2009 Aussie Millions
Event 5 - $1,100 H.O.R.S.E.
Day: 1
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Luke McLean had made a full house with sevens full of eights on sixth street; however Michael Guzzardi managed to spike the case queen on the river to make queens full of eights. With a third player caught in the middle making a straight, Guzzardi scooped to jump out to 12,700 chips with McLean back to 4,600.
Maurie "The Master" Pears is off to a rocky start here today after Michael Guzzardi fired bets with Pears calling him down before folding on the river.
Guzzardi: (X-X)



(X)Pears: (X-X)



(X)Guzzardi is up to 8,100 and Pears is down to 1,625.
Level: 2
Blinds: 0/0
Ante: 0
David Morton has taken an early pot from Tino Lechich in razz. Lechich led the betting on fifth street, before Morton fired sixth street and the river, forcing a fold from Lechich.
Lechich: (X-X)



(X)Morton: (

) 


(
)Morton captured the H.O.R.S.E title at this year's Victorian Poker Championships and will be looking for a repeat today.
"Can't you make one table nine-handed?" queried Shak.
Pittock offered a spot on an alternates list, so if someone busts out then Shak could take his seat, but due to the nature of limit games it could be several hours before he sits.
Pittock tried to reassure Shak that it could be sooner than two hours to which Shak replied, "Some of these players are bad, but they're not THAT bad!"
In the end Shak shrugged and decided it wasn't meant to be as he went back to his hotel room.
We caught the action on the river with the board reading




. Tony Green and Mick "The Hoon" Stanton went to showdown. Stanton tabled 
-X-X for a full house but Green showed 


for a bigger full house to take the pot."It's a continuation from f%*!king Tuesday!" barked "The Hoon" as he is off to a shaky start today.
It features Paul Taylor, Jeff Lisandro, Kent Hunter, Danny Mountt, Martin Comer and Van Marcus. Ouch!
At the river of a
board, Granty Levy called a bet from Peter Aristidou. Levy held an unimproved
and lost to Aristidou's
."How do I keep dominating everyone and losing?" Levy asked. "Keep hitting those three-outers boys."
"If you bust in the first level, that would be impressive," said recent arrival James Potter.
"Don't worry," responded Levy. "I'm trying."