2009 Aussie Millions

Event 9 - $10,500 Aussie Millions Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info

2009 Aussie Millions

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
aa
Prize
2,000,000 AUD
Event Info
Buy-in
10,000 AUD
Prize Pool
6,810,000 AUD
Entries
681
Level Info
Level
27
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000

Ivert Shows No Fear

Annica Ivert has set her sights on Patrik Antonius, who is on her right. Antonius opened for 5,200 and Ivert called. On a flop of {4-Spades} {Q-Spades} {J-Clubs}, Antonius check-called a bet of 9,000. He check-called again when the dealer produced the {8-Diamonds} as the turn card and Ivert bet 14,500. Both players checked the {2-Spades} river. Ivert showed down {J-Hearts} {10-Clubs} for middle pair, which was a winner. She increased her count to 310,000 while Antonius, who has been floating along at roughly the same count for most of the day, dropped to 120,000.

Tags: Annica IvertPatrik Antonius

Bad to Worse for Hachem

Choppy waters for Joe Hachem
Choppy waters for Joe Hachem
Joe Hachem's stack is quickly heading south. He bet 10,000 on a flop of {J-Clubs} {9-Diamonds} {4-Clubs} and decided to gamble after the other player moved all in for 42,700. Hachem made the call on a draw, {7-Clubs} {8-Clubs}, and was up against top pair, {A-Clubs} {J-Hearts}. The turn {Q-Hearts} was no help for Hachem, and neither was the river {4-Hearts}. He doubled his opponent and finds himself with just 19,500 remaining chips.

Tags: Joe Hachem

May the Schwartz Be with You

Daniel Kochan is hurting after a recent entanglement with Noah Schwartz. Schwartz was the first aggressor. He raised to 4,700 from middle position before Kochan three-bet from the button to 11,800. Schwartz made the call to a flop of all small cards, {3-Diamonds} {4-Hearts} {3-Spades}.

Schwartz led out with a bet that Kochan raised to 15,500. Schwartz, undeterred, reraised to 35,000. Kochan made the call to an {A-Diamonds} on the turn that both players checked. When the river came down {7-Spades}, Schwartz checked the action over to Kochan, who made it 44,000 to go. That was not enough to fold Schwartz. He called and tabled {Q-Clubs} {Q-Hearts} before Kochan opened his hand. As a result, we never found out what Kochan had. He mucked, preserving only 30,000 chips in his stack. Schwartz is up to 270,000.

Tags: Daniel KochanNoah Schwartz

Obst Out with a Shrug

Solomon, left; Obst, right
Solomon, left; Obst, right
James "Andy MacLEOD" Obst shrugged on a {4-Diamonds} {4-Clubs} {Q-Clubs} flop before sticking all of his chips in the middle. It was the third raise on the flop. Jarred Solomon led out for 6,700 before Obst raised to 18,000. Solomon then made it 56,000 to go in this game of "chicken". And that's when Obst shrugged and shipped the rest of his chips, about 80,000 in all. Solomon called with {A-Clubs} {Q-Hearts}; Obst showed {K-Clubs} {Q-Diamonds}. He missed his three outs when the turn and river blanked out.

We imagine it's up to the hotel room to play internet poker for Obst. Solomon stays here with 198,000.

Tags: James ObstJarred Solomon

I Believe That Would be the Nuts

Ok, so maybe it's not the Ali G Show after all. Patrik Antonious moved all in on the river of a board that showed {Q-Clubs} {8-Diamonds} {K-Spades} {A-Clubs} {7-Spades}. Ali Ghezelbash made the call. Antonius flipped his cards to reveal that he had turned the nuts with {J-Diamonds} {10-Clubs}. Ghezelbash did not have a matching jack-ten in his hole. He mucked. Antonius is now rocking a stack of about 200,000 chips.

Tags: Ali GhezelbashPatrik Antonius

Hachem Triples Up

Joe Hachem has chips again
Joe Hachem has chips again
Joe Hachem has tripled up after getting the last of his stack all in preflop holding {A-Clubs}{a-Hearts}.

The action was opened by a middle position player who raised to 5,000, only to be reraised by Martin Comer to 20,000. Joe Hachem moved his final 19,100 into the pot, and the original raiser called Comer's reraise.

The flop {q-Hearts}{k-Hearts}{q-Clubs} was checked by both players. Comer bet out at the {6-Spades} turn, the other player folded, and it was heads up between Hachem and Comer. With no more action possible, they tabled their cards.

Comer: {8-Spades}{9-Spades}
Hachem: {A-Clubs}{a-Hearts}

Hachem couldn't lose, but still called for an ace. The dealer didn't deliver though, instead putting out the {10-Clubs} on the river. Hachem triples up to around 65,000 chips.

Tags: Joe HachemMartin Comer

Demetriou Over and Out

Sorel Mizzi
Sorel Mizzi
We've lost Andrew Demetriou from the field. He shoved from the big blind for 31,100 over the top of a button raise to 4,000 by Tino Lechich. Sorel Mizzi was in the big blind and re-raised by putting out a stack of yellow (5,000) chips. That was more than enough to fold Lechich. Mizzi's {A-Spades} {k-Spades} was up against Demetriou's {A-Diamonds} {9-Clubs}. The board gave Mizzi an unnecessary spade flush when It came out {Q-Clubs} {5-Spades} {3-Spades} {Q-Hearts} {J-Spades}. He's up to 173,000.

Tags: Andrew DemetriouSorel Mizzi

Typical Toothpick Tony

The board read {5-Hearts} {6-Hearts} {A-Spades} {2-Hearts} in a recent hand between Antonis "Toothpick Tony" Kambourgolou and Grant Levy. Levy made it 5,500 to go. Action was on Toothpick Tony, and he tanked. And tanked. And tanked some more. Finally, he knocked the table "good hand" and went to surrender his cards to the dealer.

"Show your hand one time," a player at the table suggested. Kambouroglou turned over {K-Spades} {Q-Hearts}.

"What are you tanking that long for?" asked Levy. He flashed the {A-Hearts} and {K-Diamonds}.

Tags: Antonis KambouroglouGrant Levy

Antonius Changing Gears

Patrik Antonius
Patrik Antonius
Someone lit a fire under Patrik Antonius during the dinner break. He floated around the same chip count for the first three levels of play today, but has gone charging up the leader board since we came back from dinner. He applied maximum pressure to James Overbeek in a recent hand.

Overbeek had opened preflop for 4,000, then called a raise to 42,000 from Antonius. Overbeek led into Antonius for 75,000 on a flop of {8-Clubs} {6-Hearts} {4-Clubs}. Antonius responded by shipping in his whole stack, a total of 220,000. Overbeek tanked for long enough that Antonius asked for a clock. With a floor supervisor counting down a minute, Overbeek released his hand. He falls to 220,000 in chips. Antonius is now on 379,000.

Tags: James OverbeekPatrik Antonius