Event 9 - $10,500 Aussie Millions Main Event Day 1b | 2009 Aussie Millions

01-19-2009 22:29 UTC+11

Play Underway

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The cards are in the air as there only remains one more level before the chips are bagged for the evening.

01-19-2009 22:33 UTC+11

Quads Again . . . But This Time for Vakili

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Sam Vakili opened to 1,200 and Jason Chahine reraised from the big blind to 3,600 with Vakili making the call in position.

The flop fell down {Q-Hearts}

and both players checked to see the turn of the {2-Spades}

land with Chahine leading out with a 5,050 bet. Vakili then reraised to 15,000 and was immediately followed by a 24,000 all in reraise and Vakili made the call.

Vakili: {Q-Diamonds}

Chahine:

Needing the board to pair Vakili would find a beloved {Q-Spades}

slamming down on the river to give him quad ladies!

Chahine exited, as Vakili raked in the pot sending him to equal chip leader status with over 81,000 in chips.

Tags: Jason Chahine Sam Vakili

01-19-2009 22:59 UTC+11

Marotta Swims!

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In a battle of the blinds, Nino Marotta has found a rivered one-outer to remain at a healthy level in today's tournament.

Holding {8-Hearts}

against

he saw the board run out {K-Diamonds}

to eliminate a player and virtually double to 41,000. As the pot was pushed, a player commented that he had folded an eight to mean that Marotta had hit the one-outer {8-Diamonds}

.

Tags: Nino Marotta

01-19-2009 23:10 UTC+11

Veenhuyzen Takes Down Huge Pot with Just Top Pair

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Three men entered the pot for 1,600 chips on the new feature table in the corner of the room: Ivan Demidov, Max Veenuyzen and a third player. Only one walked away with the pot. Veenhuyzen checked the {J-Clubs}

flop, as did Demidov. The third player bet 2,875 and was called only by Veenhuyzen. On the turn {5-Clubs}

Veenhuyzen checked again, then called a bet of 5,225.

To the {3-Spades}

river they went, with Veenhuyzen checking a third time. His opponent bet 12,725. Veenhuyzen tanked for a while but made the call with {j-Diamonds}

. It was good; his opponent showed {A-Hearts}

.

01-19-2009 23:14 UTC+11

Colman Eliminated

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Julius Colman has joined the group of eliminated players on the rail. He opened for 1,850 and then called a reraise to 4,000. On a flop of {j-Diamonds}

, Colman opened for the rest of his stack, 14,600 in total. His opponent called.

Colman: {K-Diamonds}

Opponent:

The turn

and river

didn't bring Colman the king that he needed to avoid elimination.

Tags: Julius Colman

01-19-2009 23:19 UTC+11

Channing Surges

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With just under 45 minutes left in the final level of the night, the following hand came up.

Bruno Portaro opens from UTG +1 for 1900. Yoon calls as does Channing. Both blinds get out of the way and we see a three-handed flop.

FLOP:
{9-Clubs}

Bruno decides to fire out from first position for 4,000. Yoon folds but Channing is having nothing of it and decides to take it uptown. With a raise to 13,000, Bruno decides to let him take it and folds.

Channing is up to 43,000. Bruno is down to 46,125.

01-19-2009 23:19 UTC+11

Madsen Up and Then Down

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Jeff Madsen had managed to chip himself up to about 37,000 but suffered a recent setback at the hand of Ken Eastwood. Eastwood moved all in on a flop of {J-Hearts}

. We're not sure how much the all-in bet was for, but it couldn't have been very much because Madsen decided to call with {2-Hearts}

-- bottom pair, bottom kicker. Eastwood turned over {A-Clubs}

. The turn {K-Hearts}

gave Madsen heart outs to go along with his two-pair draw and gave Eastwood a sweat. He ducked the river, as it fell {6-Diamonds}

to give him the much-needed double-up. He's back up to 21,000 while Madsen has slipped to 22,500.

Tags: Jeff Madsen

01-19-2009 23:28 UTC+11

Demidov Takes Down 30,000 Chip Pot Without Showdown

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Ivan Demidov has slept through much of the day but still has 90,000

A player in middle position opened to 1,525 with the cutoff and Demidov in the small blind both making the call. The big blind then raised it to 5,000 and all of the players called, to take it four-handed to the flop.

With over 20,000 in the pot, the flop was always going to be interesting, especially when it came {5-Spades}

. Both of the blinds checked, and the middle position player fired 9,675. With action on the cutoff, he went into the tank for a fair while before folding.

Action now passed to Demidov who also went into the tank before blasting out a bet of 57,500 all in. The big blind folded, and action passed back to the middle position player who had raised on the flop originally.

He went into the tank for the best part of four minutes before finally laying his hand down.

Demidov went to muck his cards, but before he had the opportunity, his table eagerly begged him to show the hand. Demidov obliged rolling over the {A-Spades}

and dragged a 30,000 pot pushing his stack to around 90,000.

Tags: Ivan Demidov

01-19-2009 23:35 UTC+11

Vakili's Monster Draw Sends Another to the Rail

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Reza Vakili has been active at Table 26. He took a raised flop with the small blind that came down {K-Diamonds}

. The small blind led into Vakili for 3,100, a bet that Vakili raised to 8,600. The small blind then pushed all in for 26,275 and was instantly called.

Small blind: {K-Spades}

Vakili:

The small blind made top pair, but Vakili had a monster draw: any ace, any jack, and any club. He caught the best of all possible outs, a club, when the turn fell {9-Clubs}

. His opponent was drawing dead and beat a hasty exit from the table.

"For how slow this table started, it's sure picked up!" said another player at the table. He pointed at Vakili. "Ever since HE got here."

Vakili is closing in on 100,000 in chips.

Tags: Reza Vakili