Demjan is not well known in the poker world, but he is one of Crown Casino's biggest VIP table games gamblers. Though it appears he is now turning his attention to the poker tables.
2009 Aussie Millions
Event 8 - $100,000 No Limit Hold'em Challenge
Day: 1
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Demjan is not well known in the poker world, but he is one of Crown Casino's biggest VIP table games gamblers. Though it appears he is now turning his attention to the poker tables.
On a flop of


, Seidel checked and Bloom made a bet of 7,000. Seidel called and again checked over to Bloom following the
peeling on the turn. Bloom slid out a bet of 16,500, which was immediately followed by Seidel grabbing a stack of chips and slamming them in front of his capped cards.The bet amounted to 50,000 and Bloom shook his head as he threw his cards in the muck. Seidel moved to 125,000 and Bloom dropped down to his starting stack.



, Alexander Kostritsyn led into Tony Bloom with a 10,000 bet.While Bloom enjoyed his massage, he threw in two 5,000 chips to make the call. The river brought the
, and this time Bloom took control of the pot by leading out with a bet of 17,000. This was enough to force Kostritsyn's cards into the muck. Bloom is up to over 110,000.



.Steicke fired out a bet of 11,000 and Guoga made the call. The river was the
and Guoga checked once again to Steicke, who fired out a healthy 20,000 bet. Guoga went into the tank and used one of his allocated time extension buttons before tossing his cards into the muck.Steicke jumps out to 125,000 with Guoga down to 80,000.
Antonius made the call and on a flop of


, Hansen led for 10,000. Antonius called. The
on the turn and Hansen checked the action over to Antonius, who led out for a pot bet of 35,000. Hansen thought for some time before folding.As Hansen slipped down to 90,000, Antonius has taken over his table chip lead with 120,000 in chips.
Hansen responded with. "Oh good, because I grabbed the wrong chip!". Hansen took the pot down and is off to an early start on his table
Table 29
Seat 1: Chris Ferguson
Seat 2: Tony Bloom
Seat 3: Alexander Kostritsyn
Seat 4: Michael Sampoerna
Seat 5: Erik Seidel
Seat 6: Jason Gray
Seat 7: Sandor Demjan
Seat 8: John Hennigan
Table 31
Seat 1: (empty)
Seat 2: Jeff Lisandro
Seat 3: Dan Shak
Seat 4: JC Tran
Seat 5: Sergey Rybachenko
Seat 6: Bill Jordanou
Seat 7: Jamie Pickering
Seat 8: John Juanda
Table 32
Seat 1: Andrew Robl
Seat 2: Nam Le
Seat 3: (empty)
Seat 4: Patrik Antonius
Seat 5: Masa Kagawa
Seat 6: Gus Hansen
Seat 7: Tony G
Seat 8: David Steicke
Today's action is the "Speed Poker" format. Preflop will be pot limit and then no limit post-flop. Each player will have thirty seconds to act on their hand, but have two thirty second time extension buttons that they may use at anytime during the event.
Level: 1
Blinds: 500/500
Ante: 0