Welcome Back to Day 2 of the 2019 Aussie Millions Main Event

For many, the 2019 Aussie Millions Poker Championship Main Event starts today. The day where one can look around and see the winner in the room - if it’s not them. The three starting flights are out of the way and, for the first time, all the remaining players are together for Day 2.

A total of 405 players from the 797 starters have made it this far but those numbers could grow as registration is open until the end of level 8 which kicks off at 12:30 p.m. local time. Total entrants last year totaled 800 so by only needing a handful of entrants to enter today, they are sure to surpass the record for the largest field in the event's history!

End of Day 1c chip leader Cole Swannack heads into today as the overall leader with 208,200 and the only player above the 200,000 chip mark. Swannack finds himself in an identical position to last year when he also entered the start of Day 2 as the chip leader. Other large stacks heading into today include; Day 1b chip leader Julian Stuer (196,500) and Day 1b chip leader Paul-Francois Tedeschi (195,400) who round out the top three.

Main Event Run Down

Tournament Day	Date	Time	Entries	Survivors	Further Info
1a	Sunday Jan. 27th	12:30	165	79	Play seven levels of 90 minutes, 75 min dinner break after level 4
1b	Monday Jan. 28th	12:30	268	135	Play seven levels of 90 minutes, 75 min dinner break after level 4
1c	Tuesday Jan. 29th	12:30	tba	191	Play seven levels of 90 minutes, 75 min dinner break after level 4
2	Wednesday Jan. 30th	12:30	797*	405	Registration remains open for first 90-minute level
3	Thursday Jan. 31st	12:30	tba	tba	Switch to 6-max when 36 players remain
4	Friday Feb. 1st	12:30	tba	tba	Play down to the final table
5	Sunday Feb. 3rd	12:30	tba	tba	Play down to a champion

*registration remains open for the first level

Notables to progress to today include; former main event champion David Gorr, bracelet winners Jackie Glazier, Michael Gathy and Andrew Hinrichsen, Richard Ashby, Randy Lew, Celina Lin and Australian Poker Hall-of-Famer Billy “The Croc” Argyros.

Defending champion Toby Lewis will also return today with a stack of 47,100. Lewis is having a remarkable series so far, already coming second in the 25k Challenge before going one better, taking down the 50k Challenge yesterday afternoon.

The plan for today is to play five 90-minute levels with a 15-minute break after each one, and no dinner break. Join us back here at 12:30 p.m. for what should be an exciting day!

Day 2 Level Structure

Level	Small Blind	Big Blind	Ante
8	400	800	100
9	500	1,000	100
10	600	1,200	200
11	800	1,600	200
12	1,000	2,000	300