376 Players With A Dream
There were 182 players registered on Day 1a, and Day 1b saw 207 added to the mix before yesterdays Day 1c brought in an additional 337. That made for a total of 726 entries, a fair bit more than recent years, and the fourth largest Aussie Millions Main Event in its 19-year history.
In fact, the field size is likely to grow a little bit more as registration will remain open till the end of the first level of play today.
Of those 726 players, 376 advanced from the first three starting flights. Australian poker super star James Obst leads with 212,100, followed by Terence Clee (183,000) and Jens Lakemeier (175,000). John Georges (7,500), PokerStars Team Pro Yaxi Zhu (7,400), and Ron Shoshan (4,200) are starting out the shortest.
Table 9 will be the feature table today, live streamed by Jason Somerville on Twitch. You can find that coverage on RunItUp.tv.
The first level of play will be 400/800 with a 100 ante. Five 90-minutes levels of play are scheduled with a 15-minute break after each. There will not be a dinner break today, so play should wrap up around 9 p.m.
and Levy fired 2,800. Farrell called and check called another 5,600 on the 
turn as well. The river came the 
and Farrell checked for the third time. 
for not much of anything. Farrell triumphantly showed his 
for the winning hand en could start stacking.
, she also busted the 
with two clubs and Stavropoulos made a continuation bet of 2,400. Pollak asnwered with a check raise to 5,100 and action was back on Stavropoulos. Stavropoulos shoved all in for about 12,000 and Pollak made the call.
to work with and Rast was first to act. He checked and his neighbor made a bet. The third player called and Rast now check raised to 26,500. The first player called, the third player shoved all in for 59,100. Rast tanked for a fair bit before calling, his neighbor called as well to grow the pot to over 180,000.
with two hearts and McDonald check called a bet of 5,500. The turn was an off suit 
and Chew shoved all in for 66,100. His opponent buried his face in his arms for a second before tanking and thinking while staring at Chew. He eventually called, and it was time to put the cards on their backs. 
and a non involved older player almost had a heart attack; "Wow! Wow! What a hand! Oh my goodness! Oh my goodness!"
against Kevin O'Donnell's 
flop. The small blind led out for 2,000 and Obst quickly folded.
. Seidel checked and then both he and the player on the button folded when the cutoff continued for 4,700.
