Event 10 - $5,300 Heads Up Championship Day 1b | 2009 Aussie Millions

01-21-2009 15:24 UTC+11

Match Updates

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Masa Kagawa and David "Chino" Rheem have taken care of their opponents and are now waiting on their Round Two matches.

Jason Gray is one-up against Jonathan Karamalikis.

01-21-2009 15:21 UTC+11

Le Stacked But Gaining Back Chips

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Chris Moorman opened to 125 on the button and Nam Le made the call. On a flop of {4-Clubs}

Le checked and Moorman led out for 125, before Le check-raised to 425 with Moorman making the call.

The turn landed the {A-Spades}

and Le led for 675, with Moorman making the call. Le checked the {2-Spades}

on the river and as Moorman sat in the tank for over two minutes, he eventually moved all in for his last 1,650. It was now Le's turn to sit in the tank, and after a few minutes also he made the call.

Moorman showed {A-Hearts}

and Le mucked leaving himself with only 250 in chips.

Le managed a double-up the next hand with {J-Spades}

against the {9-Hearts}

of Moorman, and then again on the hand following with {A-Diamonds}

to Moorman's {K-Spades}

. With blinds just increasing to 50-100 Le still has some room to breath to try and rescue his match.

Tags: Chris Moorman Nam Le

01-21-2009 15:05 UTC+11

Timoshenko Takes Upper Hand

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In what seems to be the toughest match so far in Round One, Yevgeniy Timoshenko has taken a slight edge from Eddy Sabat when his {2-Clubs}

was paid off on the river by Sabat with a board that fell ace high and with three clubs on it.

Will this be the marathon match of Round One? We can only wait to see . . .

Tags: Eddy Sabat Yevgeniy Timoshenko

01-21-2009 14:50 UTC+11

Jesus Crippled

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Chris Ferguson has just been crippled by John Tabatabai. Ferguson holding {Q-Spades}

was rivered by Tabatabai's {A-Spades}

all in preflop with the board running out {9-Hearts}

.

A few hands later Tabatabai took the remaining 400 in chips of Ferguson as they moved on to Round Two.

Tags: Chris Ferguson John Tabatabai

01-21-2009 14:45 UTC+11

Round One Structure

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Round one structure will be the best of three matches with 3,000 starting bank and blinds beginning at 25-50 and increasing every 20-minutes.

01-21-2009 14:37 UTC+11

Some Interesting Match-Ups

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Some interesting match-ups have developed in this first round with Yevgeniy Timoshenko squaring off with Eddy Sabat, John Tabatabai to take on Chris "Jesus" Ferguson and Jonathan "xMONSTERxDONGx" Karamalikis battling Jason Gray.

Level: 1

Blinds: 0/0

Ante: 0

01-21-2009 14:30 UTC+11

How It Works

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There are 32 players in today's flight playing down to a final two. Each player starts with 3,000 in chips and must win two of their three matches to progress through to the next round.

The final two who emerge from today will join Alec Torelli and Jarred Solomon tomorrow to battle it for the AU$100,000 first prize.

01-21-2009 13:38 UTC+11

Flight Two Soon to Begin

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After a great day of heads-up action yesterday, 32 new hopefuls have ventured into the Crown Poker Room to test the skill in one-on-one competition.

Erik Seidel, Chris Ferguson, Nam Le, Niki Jedlicka, Grant Levy and Jonathan Karamalikis have already registered. David "Chino" Rheem and Alexander Kostritsyn are a few of the ones returning for round two.

Stay tuned to PokerNews for all the live coverage in just under an hour's time at 2:30pm local time.