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Bruno Portaro
Bruno Portaro is one of the high fliers in the Day 1b field. He opened from early position to 600, then called a reraise to 1,700 from Andre Minas, several seats to his left. Both men checked the flop. Portaro led out for 2,500 on the turn, with Minas making the call in position. The river came and brought a bet of 5,000 chips from Portaro. Minas made the call with but had been out-flopped by Portaro's . The beat left Minas with just 2,275 chips in his stack and propelled Portaro up to roughly 54,000.
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Kastle ready for battle in his swag hat
Casey Kastle has jumped up back over the starting stack after his was able to beat out an opponent's in a preflop confrontation.
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Tony Bloom will not add a 2009 Aussie Millions Main Event title to his poker resume. He raised to 525 from early position, then called a reraise to 1,125 from button player Jason Chahine. On a flop of , Bloom check-called Chahine's 1,600-chip bet. Both players checked the turn.
When the river fell , Bloom checked to Chahine a third time. Chahine bet 1,000, then moved all in after Bloom check-raised to 3,000. Bloom made the call and mucked his hand when Chahine showed for a full house, jacks full of eights. Chahine moved up to about 28,000 in chips.
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Saidal Wardak loves pocket sixes. In his latest hand while holding Wardak flopped a set and was able to eliminate Jimmy Wong, who flopped top pair and turned two pair with .
All the money went in on the turn with the board reading and the river couldn't improve Wong's hand, so his 2009 Aussie Millions Main Event is over.
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Ace-king didn't get the job done for Chris "Jesus" Ferguson. He fired 2,500 on the flop and another 6,000 when the hit the turn, but couldn't shake an opponent who was playing . Both players checked after the hit the river, with Ferguson's opponent then collecting the pot.
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Holy Departure...
After a middle position player opened preflop to 700, Chris "Jesus" Ferguson came over the top for 3,000 from the cutoff. The big blind then repopped Ferguson to 6,000, with the middle position player folding out of the way. Ferguson proceeded to move all in for about 12,000 and the big blind made the call.
Ferguson tabled and was set to go racing with his opponent's . The flop put an end to that race coming leaving Ferguson very few outs, and the turn and river completed the hand, eliminating him from the tournament.
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Ivan Sop has just been eliminated on the last hand before break when he check-raised all in on a flop of with . Johnny Solomons made the call tabling and was happy to see it brick out landing the and to see Sop head to the rail.