After a three-way flop of , there was a bet of 750 by a player in early position and Fred Ranchhod min-raised to 1,500. The player in the big blind, who had been very active early on, now squeezed to 5,000 and the action was folded to Ranchhod. He moved all in for another 4,750 on top and was paid off for the following showdown:
Ranchhod:
Big Blind:
The turn didn't lock up the hand yet, though Ranchhod left his chair in celebration already. However, the on the river did so and Ranchhod high-fived with a friend on the rail.
Matt Salsberg hasn't been playing too much poker as of lately and barely traveled, but the former American World Poker Tour winner came over to Melbourne and registered for flight 2 of the Opening Event. His Twitter game has been strong ever since with plenty of activity and controversy, though.
Marc MacDonnell and Louis Salter registered right after the start and got sat to each other with Nathan Gubieski taking a seat on their table, too. One table over is Xuan Liu and Salter's older brother Jack has reentered as well.
2015 November Niner Federico Butteroni has made the trip over to Australia and taken a seat in today's field. The Italian ultimately finished 8th in Las Vegas for a payday of $ 1,097,056 and is now looking to make history again Down Under.
Among those to enter the Exhibition Hall for Flight 2 are some familiar faces of yesterday along with Andrew "LuckyChewy" Lichtenberger and Ferenc Riech. The clock shows 100 entries already, though that number may be slightly higher with 15 tables in use.
The second of four Day 1 flights for the 2016 Aussie Millions opening event will kick off inside the Crown Exhibition Hall across the street from the Crown Poker Room just minutes from now.
Wednesday's first flight drew some 160 players with 26 surviving through to Day 2 and even more are expected this evening.
Players will begin with 10,000 chips and plans to play twelve 40-minute levels with a short break after every three. Registration is open through the first six levels. As a repechage event, players can re-enter any of the remaining flights if they bust out.
The PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be on hand for all the action from start to finish sometime around 3 a.m. Friday morning and you can follow along right here.
, there was a bet of 750 by a player in early position and Fred Ranchhod min-raised to 1,500. The player in the big blind, who had been very active early on, now squeezed to 5,000 and the action was folded to Ranchhod. He moved all in for another 4,750 on top and was paid off for the following showdown:
turn didn't lock up the hand yet, though Ranchhod left his chair in celebration already. However, the 
on the river did so and Ranchhod high-fived with a friend on the rail.
