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Jan Suchanek continues to lead the Aussie Millions Main Event after Day 2, there are 136 players left battling it out for the A$1,600,000 first place prize including Phil Ivey and defending champion Ami "UhhMe" Barer.
Registration for the Main Event was open until the start of Day 2, six players decided to enter in the last minute which brought the total number of entrants to 648 and the prizepool to A$6,480,000.
72 players will make the money and the winner will receive A$1,6 million.
338 players returned for Day 2 and after 7,5 hours of play there were just 136 left with Jan Suchanek emerging as the chip leader. Suchanek finished Day 1a as the chip leader aswell and managed to build a stack of 483,900.
Other players who managed to bag a big stack include Grant Levy, Andre Chen, 2014 Aussie Millions Main Event champion Ami Barer and Phil Ivey, but Benny Spindler, Mike "timex" McDonald, Philipp Gruissem, Richard "nutsinho" Lyndaker and Bryan Huang are still in the field.
Players will continue from 12:30 local time and play seven 90 minute levels, the money bubble is expected to burst somewhere during the third-fourth level.
Top 10 chip counts:
Jan Suchanek – 483,900
Keanu Simpson – 403,000
James Rann – 382,000
Michael Pedley – 376,700
Andrew Chen – 344,400
Wai Tung Lo – 340,000
AJ Antonios – 329,000
Grant Levy – 324,500
Rahul Byrraju – 321,400
Michael Addamo – 321,100