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

01-20-2009 18:15 UTC+11

Hansen in No Hurry

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After being the last player to arrive this afternoon, Gus Hansen seems fairly content with his stack. He's now headlong into reading a book at the table, waiting for some spots to advance up the chip counts.

Tags: Gus Hansen

01-20-2009 18:00 UTC+11

Gowen Rises Again

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Clonie Gowen decided it was a good spot to get her chips in after the small blind bet 1,300 on a board of {K-Diamonds}

. She moved in for 4,275. The small blind called and tabled a combination flush-and-straight draw, {4-Spades}

against Gowen's top pair {K-Hearts}

. The river was a safe card for Gowen, {10-Diamonds}

. She doubled up to 12,500.

Tags: Clonie Gowen

01-20-2009 18:00 UTC+11

Gus Hansen Arrives!

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Gus Hansen has won the award for latest arrival. He's just taken his seat as we enter the fourth level of play for the day! Remarkably, he's going to start the day with a stack of just 12,875 of his original 20,000 start bank.

Tags: Gus Hansen

01-20-2009 17:52 UTC+11

Play Resumes

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Cards are in the air.

Level: 4

Blinds: 150/300

Ante: 25

01-20-2009 17:34 UTC+11

Break Time

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Players are on a 15-minute break.

01-20-2009 17:34 UTC+11

Royal Flush Shoots Pampliega to Chip Lead

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We've just seen our first royal flush of the 2009 Aussie Millions! Normally it can be very difficult to get paid off with a royal flush, but Luis Pampliega didn't have that problem as he sent Graham Woodbine crashing to the rail in dramatic fashion.

We caught the action on the river with the board reading {8-Spades}

. Woodbine had checked to Pampliega who bet out 15,000. Woodbine then check-raised all in for 42,000 in total and Pampliega insta-called and tabled {10-Spades}

for the royal! Woodbine was in shock after turning a full house with his {K-Diamonds}

only to see it shrivel up on the river.

Pampliega becomes a runaway chip leader with over 115,000 chips!

Tags: Luis Pampliega

01-20-2009 17:31 UTC+11

Dye and Fenech Left to Carry the Sporting Torch

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We had six Australian sporting greats in the field today -- Jeff Fenech, Shane Warne, Brett Ogle, Mark Philippoussis, Luke Hodge and Shane Dye. Dye and Fenech are the last hopes to bring home the trophy on behalf of the athletes after the recent elimination of Hodge. Hodge led the betting all the way, raising to 625 preflop and betting 1,250 on the {7-Clubs}

flop and 2,450 on the {9-Clubs}

turn.

His opponent called the preflop raise and the flop bet, then raised the turn to 10,000. Hodge called, then moved all in when the river fell {5-Diamonds}

. His opponent snap-called with {10-?}

, two pair. Hodge angrily mucked his cards and quickly exited the tournament area.

Tags: Luke Hodge

01-20-2009 17:30 UTC+11

Ogle Holes Out

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Australian Golfer Brett Ogle has been eliminated by Nick Binger. On a {k-Diamonds}

flop Ogle holding {a-Clubs}

bet 3,500, which was check-called by Binger holding {a-Diamonds}

.

The turn {10-Diamonds}

saw Binger check once again to Ogle, who proceeded to ship his 10,075 chip stack all in. Binger who had turned a flush, couldn't believe his luck and snap-called.

Ogle had no hope of catching up at the river, and was already heading to the rail by the time the {q-Hearts}

blanked off to rub salt in Ogle's wounds.

Nick Binger is up to 42,500.

Tags: Brett Ogle Nick Binger

01-20-2009 17:28 UTC+11

Le Cripples Sukkar

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The a flop of {J-Spades}

Nam Le led out for 750 from middle position before Billy Sukkar made it 2,000 from the button. Le made the call. The turn was the {3-Hearts}

and Le checked to Sukkar who fired 3,000. Le the check-raised to 6,050 before Sukkar moved all in. Le made the call for his last chips.

Le: {4-Diamonds}