Event #8: $100,000 Challenge
Day 1 Started
2011 Aussie Millions
Event #8: $100,000 Challenge
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2011 Aussie Millions
Buy-in
100,000 AUD
Prize Pool
3,800,000 AUD
Entries
38
Level
14
Blinds
15,000 / 30,000
Ante
0
A Six-Figure Challenge
Welcome to the largest buy-in event on the 2011 Aussie Millions schedule: the $100,000 Challenge! This event isn't for the week at heart. Only the best of the best will show up with the balls to pony up the hefty six-figure buy-in to lock horns with poker's elite.
Last year, Dan Shak conquered an impressive field of 24 players, including a heads-up battle with poker juggernaut Phil Ivey, to take home the AUD$1,200,000 first-place prize. This year, much of the biggest names from the Full Tilt Poker roster will be on hand as will many more.
Play is schedule to kick off at 2:15 P.M. local time here in Melbourne, although things may be delayed a bit. Once we start spotting faces as they roll in, we'll let you know who's here. Stay tuned for all the action and in the mean time, check out our very own Lynn Gilmartin as she gives you the January 22 update.
Play Delayed
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The Tournament Director has announced that play has been delayed.
With people amazingly still registering - with the potential number being somewhere in the high thirties - it has been decided that play will be stalled until everyone is ready to take their seats.
And We Have Some Action . . .
As the title suggest, we finally have some action in Studio 3.
It does involve cards, but of the Chinese poker kind as Gus Hansen and David Oppenheim currently playing on one of the tables.
Their rail consists of a bunch of fellow poker professionals along with more then fifteen onlookers who are seated in the stadium, and standing around the tables.
Level: 1
Blinds: 500/500
Ante: 0
Play Underway
Level 1
: 500/500, 0 ante
The cards are finally in the air after a near 60-minute delay.
If you weren't already aware, each player begins with a 100,000-chip starting stack with everyone having thirty-seconds to act on their hand.
Preflop, the game will be pot limit hold'em, while after the flop it will return to no limit hold'em.
Table Draw
Table 1 (Feature Table)
| Seat | Player | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nikolay Evdakov | Russia |
| 2 | Joe Hachem | Australia |
| 3 | David Oppenheim | USA |
| 4 | Erik Seidel | USA |
| 5 | Tom Dwan | USA |
| 6 | Tony Guoga | Australia |
| 7 | Jay Kinkade | Australia |
| 8 | empty | -- |
Table 2
| Seat | Player | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jonathan Karamalikis | Australia |
| 2 | Erick Lindgren | USA |
| 3 | Winfred Yu | Canada |
| 4 | Masa Kagawa | Japan |
| 5 | Phil Ivey | USA |
| 6 | Billy Jordanou | Australia |
| 7 | Daniel Cates | USA |
| 8 | empty | -- |
Table 3
| Seat | Player | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wang Qiang | China |
| 2 | Patrik Antonius | Finland |
| 3 | Howard Lederer | USA |
| 4 | John Juanda | USA |
| 5 | Sam Trickett | England |
| 6 | David Benyamine | USA |
| 7 | Dan Smith | USA |
| 8 | empty | -- |
Table 4
| Seat | Player | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Justin Smith | USA |
| 2 | Andrew Pantling | Canada |
| 3 | Erik Cajelais | Canada |
| 4 | James Obst | Australia |
| 5 | Derek Cheung | China |
| 6 | Sorel Mizzi | Canada |
| 7 | Peter Jetten | Canada |
| 8 | empty | -- |
Table 31 (Downstairs)
| Seat | Player | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | James Bord | England |
| 2 | Andrew Bloch | USA |
| 3 | Chris Ferguson | USA |
| 4 | Tony Bloom | England |
| 5 | David Steicke | Hong Kong |
| 6 | Jeffrey Lisandro | Australia |
| 7 | Gus Hansen | Denmark |
| 8 | empty | -- |
Oh No, It's Masa
Level 1
: 500/500, 0 ante
"Hi Masa. How are you?" asked Erick Lindgren.
Masa Kagawa nodded in accordance.
"Oh no!' replied Lindgren obviously a little deterred at having fellow high stakes player Kagawa on his table.
Early One for Lindgren
Level 1
: 500/500, 0 ante
Erick Lindgren raised to 1,000 on the button. Masa Kagawa called from the big blind and the flop came down 
. Kagawa checked and Lindgren fired 1,500. Kagawa made the call.
The turn card was the 
and completed some straight draws. Kagawa led into his opponent for 2,500. Lindgren made the call.
The 
fell on the river and Kagawa checked. Lindgren bet 8,000. Kagawa mucked his hand and Lindgren won the pot, moving to 105,000. Kagawa dropped to 95,000.
Oppenheim Clips Hachem
Level 1
: 500/500, 0 ante
Catching the action on the 
flop, Joe Hachem led out for 3,000 with David Oppenheim being his lone caller from the button.
Seated in the cutoff, Hachem continued for 7,500 when the turn landed the 
. Oppenheim made the call as the 
rolled off on the river.
Hachem checked and Oppenheim pushed out a bet of 19,000 as the time began to tick down on Hachem.
His thirty-second time bank counted right down into the last few seconds before he folded to see last night's Full Tilt Poker $25,000 Shootout Invitational Champion pushed the pot.