The third place finisher of last year's Aussie Millions Main Event has just been knocked out. Mile Krstanoski moved all in from the button for 32,000 and Zoltan Szabo made the call.
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Nate Silver has doubled up through "Hong Kong" Kenny Wong here at the start of Level 13. When we arrived at the table, Silver had sitting in front of him, and the board read .
According to a player at the table, Wong had .
Silver took a hit towards the end of Level 12, but after the double up, he's back to 140,000 chips. Wong dropped to 33,000.
From the button, Patrik Antonius raised to 7,000. The big blind reraised all in for 52,000, and Antonius made the call after thinking things through for a minute.
Antonius tabled the , and he was up against the for his opponent.
The flop, turn and river ran out , and Antonius won the pot to bust the player.
Tyron Krost, who won the 2010 Aussie Millions Main Event as well as last year's tournament of champions, dwindled to just 9,500 when he got it all in from the cutoff after Jan Collado had opened for 6,500 from the hijack. The button and small blind both folded, and then the player in the big blind moved all in over the top for 57,500. Collado folded and the cards were turned up.
Krost:
Big Blind:
It was a race headed to the flop, which fell the {5s. Krost was good and still looking to avoid either a king or queen. The turn was paint, but fortunately for Krost it was the . He filled up and had his opponent drawing dead headed to the river. Despite tripling, Krost is still short stacked with right around 32,000.
When we reached Table 29, James Obst and Brandon Adams were heads up on a board of . Obst checked, and Adams slid forward 60,000 into a pot of around 80,000.
Obst tanked for a bit, then grabbed all of his brown T25,000 chips.
"All in."
The all-in bet was for effectively 200,000, and Adams opted not to risk his entire stack. He folded, and Obst is now up to 670,000 chips.