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ACOP Warm-Up 4th place finisher Billy "The Croc" Argyros has just taken his seat in today's flight.
With Argyros taking the total entrant number for today to 108, we have now eclipsed the HK$20,000,000 guarantee as the field size sits at 201.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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30,000 |
Michael Tureniec opened with a raise from the hi-jack and Randy Lew called to see a 
flop fall. Lew checked and Tureniec bet out 800 only to have Lew check-raise to 2,200.
Tureniec called, and then called a bet of 3,750 when the turn landed the 
before both players checked the 
on the river.
Lew tabled his 
for a set, and once Tureniec folded, he was pushed the pot to close in on 60,000 in chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
58,200 | 10,200 |
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42,000 | 2,000 |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
65,000 | -5,000 |
|
|
48,000 | 7,000 |
|
46,000 |
We caught the action with 19,500 already in the pot and a board reading 
. Tom "hitthehole" Middleton checked from the hijack, Yifan Zheng did the same from the cutoff, and Xing Zhou tossed out a bet of 6,500.
Middleton thought long and hard before folding, and then Zheng dropped in a call. When the 
completed the board on the river, Zheng checked and Zhou moved in his stack of 18,350. Zheng hit the tank for nearly five minutes before a clock was called, and with about 20 seconds remaining, he conceded the hand by sliding his cards to the dealer.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
51,000 | 20,000 |
|
24,000 | -26,000 |
|
9,500 | -9,700 |
With 9,000 or so in the pot and a board reading 
, Chane Kampanatsanyakorn checked to Praz Bansi, who wasted little time in betting 6,600 from the button. Kampanatsanyakorn responded with a check-raise to just over 13,000, and that inspired Bansi to three-bet it to 21,700. Kampanatsanyakorn hit the tank for several minutes and eventually released his hand.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
70,000 | 43,000 |
Victor Chong opened to 500 and Tore Lukashaugen made the call from the cutoff before Oliver Speidel moved all in for 4,300 from the button. Chong folded but after a few moments of consideration, Lukashaugen called to put the 2012 Aussie Millions Champion at risk.
Speidel: 
Lukashaugen: 
With Speidel needing to spike an ace to take the lead, the 
flop gave Lukashaugen the strong advantage as the 
on the turn now gave Speidel outs to a flush.
Unfortunately for the Australian, the river landed the 
and Speidel was sent home early.
With 1,800 in the pot and a flop of 
, the small blind checked to Dawson Ip, who opted to bet 1,400 from middle position. Team PokerStars Pro Celina Lin then raised to 3,600 from the hijack, the small blind folded, and Ip put in a big three-bet. Lin, who had 11,675 total, snap-called off.
Lin: 
Ip: 
Ip had flopped top pair with top kicker, but Lin had him drawing thin with a flopped set. The 
turn left Ip drawing dead, and after the meaningless 
was run out on the river for good measure, Lin was pushed the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
25,000 | 13,000 |
Level: 3
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 25
Action folded to 2012 Aussie Millions champ Oliver Speidel on the button and he raised to 500. The small blind folded, but Japan's Akira Ohyama opted to defend from the big blind. Ohyama proceeded to check-call bets of 600 and 1,500 on the 
flop and 
turn respectively, and then checked for a third time on the 
river.
Speidel put together a bet of 3,100, and Ohyama snap-called. Speidel mucked without waiting to see his opponent's cards, which allowed Ohyama to take down the pot without a showdown.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
32,000 | 5,000 |
|
5,075 | -5,000 |
In 2005, an unknown poker player, Joe Hachem, won the World Series of Poker Main Event and changed the course of poker in his native Australia forever. Although 2003 saw Chris Moneymaker's run spark the poker boom in the United States, 2005 was the year poker reached a fever-pitch in the land Down Under. Nowhere was this fever more apparent than at the Crown Casino in Melbourne during the 2006 Aussie Millions Poker Championship.
That year saw a spike in attendance across the board, including the Main Event, which went from 263 players the previous year to 418. In 2006, the Aussie Millions also began attracting the game's top pros, including Team PokerStars Pros Daniel Negreanu, Barry Greenstein and David Williams. While none of those players managed to make the final table, four players from the U.S. did: Kenna James (9th), Jeff Sealey (5th), Shannon Shorr (4th), and Robert Neary (2nd).
Unfortunately for these pros, the day belonged to Lee Nelson, who conquered the field and took home the AUD$1,295,800 first-place prize, the largest score in tournament poker outside the U.S. until that point.
"Poker has always been a serious hobby for me," Nelson previously told PokerNews in an interview. "It’s been a hobby my whole life since I was a kid all the way through college and medical school. It’s pretty much remained a hobby for tournament poker."
Nelson will continue his hobby here in Macau as he has just entered the tournament. He now joins Mervin Chan and Oliver Speidel as former Aussie Millions champs in the field.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
30,000 |
