Day 2 Concludes

The Day 2 grind is complete and we're moving on to Day 3. At the start of the day, 263 players remained from the two combined flights of starting days with Jon Favaloro leading them all. Favaloro did well to keep his chip stack moving in the right direction and finished with about 250,000 chips.

One might think 250,000 chips is plenty enough to claim the chip lead at the end of the second day, but Robert Mizrachi crushed that number after bagging up a whopping 353,200. MIzrachi stayed in control of his table throughout the entire day, winning almost every pot he played. The biggest confrontation he was involved in came when he rivered a wheel against Eric "basebaldy" Baldwin in a 130,000-chip pot.

Defending champion Matt Brady is still standing as well. Brady came in towards the bottom of the pack and had a roller coaster day, but was never able to get above 45,000. He finished the day with about 35,000 chips.

Despite losing half his chip stack on the final hand of the night, Gavin Smith finished with just under 50,000 chips. James Honeybone had a turn the other way towards the end of the night when a miracle five on the river was able to keep him alive. Phil Hellmuth, Brock Parker and Matt Vengrin are all moving on to tomorrow as well.

After five levels of play today, 86 players remain. Play will resume tomorrow at 12:00pm local time and conclude once the field is narrowed to 36 players. We'll see you all then right here on PokerNews.com for all the live updates from the 2009 Aruba Poker Classic.