We're not sure how it happened, but it looks as if short-stacked Vesko Zmukic has finally succumbed and been eliminated from the 2012 Aussie Millions Main Event.
On the flip side, Tom "durrrr" Dwan has been holding his own and playing a patient game. He is currently working with a stack hovering around 50K.
Jonathan Karamalikis is down to 43,000 after giving up trying to take an opponent off a hand. He raised pre-flop and the big blind called to the flop. Both players checked to the turn where Karamalikis’ delayed 1,800 c-bet was snap check-called. The board completed with and both players checked.
Karamalikis opened but lost out to the big blind’s .
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.