Victor Teng just took out Steven Lohse with pocket jacks to Lohse's 
. Teng moved to 224,000 in chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
224,000 | 94,000 |
|
Busted |
Samantha Abernathy raised to 5,500 from the hijack and Joee Sandaev on the button three-bet to 13,500. Abernathy called and she check called another 14,000 on 
and 28,000 on the 
turn. The river came the 
and Abernathy checked a third time. Sandaev checked behind and Abernathy showed 
with a glow on her face. Sandaev smiled and mucked.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
322,000 | 52,500 |
|
150,000 | -72,400 |
Manig Loeser thought he was on pace for a great start to his day despite starting with just 10,300 in chips, but what looked promising all came crashing down just as quickly.
He doubled up once before he earned a second double up shortly thereafter against Daryl Hussey. On his double against Hussey, Loeser was all in with the 
against the 
for 19,400. The board ran out 
, and Loeser's pair of eights held.
On the next hand, Loeser was all in with the , and he was again against Hussey, who had the 
.
Loeser shrugged when the flop came 
because he picked up a favorable flush draw, and he hit it with the turn. But, the dealer completed the board with the 
to give Hussey a full house and send Loeser to the rail.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
150,000 | 22,700 |
|
Busted |
Nick Yunis raised the cutoff to 4,800 and Michael Kenneady in the small blind was the only one to call.
Both players checked on 
and the hit the turn. Kenneady made a bet of 6,500 and Yunis called.
The 
completed the board and Kenneady made a bet of 7,500. Yunis, while ordering and paying for a drink, casually raised to 17,500.
Kenneady thought about it for a bit and raised to 25,000. The dealer didn't really see, but a player at the table made them aware it was supposed to be a raise to 27,500. Kenneady added the 2,500 and action was on Yunis again.
The poker pro from Chili thought about it for a bit and eventually reluctantly tossed in two 5,000 chips to call. Kenneady showed for a jacks and eights. Yunis tabled his 
for the higher two pair and took down the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
242,600 | 41,200 |
|
220,100 | -38,900 |
One of Germany's finest pros, Fabian Quoss, has just found a very quick double up in the first level of Day 3. We only caught the river action, but Andrew Hinrichsen and Jason Les helped us piece it all together.
Quoss raised before the flop and Robert Lieu three-bet, after which Quoss made the call. The flop came down 
and both players checked.
On the turn the hit and Quoss checked again. This time Lieu bet 7,000 and Quoss check-raised to 24,000. Lieu made the call and the river brought the 
.
Quoss moved all in on the river for 54,200 and Lieu tanked for a long time before ultimately making the call.
Quoss showed 
and Lieu threw his 
face up in the muck. Lieu was left with very little, while Quoss' now sits on a big stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
190,000 | 98,400 |
|
15,000 | -92,400 |
On a flop of , Omid Samimi checked from the big blind and Christian Weichhart did the same from the hijack. Bowdy Tolhopf then bet 21,500 from the button, Samimi called, and Weichhart check-raised all in for 68,500 total. Tolhopf made a quick call and Samimi gave it considerable thought before releasing.
Weichhart: 
Tolhopf:
Weichhart opted to go with his gutshort straight draw, which he needed to hit to overcome Tolhopf's two pair. The turn wasn't what he was looking for and neither was the river.
Meanwhile, Timothy Mitchell was also eliminated from the tournament.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
370,000 | 98,400 |
|
|
165,000 | -20,800 |
|
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted |
The cards are in the air for Day 3 of the 2016 Aussie Millions Main Event.
Level: 13
Blinds: 1,200/2,400
Ante: 400
Welcome back for Day 3 of the 2016 Aussie Millions Main Event.
With 150 players remaining, the field will look to make its way into the money on Thursday. The top 80 spots will pay a minimum of AU$15,000, and without a doubt tensions will be high for all of those left competing.
The player with the least amount of worry is Dylan Honeyman, who bagged up an impressive, field-leading stack of 517,200 after Day 2. Honeyman finished ahead of Jean-Pascal Savard's second-place stack of 455,200 by a considerable margin and is representing the home country of Australia.
Rounding out the top five behind Honeyman and Savard are Daniel Engles (427,300), Bobby Zhang (425,900), and Jason Brown (401,600).
After bagging up the overall chip lead heading into Day 2 of the event, James Obst had himself another positive day on Wednesday. He worked his was from 212,100 to 378,500 to place sixth on the leaderboard. Obst has had much success in Australia, which includes him winning an LK Boutique Aussie Millions ring at this year's festival, but his only Main Event cash came in 2013 when he took 19th from a field of 629 for AU$40,000. All signs point to him making another deep run this year for a man many consider Australian poet's best all-around player.
A couple of World Series of Poker Main Event champions also remain, with Joe Hachem and Martin Jacobson both advancing to Day 3. Hachem, who won the WSOP Main Event in 2005 for $7.5 million, will have 139,700 to start the day, and Jacobson, who won the WSOP Main Event in 2014 for $10 million, is on the shorter side of things with 42,500.
Another player with championship pedigree, specifically in this event, is Ami Barer, the 2014 winner. Barer is the only former Aussie Millions Main Event winner still alive in the field, and he takes a healthy 263,500 into Day 3. Not only did Barer win the event in 2014, but he ran all the way down to 11th place in 2015, trying ever so hard to hold onto his title before he ultimately fell short. With the 15th-best stack coming into Day 3, it looks like we're going to be seeing plenty of Barer in the days to come.
Last, but certainly not least, there is Tony Dunst with 256,900 in chips. The American once lived in Australia for an extended period of time before the government kicked him out due to Dunst overextending his stay, but he's back and looking to work his magic in the Main Event. For Dunst, Day 2 was a very quiet one until the end, and that's when his stack really ballooned.
In the second-to-last level of Day 2, Dunst cracked pocket queens with his pocket jacks against former Aussie Millions Main Event winner Oliver Speidel to double up. Speidel was later eliminated. Then, in the last level of play, right at the end of the day, Dunst was all in against both Richard Ashby and Julius Colman in a three-way clash of big pocket pairs. Dunst had two kings, Ashby had two queens, and Colman had two jacks. The kings held for Dunst, and both Ashby and Colman were done.
Just like it has on the prior days, Aussie Millions Main Event action will commence at 12:30 p.m. local time on Thursday for Day 3. Again, 150 remain, Honeyman leads, and the top 80 will reach the money. Seven 90-minute levels are scheduled, with a 15-minute break after each and a 75-minute dinner break after Level 16. That means the day will be long, but it'll only get more and more exciting as it goes on.
Stay tuned right here to PokerNews.com for continued coverage.
| Table | Seat | Player | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 1 | Dietrich Fast | 86,900 |
| 7 | 2 | Stephen Chidwick | 222,900 |
| 7 | 3 | David Tang | 106,700 |
| 7 | 4 | Emad Moaref | 254,000 |
| 7 | 5 | Erik Seidel | 36,400 |
| 7 | 6 | Joshua Wilson | 132,900 |
| 7 | 7 | Alexander Lynskey | 230,300 |
| 7 | 8 | Wing Cheung | 71,500 |
| 8 | 1 | Manig Loeser | 10,300 |
| 8 | 2 | William Chattaway | 166,000 |
| 8 | 3 | Daryl Hussey | 127,300 |
| 8 | 4 | Brian Mullins | 27,000 |
| 8 | 5 | George Sydyropoulos | 60,300 |
| 8 | 6 | James Keenan | 39,500 |
| 8 | 7 | Scott Davies | 73,000 |
| 8 | 8 | James Siu | 31,700 |
| 9 | 1 | Michael Levy | 291,600 |
| 9 | 2 | Tony Dunst | 256,900 |
| 9 | 3 | Sam Steindl | 282,900 |
| 9 | 4 | Michael Egan | 291,800 |
| 9 | 5 | Jean-Pascal Savard | 455,200 |
| 9 | 6 | Artur Koren | 361,100 |
| 9 | 7 | Arnas Dzedulionis | 92,500 |
| 9 | 8 | Mark Bevan | 74,800 |
| 10 | 1 | Steven Lohse | 38,800 |
| 10 | 2 | Damian Harman | 67,900 |
| 10 | 3 | Alek Givotovsky | 162,000 |
| 10 | 4 | Adeel Shaikh | 124,500 |
| 10 | 5 | Mikel Habb | 147,000 |
| 10 | 6 | Victor Teng | 130,000 |
| 10 | 7 | Martin Jacobson | 42,500 |
| 10 | 8 | Xiuming Huang | 41,700 |
| 25 | 1 | Dylan Honeyman | 517,200 |
| 25 | 2 | Alex Lee | 157,500 |
| 25 | 3 | James Broom | 146,200 |
| 25 | 4 | Jessica Dawley | 104,200 |
| 25 | 5 | Olivia Boeree | 47,900 |
| 25 | 6 | Chu Kheng Ong | 100,600 |
| 25 | 7 | Mark Malecha | 238,000 |
| 25 | 8 | Thomas Miller | 25,500 |
| 26 | 1 | Jordan Tentori | 20,800 |
| 26 | 2 | Brian Payne | 150,600 |
| 26 | 3 | David Wang | 104,000 |
| 26 | 4 | Lukas Soucek | 139,900 |
| 26 | 5 | Ricky Sin | 61,000 |
| 26 | 6 | Yuki Ko | 95,400 |
| 26 | 7 | Ashley Mason | 114,900 |
| 26 | 8 | Ka Cheong Wong | 214,300 |
| 27 | 1 | Martin Rowe | 311,200 |
| 27 | 2 | Terence Clee | 83,800 |
| 27 | 3 | Daniel Engles | 427,300 |
| 27 | 4 | Josep Lopez Galindo | 222,300 |
| 27 | 5 | Ali Nagi | 58,800 |
| 27 | 6 | Gregory Goldberg | 211,500 |
| 27 | 7 | Jack O'Neill | 182,500 |
| 27 | 8 | Dzmitry Urbanovich | 249,000 |
| 28 | 1 | Thomas Hall | 138,100 |
| 28 | 3 | Amichai Barer | 263,500 |
| 28 | 4 | Sailendra Sha | 138,700 |
| 28 | 5 | Renjun Yang | 132,000 |
| 28 | 6 | Hui-Chen (Kitty) Kuo | 233,800 |
| 28 | 7 | Joseph Vinecombe | 90,500 |
| 28 | 8 | Amin Chehade | 5,000 |
| 29 | 1 | Nicolas Yunis | 201,400 |
| 29 | 2 | Roberto Damelian | 180,600 |
| 29 | 3 | Michael Kenneady | 259,000 |
| 29 | 4 | Adam Monaghan | 113,700 |
| 29 | 5 | Samantha Abernathy | 269,500 |
| 29 | 6 | Mustapha Kanit | 269,100 |
| 29 | 7 | Joseph Sandaev | 222,400 |
| 29 | 8 | Alexandros Kolonias | 220,700 |
| 30 | 1 | Richard Bruning | 217,200 |
| 30 | 2 | Alan Engel | 228,600 |
| 30 | 3 | John Apostolidis | 137,000 |
| 30 | 4 | Samantha Cohen | 70,800 |
| 30 | 5 | Victor Chong | 31,000 |
| 30 | 6 | Sam Vakili | 150,300 |
| 30 | 7 | Robert Salter | 76,700 |
| 30 | 8 | Kevin Andriamahefa | 117,700 |
| 31 | 1 | Paul McNabb | 103,400 |
| 31 | 2 | Moritz Dietrich | 155,100 |
| 31 | 3 | Anthony Antoniou | 89,500 |
| 31 | 4 | Sinan Aydogan | 239,400 |
| 31 | 5 | Bobby Zhang | 425,900 |
| 31 | 6 | Mihai Barbu | 83,600 |
| 31 | 7 | Szymon Sobanda | 49,700 |
| 31 | 8 | Joseph Hachem | 139,700 |
| 32 | 1 | Daniel Braun | 206,500 |
| 32 | 2 | Yucheng Rong | 98,900 |
| 32 | 3 | Sadan Turker | 123,100 |
| 32 | 4 | James Obst | 378,500 |
| 32 | 5 | Eric Thiessen | 152,900 |
| 32 | 6 | Philipp Gruissem | 260,700 |
| 32 | 7 | Yunhsiang Fan | 105,300 |
| 32 | 8 | Timothy Mitchell | 38,300 |
| 33 | 2 | Adam Reynolds | 88,600 |
| 33 | 3 | Paawan Bansal | 179,400 |
| 33 | 4 | Jared Graham | 170,500 |
| 33 | 5 | Max Silver | 69,000 |
| 33 | 6 | Jason Brown | 401,600 |
| 33 | 7 | Laurence Hall | 197,800 |
| 33 | 8 | Derek Wolters | 227,300 |
| 49 | 1 | Jay Smith | 74,800 |
| 49 | 2 | Gareth Pepper | 136,100 |
| 49 | 3 | Darryll Fish | 33,000 |
| 49 | 4 | Pascal Hartmann | 222,800 |
| 49 | 5 | John Corr | 56,100 |
| 49 | 6 | Michael Bavin | 163,300 |
| 49 | 7 | Aaron Blanch | 71,000 |
| 49 | 8 | Beng Hooi Beh | 38,900 |
| 52 | 1 | Cankai Zhang | 191,200 |
| 52 | 2 | Peter Brasile | 40,100 |
| 52 | 3 | Tino Lechich | 132,700 |
| 52 | 4 | Antonis Poulengeris | 153,100 |
| 52 | 5 | Michael Wang | 258,300 |
| 52 | 6 | Jackson Lorch | 137,900 |
| 52 | 7 | Marcelo Manfredini | 145,000 |
| 52 | 8 | Andrew Bassat | 184,600 |
| 53 | 1 | Jens Lakemeier | 75,000 |
| 53 | 2 | Omid Samimi | 185,800 |
| 53 | 3 | Habib Haidar | 97,000 |
| 53 | 4 | Larry Karambis | 43,800 |
| 53 | 5 | Benjamin Leblond | 29,500 |
| 53 | 6 | Christian Weichhart | 63,900 |
| 53 | 7 | Paul Gooley | 141,600 |
| 53 | 8 | Bowdy Tolhopf | 271,600 |
| 54 | 1 | Stephen Quon | 106,400 |
| 54 | 2 | Lisa Shanahan | 49,500 |
| 54 | 3 | Aymon Hata | 94,000 |
| 54 | 4 | Pheap Chea | 184,500 |
| 54 | 5 | Victor Li | 31,200 |
| 54 | 6 | Andrew Michael | 75,800 |
| 54 | 7 | Luke Butch | 24,400 |
| 54 | 8 | Xingrong Ren | 275,000 |
| 55 | 1 | Mazyar Misaghian | 227,300 |
| 55 | 2 | Christian Nolte | 213,300 |
| 55 | 3 | Umut Picakci | 180,400 |
| 55 | 4 | John Beveridge | 56,000 |
| 55 | 5 | Steven Tabb | 127,000 |
| 55 | 6 | Gay Tan | 165,300 |
| 55 | 7 | Adrian Indovino | 107,000 |
| 55 | 8 | Daniel Reijmer | 80,600 |
| 56 | 1 | Andrew Hinrichsen | 66,900 |
| 56 | 2 | Jason Les | 51,400 |
| 56 | 3 | Tony Hachem | 67,100 |
| 56 | 4 | Alexander Rocha | 77,100 |
| 56 | 5 | Fabian Quoss | 91,600 |
| 56 | 6 | Ryan Hong | 174,800 |
| 56 | 7 | Robert Lieu | 107,400 |
| 56 | 8 | John Chu | 51,200 |
