2012 Aussie Millions

Aussie Millions Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info

2012 Aussie Millions

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
aa
Prize
1,600,000 AUD
Event Info
Buy-in
10,000 AUD
Prize Pool
6,590,000 AUD
Entries
659
Level Info
Level
26
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000

Roberts Runs Into Rockets

When the action was folded to Jeremy Simon in the hijack seat, he raised it up 2,000. Jim Collopy flat-called directly on his left and the play was then promptly folded to Brian Roberts in the big blind. This is where Roberts started his trip to "running into aces" land. Roberts three-bet in the big blind and then Simon four-bet to 19,500. The rest of the table was out of the way and Roberts studied his opponent's stack before moving all in.

When Simon insta-called for his 93,200 stack, we can assume Roberts knew his {a-Clubs}{9-Diamonds} was in bad shape. When Simon flipped over his {a-Diamonds}{a-Spades}, Roberts stared stoically towards the felt as the dealer dealt out the board.

The {7-Spades}{9-Clubs}{3-Diamonds} flop gave Roberts a small sweat, but the {k-Clubs} turn and the {k-Hearts} river didn't give Roberts what he needed as he now sits with a pittance of the chip he had before the hand. With that nice hand, Simon is one of the bigger stacks in the room.

Player Chips Progress
Jeremy Simon
Jeremy Simon
190,000 100,000
Brian Roberts us
Brian Roberts
30,000 -90,000

Tags: Brian RobertsJeremy Simon

Off for a Coffee and a Cigarette

Sebastien Ruthenberg didn't seem too upset about busting the Main Event and told us that he was off to chill out with a coffee and a cigarette.

His bustout came about after he shoved 15 big blinds with pocket fives and was isolated by an opponent holding pocket queens. The board ran out {5-}{7-}{9-}{6-}{q-} for a set-over-set scenario.

Player Chips Progress
Sebastien Ruthenberg
Sebastien Ruthenberg
Busted

Tags: Sebastian Ruthenberg

Dempsey Crushes

James Dempsey
James Dempsey

James Dempsey is doing some big work early on. We just walked over to his table and noticed a massive stack in front of the British WPT and WSOP champion. Dempsey was involved in a hand with Grant Levy, and we only caught the end of it.

The board read {5-Spades}{2-Spades}{10-Clubs}{10-Diamonds} as both players checked, and the river was the {7-Spades}. Levy thew out 7,300 and got called by Dempsey right away. The Australian showed {Q-Spades}{J-Spades} for a rivered flush and Dempsey mucked his cards. Levy profited from this hand but earlier on Dempsey took down the big one.

We asked about what went down and Dempsey told us the following. In a huge pre flop all-in Dempsey showed pocket aces against Thomas Muhlocker who was holding ace-king. The pot was around 190,000 and Dempsey's hand held up. He is now our chip leader with a massive 275 big blinds.

Player Chips Progress
James Dempsey gb
James Dempsey
WSOP 1X Winner
WPT 1X Winner
275,000 -5,000
Grant Levy au
Grant Levy
94,000 27,500
JC Tran us
JC Tran
41,000 -19,000
Thomas Muhlocker at
Thomas Muhlocker
Busted

Tags: James Dempsey

Brits With Differing Starts

We caught up with JP Kelly on the rail just after he was eliminated. He made a valiant bluff-shove attempt on the river when everything had got there and his two opponents had checked to him. The final board was {q-Clubs}{10-Clubs}{6-}{10-}{9-Clubs} and one if his opponents called Kelly's shove with {q-}{j-}.

James Dempsey is having no such problems. His Facebook staus jsut read, "Up to 280k 40 minutes into day 2. Let's do this!"

Player Chips Progress
James Dempsey gb
James Dempsey
WSOP 1X Winner
WPT 1X Winner
280,000 91,000
JP Kelly gb
JP Kelly
WSOP 2X Winner
Busted

Tags: JP KellyJames Dempsey

Ladies Unkind to Marcus

Van Marcus - out
Van Marcus - out

Van Marcus just came pacing slowly past our table, munching on something out of a white paper bag and looking a little glum. Our eyes met, and he gave us the universal sign for elimination from a poker tournament, the finger-across-the-throat.

"Anything noteworthy?" we had to pry at least a little bit.

"I had two queens. He had two kings."

Marcus is pretty bummed about how that went down, and he and Aaron Benton shared a few-minute conversation in which Marcus tried to convince himself he should have considered folding preflop.

"Nothing you can do mate," Benson consoled him. "Just a coolah."

Player Chips Progress
Van Marcus au
Van Marcus
Busted

Tags: Aaron BentonVan Marcus

Big Slick Gets the Job Done for Obrestad

Annette Obrestad got her stack of 27,500 all in preflop and was flipping against Elton Tsang.

Showdown

Obrestad{A-Clubs}{K-Hearts}
Tsang{10-Clubs}{10-Hearts}

It was a classic race, but Obrstad needed to catch. The {6-Hearts}{A-Spades}{K-Diamonds} was just what she had in mind as it gave her top-two pair. Neither the {J-Clubs} turn nor {7-Diamonds} river changed a thing and Obrestad doubled to nearly 60K.

Player Chips Progress
Annette Obrestad no
Annette Obrestad
WSOP 1X Winner
58,000

Tags: Annette ObrestadElton Tsang

Rosen on the Up

Jamie Rosen
Jamie Rosen

Jamie Rosen is into six figures after letting Sean O'Reilly value town himself.

O'Reilly raised to 2,600 from mid position and Rosen called from the button along with Gareth Walker in the small blind. O'Reilly's 3,000 c-bet on the {2-Hearts}{3-Hearts}{7-Diamonds} flop was only called by Rosen. Rosen also called a 4,000 bet on the the {3-Spades} turn to head to the {2-Diamonds} river. O'Reilly had another bullet in him, for 10,500 and Rosen threw in a 100 denomination chips and opened up {j-Clubs}{j-Spades}.

"Oh, you called?" asked O'Reilly. Rosen nodded and O'Reilly passed. Chris Cockburn questioned Rosen on his calling technique, but I think the American was so sure he was ahead, he just wanted to speed up the game.

Player Chips Progress
Jamie Rosen us
Jamie Rosen
115,000 37,400

Tags: Jamie Rosen. Sean O'Reilly

"Average For Good Players"

That's what Tony G just said when we asked him about his stack. The G started today with 74,000 chips, and won five big pots already. "He flops a set every hand", one of his table mates jokingly said as Tony took another sip of his tea while getting a massage.

So to all you good players: You should be around 140,000 chips at this point in the tournament. Why? Because The G said so!

Player Chips Progress
Tony G lt
Tony G
140,000 65,600

Tags: Tony G