On a flop Patrick Healy bet 45,000 from the big blind. Yann Dion was in the cut-off and he opted to call. The turn was the and Healy fired another 45,000 into the pot. Dion grabbed raising chips and put out 140,000. Healy wasn't impressed and quickly threw in the call.
The river was the and after Healy quickly checked, Dion tanked for a while before also checking. "Ace high" Dion announced after which Dion fist pumped and showed . "Now that's some real poker", some player at the table said as Healy raked in a big pot.
Robert Lam had about 120,000 chips left when he stuck them all in with . That turned out to be a very bad thing indeed when big stack Matthew Turk put him to the test with the dominating .
The flop didn't change much, and Lam was looking for some help. "Diamonds are good," he wished aloud.
The turn was the , though, and Lam added, "Or a five," to his list of outs. The river brought the blank , though, and he's been unable to get over the hump. Lam's fallen out here in 39th place, and the AU$ 25,000 he'll pocket should be some consolation.
Turk is battling back and forth for the chip lead, chipping his way up further to about 1.225 million.
When we came to O'Shea's table recently, he was in a hand against Alexander Antonios and Dennis Huntly. We caught the action with a flop showing and Antonios to act first. He led for 47,000 and Huntly quickly got out of the way. O'Shea was on the button and he popped it to 170,000. Antonios then made it 300,000. O'Shea then thought for only a few moments before shoving his stack all in. O'Shea had Antonios covered and a call from Antonios saw him put his tournament life on the line.
Antonios:
O'Shea:
The turn was the and the river the . These cards changed nothing and O'Shea yet again sits behind a huge stack.
Out of all of the cashes Phil Ivey has racked up over his career, he's never once cashed in the Aussie Millions Main Event prior to this year. In fact, the only cash he has in a live tournament on Australian soil came back in 2010 when he took second place to Dan Shak in the $100,000 Challenge for A$600,000.
We just watched an entire orbit at Ivey's table in which he got involved in three hands and folded preflop in five others. Here's a look at those hands.
On the first one of the orbit, Ivey opened to 20,000 from under the gun plus one and Kenneth Wong called form the next seat before everyone else folded. The flop was checked after the fell and then the landed on the turn. Ivey and Wong also checked fourth street to see the pair the board on the end. Once again, both checked. Ivey tabled the for queens and fives with an ace. Wong couldn't beat it and mucked his hand.
After Ivey folded the next hand preflop from under the gun, he made the call out of the big blind on the third hand after Minh Nguyen raised it up from the hijack seat. Ivey then check-folded the flop to a bet of 24,000 from Nguyen.
Ivey passed preflop from the small blind and button before action folded to him in the cutoff seat on the sixth hand and he opened to 20,000. Aage Ravn called from the big blind and the flop produced the . Ravn checked and Ivey bet 30,000. Ravn folded and Ivey won the pot.
On the seventh and eighth hands of the orbit, Ivey folded preflop from the hijack seat and then middle position. After all of that, Ivey is currently sitting on 944,000 in chips during his first in-the-money run at the Aussie Millions Main Event.
With a little bit over one hour left in Level 17, the players have redrawn and taken their seats with the cards now back in the air. There will be a 75-minute dinner break at the completion of this level.
While most of the room was racking up and moving seats, there was a big hand in progress at Table 25.
It began with Jason Koon opening to 20,000 in early position, and Kenneth Wong three-bet to 50,000 a couple seats over. The two of them were heads-up the rest of the way, and Koon checked to the reraiser on the flop. Wong stuck in a bet of 62,000 there and another 100,000 on the turn with Koon check-calling both bullets.
On the river, the drew one last check from Koon, and Wong took his cue to bet 225,000 — about half his remaining stack. That was the move that sent Koon deep into the tank, and he would spend maybe four or five minutes of quality time in the tank. Finally, he flicked the call into the pot.
Wong turned up , and aces up earn him that healthy pot. It moves him all the way up around 1.1 million, knocking Koon back under the million-chip mark.
From under the gun, Josh Barrett min-raised to 16,000. Dennis Huntly was in the cutoff seat and tanked for a little bit when action moved over to him. He then reraised all in for 88,000. In the small blind, Oliver Speidel asked for a count on Huntly's shove, got it and then reraised all in himself. David Steicke folded from the big blind and Barrett ducked out of the way as well.
Huntly tabled the , but was behind the for Speidel.
"How about a six?" asked Huntly in hope of doubling through.
The flop came down and gave Speidel a set of jacks while containing no sixes for Huntly. There was a club flush draw present and Huntly was the only player holding a club.
"How about a club, Dennis?" said Steicke.
The turn was black, but not a club with the . The river, though, was a club and it didn't pair the board with the . Huntly slapped his hands together in a small celebration of his double and raked in the pot.