Event #8: $1,150 No-Limit Hold'em Accumulator
Day 2 Started
2016 Aussie Millions
Event #8: $1,150 No-Limit Hold'em Accumulator
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2016 Aussie Millions
Buy-in
1,025 AUD
Prize Pool
672,400 AUD
Entries
656
Level
25
Blinds
25,000 / 50,000
Ante
5,000
Sergi Leads Field into Day 2 of the Accumulator Event
Three starting flights of the 2016 Aussie Millions Poker Championship $A1,150 No-Limit Hold'em Accumulator Event have been played and a total of 656 entries took part with the field being reduced to 85 hopefuls after 12 levels each. They will return to the poker room of the Crown Entertainment Complex in one hour from now at 12.10 p.m. local time and the top 63 spots will get paid.
Leading the field of survivors is Six-Max Event #6 runner-up Francesco Sergi with 200,800 chips followed by Ronnie Bardah with 185,900. Jacob Balsiger has also made it into the overnight top 10 with 128,900 while other notables such as Max Silver (118,400), H.O.R.S.E. Event #2 LK Boutique championship ring winner James Obst (113,300), Matas Cimbolas (110,600), Jack Salter (106,100), Marc MacDonnell (105,100) and 2014 World Series of Poker Asia Pacific Main Event winner Scott Davies (104,400) also bagged up above-average stacks.
Other players to look out for include Manig Loeser (64,900), Shane Warne (61,500), Jessica Dawley (58,800) and Mix-Max runner up Ari Engel (41,400). Action recommences in level 13 with blinds of 1,200-2,400 and a running ante of 400. A maximum of 12 levels of one hour each will be played or until the final table of the last ten is reached, whichever of the two comes first. The minimum cash is worth A$2,690 whereas all eyes are set on the LK Boutique championship ring and first-place payout of A$147,930.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be on hand until a winner is crowned on Sunday, so make sure to tune back in regularly.
Day 2 Chip Counts
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
200,800 | |
|
185,900 | |
|
181,800 | |
|
156,300 | |
|
156,000 | |
|
139,500 | |
|
135,100 | |
|
134,700 | |
|
128,900 | |
|
128,000 | |
|
126,600 | |
|
|
126,100 | |
|
120,100 | |
|
118,400 | |
|
114,400 | |
|
113,300 | |
|
110,600 | |
|
106,900 | |
|
106,800 | |
|
106,400 | |
|
106,100 | |
|
105,100 | |
|
104,400 | |
|
103,100 | |
|
100,000 |
Day 2 Seat Draw
| Table | Seat | Player | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 34 | 1 | Yingwei Bao | 49,900 |
| 34 | 2 | Bobby Zhang | 66,800 |
| 34 | 3 | Justin Chan | 29,200 |
| 34 | 4 | Didier Guerin | 103,100 |
| 34 | 5 | Nikola Lackovic | 90,100 |
| 34 | 6 | Matas Cimbolas | 110,600 |
| 34 | 7 | Adrian Stone | 94,400 |
| 34 | 8 | Kevin Andriamahefa | 106,800 |
| 34 | 9 | Thanh Do | 34,800 |
| 35 | 1 | Ari Engel | 41,400 |
| 35 | 2 | Paul Sharbanee | 120,100 |
| 35 | 3 | Josep Maria Galindo Lopez | 45,400 |
| 35 | 4 | Octavian Voegele | 134,700 |
| 35 | 5 | James Obst | 113,300 |
| 35 | 6 | Cole Swannack | 126,600 |
| 35 | 7 | Eric Thiessen | 72,400 |
| 35 | 8 | Jozef Ricciardello | 67,600 |
| 35 | 9 | Shane Warne | 61,500 |
| 36 | 1 | Park Yu Cheung | 56,200 |
| 36 | 2 | Xia Xia | 90,300 |
| 36 | 3 | Peter Aristidou | 21,600 |
| 36 | 4 | Domantas Klimciauskas | 79,800 |
| 36 | 5 | Shao Liu | 128,000 |
| 36 | 6 | George Cotaidis | 17,200 |
| 36 | 7 | Ignacio Hernandez Duesca | 39,600 |
| 36 | 8 | Michael Stanton | 61,600 |
| 36 | 9 | Ahmad Barakat | 126,100 |
| 37 | 1 | Andrew Michael | 44,200 |
| 37 | 2 | Thomas Karadimos | 156,300 |
| 37 | 3 | Andrew Scarf | 30,300 |
| 37 | 4 | Daniel Levy | 20,800 |
| 37 | 5 | Nick Georgoulas | 75,000 |
| 37 | 6 | Michael Kanaan | 80,400 |
| 37 | 7 | Steven Baker | 67,000 |
| 37 | 8 | Zachery Schneider | 49,600 |
| 37 | 9 | Jessica Dawley | 58,800 |
| 38 | 1 | Christopher Soyza | 46,300 |
| 38 | 2 | Jacob Balsiger | 128,900 |
| 38 | 3 | Karl Myburgh | 68,500 |
| 38 | 4 | Jack Salter | 106,100 |
| 38 | 5 | Lin Shi | 33,800 |
| 38 | 6 | Chad Awerbuch | 93,300 |
| 38 | 7 | David Brand | 135,100 |
| 38 | 8 | Kevin Lallut | 98,600 |
| 38 | 9 | Ronnie Bardah | 185,900 |
| 39 | 1 | Michael Stewart Pedley | 60,600 |
| 39 | 2 | Ashley Warner | 48,800 |
| 39 | 3 | Manig Loeser | 64,900 |
| 39 | 4 | Antonina Anapolska | 100,000 |
| 39 | 5 | Senthil Kumar Subramaniam | 70,900 |
| 39 | 6 | Stephen Woodhead | 19,900 |
| 39 | 7 | Takashi Ogura | 58,000 |
| 39 | 8 | William Jones | 114,400 |
| 40 | 1 | Sarah Bilney | 24,500 |
| 40 | 2 | Max Silver | 118,400 |
| 40 | 3 | Dylan Garland | 156,000 |
| 40 | 4 | Nipun Java | 34,700 |
| 40 | 5 | Marc MacDonnell | 105,100 |
| 40 | 6 | Rahul Rastogi | 96,000 |
| 40 | 7 | Francesco Sergi | 200,800 |
| 40 | 8 | Sailendra Sha | 29,500 |
| 41 | 1 | Roberto Damelian | 62,100 |
| 41 | 2 | Marie Simard | 38,000 |
| 41 | 3 | Katie Gooden | 75,000 |
| 41 | 4 | Weiming Lam | 16,400 |
| 41 | 5 | Vic Spadavecchia | 72,300 |
| 41 | 6 | Pei Lin | 44,200 |
| 41 | 7 | Alex Rocha | 26,900 |
| 41 | 8 | Linh Tran | 14,700 |
| 42 | 1 | Huy Pham | 139,500 |
| 42 | 2 | Dylan Wilkerson | 81,300 |
| 42 | 3 | Anthony March | 50,200 |
| 42 | 4 | Piyush Gupta | 106,400 |
| 42 | 5 | Alek Givotovsky | 97,300 |
| 42 | 6 | Daniel Murphy | 25,200 |
| 42 | 7 | Andrew Chang | 41,900 |
| 42 | 8 | Noah Novick | 83,200 |
| 43 | 1 | Don Mishra | 88,400 |
| 43 | 2 | Jason Nicholas Brown | 106,900 |
| 43 | 3 | Ajay Gnanasambanthan | 81,400 |
| 43 | 4 | Nino Marotta | 33,600 |
| 43 | 5 | Liping Song | 42,900 |
| 43 | 6 | Wing Sang Lee | 181,800 |
| 43 | 7 | Scott Davies | 104,400 |
| 43 | 8 | Camil Debsia | 83,300 |
Level: 13
Blinds: 1,200/2,400
Ante: 400
Thiessen Busts Engel
Level 13
: 1,200/2,400, 400 ante
Eric Thiessen raised to 5,000 and the action folded around to Mix-Max runner-up Ari Engel, who moved all in. Thiessen asked for a count and then made the call to set up the following coin flip:
Engel: 
Thiessen: 
The flop came 
and Thiessen said in a very calm manner "the nine will come anyways." The dealer burned and turned the 
and sure enough the 
showed up right after as river card.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
125,000 | 52,600 |
|
Busted |
Aristidou Triples
Level 13
: 1,200/2,400, 400 ante
George Cotaidis was as short-stacked as Peter Aristidou and the runner-up of the 8-Game Mixed event got his stack in with the 
. Cotaidis held the 
and another player was still in the hand with the 
. The board ran out 
and Aristidou pretty much tripled up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
70,000 | 48,400 |
Early Eliminations
Level 13
: 1,200/2,400, 400 ante
Half a dozen players have been eliminated within the first 15 minutes upon restart and you can find their names below.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted |
Lin Over Lam
Level 13
: 1,200/2,400, 400 ante
Katie Gooden made it 5,500 and Weiming Lam jammed it in for 10,800 total.
Celina Lin came over the top all in for 37,000 and Gooden let it go.
Lam was racing for his tournament life with the 
versus Lin's 
, but she did more than hold, making a full house on the 
board to chip up and send Lam home.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
69,000 | -6,000 |
|
54,000 | 9,800 |
|
|
Busted |
March Ships Stack to Gupta
Level 13
: 1,200/2,400, 400 ante
The seat of Anthony March was open and Piyush Gupta was still stacking the chips. Gupta knows how to run deep in an Accumulator event, as the Aussie finished 8th in the 2014 World Series of Poker Asia Pacific A$ 1,100 No Limit Hold'em Accumulator for a payday of A$ 15,318.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
160,000 | 53,600 |
|
|
Busted |