Event 11 - $1,050 PokerPro No Limit Holdem | 2008 Aussie Millions

01-12-2008 19:16 UTC+10

Three Tables Remaining

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The tournament staff has just announced that there are 30 players remaining in the tournament. The top nine places are set to get paid, with first receiving a prize worth almost $34,000 AUD, which is more than last year's total prizepool.

01-12-2008 19:07 UTC+10

Recent Eliminations

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Clonie Gowen, Shannon Elizabeth and Phil Laak have all been eliminated from the PokerPro tournament.

Tags: Shannon Elizabeth

01-12-2008 18:57 UTC+10

Whoops

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Aleks Lackovic looked down at a pocket pair of kings and made it 1,000 to go before the flop. Joe Hachem made the call from the big blind and the flop came A-Q-4.

Hachem quickly checked to Lackovic who . . . folded. That's right, he folded.

Lackovic told us he looked over at Joe's side of the screen and thought that he'd shoved all in, so he pressed the fold button. "You'd figure they'd have some kind of button that tells you it's free to check," Lackovic said after the hand.

A couple of minutes later, Jonny "YoYo" Vincent walked over to Aleks' table and asked, "Can I buy 50% of your remaining action in this tournament, Aleks . . .? You donkey."

Aleks was left with 8,000 in chips after the mishap.

Tags: Aleks Lackovic

01-12-2008 18:49 UTC+10

Gavin Smith Eliminated

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We just found out from Gavin Smith that he was eliminated from the PokerPro tournament after getting it all in with A-10 and losing to an opponent's A-9.

He also told us that the prop bet is still on, but it'll have to wait until the guys who are doing the pull-ups are finished with the tournament.

Tags: Gavin Smith

01-12-2008 18:44 UTC+10

Five Tables Left

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There are currently five tables of players left. Joe Hachem and Nick Binger are two of the tournament chip leaders, currently sitting with 23,525 and 28,300 in chips respectively.

01-12-2008 18:23 UTC+10

The Prince of Prop?

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Wherever there's side-betting action you can be sure to find Gavin Smith somewhere in the heart of it. Still alive in the PokerPro tournament, Smith has just arranged a prop bet with a pair of Australian players at his table. Here are the terms:

The players: A (roughly) 200 lb., well-built Aussie with an athletic frame and an extremely short (approx. 4' 10"?) and skinny Aussie with a normal frame.

The wager: Gavin has bet the larger of the two Aussies that the shorter and skinnier one (Justin) can do more pull-ups than the bigger guy. They've agreed to bet $300 and Gavin promised that he would "take care of" Justin for giving full effort to the bet.

We'll report on the results of the bet later on.

01-12-2008 18:14 UTC+10

Play Resumes

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"Random Number Generator, shuffle up and deal," said the tournament director as he restarted play.

01-12-2008 18:04 UTC+10

10-Minute Break

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The tournament clock has been paused while the players take their first ten-minute break of the day.

01-12-2008 18:01 UTC+10

Bomb-trickery

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Kevin O'Donnell and Phil Laak are seated at the same table and in a recent hand, Laak chased O'Donnell out of a 1,500 pot with a 500 bet on the river.

"I've got K-Q," Laak told O'Donnell, as he considered a call. If he indeed had K-Q, Lack would've had two pair. "See, look, I'll show the guy next to me," Laak said, as he motioned to cuff his hands over his cards, giving the impression that his neighbor could see them - though we're unsure if he really could.

O'Donnell eventually laid down his hand and questioned Laak afterwards, "Did you really have king, queen?"

Laak replied, "After this hand (two hands after the hand in question), come around the table and I'll show you what I had," fully aware that the PokerPro tables only store the most recent hand played in the hand history. Basically, Laak was attempting to put O'Donnell on tilt and it almost worked!

O'Donnell took the bait and walked around to the other side of the table to have a look at Laak's hand history. The cards O'Donnell saw were not king-queen, and Laak kept a straight face playing it off like he'd successfully bluffed O'Donnell out of the hand. "You bluffed me earlier," Laak said.

A moment passed before O'Donnell realized he wasn't looking at the cards from the same hand and both he and Laak had a good laugh at the situation.

Tags: Phil Laak

01-12-2008 17:41 UTC+10

Another Table Gone

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The eliminations are happening at a rapid pace, as the speed of the PokerPro tables is considerably faster than most dealer-run games. Since the start of the tournament less than three hours ago, we've lost over 30% of the field.