Aussie Millions Main Event
Day 1c Started
2012 Aussie Millions
Aussie Millions Main Event
Day: 1c
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2012 Aussie Millions
Buy-in
10,000 AUD
Prize Pool
6,590,000 AUD
Entries
659
Level
26
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000
The Last Leg
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Good afternoon once again and welcome back to our coverage of the 2012 Aussie Millions Main Event!
We've already put two starting flights in the books over the past two days, and today marks the third and final flight as the Day 1c group is filing into the room with their seat cards in hand. On Day 1a, Brett Watson built a fortress of chips, bagging up more than 250,000 from his 30,000-chip starting stack. Yesterday's flight saw James Dempsey go on a late heater to shoot his way up to the top of the counts with just shy of 200,000.
So far, a total of 340 players have played their respective Day 1 flights, and today's flight welcomes a new — and hopefully huge — batch of players to the felt with their sights set on the established chip leaders. It might well double our turnout from the first two days as we've already got more than 260 players registered for this flight with a few hours left to buy-in. It's not a sprint, though, and we've still got another four long days of play left after the field recombines for tomorrow's Day 2.
We're just about 20 minutes away from kickoff here in the Crown Poker Room, and the room is abuzz. Dealers are suiting their decks and stacking out chips, cupcakes are being passed out table-to-table, and the staff is scurrying around the floor making last-minute preparations for play. "Make sure every stack gets a cupcake," they instruct.
And don't forget about the media. #wink
We'll be here until they bag up in the wee hours of the morning tomorrow, and we hope you'll stick with us for another exciting day in the Main Event! Sit tight; it's almost starting time.
Level: 1
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
Day 1c Lifts Off
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
The dealers have been given the command, and the cards have gone flying here on Day 1c. We've got a full house here today, and the empty seats are filling in fast.
Any Dinner Plans?
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
The third flight of the Aussie Millions Main Event is just about to start as we picked up this interesting fact. Twitter superstar Kevin 'Kevmath' Mathers just announced that the 350th player to register for today will get a real fancy dinner with Crown's own Natasha Stipanov. We don't know what the number is right now but there will be a pleasant surprise for someone today!
Barbero Finds Early Action
We didn't walk up to the turn, but our bloggers' intuition tells us that Nacho Barbero was the preflop raiser on the button, and he likely bet the 
flop before we walked up.
Barbero was heads up with the gentleman in the big blind, and Mr. Big Blind check-called another 1,700 on the 
turn as we picked up the action live. The river came the 
, and Barbero barreled right away with another 3,700 chips. The call came, and Barbero's 
was good enough to earn him an early chip boost up to about 37,000.
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Well Hello There!
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A Tough Table
There certainly are a good group of notable and dangerous players in the field today, and a few of them have found their way to the far table up in the top section of the room. It's Table 42, and it first caught our eye because we spotted Sam Trickett and Tom Middleton both sitting there.
They're both Brits, and they've both experienced a bit of success in this building already. Trickett had a monster 2011 here, winning nearly $3 million in the span of just five days after winning the $100,000 Challenge and finishing second to Erik Seidel in the $250,000 Super High Roller.
It'd be hard for Tom Middleton to match that effort, but he does have a more recent victory, at least. The man they call "Middy" almost won a bracelet over the summer at the WSOP, but he had to settle for an Aussie Millions gold ring instead. Middy took down the $1,000 Six-Max event here last week, topping Joel Dodds to win more than $80,000.
Just as we were about to walk away, another Aussie Millions champion joined the fray as Dan Smith has just taken his seat in the nine hole. Less than 12 hours ago, Smith was busy winning the same $100,000 Challenge that Trickett conquered the last time around, so we've now got the previous two champions of that event sitting two seats apart in the Main Event. The night of celebrating doesn't seem to have worn on Smith too badly, and he looks fresh and happy and ready to play again today. A million dollars will do that for you, we'd imagine.
So far, Table 42 is the toughest one in town.
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Plenty of Big Names Today!
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Bring Out the Big Guns
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
It's Day 1c of the 2012 Aussie Millions Main Event and all of the big guns are out to play. So far we've spotted big names Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu, Jason Mercier, Erik Seidel, Daniel Alaei, Nam Le, JC Tran, Sam Trickett and Chris Moorman.
The Crown staff places an individually boxed cupcake with Aussie Millions frosting at each seat in the Main Event. This happens on each starting day and all of the players love it, especially Seidel. Seidel was overheard telling one of the Crown staff that he wouldn't rather be anywhere else in the world as nowhere else can he sit down at a poker table and have a cupcake waiting for him.