Yuri Ishida opened to 1,500 and Clinton Taylor three-bet to 4,500 from one seat over, Ishida came along and they headed to the flop. Ishida's check was followed by a quick bet of 10,000 by Taylor and Ishida almost beat him into the pot with a check-shove.
Taylor glanced over to get any kind of reaction and Ishida looked down at her smartphone, not taking any eye contact. After half a minute, Taylor asked for a count and the shove was for 41,450. Not even a full minute passed and Taylor announced the call.
Yuri Ishida:
Clinton Taylor:
The turn gave Taylor an additional gutshot, but the river changed nothing whatsoever. Despite losing this pot, Taylor remains at three times the starting stack.
2019 Aussie Millions Terminator Champion Ioannis Angelou Konstas
It was a case of first cash, first ring for Ioannis Angelou-Konstas, who took down Event #13: AU$1,150 Terminator for AU$59,695 for his first cash on Aussie soil.
The Greek player, who sits third on his nation's all-time money list, beat a field of 489 players to clinch victory, defeating Australian Michael Fraser heads up.
Here's how the final table finished:
AU$1,150 Termintor Final Table Results
Place
Name
Country
Payout (AUD)
Payout (USD)
1
Ioannis Angelou-Konstas
Greece
$59,695
$42,980
2
Michael Fraser
Australia
$37,865
$27,263
3
Gavin O'Rourke
Ireland
$23,745
$17,096
4
Hung-Sheng Lin
Taiwan
$18,610
$13,399
5
Vinod Megalmani
India
$13,485
$9,709
6
Susanne Kaeufer
Germany
$10,915
$7,859
7
Connie Graham
Australia
$8,600
$6,192
8
Tim Sheehan
Australia
$7,315
$5,267
9
Grant Levy
Australia
$6,035
$4,345
Grant Levy added to his over $2.3M in earnings with a final table finish here in the Terminator, while fellow Australian Tim Sheehan recorded his first cash since winning another bounty tournament in Sydney last December.
Two ladies were next to go; Connie Graham recorded the best Aussie Millions cash of her career and her second of 2019 by finishing seventh for AU$8,600 as Germany's Susanne Kaufer finished sixth for AU$10,915 in her first cash in almost seven years.
India is becoming increasingly represented at the 2019 Aussie Millions, with Jayan Prasad final tabling the Accumulator and now Vinod Megalmani with his first Aussie Millions cash and one of the biggest of his career, finishing fifth for AU$13,485.
Hung-Shen Lin may be one of the few players to have already cashed in two separate events here in Melbourne this year, and after narrowly missing out on the final stages of the Mix Max tournament where he finished 10th, he made it to the final table and took home AU$18,610 for his fourth-place finish.
Gavin O'Rourke had led for most of the final table, but his elimination boosted Angelou-Konstas into a tie for the lead. It's been a busy couple of days for O'Rourke who, after finishing 12th in the Accumulator yesterday, jumped into the Terminator and ran it up to finish third for AU$23,745.
The biggest cash of Fraser's career came in 2017 where he finished second in the WSOPC Sydney Main Event, and he would have to settle for another second place here for AU$37,685 as Angelou-Konstas took down the title, the ring and almost AU$60,000 in prize money.
A bumper field of 268 entries on Day 1b of the 2019 Aussie Millions Main Event was whittled down to just 135 over the course of seven 90-minute levels.
Former Main Event champions and Aussie Millions ring-winners rubbed shoulders with local players and satellite qualifiers as they hoped to become the latest in a long line of poker players to lift the southern hemisphere's most prestigious poker title.
Leading the way at the end of the day is Julian Stuer with 196,500 who just held off Wang Yi Long (176,200), Stefano Accardo (150,200) and Tristan Bain (145,600) to bag close to 200,000 in chips.
Stuer had led during the last level of the night but Long made a late surge, flopping trips to chip up to over 175,000. But it wasn't enough to overtake Stuer at the top of the counts.
Several well-known players were eliminated during Day 1b, including former WSOP Main Event champion Joe Hachem. However, his youngest son James Hachem (25,300) bagged up chips at the end of Day 1a.
James Hachem advances to Day 2 of the 2019 Aussie Millions Main Event
Other big stacks and notables include WPT New Zealand champion Nauvneel Kashyab (109,200), Randy Lew (103,100), Dominik Panka (98,900), Opening Event final tablist Matt Edwards (92,200), Accumulator final tablist Bjorn Ostby (90,300), bracelet-winner Andrew Hinrichsen (83,400), Celina Lin (83,300), Oliver Gill (67,800), Scott Hamilton-Hill (59,200), Billy 'The Croc' Argyros (57,500), Andrew Chen (34,800), Pot-Limit Omaha runner-up Dylan Kii (30,100), and Maria Lampropulos (23,200).
Jonathan Karamalikis had his aces cracked by Yuri Ishida shortly after dinner, while 2006 Aussie Millions Main Event champion Lee Nelson fell to a two outer from his opponent despite Nelson flopping trips. However, 2010 champion Tyron Krost bagged 95,100 chips to join fellow former Main Event champion David Gorr in Day 2 after Gorr advanced from Day 1a.
Chino Rheem
Other eliminations include 2019 Six Max champion Bart Lybaert, Jack Sinclair, Dylan Wilkerson, Michael O'Grady, Jan SuchanekSarah Bilney and Chino Rheem.
Rheem lasted a grand total of two hands on Day 1b having swapped the AU$50,000 Challenge for the Main Event.
The 135 advancing from Day 2 will join the 79 who advanced from Day 1a on Wednesday. Day 1c gets underway tomorrow at 12:30 pm (AEDT) and looks set to be a large and potentially record-breaking flight.
flop. Ishida's check was followed by a quick bet of 10,000 by Taylor and Ishida almost beat him into the pot with a check-shove.
turn gave Taylor an additional gutshot, but the 
river changed nothing whatsoever. Despite losing this pot, Taylor remains at three times the starting stack.
