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The big pairs moved over to Steve Sung's table. With 18,000 chips already in the middle on a flop of , Sung's opponent bet 20,000. Sung took his time considering his action before opting to move all in for 74,200. His opponent also pondered the decision, but made the call with . It was second best to Sung's . The turn and river bricked and . As a result Sung is up to 180,000.
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The number of players remaining in the field has dropped below 100. There's still a bit more than an hour to go before Day 2 ends. Set your over/under lines now for how many players will remain by the time we wrap things up. It looks like the money bubble will come mid-afternoon tomorrow.
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Jeff Fenech - eliminated
We wish we could tell you what happened to Jeff Fenech's stack. The last time we checked in on the champion boxer, less than an hour ago, he had a very healthy 180,000 chips. The next thing we saw was Fenech's last 26,000 chips going in preflop with . He was called by a player with pocket tens. There was paint on the board, but none of it matched Fenech's hand. He has been knocked out of the tournament.
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Ivert is leading the European assualt on the Aussie Millions
Team Betfair has certainly brought out a strong contingent of European players for the 2009 Aussie Millions. Highlighting this fact is that the current first and second in the chip counts are both representing Betfair Poker.
In second place is well known online player Annette "Annette_15" Obrestad, who is currently sitting at around 400,000 in chips. Amongst Obrestad's accomplishments are the 2007 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event, as well as formerly being the number one ranked online poker player in the world. It is hard to believe, but Annette_15 is currently only twenty years old and has yet to make her U.S. tournament debut.
On the other hand, the player currently leading the tournament is a little known online player named Annica Ivert. Ivert hails from Sweden, but currently lives in Japan. Known as a fearless cash game player, Ivert regularly plays in some of the bigger cash games on Betfair. She made her live debut last year at the EPT Warsaw, and qualified through a satellite tournament on Betfair to make it here to the Aussie Millions.
Ivert has drawn the esteemed praise of fellow Team Betfair members John Tabatabi and Annette "Annette_15" Obrestad, who both shared their opening day one table with Ivert. Ivert has been mixing it well with Patrik Antonius today and if she gets some luck, she could be a lot more well known after the Aussie Millions.
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[Removed:415] has been eliminated after getting into a battle of the blinds. The small blind raised enough to put the short-stacked Doria all in and he made the call.
Opponent:
Doria:
The dealer dealt out the flop , before being asked to hold up for the television crew. This added to Doria's agony, as he sat staring at a board that had left him in a lot of trouble. It didn't get better for him, as the board ran out to send him packing.
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We came to the table to see a three-way pot building. The under-the-gun player had moved his short stack all in and was called in one spot before Stewart Scott made a large reraise for more than 50,000 chips. The player in between, who had called the initial raise, tanked for about a minute before folding.
"Do you have a pair?" Scott asked the all-in player. He opened . His opponent did have a pair, but it was smaller -- . Neither player improved on the flop, but Scott's opponent spiked a set when the turn fell . Scott initially thought he had won the hand, and his opponent initially thought he had lost, when the river fell a fourth club, the , but closer inspection revealed that it was a repeater that gave his opponent a full house.
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Dalessandri falling back
John Dalessandri, one of the few Australian players sitting around the top of the chip counts earlier today, has taken a hit. On a flop of , Dalessandri raised enough to put most of his opponent's remaining 49,000 chips into the middle. The opponent came over the top all in and Dalessandri had little choice but to call the all in bet.
Dalessandri had work to do, tabling to be up against the of his opponent. The board ran out , taking a solid 60,000 chip bite out of his stack.
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Will Zemljaric
Now here's something you don't see every day: Will Zemljaric was forced to play a pot with his hand open and he won! Zemljaric opened the pot for 7,000 chips. Action folded to Joel Dodds, who raised to 26,000. Zemljaric was only too happy put his chips in the middle, announcing a call and proudly turning over . There was only one problem -- Dodds still had chips!
A floor supervisor was summoned to the table to determine the appropriate action. He ruled that play would continue with Zemljaric's hand open and Dodds' hand closed. At the conclusion of the hand, Zemljaric would have to serve a one-orbit penalty for exposing his hand.
The flop came dow . Zemljaric was first to act. Upon seeing that he had flopped a set, and that Dodds knew that he had flopped a set, he decided to move all in right there. Dodds folded, leaving his stack intact with 62,000 chips. Zemljaric is on 308,000 and cooling his heels on the rail for a few minutes.
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Grant Levy
Grant Levy is still alive in the tournament, but it hasn't been easy for the 2007 APPT Sydney champion. He opened from the button preflop, then called a reraise to 15,000 that was made by the big blind. That player led out for 38,000 on a flop of . Levy had only 61,800 chips remaining in his stack and put them all in the middle. His opponent would have been priced in with a wide range of hands. He was definitely priced in with , the nut flush draw. He called and saw the bad news -- Levy had flopped a set of kings, .
The turn was neither a repeater nor a diamond. It fell the . With a floor announcing the action and a large crowd gathered on the rail to watch, the dealer burned and turned... the . Levy survived to double up to 165,000.
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The tournament clock is paused with five minutes to go. Dealers have been instructed to deal three more hands and then bag and tag all survivors. This is a standard "anti-stalling" measure.
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, Sung's opponent bet 20,000. Sung took his time considering his action before opting to move all in for 74,200. His opponent also pondered the decision, but made the call with 
. It was second best to Sung's 
. The turn and river bricked 
and 
. As a result Sung is up to 180,000.
. He was called by a player with pocket tens. There was paint on the 
board, but none of it matched Fenech's hand. He has been knocked out of the tournament.
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to send him packing.
. His opponent did have a pair, but it was smaller -- 
. Scott initially thought he had won the hand, and his opponent initially thought he had lost, when the river fell a fourth club, the 
, Dalessandri raised enough to put most of his opponent's remaining 49,000 chips into the middle. The opponent came over the top all in and Dalessandri had little choice but to call the all in bet.
, taking a solid 60,000 chip bite out of his stack.
. Zemljaric was first to act. Upon seeing that he had flopped a set, and that Dodds knew that he had flopped a set, he decided to move all in right there. Dodds folded, leaving his stack intact with 62,000 chips. Zemljaric is on 308,000 and cooling his heels on the rail for a few minutes.
. Levy had only 61,800 chips remaining in his stack and put them all in the middle. His opponent would have been priced in with a wide range of hands. He was definitely priced in with 
