2M TO THE WINNER DOWN UNDER - EDOG A LEAD DOG

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All three Day 1's are done at the Aussie Millions Main Event. Day 2 starts in a few hours and 2 million dollars awaits the winner of the event. Ok, ok, it's a few dollars short of 2M but let's call it an even 2 mill.

Erick "EDog" Lindgren is one of the chip leaders as Day 2 looms. Patrik Antonius, Carter Philips, Aussie Millions Event 1 winner Martin Drewe, Phil Ivey, Erik Cajelais, Gavin Griffin are some of the other big names atop of the leaderboard.

Here is what we're playing for...

1 $1,992,532
2 $1,031,140
3 $697,437
4 $450,000
5 $323,587
6 $224,022
7 $174,244
8 - 9 $129,439
10 - 12 $99,583
13 - 18 $69,708
19 - 24 $44,820
25 - 30 $34,860
31 - 36 $29,866
37 - 40 $24,916
41 - 56 $19,933
57 - 72 $14,947


Unofficial chip counts available at the end of this post...

The winner of the event will receive 132 PTPR Points.


PTPR PREMIER EVENT
2011 Aussie Millions
Main Event
January 23-29, 2011

Crown Casino
Melbourne, Australia

Buy-in: $10,000
Prizepool: $7,210,000
Entries: 721

POINTS AT STAKE
1st place 132
2nd place 82
3rd place 52
4th place 42
5th place 37
6th place 32
7th place 32
8th place 17
9th place 17
10th place 17
11th place 17
12th place 15
13th place 15
14th place 15
15th place 15
16th place 12
17th place 12
18th place 12


UNOFFICIAL CHIP COUNTS - NOTABLE PLAYERS (AFTER DAY 1)

Oliver Keefe 198,200
Erick Lindgren 186,000
Luke Brabin 177,200
Patrik Antonius 176,500
Carter Phillips 167,500
Charles Chua 163,000
Jeff Rossiter 154,900
Michael Ottobra 143,900
Brian Furness 141,800
Martin Drewe 136,100
Colin Nicholas 134,900
Phil Ivey 134,200
Jay Kinkade 128,700
Jeff Sarwer 120,500
Randy Lew 119,000
Chris Moorman 116,900
Elliot Smith 116,200
Andras Kovacs 113,900
Haibo Chu 113,900
Ronnie Shabtay 111,400
Gabe Patgorski 110,500
Erik Cajelais 108,700
Dale Marsland 102,000
Gavin Griffin 101,700
Fabian Quoss 95,000
David Gorr 91,500
Tonio Roder 91,300
Yasuhiro Waki 80,000
Jason Gray 79,700