Event #17: No-Limit Hold'em - 6-Handed
Day 1 Started
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
Maxx-treme!
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The 2011 Aussie Millions Poker Championship may be coming to a close, but the buzz around Crown Casino is at fever pitch, with the final table of the Main Event to be decided today up in the Studio 3 nightclub.
Meanwhile, back down here in the Poker Room, a venerable cornucopia of poker's elite are about to take to the felt for Event #17 on the schedule: the $2,200 No Limit Hold'em Six-Handed tournament.
10,000 starting chips. 60-minute levels. A maximum of six players per table. It's an all-out, balls-to-the-wall, lightning-fast melee of epic proportions and as always, your one-stop shop for all the updates is right here at PokerNews! So strap yourselves in folks, we're about to get this party started!
Level: 1
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
And Without Further Ado ...
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
... let's go! The order to "shuffle up and deal" has been given and we're underway!
Roll Call!
Here are just some of the players that we've spotted in the poker room today:
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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10,000 | |
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10,000 | |
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10,000 | |
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10,000 | |
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10,000 | |
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10,000 | |
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10,000 | |
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10,000 | |
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10,000 | |
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10,000 | |
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10,000 | |
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10,000 | |
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10,000 | |
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10,000 | |
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10,000 | |
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10,000 | |
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10,000 | |
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10,000 | |
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10,000 | |
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10,000 |
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.
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.
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:
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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10,000 | |
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10,000 | |
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10,000 | |
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10,000 | |
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10,000 | |
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10,000 | |
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10,000 | |
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10,000 | |
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10,000 | |
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10,000 | |
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10,000 | |
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10,000 | |
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10,000 |
Level: 2
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 0
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!