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Event 1 - $1,100 No Limit Hold'em
Day 1b Completed
2009 Aussie Millions
Event 1 - $1,100 No Limit Hold'em
Day: 1b
Event Info
2009 Aussie Millions
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
1,000 AUD
Prize Pool
731,000 AUD
Total Entries
731
Level
23
Blinds
25,000 / 50,000
Ante
5,000
Players Left 1 / 731
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Even though this is the first preliminary event in a three-week poker festival, the local and international poker superstars turned out in force. With fewer than one in six making it through to Day 2, most of those superstars did not fare well. For Team World, Josh "JJProdigy" Field and David Bach were early departures. The home team didn't fare much better; Andrew Scott was out before Level 1 ended and was soon joined on the rail by a host of others.
The overnight chip leader of Day 1b appears to be Dean Blatt (145,300). He is followed closely by Jim Ghobrial (86,800) and by Ben Delaney (80,000), a young online player who has been playing near the top of his game the last few months. Each of the 56 players to survive today's flight will merge tomorrow with the 54 survivors from Day 1a to create a combined field of 110 runners for the conclusion of this event.
Play kicks off tomorrow at 12:30pm local time. By the time the day comes to an end at roughly midnight, someone will be AUD 150,000 richer. Join us to find out who it will be!
In the final hand, Igor Banjac raised preflop to 3,200 and Steve Goldwater made the call on the button.
The flop came
and Banjac led out for 5,000 before goldwater popped it up to 12,000. Banjac moved all in and Goldwater made the call with his tournament life on the line.Banjac:
Goldwater:
The turn was the
and the river brought the 
to leave Banjac with just 4,500 to enter into day two as Goldwater is thrilled to be bagging up over 65,000 chips. What a way to end the day!
to be in great shape against Ogle's 
.The board ran out
to give Bouya a full house and a double to around 38,000 as Ogle ends the day on a sour note but he'll still enter day two with a respectable 17,000.
. His opponent tabled 
and a queen on the flop was enough to eliminate the WSOP bracelet winner from today's event.
Blatt stood up from his chair and hesitated slightly before announcing, "I'm all in" for a total of 82,000 and some change. Steicke sat there looking Blatt up and down from under his colourful pink hat. As a waiter delivered him a beer, he took a big sip never taking his eyes off Blatt. Following a chant from a fellow tablemate of "Skull, skull, skull", Steicke responded with, "Might have to soon". He glanced back down at the remaining 28,600 he had in front of him, and then back at Blatt before announcing, "All right, I call".
Blatt quickly turned over
and perched his hands on his head in anticipation of taking the chip lead into day 2. Steicke tabled 
and the unknown player turned over 
.The flop came down
still leaving Steicke with two-outs and the unknown player a runner-runner draw to out-draw Blatt. The turn of the 
changed things slightly, but with the 
falling on the river the pot was awarded to Blatt.With the unknown player headed straight to the rail, Steicke finished off his beer as he pondered what could have been as Blatt stacked his chips up to over 130,000.
and was called by a player on the button who tabled . A classic race -- nothing strange there.However when then first four community cards were spread
there were a few murmurs around the table as dealer burned a card a prepared the river.Eric Assadourian called for the
, and wouldn't you know it, the fell on the river. The button player thought he'd won the pot with his ace-high flush but Lackovic had made a queen-high straight flush to collect the pot in sensational fashion!After a chip count it was discovered that Lackovic just covered his opponent, sending him to the rail, as Lackovic now stacks up over 50,000 chips and eyes off a day two berth.
Leak showed
against the cutoff player's . The board fell 
giving Leak a set and a nice double up. He's now up to 34,000 chips.
as his opponent showed down 
.The board landed
to double up his opponent as Assadourian slips to 12,000.
