2010 Aussie Millions

Event 1: $1,100 No Limit Hold'em
Day: 1c
Event Info

2010 Aussie Millions

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a10
Prize
200,025 AUD
Event Info
Buy-in
1,000 AUD
Prize Pool
1,143,000 AUD
Entries
1,143
Level Info
Level
27
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000

Level: 2

Blinds: 75/150

Ante: 0

No Barn-y Storming Start

Barny Boatman has been knocked out, he had been crippled when holding {A-Diamonds} {J-Spades} on a {2-Hearts} {A-Hearts} {6-Spades} flop but lost out to a short stack's {7-Hearts} {4-Hearts} after a turn {3-Hearts} and a river {3-Clubs}.

Soon after he was pushing his last 3,000 in against a few limpers, one of whom called with {A-Clubs} {K-Spades} against Boatman's {5-Hearts} {5-Clubs}.

A {J-Diamonds} {7-Hearts} {8-Clubs} {4-Hearts} {A-Spades} board later and the Hendon Mobster was hitting the rail.

Who Else is in the Hizz-ouse?

Full house!
Full house!
More notables are starting to arrive in the Crown Poker Room and we've seen include Andrew Jeffreys, Antonis 'Toothpick Tony' Kambouroglou, Daniel Botta, David Saab, Haibo Chu, Leo Boxell, Jonathan xMONSTERxDONGx Karamalikis, Michael TheBigSiCkO Guzzardi, Jamie Pickering and Lisa Walsh.

The Kiwis are represented by Graeme Putt and Lee 'Final Table' Nelson, while other internationals include Josh 'jjprodigy' Field, Barny and Ross Boatman, Karl Mahrenholz and James Akenhead.

This field is so big today the Crown staff have been forced to use two different sets of T100 chips and whispers around the room have the total number of entries at 1,100 - which of course would be the largest major poker tournament field in Australian history.

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Bruce Nguyen's Pot

With a flop reading {8-Diamonds} {2-Spades} {7-Hearts}, Bruce Nguyen check-called a bet of 850 before check-raising a 1,200 bet to 3,500 on the {A-Spades} turn.

His opponent folded and Nguyen is back up to 9,800.

Oatsy Outed

After being seated next to good mate Paul Khoury, Andrew Oataway didn't get much chance to chat as he has made an early exit from today's event.

Oataway raised it up preflop to 450 from early position, and found two callers in the hijack and button positions, before the big blind popped it up to 1,600 to play. Oataway moved his last chips into the middle but was called by the player in the hijack.

Oataway tabled pocket queens but the hijack revealed a deceptive pocket kings. The board bricked out and Oataway was eliminated.

Tags: Andrew Oataway

Kaz Takes Chips From Brkovic

Aleks Brkovic raised it up to 400 from middle position and Kaz Jomeen made the call out of the small blind.

They took a flop of {J-Spades}{3-Hearts}{3-Clubs} and both players checked. The turn was the {4-Clubs} and Jomeen led out for 500, which Brkovic called. The river landed the {10-Clubs} and Jomeen fired out another 1,000 which Brkovic called.

Jomeen turned over {10-Spades}{10-Diamonds} for a full house which was good as Brkovic mucked. Jomeen moves up to 12,000 with Brkovic slipping back to 7,000.

Tags: Aleks BrkovicKaz Jomeen

Grigg Gone

We caught Tom Grigg, Ilir Beluli and another opponent with all their chips in the middle preflop as the cards were tabled:

Beluli: {a-Hearts}{10-Hearts}
Grigg: {a-?}{3-?}
Opponent: {K-Hearts}{9-Hearts}

The gamble almost seemed justified for Grigg when he made two pair on the flop of {a-?}{3-Hearts}{j-Hearts} and stayed ahead on the turn on the turn of the {6-Clubs}, but Beluli pumped his fist in the air and screamed, "YES!" when the {10-Spades} spiked on the river.

"Good game," Grigg muttered before heading out the door. Beluli is now on 35,000.

Tags: Ilir BeluliTom Grigg

Level: 3

Blinds: 100/200

Ante: 0