On a board, Kevin MacPhee checked to yesterday's A$25,000 Pot Limit Omaha Challenge third-place finisher Najeem Ajez who bet 9,000. MacPhee called, but mucked when Ajez showed for a straight.
Meanwhile, Geoffrey Mooney joined the field, sat between Jack Salter and MacPhee.
Mikita Badziakouski and Jeremy Pekarek were at it on a board of and both invested 2,500 each. Badziakouski rolled over for top pair and Pekarek sent his cards into the muck.
"I was not going to fold, thought you'd bet more like 3,500," Pekarek said in table chat.
On a flop of , Kevin MacPhee and Matthias Eibinger checked out of the blinds and Najeem Ajez bet 2,400. Derek Ip folded on the button and MacPhee called, as did Eibinger.
The appeared on the turn and MacPhee checked once more. Eibinger now bet 7,200 and Ajez called, MacPhee folded after a brief consideration. On the river, Eibinger announced a bet of 20,000 and Ajez called to get shown . Ajez mucked the king-high flush and dropped a significant portion of his pot.
Dietrich Fast raised it up to 800 in the hijack and Steve O'Dwyer three-bet to 2,100 from one seat over in the cutoff, which Fast called. The flop was checked by Fast and he called a bet of 4,000 by O'Dwyer.
No betting action would follow on the turn and river. O'Dwyer turned over and Fast scooped the pot with for a pair of tens.
It appears that Michael Egan was the first player to bust, and the list of international High Roller regulars that joined the action continues to grow with many notables joining the action in the second level of the day.