Event 9 - $10,500 Aussie Millions Main Event Day 4 | 2009 Aussie Millions

01-23-2009 14:48 UTC+11

Chip Count Update

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After a frenetic first level, Rajkumar Ramakrishnan has emerged as a clear chip leader. Here are our current top five chip stacks:

Rajkumar Ramakrishnan - 1,722,000
Christopher Chronis - 1,400,000
Stewart Scott - 1,360,000
Zachary Fellows - 1,245,000
Peter Rho - 890,000

01-23-2009 14:54 UTC+11

Gruneberg Doubles Through Capra

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Sam Capra raised from middle position to 27,000 and Zach Gruneberg moved all in from the button for all of his 168,000 chips. The blinds folded and Capra sighed, "This is a very loose call." He then tossed in the chips.

Capra: {A-Diamonds}

Gruneberg: {A-Spades}

The

fell in the window of the flop, but once again it was just a teaser of things to come as it was followed by the {8-Spades}

to pair Gruneberg's queen. The turn was the {2-Spades}

and river the {8-Hearts}

. Gruneberg doubles up to 350,000.

Tags: Sam Capra Zach Gruneberg

01-23-2009 14:59 UTC+11

Annette Obrestad Eliminated in 21st Place (AU$50,000)

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Another Scandanavian player has zipped off to the rail. And we do mean zipped.

The recently-crippled Annette Obrestad moved in for 120,000 after Rajkumar "Have you seen me?" Ramakrishnan opened for 30,000. Ramakrishnan made the call and had his chips in the middle good.

Ramakrishnan: {J-Hearts}

Obrestad:

The flop was no help for either player, coming {Q-Diamonds}

. When the {J-Diamonds}

hit the turn to make an unbeatable hand for Ramakrishnan, Obrestad immediately turned around and quickly walked away from the table. She was long out of the tournament area by the time the river {A-Hearts}

came down and the floor supervisor encouraged to the rail to "give a nice hand to our 21st place finisher, Annette Obrestad."

Ramakrishnan is crushing the field right now. He's on 1.85 million.

Tags: Annette Obrestad Rajkumar Ramakrishnan

01-23-2009 15:00 UTC+11

Levy Looking Strong

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Grant Levy has doubled up once again through Michael Tureniec. Levy was in the cutoff with {8-Hearts}

and in great shape as Tureniec revealed {7-Hearts}

after calling from the button.

The board fell {2-Spades}

, and Levy doubles to 520,000 with Tureniec now down to 220,000.

Tags: Grant Levy Michael Tureniec

01-23-2009 15:15 UTC+11

Tureniec Bounces Back

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Micheal Tureniec was the overnight chip leader after Day 3 and started plunging down the counts during early play on Day 4. He has halted his freefall (for now), but he had to suck out to do it.

Tureniec opened for 26,000 from late position. Zach Gruneberg reraised from the big blind to 76,000, then snap-called after Tureniec shoved for roughly 200,000.

Tureniec: {8-Diamonds}

Gruneberg: {A-Diamonds}

Gruneberg jumped out of his chair and excitedly clapped his hands. He was safe on a flop of {9-Diamonds}

. The turn {Q-Spades}

, however, gave him a sweat as it brought four extra outs for Tureniec. With the crowd pressing in, Tureniec started chanting, "Jack! Jack! Jack!" and got his wish when the {J-Clubs}

(the same jack of clubs that Sorel Mizzi asked for earlier?) hit the river to make a straight.

Gruneberg didn't give off much of a reaction, but Tureniec was happy to collect a pot worth 450,000 chips.

Tags: Michael tureniec Zach Gruneberg

01-23-2009 15:22 UTC+11

Ruecker Runner-Runners His Way Near the Top

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It's a simple fact -- aggression pays off in poker. Dixon Ruecker was the preflop aggressor with a raise to 30,000 that was called by Chris Chronis from the button and Christian Heich from the big blind. Ruecker didn't let up on the {8-Spades}

flop, betting 75,000 after Heich checked the action to him. Chronis folded, but Heich called.

Both players checked the {K-Clubs}

turn. When the river fell a third club, the {2-Clubs}

, Heich led out for 125,000. He had no way of knowing that Ruecker was holding {5-Clubs}

, but he quickly found out when Ruecker called and tabled his hand. The club flush was plenty enough to take down the pot. Heich never showed his cards.

Ruecker has gone skipping up the counts over the course of the last hour. He now has just less than one million chips.

Tags: Christian Heich Dixon Ruekcer

01-23-2009 15:23 UTC+11

Annica is All Aces

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Annica Ivert raised to 26,000 from the cutoff and Sorel Mizzi made the call on the button and the two Betfair Poker representatives went heads up.

They saw a flop of {K-Spades}

and Ivert fired out 50,000. Mizzi made the call. The turn brought the {4-Spades}

and both players checked. The river was a repeat {K-Hearts}

and Ivert cut out 50,000 chips, paused, and then tossed them into the middle. This sent Mizzi into the tank.

He thought for several minutes as Ivert maintained a statue-like composure. Mizzi eventually made the call, but Ivert tabled {A-Clubs}

for aces and kings to take the pot as Mizzi mucked.

Ivert is up to around 650,000 with Mizzi now down under 200,000.

Tags: Annica Ivert Sorel Mizzi

01-23-2009 15:31 UTC+11

Boatman Battles with Short Stack

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Poker personality Barny Boatman is fighting hard with the short stack and has recently taken down a couple of nice preflop pots to add some much needed blinds and antes to his stack.

In the first hand, Christian Heich had raised to 26,000 and Chris Chronis called out of the small blind. Boatman then put on the squeeze with an all in bet to take down the pot.

He followed that up by three-betting all in over the top of an opening 30,000 raise from Dixon Ruecker. Once again, Boatman was successful as he took down the pot to move up to 315,000 chips.

Tags: Barny Boatman

01-23-2009 15:36 UTC+11

Ellis Battling

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Francis Ellis picked up 90,000 chips without a showdown. Those chips represented almost half of his stack. He moved all in from the big blind for 191,000 after Sorel Mizzi opened for 25,000 and Elliot Smith reraised to 65,000. Neither player wanted to take Ellis on.

Tags: Elliot Smith Francis Ellis Sorel Mizzi