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Peter Aristidou is the latest elimination, his 
getting sucked out on by the 
of Tim Grigg.
With Aristidou allin preflop, the board would run out 
. The rivered straight for Grigg sending Aristidou home shy of the money.
Alek Givotovsky has eliminated two players from his table after he has now taken the tournament life of Janis Lesinkis.
Givotovsky raised from the hijack and when Lesinkis moved allin from the small blind, Givotovsky would snap call and table 
a dominating hand against the 
of Lesinkis.
The board ran out 
and Givotovsky moved to 225,000 while moving his table ever closer to the cash.
Michael Mariakis has had a rollercaoster few minutes first losing a flip when he got Michael Ip allin holding against Ip's . Mariakis was no chance when the board rolled out 
, the full hous sending Mariakis down to 28,000.
Just a few hands later though and Mariakis would have his revenge, getting Ip allin holding 
against his own 
. The board would brick out, Mariakis' jacks holding up and moving his stack back up to over 85,000.
The first few players have been eliminated from their tables, sent home just shy of the cash.
First was Simon Taberham when he couldnt hold up with 
against 
. Next to go from his table was Trung Tran when he couldnt catch any cards holding 
against 
and then it was John Lombardo sent to the rail from his table when he got no help holding 
against Tom Grigg's .
Each of these player's eliminations puts their tables one step closer to the money.
This is how the shootout tables look. The top two will advance to the final table while 6th-3rd will recieve a cash prize this evening.
Table 29
Seat 1: Ash Gupta
Seat 2: Jarred Solomon
Seat 3: Alek Givotovsky
Seat 4: Trung Tran
Seat 5: Louis Ingram
Seat 6: Milan Gurung
Seat 7: Malcolm Ayles
Seat 8: Janis Lesinskis
Table 30
Seat 1: Scott Peel
Seat 2: Mel Judah
Seat 3: Martin Kozlov
Seat 4: Tom Grigg
Seat 5: Peter Aristidou
Seat 6: James Whittet
Seat 7: John Lombardo
Seat 8: Akhund Wasi
Table 31
Seat 1: Bruno Portaro
Seat 2: Shane Sigsbee
Seat 3: Gerasimos Deres
Seat 4: Angelo Prifti
Seat 5: Joel Dodds
Seat 6: Lindy Thornton
Seat 7: David Frieling
Seat 8: Simon Taberham
Table Four
Seat 1: Yann Dion
Seat 2: Michael Mariakis
Seat 3: Shao Liu
Seat 4: John Eames
Seat 5: Michael Ip
Seat 6: Raemin Alexander
Seat 7: Jai Kemp
Seat 8: Dominik Nitschke
The players will each be at an 8-handed table, playing down to two players who will go through to the final table.
The top 6 at each of the tables will be in the money, with set payouts for finishing 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th at each table and of course the top 2 going through to the final table where the payouts start jumping.
The payouts at each table will look as follows.
5th-6th: AUD$2,500
4th: AUD$4,000
3rd: AUD$6,250
Then the remaining two players will come back to play it out at the final table. So, lets do this.
These are the remaining 32 players who have taken their seats in the shootout part of the tournament. Only 24 players will pay.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
196,300 | |
|
158,500 | |
|
158,400 | |
|
126,600 | 88,600 |
|
113,100 | -66,900 |
|
107,600 | 6,600 |
|
88,500 | 28,500 |
|
88,100 | 10,100 |
|
|
87,200 | |
|
|
87,000 | |
|
82,500 | |
|
79,700 | |
|
77,700 | |
|
|
77,300 | |
|
75,600 | |
|
74,400 | |
|
70,300 | 32,300 |
|
70,000 | -25,000 |
|
67,000 | |
|
64,200 | 4,200 |
|
|
57,400 | |
|
56,900 | 26,900 |
|
|
53,400 | |
|
|
46,900 | |
|
|
34,600 |
The clock has been paused and the players sent on a twenty minute break while the tables are redrawn and the shoutout can begin.
Stay tuned for table draws and details.
With 33 players remaining, the players would be breaking their tables and moving to the shootout format after the next elimination. With some players unhappy about the hand for hand play, it didn't take long for the final player to be eliminated.
On a board reading 
, John Eames got it allin holding 
besting his opponent's lesser two-pair, holding 
.
With that bust out, Eames is now one of our chip leaders with 130,000 and players are now on a 25 minutes break while the tables are redrawn.
Luke Santos has been eliminated from another Aussie Millions Event holding a dominating hand.
Following a raise from under the gun, Santos pushed allin for 28,100. The three-bet did not phase Joel Dodds though as he too move allin for 31,000. This prompted the blinds and the under the gun raiser to get out of the way.
Santos was looking good to double holding against Dodds' 
on the flop, however the 
on the turn and on the river would mean Santos' hard days work would come crashing down.
Dodds moves up to approximately 70,000 in chips.
