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Stuart [Removed:293] - 44th Place
Wait, there's one more elimination that came before dinner! No sooner had Tom Rafferty's seat gone empty than Stuart [Removed:293] was broken to the vacant seat. He was dealt and moved his short stack all in while the rest of the tournament was heading off for the dinner break. Stewart Scott squeezed out and made the call. He paired his ace on a flop of , which was better than [Removed:293]'s pair of kings. The board ran out running fives to send [Removed:293] to dinner with an extra AU$20,000 in his pocket.
Scott now has the chip lead with approximately 900,000 chips. He's probably going to enjoy his dinner more than [Removed:293] will.
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Tom Rafferty - 45th place
Our reporter reached the hand at the river with the board reading with 130,000 chips in the pot. Stewart Scott was in the tank facing Tom Rafferty who was all in. Scott asked the dealer for a count, and as the dealer began counting off Rafferty's 175,000 all in, he changed his mind and announced call.
Rafferty instantly knew his tournament was over, and began to muck his hand, as Scott turned over . Someone at the table asked to see Rafferty's hand anyway. The dealer exposed , a stone bluff.
Stewart Scott moves into the chip lead at 800,000.
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David Paewai may want a do-over. We guess he's going to spend quite a bit of time tonight thinking about how he played his final hand in the 2009 Aussie Millions Main Event. Paewai, sitting in the big blind, was one of three players to call a preflop raise by Clonie Gowen to 12,000. The other two were Annica Ivert and Zach Fellows.
Paewai was first to act after the flop came down . He checked to Gowen, who made a half-pot continuation bet of 25,000. Ivert called and Fellows folded before Paewai check-raised to 75,000. That was enough to chase away Gowen, but not Ivert. She called again.
The turn fell . Paewai had first action and decided to move all in for 130,000. Ivert couldn't call fast enough, tabling for a set of sixes. Paewai showed , a hand that was drawing dead. He's off to collect AU$20,000 from the cage. Ivert is back over a half million in chips.
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Comer pondering how to get things back on track
Andrew Chen has just doubled up via Martin Comer. With all the chips going in on a flop of Chen was in good shape with his leading Martin Comer's .
The board ran out turn and river .
Chen moves up to 150,000. Comer who has been bleeding chips left and right, sits at 270,000.
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Chris Chronis has added some chips to his stack courtesy of Martin Comer. On a flop of Comer fired 20,000, and Chronis made the call. The turn saw Comer bet out 60,000 and again Chronis called. Comer put the brakes on at the river and Chronis took full advantage firing 100,000. Comer thought for a moment before folding, leaving about 330,000 chips behind. Chronis then flashed and began scooping in the pot. Chronis moves up amongst the leaders at 660,000.
At the 2008 Aussie Millions Poker Championship Main Event, who was the chip leader going into the TV Final Table?
The TV final table for 2008 was played seven-handed. When the field was down to eight players, the players were moved into the TV studio. They continued playing until one more player was knocked off. That player was Nico Behling. When all the chips were bagged and tagged,
Michael Chrisanthopoulos
had the chip lead going into the TV Final Table. Congratulations to "jcsydney" for being the first player to get that answer into the Shout Box (even if he did mis-spell it!). PokerNews will contact jcsydney and the previous trivia winner, PFUsqrl, to arrange entries into the satellite tournament.
Meanwhile, there's a poker tournament being played here!
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Velipekka Pentinnen - 47th Place
Tally another victim for David Docherty. He had a very easy decision after Velipekka Pentinnen moved all in preflop for 70,000 chips. Docherty looked down at and called. He was in great shape against Pentinnen's . The board ran out a very safe to send Pentinnen to the rail. He's part of the AU$20,000 club now, having doubled his buy-in for the 2009 Aussie Millions Main Event. Docherty is still in the hunt. He now has 405,000 chips.
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Brett Murtagh - 48th place
Brett Murtagh has been eliminated in the hand of the tournament so far.
Our reporter caught the hand with the flop of .First Noah Schwartz checked to Murtagh who moved in his final 89,000 chips. Kelly Kim, who was the other player to see the flop called Murtagh's all in.
Schwartz then proceeded to move all in himself for 253,000, covering Kim by just 24,000 chips. Kim understandably went into the tank, and then shocked the crowd who were expecting a fold, by calling.
The players tabled their cards:
Murtagh for an overpair and flush draw.
Schwartz for bottom set.
Kim for top set.
Kim was in front but would need to dodge the flush outs for Murtagh in order to scoop the pot. The turn was all clear, and the case would see Kim make quads.
"Now we're back in the game" gloated Kim as he raked in a 600,000 chip pot. Schwartz was left with just 24,000. Murtagh was eliminated.
Schwartz would double back through shortly after and now sits at around 50,000.
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Time for the second trivia question. Same details as before, but to refresh your memory:
The prize that's up for grabs is a seat in a $32+5 satellite tournament on PokerStars to be held at 6am local Melbourne time tomorrow morning. It has a guarantee to a final satellite tournament on Sunday ($500+30), with Sunday's final guaranteeing two prize packages worth approximately $7,800 each.
There's nothing fancy to the question this time:
At the 2008 Aussie Millions Poker Championship Main Event, who was the chip leader going into the TV Final Table?
The first person to post the correct answer in the Shout Box will win the seat into the $32+5 satellite. We'll post the answer and the winner's PokerNews screen name in the blog later in the day. The winner will be emailed via the email account he or she used to sign up their PokerNews account in order to be enrolled in the satellite.
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and moved his short stack all in while the rest of the tournament was heading off for the dinner break. Stewart Scott squeezed out 
and made the call. He paired his ace on a flop of 
, which was better than [Removed:293]'s pair of kings. The board ran out running fives to send [Removed:293] to dinner with an extra AU$20,000 in his pocket.
with 130,000 chips in the pot. Stewart Scott was in the tank facing Tom Rafferty who was all in. Scott asked the dealer for a count, and as the dealer began counting off Rafferty's 175,000 all in, he changed his mind and announced call.
, a stone bluff.
. He checked to Gowen, who made a half-pot continuation bet of 25,000. Ivert called and Fellows folded before Paewai check-raised to 75,000. That was enough to chase away Gowen, but not Ivert. She called again.
. Paewai had first action and decided to move all in for 130,000. Ivert couldn't call fast enough, tabling 
for a set of sixes. Paewai showed 
, a hand that was drawing dead. He's off to collect AU$20,000 from the cage. Ivert is back over a half million in chips.
leading Martin Comer's 
.
Comer fired 20,000, and Chronis made the call. The turn 
saw Comer bet out 60,000 and again Chronis called. Comer put the brakes on at the river 
and Chronis took full advantage firing 100,000. Comer thought for a moment before folding, leaving about 330,000 chips behind. Chronis then flashed 
and began scooping in the pot. Chronis moves up amongst the leaders at 660,000.
to send Pentinnen to the rail. He's part of the AU$20,000 club now, having doubled his buy-in for the 2009 Aussie Millions Main Event. Docherty is still in the hunt. He now has 405,000 chips.
.First Noah Schwartz checked to Murtagh who moved in his final 89,000 chips. Kelly Kim, who was the other player to see the flop called Murtagh's all in.
for bottom set.
turn was all clear, and the case 
would see Kim make quads.