2011 Aussie Millions

Event #9: Aussie Millions Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info

2011 Aussie Millions

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
k4
Prize
2,000,000 AUD
Event Info
Buy-in
10,000 AUD
Prize Pool
7,210,000 AUD
Entries
721
Level Info
Level
27
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
0

Hand-for-Hand

Level 13 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante

Since we're now down to the last seventy-nine players, the Tournament Director has announced that play will be hand-for-hand for the remainder of the level.

Currently we are unsure if we will push through to cracking the money. Only time will tell.

Titans Collide

Level 13 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante
BOOM!
BOOM!

The clash of the titans just occurred over at the Team Full Tilt Poker table. The two involved? Juggernauts Phil Ivey and Patrik Antonius.

Antonius opened with a raise to 8,000 from early-middle position and Ivey called from the big blind. Pretty innocent, right? Well, after the flop came down {Q-Clubs}{9-Spades}{7-Spades}, the two trains smacked dead on traveling at 200 miles per hour!

After Ivey checked, Antonius bet out 15,000. Ivey didn't want to play for that much and made it 50,000 to go. Antonius thought and then moved all in for 197,500. Ivey quickly called him.

Ivey turned over a dream hand on that flop, {A-Spades}{Q-Spades}, for top pair, the nut kicker and the ace-high flush draw. Antonius also flopped what he thought was the dream with the {10-Spades}{8-Spades}, picking up an open-ended straight flush draw. Little did he know, he only had eight outs because of Ivey's hand.

When the chips went in a massive crowd gathered around the table and the hard rail was pressed inward as people tried to get a closer look at the action. The dealer burned and dealt the {J-Diamonds} on the turn to give Antonius his straight. His still wasn't out of the woods yet though as Ivey could hit a flush to retake the lead.

The river completed the board with the {7-Hearts} and missed Ivey. The crowd watched with jaws on the floor as Ivey sent over all but 13,000 of his chips to Antonius, who calmy turned his head to the right and leaned back to check on the tennis action going on. He finished watching the current point before turning back and stacking his chips. He's now well over 400,000 and looking stronger than ever.

Tags: Patrik AntoniusPhil Ivey

Teng KO'd

Level 13 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante
Andrew Teng
Andrew Teng

Andrew Teng three-bet shoved for 40,000 with the preflop raiser making the call.

Teng: {A-Hearts}{9-Hearts}
Opponent: {Q-Spades}{Q-Clubs}

The board rolled out {A-Clubs}{2-Hearts}{k-Spades}{j-Spades}{10-Clubs} to see Teng out-flopped top pair run down by his opponent's runner-runner backdoor straight.

Tags: Andrew Teng

Rodrigues Surging

Level 13 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante

Manny Rodrigues entered the pot with a raise to 6,800 from the hi-jack only to have his opponent bump it to 17,000 from the cutoff.

Rodrigues made the call as the {A-Clubs}{6-Spades}{J-Clubs} flop was checked through. The turn of the {5-Spades} saw Rodrigues lead for 27,800 with his opponent making the call before the {2-Hearts} completed the board.

Rodrigues fired out 50,000 and his opponent made the call.

Rodrigues tabled his {J-Hearts}{J-Spades} to prompt a muck from his opponent as he soared to 250,000 in chips.

Tags: Manny Rodrigues

Gray Gone, Sowers Climbing

Level 13 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante
Jason Gray
Jason Gray

Mike Sowers opened to 7,500 only to have Jason Gray three-bet to 21,000. Sowers responded by moving all in for roughly 119,000 and Gray made the call for roughly his 110,000.

Sowers: {10-Clubs}{10-Spades}
Gray: {A-Spades}{K-Hearts}

The {8-Hearts}{5-Clubs}{10-Diamonds} flop saw Sowers take a commanding lead, and when the {K-Clubs} landed on the turn, Gray would be drawing dead as the meaningless {Q-Spades} fell on the river.

As Gray headed to the rail, Sowers climbed to 240,000 in chips.

Tags: Mike SowersJason Gray

Roberts Doubles Through Teng

Level 13 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante

Andrew Teng opened with an early position raise which Earl Roberts called from the big blind as a {6-Clubs}{7-Spades}{9-Hearts} flop fell.

Roberts led for 6,000 only to have Ten raise to 17,000. Roberts went into the tank before eventually moving all in for roughly 50,000 as Teng made the call.

Roberts: {10-Spades}{8-Hearts}
Teng: {A-}{A-}

The turn and river landed the {2-Diamonds} and {J-Diamonds} to send Roberts soaring up to 128,000 as Teng slips to 55,000 in chips.

Tags: Andrew TengEarl Roberts

Lucky Lew

Level 13 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante

Randy Lew has just soared up the counts to now sit with 420,000.

Amazingly our PokerNews reporter firstly witnessed Lew's {K-Spades}{K-Hearts} best an opponent's {Q-}{Q-} after the board ran out {6-Clubs}{9-Hearts}{9-Diamonds}{K-Clubs}{7-Diamonds}. A few hands later Lew would again run kings into queens to eliminate a player and sit where he does now - inside the top ten chip counts.

Tags: Randy LewJarred Solomon

Some Random Counts

Player Chips Progress
Randy Dorfman us
Randy Dorfman
460,000 -130,000
[Removed:248]
[Removed:248]
430,000 -9,000
Haibo Chu au
Haibo Chu
380,000 20,000
David Gorr au
David Gorr
Full Tilt
270,000 90,000
Patrik Antonius fi
Patrik Antonius
EPT 1X Winner
Full Tilt
225,000 42,000
Ronnie Shabtay au
Ronnie Shabtay
220,000 -17,000
Phil Ivey us
Phil Ivey
WSOP 10X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
WPT 1X Winner
Full Tilt
212,000 2,000
Howard Lederer us
Howard Lederer
WSOP 2X Winner
WPT 2X Winner
Full Tilt
195,000
Matthew Kirk au
Matthew Kirk
170,000 -51,000
Louise Ingram
Louise Ingram
130,000 92,000
Alec Smith
Alec Smith
120,000 40,000
Nik Lackovic
Nik Lackovic
110,000 5,000
Simon Morris au
Simon Morris
90,000 30,000
Julius Colman au
Julius Colman
70,000 -20,000
Adam Johnson us
Adam Johnson
50,000 -25,000