Antonius was seated at the feature table with Phil Ivey and Howard Lederer. Antonius built his big stack largely through a massive confrontation with Ivey where Ivey had an open ended straight draw and flush draw on the flop, while Antonius had top pair, top kicker with the nut flush draw on the flop that got in all the money.
Joining Ivey on the rail on Day 2 were Jeff Sawrer, Nikolay Evdakov, Joe Cassidy, Gavin Griffin and Chris "Jesus" Ferguson.
Top 10 Main Event Chip Counts
1. Randy Dorfman - 581,000
2. Michael Ryan - 547,500
3. Tobias Reinkemeier - 533,500
4. James Keys - 508,000
5. Sorel Mizzi - 489,000
6. Randy Lew - 484,000
7. Rene Freymann - 434,000
8. Haibo Chu - 431,000
9. Patrik Antonius - 428,500
10. Manny Rodrigues - 386,500
Lurking behind the top 10 are Chris Moorman, John Patgorski, Carter Phillips and Erick Lindgren.
The AUD $7,210,000 prize pool will reward AUD$2,000,000 for first place and AUD$1,035,000 for second place.
The money bubble will burst early in Day 3 with 72 spots being paid, the first out guaranteed a AUD$15,000 cash. Blinds will be at 1,500-3,000 with a 500 ante with the average chip stack at around 190,000.
