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Sam Vakili has just seen his 
cracked by Ray E's 
.
Ray shoved preflop and Vakili quickly made the call, but when the board brought both a king and deuce, Vakili was left with just 25,000 to be at a two-to-one disadvantage against Ray.
Level: 12
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 300
On a 
flop, Sam Vakili found himself all in holding 
against Ray E's 
.
The turn and river landed running aces to see Vakili collect the pot and leave Ray with just 3,075 in chips.
The following hand, Vakili doubled Ray up when his 
failed to improve against Ray's 
.
But on the third hand, Vakili's 
would be the better holding of the two on a board of 
as Ray's 
was unable to connect with enough power to keep him alive.
Vakili is the final player to advance to round two, and will be taking 85,025 into play.
Although most of the final eighteen players have been on their break for quite a while, the official time for the start of round two will be 7:00 pm EST.
See you back here then!
Level: 8
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 100
With the blinds starting at 600-1,200 and a 100-chip ante, the green 25-denomination chips have been raced off to see the following counts adjusted for the players.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
92,800 | |
|
|
92,100 | |
|
|
92,000 | |
|
|
91,900 | |
|
|
91,900 | |
|
91,700 | |
|
91,700 | |
|
91,600 | |
|
|
91,600 | |
|
91,600 | |
|
91,600 | |
|
91,600 | |
|
||
|
91,500 | |
|
91,500 | |
|
86,600 | |
|
85,600 | |
|
85,100 | |
|
85,000 | |
Table 29
| Seat | Player | Chip Count |
| 1 | Soren Blanner | 91,700 |
| 2 | Charlie Combes | 91,600 |
| 3 | John Eames | 91,500 |
| 4 | David Lacchia | 91,600 |
| 5 | Sam Vakili | 85,100 |
| 6 | Dean Nyberg | 85,000 |
| 7 | Andrew Teng | 91,700 |
| 8 | Justin Walch | 91,600 |
| 9 | Toby Lewis | 91,600 |
Table 32
| Seat | Player | Chip Count |
| 1 | James Keys | 91,600 |
| 2 | Barry Drysdale | 92,100 |
| 3 | Neil Channing | 91,500 |
| 4 | Daniel Neilson | 86,600 |
| 5 | Chris Yea | 91,900 |
| 6 | Sam Georges | 92,800 |
| 7 | Jack Powell | 91,900 |
| 8 | Ben Delaney | 92,000 |
| 9 | David Morton | 85,600 |
If you've had a chance to take a look at the prizepool on the payouts page, you will notice that every amount has some odd-change on the end of it.
$80, $60, $20 or $15, regardless of the exact amount, you may all be wondering why the staff here conducting the 2011 Aussie Millions have created the prizepool in this way, instead of the clean payouts tournaments have come to expect.
Well, Australia recently had a disastrous flood strike the north-eastern state of Queensland creating millions of dollars in damage, destroying thousands upon thousands of homes, and unfortunately seeing many lives lost.
Although the worst of the conditions may be behind us, the majority of Queenslanders and their communities have been completely devastated by this natural disaster.
With many people needing their whole lives rebuilt, people from around Australia and the world have been donating at will to help Queensland pick themselves up and get back on track once the water - that at points has risen over the two metre (close to ten feet) mark - decreases to a manageable level.
Consequently, Crown Casino is looking to do their part in the Queensland Flood Relief program and have placed collection tins at eighty locations throughout the complex - from the poker room, retail stores, restaurant and bars - with all funds being raised being directly donated to the Queensland Premier's Disaster Relief Appeal fund via the Salvation Army.
Here in the poker room, their hope is that when people cash out during the Aussie Millions, that they will donate the odd change of their payouts (and hopefully) more to the cause - and whatever is collected (from all the collection tins around the complex), Crown Casino will match dollar-for-dollar!
So even if the Queensland floods haven't directly affected you, please help by donating some change or a few big blinds to the cause, and if you can't get down to the Crown Casino during the Aussie Millions, information on how to donate to the Queensland Flood Relief can be found here.
After taking a considerable chunk of chips from Jack Powell, Sam Georges has just seen his new-found chips head in the direction of Daniel Neilson.
Catching the action on the river with the board reading 
and the pot sitting at roughly 40,000, Georges fired out a bet of 15,000 from the big blind.
From the button, Daniel Neilson deliberated for some time before making the call.
Georges tabled his 
for bottom pair as Neilson's 
would see the Australian tournament regular collect the pot to move to 122,000 as Georges slips to 103,000 in chips.
Toby Lewis entered the pot with a raise to 3,000 and was met with calls from John Eames and Sam Vakili from the cutoff and small blind respectively.
Lewis continued with a bet of 5,700 on the 
flop with Eames making the call from the button before Vakili upped it to 16,400.
Lewis quickly kicked his cards to the muck, but Eames spent a little longer deliberating before eventually finding a fold as Vakili collected the pot to move to 88,000 in chips.
