Let the Parade of Set-Over-Set Hands Begin

Generally, eliminations in the early levels of a super deep-stacked event like the 2009 Aussie Millions Main Event are the result of "cooler" hands being dealt. With so many tables in play, each dealing so many hands per hour, it's simply inevitable that "cooler" hands will happen.

Annette Obrestad was the beneficiary of such a hand already today. She was on the button and called a raise to 400 that was also called by one other player. The flop came down {10-Diamonds}

, bringing a check from one player and a bet of 500 from the preflop aggressor.

Everyone came along to the turn, which fell {Q-Hearts}

. Again the early-position player checked. This time the preflop aggressor made it 2,500 to go. Obrestad raised to 8,075, only to see the early-position player check-raise all in. That folded the preflop aggressor, but Obrestad snap-called with {Q-Diamonds}