Day two kicked off with 111 players in the field, including big name players like Grant Levy, Tony G and Billy ‘The Croc’ Argyros. PokerNZ’s own ‘downtrou’ was also in the field today and got off to a good start.

The Croc and downtrou

It was certainly noticable how tight people were playing today, after 4 hours there was only 10 players eliminated compared to yesterday’s field that had shrunk considerably at the same time. Perhaps flight 1 had set the level, so competitors were playing tight and conservative all day long.

Around 4:30 sadly, Kiwi hero Graeme ‘Kiwi G’ Putt was elimnated leaving only a few Kiwis left in the game.

As the tournament drills down, I’m thinking that tonight’s game could go longer and as the players head to dinner shortly, the prize money has been announced. 1st place will take home over $190,000AUD and the top 18 people will be in the money.