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The bubble has been kicking on for around half an hour now. Readers may recall that last year the Aussie Millions Main Event did not go hand-for-hand on the bubble. This was because Julius Colman and Tyler Bonkowski simultaneously busted, with those two sharing the first min-cash.
It has just been announced that the eventual player who goes home as the bubble boy will be awarded entry into the Event 25: $550 Hall of Fame tournament.
Phil Ivey has been staying pretty active here on the bubble of the 2012 Aussie Millions Main Event. His standard opening raised this level is to 13,000 and he opened to that amount twice from the button and then cutoff seat with everyone folding after him.
Them, from the hijack seat, Ivey opened again to 13,000 and Aage Ravn called from the small blind. The flop came down 
and Ravn checked. Ivey bet 15,000 and Ravn called to see the 
land on the turn. Ravn checked again and this time Ivey bet 40,000. Ravn folded and Ivey won the pot.
Robert Lam raised pre flop and got three-bet by Sean O'Reilly who was two seats to his left. O'Reilly made it 26,000 and the action got folded back to Lam.
Lam, who finished Day 1c as the chip leader, threw in a four-bet to 59,500 and the pressure was back on O'Reilly. Sean O'Reilly isn't one of those online kids, but he tanked for a bit and then threw in the 116,000 five-bet. Lam was messing around and snap-folded his cards after which O'Reilly proudly turned over 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
375,000 | 50,500 |
|
|
160,000 | -65,000 |
We aren't exactly sure how he got there, but we assume its a combination of his massive stack and the super-tight bubble play.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,150,000 | 229,000 |
We've been watching Patrick Lui essentially being blinded off here during the hand-for-hand period. He's been folding around with his short stack dwindling down below 5,000, but he finally found a spot to take his stand. Lui put his last 4,000 in with 
in the cutoff seat, and Sean O'Reilly isolated him with a reraise from the button. His 
was flipping for the knockout, and Lui stood up to sweat his fate.
The 
flop was a good one for the ace-eight, and the shortest stack in the room managed to double after the safe 
turn and river. Actually, it's nearly a quintuple up as Lui now sits with 19,000 — enough to sit still for about two orbits if he needs to.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
19,000 | -5,000 |
We have seen three hands since hand for hand action started but so far nothing special has happened.
Now that we've reached the money bubble, the tournament officials have instituted hand-for-hand play. With $15,000 AUD on the line, we expect this could take awhile.
We were still waiting to begin the hand-for-hand dealing process while the final table finished up their pre-bubble hand. It ended up with another all-in-and-a-call though as Minh Nguyen got his last 177,000 into the middle with 
. Alexander Roumeliotis put him to the test, but his 
was dominated and poised to grant Nguyen a big double.
The 
flop was a big sweat for the at-risk player. Roumeliotis picked up the diamond draw there, but he could not find an out. The turn and river 
filled out the board, much to the delight of Nguyen. He's doubled on the bubble, and we're now going hand-for-hand until we award someone the wooden spoon.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
360,000 | 122,000 |
|
158,000 | -111,000 |
Jimmy Sui was all in preflop for just 5,000 holding 
and dominated by the 
of Oliver Speidel. The tournament official made his way over to announce the action, but it was fairly uneventful as the board ran out 
.
Sui was eliminated in 74th place, brining us to the official money bubble.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
625,000 | 85,000 |
|
|
Busted |
