The Players are All Under One Roof for Day 2 of the 2014 Aussie Millions!
For the past three days the 2014 Aussie Millions has held its three starting flights. During that time hundreds of players flooded Crown's Poker Room to take their shot at poker immortality, but a good deal of them had their hopes dashed. Today, hundreds more will experience the same fate.
Among those returning to action are chip leader Martin Rowe, who bagged up 228,200 on Day 1c; German pros Max Lehmanski (176,400) and Philipp Gruissem (99,600); Poker Hall of Famer Erik Seidel (116,800); online legend Viktor "Isildur1" Blom (88,500); Antonio "The Magician" Esfandiari (77,700); Australian Jeff Rossiter (74,600); noted pros John Juanda (71,300), Annette Obrestad (70,400), and Dan Smith (69,300); 2013 GPI Player of the Year Ole Schemion (63,200); and Team PokerStars Pros Jason Mercier (132,200), Raymond Wu (104,300), Randy Lew (63,200).
Registration is open until the start of Day 2, so official numbers are not yet known. That said, it shouldn't take long before the number of entrants and prize pool is released. The plan for the day is to play six 90-minute levels, and we're expecting plenty of action during that time. The PokerNews Live Reporting Team is on the ground to capture all the highlights, so be sure to stay tuned.
While you wait, watch Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier, who will start today with a bigger stack, talk about dealing with downswings:
flop was safe for Smith, and he pulled out to a 3-1 lead. Unfortunately for him, that is when the dealer burned and turned the 
. Grigg paired his ace to become a massive 95.45% favorite, which meant Smith needed to catch a jack and a jack only to survive. He had a 4.55% chance of doing it, but in this particular hand it didn't come as the 
blanked on the river.
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, Graham and Huntly both checked, and Hansen fired out 3,800. Woods and Graham both folded, but Huntly made the call.
, Huntly checked again, and Hansen bet 7,400. Huntly tanked for a considerable amount of time, checking his hole cards twice, then called.
completed the board, and Huntly led out for the first time, betting 16,000. Calling would only leave Hansen with 1,000 chips, so he opted to just go all in, and Huntly called. Hansen showed 
for trip fives.
on the river.
. Gill's hand improved to a flush as the board came 
, and Smith was eliminated.
, giving his opponent two pair. Antonius needed to hit an ace, three, or running straight/pair cards to catch up, but the turn and river bricked 
, 
flop and then folded when his opponent bet 2,600.
flop, which all three players checked. After the dealer burned and turned the 
, Mercier led out for 6,500 and both his opponents folded.
for a rivered flush.