It's time to celebrate the Chinese New year with a special Chinese Poker Event at the 2012 Aussie Millions. Gary Benson gives Nicki Pickering the run down of how it's played.
The penultimate break of the day is here. We'll be back in 15-minutes.
Billy Argyros has just given back some of those hard earned chips. He called an early position raise in the cut-off before Aaron Benton squeezed to 3,100 from the button. The original raiser folded but Argyros called after some thought.
The flop fell 
and both players checked to the 
turn. The Croc went for the old check-raise maneuver on Benton by bumping it up to 8,800 when faced with a 3,500 delayed c-bet. Call.
The river came 
and Argyros went back to a check. Benton bet a small 6,100 but Argyros elected to fold.
"Always nice when someone raises into the nuts," said Benton as he raked in the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
42,000 | -16,000 |
|
|
34,000 | 1,000 |
They are not big but Tom Dwan keeps raking in the pots. We can see his stack grow orbit to orbit and at this moment he is around 74,000 chips. We just saw a 
board and Dwan bet 4,300 from the small blind into his neighbor who called from the big blind. Dwan tabled 
and won the pot with two pair.
Tom Dwan has his earbuds in and looks very focussed as he's taking control of his table.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
73,000 | 2,000 |
We're not sure of all the details, but we know that Jackie Glazier was just eliminated. We didn't see her cards, but we saw that her opponent held 
on a 
board.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
Billy Argyros, better known as The Croc, just raised to 1,100 and Tristan Wade decided to three-bet from the small blind to 2,800. The player in the big blind called after wich The Croc also called.
The flop came down 
and Wade fired out 4,400 into this three-way pot. His neighbor immediately grabbed chips and raised to 7,400 and Argyros, who was standing up, sat down. After some thinking he raised to 18,000 and Wade folded right away. The big blind gave it some thought and eventually folded the face up. Argyros grabbed the big pot while Wade is still in a very good position.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
64,000 | 3,000 |
|
|
58,000 | 28,500 |
Action folded to an unknown player in the hijack and he limped for 400. Tom Dwan did the same from the small blind, and then Ryan Hong exercised his option in the big with a raise to 1,700. Both limpers called and it was three-way action to the 
flop.
Dwan checked, Hong bet 2,400, and the hijack folded. Dwan thought for a moment and then splashed in the call, and then both players checked the 
turn. The river saw a check by Dwan, which inspired Hong to bet 4,100. It proved too much for the man known as "durrrr" and he laid down his hand.
Dwan is still in good shape with 71,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
71,000 | -5,000 |
|
33,000 | 5,000 |
This obviously isn't true, but just like Marvin in the movie Pulp Fiction, it took a bullet (or two in this case) to finish off Marvin Rettenmaier.
He called a three-bet with king-queen and the flop fell king-high with two clubs. He check-called and then committed the rest of his chips on the turn when two flush draws were on board. His opponent had aces and that was all she wrote.
JP Kelly is also having a tough time. He said he made a bad call and is grinding a 6,200 stack right now.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
6,200 | -1,800 |
|
Busted |
While the $100,000 Freeze Out is nearing its conclusion there are still four Main Event tabled located upstairs surrounding the tv set.
The four tables hold only four players we recognize after Shawn Buchanan managed to bust. He mentioned on his Twitter that he played badly. Buchanan will have another shot at winning big as he will be in the $25,000 Shoot Out at the end of the week.
Annette Obrestad is still cruising with 62,000 chips while former Aussie Millions Main Event winner Stewart Scott just got moved to her table. Scott is sitting on 48,000 chips. Furthermore we still saw Mel Judah and Simon Watt sitting at their tables but the action remained quiet while we were up there.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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62,000 | -6,000 |
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48,000 | 4,000 |
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17,000 | -15,000 |
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15,200 | -21,800 |
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Busted |
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