We're not sure of the details, but Vitaly Lunkin has been eliminated from the tournament. Many may recall Lunkin as the man who won a bracelet at the 2008 World Series of Poker in a $1,500 event for $629,417 and followed that up in 2009 by winning his second bracelet, not too mention $1,891,018, in a special $40,000 buy-in no-limit event in celebration of the WSOP's 40th Anniversary.
It's nice to see the Russian take his first trip down under and try his luck in the Crown's Aussie Millions Poker Championship.
Tom Middleton has traveled from halfway across the world to be with us here today and so far he's making good use of his time. A recent hand saw Middleton call the all-in raise from the player directly to his right.
Middleton:
Opponent:
When the board had ran out , it was looking like the pair of sixes for Middleton's opponent would be good enough to survive. That all changed on the river when the hit the felt, negating the sixes and giving Middleton the best hand with his ace.
We aren't sure how long he has been gone for, but Roman Priplotski's seat is now being sat in by another player. We can only deduce this means he is long gone!
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Jay "SEABEAST" Kinkade has steadily built a healthy stack and we caught a recent hand that saw Kinkade send one player to the rail.
Kinkade opened the action with a min-raise from early position, whereby the play flew around to the player in the small blind. This player shoved his stack all in - having only a few thousand extra. Kinkade wasn't getting away from this hand, flicking the call into the pot.
Kinkade:
Opponent:
Kinkade added some chips to his stack as the board ran out , the six on the flop enough to send a player home.
With 421 players entering on Day 1c, the total number of entrants for the 2012 Crown's Aussie Millions Poker Championship is 946, creating a prize pool of $946,000 that will be distributed among the top 81 finishers. Here's a look at the payouts:
Tournament officials just announced that the total number of entries between the three starting days was 946, which was on par with expectations, but still a bit shy of last year's field of 1,000.
With that said, we should have the prize pool and payout information for you shortly.
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, it was looking like the pair of sixes for Middleton's opponent would be good enough to survive. That all changed on the river when the 
hit the felt, negating the sixes and giving Middleton the best hand with his ace.
, the six on the flop enough to send a player home.