A player UTG +1 made it 6,500 and NIco Behling made the call, as did another opponent, before yet a fourth player moved all in. It folded back to Behling who moved all in on top to isolate, and the opponent in the middle got the picture.
Behling:
Opponent:
The board in it's finality read and Nico Behling is now over the 400,000 mark.
Andy Stoltz raised to 8,600 and an opponent reraised to 32,000 before the big blind moved his last 20,000 into the middle. Action folded back to Stoltz who then decided to pump up the action even more moving all in for 250,000.
The initial reraiser folded, and the shorty showed , and was up against Stoltz's pocket jacks.
The board came and although the shorty hit his queen, Stoltz's set of jacks was good for the win. Stoltz is over 300,000.
A player under the gun raised to 6,200 and action folded over to David Steicke on the button. Steicke stuck all of his chips into the middle with a reraise to 71,300. Action then folded to Chad Wiedenhoeft in the big blind. Wiedenhoeft was the chip leader before this hand and made the call. The original raiser mucked face up.
Steicke:
Wiedenhoeft:
The board ran through and Wiedenhoeft won the pot, sending Steicke to the rail. The original raiser would have tripped up his sevens on the river, but folded preflop. Wiedenhoeft is up to 525,000.
Gus Hansen is making a charge for his second Aussie Millions Main Event title. It's unclear how the action went down, but all of the money was in the pot preflop.
Hansen:
Opponent:
The flop could not be much worse for Hansen, coming down giving his opponent an open-ended straight flush draw. You win poker tournaments by fading these though, and fade is exactly what Gus did. The turn was the , and the river the resulting in the dealer shipping the pot over to Hansen, who now has 337,000.
Julian Powell was recently eliminated from the main event by Minh Trinh, in a coolerish sort of hand.
Trinh opened the pot with a raise to 5,800 and when the action reached Powell, he three-bet to 18,200. Trinh then literally threw all of his chips into the middle, saying he was all in and Powell made the call for less:
Powell:
Trinh:
Five blanks later, Powell joined the rail. Trinh, meanwhile, now has 235,000 in chips.
A player raised from early position to 6,000 before Dan Shak reraised to 26,000 on the button. The player then moved all in for 96,200 and Shak made the call.
Shak:
Opponent:
The flop put Shak further in the lead when it came . The tuen was the and the river the . The player was eliminated and sent over his chips to Shak.
Shak is coming off his impressive win in the $100,000 Challenge where he topped a field of 24 of the best names in poker. He's up to 340,000 now in the Main Event.