Event 9 - $10,500 Aussie Millions Main Event Day 2 | 2009 Aussie Millions

01-21-2009 22:25 UTC+11

Break Time

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Players are on the last break of the night.

01-21-2009 22:24 UTC+11

Home Malone

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Joshua Malone has been eliminated by Annica Ivert.

On a flop of {5-Diamonds}

, Ivert bet 10,000 and was raised by Malone to 30,000. Ivert didn't flinch and carefully moved in enough to put Malone all in. He thought for a moment before making the call for his tournament life.

Ivert: {9-Hearts}

Malone:

Malone would need a diamond or some runner runner combination to keep him alive. The turn {j-Hearts}

and river

were not the tonic Malone needed and he hit the rail.

Ivert has moved to over 500,000 in chips.

Tags: Annica Ivert Joshua Malone

01-21-2009 22:23 UTC+11

Demidov on an Early Flight to St. Petersburg

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Ivan Demidov's next stop after the 2009 Aussie Millions Poker Championship is the inaugural Russian Poker Tour event in St. Petersburg, Russia. He'll be able to push off a few days early thanks to David Docherty.

Docherty, you may remember, started the day with twelve big blinds in his stack. For him to even still be around at this stage of the tournament is quite a feat. Add to his list of feats "dispatched Ivan the Terrible, 2008 WSOP Main Event Runner-Up". There were 36,000 chips in the pot preflop when Team PokerNews member Will Zemljaric tapped our reporter and said, "This is going to be a big hand." He was right.

Docherty checked a {5-Clubs}

flop over to Demidov, who opened for 43,000. That bet left Demidov only 9,000 chips behind. Docherty responded by raising enough to put Demidov all in. He called.

Docherty: {10-Diamonds}

Demidov:

Demidov whiffed on the flop completely and seemed to just hope that he could buy the pot. Docherty was in the lead but had to sweat the turn and the river. His sweat was longer than normal, as the dealer had to wait so that a floor supervisor could be summoned to the table with a microphone to announce the action for the rail. The turn was a small card, the {3-Hearts}

. The river was the {9-Spades}

. With that river, a weary-looking Demidov got up from the table.

Docherty is now in the top fifteen in the counts. He has 220,000.

Tags: David Docherty Ivan Demidov

01-21-2009 22:09 UTC+11

Saab Almost Back to the Starting Blocks

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David Saab started the day with roughly 30,000 chips. He bounced all the way up to a high-water mark of a touch more than 200,000, but he's fallen all the way back to 50,000 after a recent all-in confrontation didn't go his way. He called a short stack's all in for 26,000 with pocket deuces. Saab's opponent turned over {A-Spades}

and paired his jack on the turn of a board that came {8-Diamonds}

.

Tags: David Saab

01-21-2009 22:06 UTC+11

Antonius Changing Gears

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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}

. 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 Overbeek Patrik Antonius

01-21-2009 22:02 UTC+11

Gloria Chats with Kelly Kim

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There are a couple of the "November Nine" still in today's field. PokerNews presenter Gloria Balding chatted with one of them, Kelly Kim, just before the dinner break.

01-21-2009 21:55 UTC+11

Typical Toothpick Tony

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The board read {5-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}

.

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

and

.

Tags: Antonis Kambouroglou Grant Levy

01-21-2009 21:42 UTC+11

Demetriou Over and Out

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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}

was up against Demetriou's {A-Diamonds}

. The board gave Mizzi an unnecessary spade flush when It came out {Q-Clubs}

. He's up to 173,000.

Tags: Andrew Demetriou Sorel Mizzi

01-21-2009 21:33 UTC+11

Hachem Triples Up

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

.

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}

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}