Event 7 - $1,650 Bounty Feature Event | 2009 Aussie Millions

01-17-2009 04:07 UTC+11

Day 2 Redraw

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Table 28
Seat 1: Liv Boeree - 57300 chips
Seat 2: Alexander Debus - 18200 chips
Seat 3: Jim Mastorakos - 54100 chips
Seat 4: Edison Nguyen - 123600 chips
Seat 5: Danny Joukhadar - 70200 chips
Seat 6: Neville Eber - 127800 chips
Seat 7: Matthew Lea - 73200 chips
Seat 8: Graham Woodbine - 27200 chips

Table 27
Seat 1: Tom Pongrass - 8500 chips
Seat 2: Ben Delaney - 86300 chips
Seat 3: Cort Kibler Melby - 61900 chips
Seat 4: Antonis Kambouroglou - 62500 chips
Seat 5: Eric Assadourian - 100300 chips
Seat 6: Josh Field - 39000 chips
Seat 7: John McNaughton - 181300 chips
Seat 8: Con Cotsomitis - 37900 chips

Table 26
Seat 1: Sean Keeton - 145400 chips
Seat 2: Chriss Barratt - 58800 chips
Seat 3: Michael Chrisanthopolous - 67200 chips
Seat 4: Stephen Boots - 120300 chips
Seat 5: Luke Santo - 16400 chips
Seat 6: Con Angelakis - 73200 chips
Seat 7: Oliver Gill - 54100 chips
Seat 8: Neil Channing - 31500 chips

Table 25
Seat 1: Jai Kemp - 105600 chips
Seat 2: Anthony Kellett - 16100 chips
Seat 3: Aaron Jacobs - 45000 chips
Seat 4: Steve Topakas - 82400 chips
Seat 5: Sherrie Gelberg - 60400 chips
Seat 6: Con Kamaras - 63800 chips
Seat 7: Bohden Schaaps - 32000 chips
Seat 8: Saidal Wardak - 146300 chips

01-17-2009 15:31 UTC+11

Annie Get Your Gun

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Welcome back for Day 2 of the AU$1,650 Bounty Feature Event. It's Day 9 at the 2009 Aussie Millions Poker Championship, and that means most of the focus today will be on Day 1 of the AU$100,500 No-Limit Hold'em event that has drawn the biggest names and the biggest bankrolls from around the world. Thirty-two players, however, will attempt to keep their focus solely on the AU$151,200 first prize in this event.

Day 1 play lasted for almost fourteen hours yesterday. By the time things wrapped up, the starting field of 449 runners had collapsed to four eight-handed tables. Those four tables will play a double shootout format today, with the top two players from each table moving onto the final table and the chance at Aussie poker immortality.

The players have re-drawn for seats according to a seeding formula. That means that the top four chip stacks -- John MacNaughton (181,300), Saidal Wardak (146,300), Sean Keeton (145,400), and Neville Eber (127,800) -- are all on different tables. The bottom four chip stacks are all on different tables as well. They won't be able to hide together on the same table.

Once we have two players remaining on any table, that table will suspend play until each of the other tables has reached the same point. The final eight players will then combine to one final table and play as normal from there.

The action kicks off in thirty minutes.

Level: 12

Blinds: 1,000/2,000

Ante: 200

01-17-2009 16:05 UTC+11

Shuffle Up and Deal

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Cards are in the air.

01-17-2009 16:17 UTC+11

Structure Change

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The tournament staff have informed us that they are making a slight deviation from the published structure for this tournament. In order to slow the structure a bit and give the players more play, a new level has been inserted in between Level 16 (4k / 8k / 500) and Level 17 (6k / 12k / 1k). The blinds at the new level will be 5k / 10k / 500.

01-17-2009 16:21 UTC+11

Bohden Schaaps Eliminated

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Table 25:

Bohden Schaaps opened with a raise to 7,000 from middle position. Steve Topakas, runner-up in Event #1, was the only caller. Schaaps moved all in on a flop of {6-Spades}

after Topakas checked the action. Topakas made the call from way behind, {A-Diamonds}

against the {9-Hearts}

of Schaaps. The turn was a blank, the {3-Diamonds}

, but the ace on the river {A-Hearts}

sent Schaaps packing.

Tags: Bohden Schaaps Steve Topakas

01-17-2009 16:26 UTC+11

Double-Ups for Channing and Pongrass

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Table 26 and Table 27:

The chips are flying early. After Oliver Gill opened for 5,500 from early position, Neil Channing moved all in for 29,300. Gill made the call with {4-Clubs}

and was racing Channing's {A-Diamonds}

. Channing took down the pot with a pair of kings on the turn.

At the next table over, Ben Delaney and Tom Pongrass were all in preflop, with Pongrass at risk of elimination. His {10-Clubs}

was leading Delaney's {A-Spades}

and made a full house by the river, {7-Hearts}

. He doubled to about 20,000, while Delaney dropped to 60,000.

Tags: Ben Delaney Neil Channing Oliver Gill Tom Pongrass

01-17-2009 16:31 UTC+11

Mastorakos, Woodbine Busto

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Table 28:

Back-to-back hands have eliminated two players from Table 28. First, Jim Mastorakos opened for 7,500 before Neville Eber moved all in over the top of him. Mastorakos made the call with {7-Spades}

and found himself crushed by Eber's {10-Clubs}

. To make matter worse, Eber flopped a book, {6-Hearts}

, leaving Mastorakos drawing at running sevens. They didn't come.

The next hand, Edison Nguyen opened for 4,900 before Graham Woodbine moved all in. Nguyen, who had Woodbine covered, called with {A-Diamonds}

. Woodbine showed {7-Hearts}

, the same hand that killed Mastorakos. It didn't work any better for Woodbine. Nguyen hit two aces on the flop, {A-Spades}

, then dodged the remaining sevens with the {8-Clubs}

turn and

river.

Tags: Edison Nguyen Graham Woodbine Jim Mastorakos Neville Eber

01-17-2009 16:33 UTC+11

Luke Santo Falls

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Table 26:

Oliver Gill was able to recoup some of his lost chips by taking out Luke Santo. Santo open-shoved with pocket tens and was called by Gill out of the blind. Gill's ace-seven made two pair on the flop, then hung on as the turn and river came running eights. Santo was eliminated on the hand.

Tags: Luke santo Oliver Gill