Tony Dunst Leads the Aussie Millions Main Event After Day 3
Tony Dunst was once kicked out of the country of Australia after living here for quite some time and overstaying his allowance, but he's back and on a mission to win the 2016 Aussie Millions Main Event. To help him reach that ultimate goal, Dunst amassed the most chips on Day 3 and will lead the final 40 players into Day 4 with 1.627 million in chips.
After he finished extremely strong on Wednesday's Day 2 with a double knockout of Julius Colman and Richard Ashby, Dunst was up to his tricks again on Day 3 with another double elimination. This time it was Philipp Gruissem and Pascal Hartmann that he sent to the rail thanks to flopping an ace with ace-jack against queens and nines.
Finishing Day 3 with the second largest stack was James Obst with 1.196 million in chips. Then Samantha Abernathy (1.195 million), Alexander Lynskey (1.073 million), and Artur Koren (1.009 million) rounded out the top five.
When the day began, 150 players remained. The top 80 spots were set to reach the money, but after four levels of play, 81 still remained at the dinner break. Upon return, it didn't take long for the bubble to burst, and it was Mark Bevan falling as the last player to go home empty-handed.
Bevan was all in with the 
against the 
for Koren. The flop, turn, and river stayed clean of an ace, and Koren scored the elimination. With that, everyone left had locked up at least AU$15,000.
From there, the eliminations quickly began to mount. First, it was Liv Boeree who hit the rail in 80th place, followed by Joe Hachem in 79th. Others to finish in the money were Max Silver (72nd), Sam Cohen (61st), Nick Yunis (54th), Jared Graham (53rd), and Michael Egan (45th).
A flurry of eliminations at the end of the night saw Daniel Engels hit the rail in 44th, Sam Steindl fall in 43rd, Victor Teng finish in 42nd, and Jimmy Siu bust in 41st to close out play. In fact, it was Dunst who busted Steindl in one of the final hands to help pad his chip lead.
With Day 3 done and dusted, the surviving competitors will return at 12:30 p.m. local time to Crown Melbourne to further battle towards the top prize of AU$1.6 million. All those remaining are guaranteed at least AU$25,000, but as we all know, those left have their sights set on much, much more.
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and when the eight hit the river, Teng threw the chips he had in his hand on the felt. Teng ran away from the table and folded himself over the rail in disappointment. Obst remained silent as he stacked his newly won chips, and Teng ultimately returned to the table to shake hands with his former opponent.s
and Koren checked. Engels made a bet of 116,000 (with 170,000 behind) and Koren called.
river. Engels shoved all in and Koren snap called by tossing in some chips.
for a flopped two pair, but he was out turned by Koren who showed 
.
on the turn immediately sealed the deal for Abernathy and Reijmer got up from the table to make his exit. The 
hit, and Habb cheered again, before bursting out in a celebration after the 
hit the river.
and the small blind checked. Bansal lead out and Koren and the small blind both called.
fell on the turn and the small blind checked again. Bansal bet out 36,000 now and just Koren called, the small blind folded.
maybe, and eventually called by tossing in a single chip.
and took down the pot. Paawan Bansal made his exit in 66th place, netting him AU$66,000.
completed the board and the American player had to make his exit.