Jamie Pickering rifled through 35,000 chips this afternoon on his way to the rail.
The last of Pickering's chips found themselves in the middle preflop with Pickering holding and he was going to need some help with Danny Mountt making the call with .
The flop put paid to Pickering's 2009 Aussie Millions Main Event coming , with the turn sealing things and sending Pickering to the rail.
It would be a moment of sweet vengeance for Mountt who took an early hit at the hands of Pickering, but now sits at over 54,000.
Local Michael Pinzone flopped top pair, top kicker with on a board of . Given that he had only 6,400 chips left in his stack, he decided to go to war. Pinzone wound up all in with two callers. They continued the side action by checking the turn. On the river, one of them bet 7,000, folding the other. That player tabled what had been the second-best hand preflop, . Unfortunately for Pinzone, that hand made a full house to eliminate him from the tournament.
The a flop of Nam Le led out for 750 from middle position before Billy Sukkar made it 2,000 from the button. Le made the call. The turn was the and Le checked to Sukkar who fired 3,000. Le the check-raised to 6,050 before Sukkar moved all in. Le made the call for his last chips.
Le:
Sukkar:
Sukkar had top pair but was in trouble as Le held a full house. The river brought the and Sukkar was crippled and then eliminated a few hands later. Le is now up over 40,000 chips.
Australian Golfer Brett Ogle has been eliminated by Nick Binger. On a flop Ogle holding bet 3,500, which was check-called by Binger holding .
The turn saw Binger check once again to Ogle, who proceeded to ship his 10,075 chip stack all in. Binger who had turned a flush, couldn't believe his luck and snap-called.
Ogle had no hope of catching up at the river, and was already heading to the rail by the time the blanked off to rub salt in Ogle's wounds.
We had six Australian sporting greats in the field today -- Jeff Fenech, Shane Warne, Brett Ogle, Mark Philippoussis, Luke Hodge and Shane Dye. Dye and Fenech are the last hopes to bring home the trophy on behalf of the athletes after the recent elimination of Hodge. Hodge led the betting all the way, raising to 625 preflop and betting 1,250 on the flop and 2,450 on the turn.
His opponent called the preflop raise and the flop bet, then raised the turn to 10,000. Hodge called, then moved all in when the river fell . His opponent snap-called with , two pair. Hodge angrily mucked his cards and quickly exited the tournament area.
We've just seen our first royal flush of the 2009 Aussie Millions! Normally it can be very difficult to get paid off with a royal flush, but Luis Pampliega didn't have that problem as he sent Graham Woodbine crashing to the rail in dramatic fashion.
We caught the action on the river with the board reading . Woodbine had checked to Pampliega who bet out 15,000. Woodbine then check-raised all in for 42,000 in total and Pampliega insta-called and tabled for the royal! Woodbine was in shock after turning a full house with his only to see it shrivel up on the river.
Pampliega becomes a runaway chip leader with over 115,000 chips!