mizzi.

In all, the 2010 version of the Aussie Millions attracted 746 entrants, bringing the total prize pool to $7.46 million AUD, with first place taking home $2 million AUD.

Of the 294 hopefuls who started Day 2, about 80 of them remain. We'll have the official numbers posted as soon as they are released by tournament staff.

Quite a few pros made it to day two, but made early exits, including Erick Lindgren, Tony G, WSOP last woman standing Leo Margets, Joe Hachem, Dan Harrington, James Akenhead and Mark Vos.

PokerNews will be back tomorrow afternoon at 12:30 p.m. local time when the remaining players work their way down to the final three tables. Join us then for our continued coverage of the 2010 Aussie Millions Main Event!