Level: 3
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
2011 Aussie Millions
Event #17: No-Limit Hold'em - 6-Handed
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2011 Aussie Millions
Buy-in
2,000 AUD
Entries
225
Level
21
Blinds
10,000 / 20,000
Ante
2,000
Smoko!
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Level 2
: 75/150, 0 ante
The players are now on their first 10-minute break of the day.
Obrestad Ousted
Level 2
: 75/150, 0 ante
As the first break of the day approaches, we noticed that the seat that was formerly occupied by Full Tilt Red Pro Annette Obrestad was now filled by Aleks Brkovic.
After some investigation, we discovered that it was Toby Lewis that eliminated her over the space of two hands. In both hands, Obrestad held 
but was crippled by Lewis' 
before being felted when he woke up with 
a short time later.
At least we know that Obrestad and her partner Scott Montgomery will be able to spend some quality time together now!
Those November Niners Are Hard to Find!
Level 2
: 75/150, 0 ante
As the PokerNews Live Reporting Team made their way past table 29, we came across a rather familiar face. A very familiar Canadian face. We're sure we'd seen him before, but where?
"Hi, I'm Matt Jarvis," he said. Of course! Now we know where we saw him - last year's WSOP Main Event final table! *facepalm*
As it turns out, Jarvis sharing space with 2010 Aussie Millions Main Event champion Tyron Krost and Sean Keeton, who recently went toe-to-toe on a flop that read 
. Keeton checked to Krost who led out for 600, but Keeton check-raised to 1,600. Krost quickly folded.
Boxell in Control
Level 2
: 75/150, 0 ante
Aussie Poker stalwart Leo Boxell is on the feature table today down here in the Crown Poker Room and his chip stack's looking a lot healthier after he delivered a 1-2 KO to an opponent.
We presume all the money went in on the flop of 
, because the all-in player had tabled 
. He was in bad shape though, as Boxell had hit a golden flop with his 
. The turn and river ran out 
, 
; mortally wounded, Boxell finished him off in the very next hand.
However, he's now in for a bit of a battle as a table has just been broken and the two spare seats on this feature table have now been filled by Frederik Jensen and Neil Channing!
Jovial Gents, One and All
Level 2
: 75/150, 0 ante
As play continues in this event, we stopped by table 21 where Tony Dunst, Tony Hachem and Bruno Portaro are having a grand old time, laughing and joking around with Aytunc Tezay, who's being bombarded with Twix-shaped missiles from Warwick Mirzikinian from a nearby table.
We did catch a hand while we were there though - on a flop that read 
, Hachem checked to Portaro, who led out for 650 before Tezay called from the cutoff. "You have to report this, PokerNews," Tezay said, "I'm gonna trap him!"
Hachem folded and Portaro and Tezay checked the turn of the 
before Portaro led out for 1,200 on the river of the 
. "Guess it didn't work," Tezay laughed as he open-folded 
.
"It would have!" Portaro said, as he flashed 
for nothing but air. "You're still ahead though," Tezay replied before turning to our reporter. "Maybe you shouldn't report it!"
Oops, our bad!
Level: 2
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 0
The Hits Just Keep on Coming!
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the table, we've discovered that this field is teeming with more sharks than we thought! Here they are, in no particular order:
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Lights Out for Watt
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
Another Full Tilt Red Pro has bitten the dust - this time, it was in the form of New Zealand's Simon Watt who was felled by Australia's Daniel Laidlaw over on table 26.
As Laidlaw recalled to us, he raised to 300 from under the gun with 
and was called by Watt before c-betting the flop of 
. Watt raised to 1,200, Laidlaw made it 3,100 to go, Watt shoved and Laidlaw called, find himself ahead of Watt's 
.
Watt did manage to hit his gutshot straight on the river, but it was the 
, which gave Laidlaw the nut flush. Ouch.
Montgomery Gone
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
The cry of "One out, table 49," went up from the dealer as we made the rounds and we discovered that Full Tilt Red Pro Scott Montgomery had been eliminated at the hands of Andreas Kovacs.
As Kovacs and the dealer recalled to us, the money was all-in on a flop of 
with two diamonds; Montgomery had hit middle pair with 
but was dominated by Kovacs' .
Montgomery improved to the flush draw on the turn but Kovacs hit trip aces on the river to send him to the rail.