When the day began there has been no set plan and that did not change as we entered the seventh level of Day 2. With around 80 players remaining, officials were undecided whether to wrap things up on the conclusion of the level, or whether or not they should play on until the bubble burst.

After another thirty minutes of play an executive decision was made that, unless things became ridiculously drawn out, we'd be playing down until the bubble burst. We made it to hand-for-hand before a 30-minute dinner break was called, and QUARTER-HOUR after players returned to their seats the day was done.

It was a double elimination on separate tables to finish proceedings. Patrick Donker and David Evans were all in in peril simultaneously on other sides of the room.

Donker was all in for only two big blinds and was called in three spots. The button, small blind and massive blind all came along, and with some post-flop action he was already out of his seat and expecting to be eliminated. Ultimately the board came down 3♠6♠3♣7♦Q♠ and Donker's A♥T♦ was no match versus 6♣6♦ for a flopped full house.

Donker was given a bit hope when he received the scoop that Evans was all in on another table, and if he busted they might split the 63rd place prize money.

Evans got his money in good with K♠K♦ against Nikolaos Haidaris's A♦K♣ but an ace at the J♣6♦A♥ flop proved an excessive amount of to get over after the 9♦ turn and 2♠ river arrived to signal the top of his tournament.

Donker and Evans must be content with chopping $4,290.

On the opposite side of the coin was our end-of-day chip leader Tristan Bain. He knocked out Tony Hachem earlier in proceedings with pocket aces against pocket kings and steamrolled his solution to the chip lead within the later stage of the day. He returns in pole position tomorrow with an excellent 575,000 in chips.

Chip boss - Tristan Bain

Others, however, weren't so lucky. We started the day with 262 players and 200 were met with elimination. Team PokerStars Pro Celina Lin was a type of who fell by the wayside, exiting in particularly brutal fashion. Lin got all of it in for an enormous pot holding Q♥9♥ for the nuts on a board of 6♣T♦J♠8♠ but she saw she could only chop the pot at best when her opponent tabled Q♠9♠ for a similar hand but an extra freeroll to the flush. Unfortunately for the Team Pro the K♠ rolled off at the end and Lin was sent hurtling to the rail.

As for the survivors though it is a solid mixture of seasoned pros and recreational players. Among those still in contention are Ricky Lim (386,500), Corey Kempson (352,000), Peter Aristidou (291,500), Srdjan Brkic (261,500), James Broom (188,000), Andrew Hinrichsen (135,500), Alan Lau (112,500) and Henry Szmelcer (83,500).

You can take a look at everyone who qualified for tomorrow at the Day 3 seating draw right here.

They'll all be back again from 12:15pm local time tomorrow as we play all the way down to a last table. Who will run it up and secure their seat before an APPT Main Event champion collects the title and $235,875 on Tuesday? Tune in to the PokerStars Blog to seek out out!

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