The first three Day 1 flights at the 2008 Aussie Millions have concluded, and 330 players from a 780 player field remain. At the start of Day 2, this included both bartyuk and miw210.

Yesterday, both pelicancruse and lennie10 took bad beats to be eliminated. Pelicancruse pushed all in in late position holding KK, and was amazingly called by two players holding Q6 and Q4. A Queen and six fell on the board to crack the Kings, and pelicancruse hit the rail.

lennie10 found himself in a pot with none other than Howard Lederer, and both re-raised preflop until lennie10 was all in with AK. Lederer was dominated, holding KQ, but sure enough a Queen came down to overcome lennie10 and bust him in a terrible beat.

Action began this morning with bartyuk very short-stacked, with only 5450 chips. miw210, however, was sitting pretty at 85,00, well above the 46,000 average stack.

Holding AQ, bartyuk easily called an all in push from an opponent in mid position. he had 44, and the board came down with a set of threes to give the opponent a boat. Bartyuk couldn’t pick up an Ace or Queen and was eliminated.

All our players performed extremely well in one of the biggest major tournaments in the world, with a field overflowing with professionals. And, we are still following Michael Wang, aka miw210, on his road to success throughout the day. Mike is currently 33rd in a field of over 300, an extremely strong position for cashing in this massive tournament. More to come!

– Phil @ CarbonPoker