Day 2 of the NZPT Queenstown Snowfest has come to an end.

There are only 31 remaining in the chase for the title.

Our chip leader is one of Australia’s most feared online players, David Allan has a big lead with 280,000 chips. David is yet to have a live score but this looks like being his coming out party as he continued his dominance from Day 1.

David will certainly have his work cut for him tomorrow as there are some formidable players on his tail. Michael Kanaan the 2011 ANZPT Sydney Champion is looking to add to his trophy cabinet, he will return with 239,100. There is Jordan Westmorland with 184,000 fresh from a final table atPokerStars Macau’s Red Dragon event.

Team PokerStars PRO Bryan Huang still has a chance at his first title in New Zealand, he faces an uphill battle with 64,200 chips. We have one local Queenstown player remaining, a restaurant and bar owner Fergus Spary has 73,500 chips. There are two women in the field Tatjana Zizic (43,500 chips) and Kristina Griffiths (16,000 chips). Kristina will be joined tomorrow by her husband Mark Griffiths(17,000 chips). Other notable players still alive include: Billy ‘the Croc’ Argyros (120,400 chips),Matthew Wakeman (66,200 chips), Ricky Kroesen (201,000 chips) and Aaron Benton (29,500 chips).

The day was played in stages. The size of this boutique casino has meant the field needed to be split for the first three levels. The players all came together for the first time this week at 7.30pm. Tomorrow we play down to the final table.

There were some well known players unable to see the cards fall their way today, these included:Team PokerStars Online Rohit ‘GodlikeRoy’ Bhasin, Leo Boxell, Danny Chevalier, Hung-shen ‘Shaq’ Lin, Andrew Hinrichsen, James Honeybone, Jarred Graham and Anthony Aston.

For the table draw and chip counts for Day 3 click here

Last night the side event was a $550 Turbo No Limit Hold’em, for full results click here

Regards,

Sam Dawson