The bubble has of the 2010 Aussie Millions Main Event has burst in classic fashion - the ultimate cooler, followed by a suckout, then a re-suckout to send the Crown Poker Room into hysterics!
Joseph Sevian opened the action with a raise to 10,000 from under the gun. Chris Gillard made the call in the cutoff, before Peter Jetten made it 35,000 to play from the button.
The blinds folded and the action moved back to Sevian who decided to raise it up once again, making it 95,000 to play. This forced Gillard from the hand but Jetten decided to move all in. Sevian had about 65,000 behind and sighed before making a crying call for his tournament life.
Sevian:
Jetten:
A huge crowd gathered around table 28 to catch a glimpse of the action and they could hardly believe what they saw. There was more to come as a deafening roar erupted when the flop was spread to give Sevian a set of kings and the lead in the hand!
The turn was the giving Jetten additional outs to a straight, but the roof was lifted off the Crown Poker Room as the spiked on the river to give Jetten a bigger set! Wow!
Sevian dropped his head in his hands as his worst nightmare came true. He becomes the unfortunate bubble boy as the remaining 72 players celebrate being in the money!
Just after the bubble burst, Billy Seri doubled up to 166,000 in chips through Peter Aristidou.
Aristidou opened the hand with a raise to 11,000 from under-the-gun and action folded around the table to Seri in the cutoff who moved all in for about 80,000. Aristidou made the call and the following showdown ensued:
Aristidou:
Seri:
The board then ran out and Seri's kings held solid for the win.
Aristidou dropped to 200,000 in chips with the loss.
Sorel Mizzi has just claimed the top spot on our leaderboard with the swift, post-bubble elimination of Jacqueline Flint and Davor Lanini -- in the same hand.
All of the money found the middle after the flop came: and after we reveal the holecards, you'll understand why:
Flint:
Lanini:
Mizzi:
The turn and river then filled out , giving Mizzing jacks full, to eliminate both Flint and Lanini in 72nd and 71st place respectively ($15,000 AUD).
After the hand, Mizzi stacked up 700,000 in chips.
Michael O'Grady has been crippled and eliminated from the tournament.
First O'Grady's were cracked by the of Christoph Urbach. All the chips were in preflop but Urbach spiked an ace on a board of .
O'Grady was down to his last 14,000 and got them into the middle with against two opponents. One was Stefan Streifeneder who made trips with his when the board fell to send O'Grady to the cashier.
Steven Silva popped it up to 12,000, and Ben Delaney made it 60,000 to go before Silva moved all in for 80,000 total. Delaney made the call and the two were at the mercy of a flip.
Delaney:
Silva:
The board was and Silva doubled up to 180,000. Delaney is down to 80,000.
Brian Rodgers has hit the rails just before the break when he made a move from the button for his 40,500 last chips, but Annette Obrestad woke up in the small blind with a monster.
Rodgers:
Obrestad:
Ouch. Bad timing for Rodgers and he didn't improve on the board of . Rodgers is eliminated as Obrestad is well placed to make another deep run here at the Aussie Millions.