AU$10,600 Main Event Day 1c | 2019 Aussie Millions

01-30-2019 01:35 UTC+10

Aussie Millions Main Event Hones in on New Record; Former Final Tablist Richard Ashby Bags Big

Will Shillibier

Level 7 : 300/600, 100 ante

The 2019 Aussie Millions Main Event is tantalisingly poised heading into Day 2 after 364 players entered on Day 1c, leaving the tournament just three players short of equalling the record field set twelve months ago.

Late registration remains open for one more level when play resumes tomorrow, and with recent years attracting anywhere from three to 13 new entries, the figure of 800 looks within reach.

Year	Entries	Day 1a	Day 1b	Day 1c	Day 2
2019	797*	165	268	364
2018	800	212	196	379	13
2017	725	212	184	322	7
2016	732	180	207	337	8
2015	648	183	173	289	3

*denotes entry still open for one level into Day 2

It was a case of déjà vu with the Day 1c chip leader, with Cole Swannack bagging 208,200, just over 10,000 chips more than he managed when bagging the Day 1b chip lead last year. With two cashes under his belt this year in Aussie Millions side events, he'll be aiming to banish memories of 2018 where he failed to make the money.

Also bagging big in 1c was Pim De Goede (187,100), 2007 Aussie Millions Main Event seventh-place finisher Richard Ashby (180,000), Ben Lai (153,000), Ben Wu (140,100) and Sosia Jiang (139,200).

Other notables through to Day 2 include Tobias Ziegler, Dara O'Kearney, Maria Ho, Michael Soyza, Ana Marquez, Thomas Muehloecker, Martijn Gerrits, Dominik Nitsche, and Terminator Champion Ioannis Angelou-Konstas.

Shane Warne Shuffle Up and Deal — Former cricket star Shane Warne administered the shuffle up and deal

Shortly after former international cricketer, Shane Warne announced 'Shuffle up and Deal,' there was a cry of "Seat open" as Julien Martini's aces were cracked by the straight of Weiming Yu. Warne would later join him in busting on Day 1c.

Former champions Ami Barer and Shurane Vijayaram were both in attendance, but unfortunately both would bust midway through the day, Vijayaram losing out fives against ace-jack, and Barer losing a flip with ace-king against fives.

It was better news for defending champion, AU$25,000 Challenge runner-up and AU$50,000 Challenge champion Toby Lewis. Seemingly the man to beat this week in Melbourne, Lewis will join fellow former champions Tyron Krost and David Gorr in Day 2.

AU$50,000 Challenge Winner Toby Lewis is through to Day 2

Other players from last year's final table enjoyed mixed fortunes, with Stefan Huber busting but Mike Del Vecchio making it through to Day 2 with an above-average stack.

Players to bust on Day 1c included Kitty Kuo, Gautam Dhingra, former AU$25,000 Challenge champion Alexander Trevallion, Michael Addamo, Artur Koren, Kristen Bicknell, Natalie Teh, AU$25,000 Challenge winner Rainer Kempe and Yevgeniy Timoshenko.

For the players advancing, they will be part of the 425 players returning for Day 2 which gets underway at 12:30 pm on Wednesday. Stay tuned to PokerNews for continued coverage of what looks like being another record-breaking Aussie Millions Main Event.

2019 Aussie Millions Main Event Day 2 Seat Draw

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	1	Paul Tadina	Australia	88,700	111
1	2	Michael Doumani	Australia	43,200	54
1	3	Petrit Abazi	Australia	30,200	38
1	6	Miroslav Sheynin	New Zealand	38,100	48
1	7	Martin Finger	Germany	63,000	79
1	8	Xiqiang Chen	China	43,500	54
1	9	Aleks Misovic	Australia	80,300	100

2	1	Nino Marotta	Australia	36,300	45
2	2	Allen Kessler	United States	22,400	28
2	3	Sam Ruha	Australia	19,300	24
2	4	Wei-Hsun Chen	Taiwan	23,700	30
2	5	Norihiro Otani	Japan	100,100	125
2	6	Dejan Boskovic Sr	Australia	116,600	146
2	7	Daniel Chambers	United States	43,700	55
2	8	Melana Petrack	Australia	29,700	37
2	9	Zeljko Josipovic	Austria	26,500	33

3	2	Simon Chahine	Australia	10,900	14
3	3	David Bell	United States	44,600	56
3	4	Sam Razavi	United Kingdom	43,800	55
3	5	Adam Monaghan	Australia	34,900	44
3	6	Gideon Max	Australia	16,100	20
3	7	[Removed:415]	Australia	58,100	73
3	8	Aaron Li	Australia	36,400	46

4	1	Harold Chandler	Australia	86,300	108
4	2	Mihai Barbu	Australia	127,000	159
4	3	Xiaqing Ji	China	47,300	59
4	5	Patrick Crivell	Canada	47,300	59
4	6	Johannes van den Heuvel	Netherlands	72,300	90
4	7	Carl Booth	Australia	66,000	83
4	8	Jeffrey Lo	Hong Kong	53,700	67
4	9	Wei Zhang	United States	60,300	75

5	1	Raphael Tenenbaum	Australia	22,000	28
5	2	Do Hoang	Vietnam	121,900	152
5	3	Maria Ho	United States	41,700	52
5	4	Camille Mikhael	Canada	43,200	54
5	5	Jackie Glazier	Australia	84,800	106
5	6	Lih Ngu	Australia	19,400	24
5	7	Matt O'Donnell	United States	37,500	47
5	8	Benny Glaser	United Kingdom	56,200	70
5	9	Zackery Lowrie	Australia	105,600	132

6	1	Glen Chadwick	Australia	31,400	39
6	2	Spiros Maroulis	Australia	40,800	51
6	3	Muneer Bodagh	Australia	38,500	48
6	4	Hamish Crawshaw	New Zealand	58,500	73
6	5	Robert Fenner	South Africa	30,600	38
6	7	Yi Huang	China	85,900	107
6	8	Michael Guzzardi	Australia	26,800	34
6	9	Aditya Sushant	India	29,200	37

7	1	Takashi Ogura	Japan	71,800	90
7	2	Michael Addamo	Australia	55,500	69
7	3	Paul Raseta	Australia	62,400	78
7	6	Nabil Edgtton	Australia	17,600	22
7	8	Gabriel Carter	United Kingdom	58,100	73
7	9	Timothy Marsters	Australia	13,700	17

8	1	Andrian Chin	Australia	146,000	183
8	2	Michael Tomeny	United States	72,000	90
8	3	Cole Swannack	New Zealand	208,200	260
8	5	Guangdong Yan	China	40,200	50
8	6	Tom Karadimos	Australia	62,000	78
8	7	Farid Jattin	Colombia	98,200	123
8	8	Michael Seymour	Australia	111,000	139
8	9	Steven Cody	Hong Kong	32,500	41

10	1	Dingxiang Ong	Singapore	186,000	233
10	2	Dzmitry Urbanovich	Poland	76,300	95
10	4	Raphael Wimmer	United States	70,400	88
10	5	Hoss Sharif	United Kingdom	32,200	40
10	6	Harry Lodge	United Kingdom	67,800	85
10	7	Emanuel Seal	Australia	7,700	10
10	8	Michel Bouskila	Australia	43,300	54

14	1	Miguel Capriles	Venezuela	23,900	30
14	2	Joshua Humphries	Australia	11,800	15
14	3	Celina Lin	China	83,300	104
14	4	Martin Stewart	Australia	20,700	26
14	5	Chit Loong Saw	Taiwan	40,700	51
14	6	Vasco Zapantzis	Australia	37,300	47
14	8	Nicholas Wright	Australia	12,200	15
14	9	Mile Krstanoski	Australia	60,200	75

15	1	Dean Blatt	Australia	68,200	85
15	2	Eugene Portlen	Australia	63,600	80
15	3	Mike Del Vecchio	United States	86,500	108
15	4	Ngoc Hoang	Vietnam	139,200	174
15	5	Jim Andreadis	Australia	89,900	112
15	6	Anthony Chaptini	Australia	30,400	38
15	7	Dominik Nitsche	Germany	37,800	47
15	8	Win Tan	Australia	51,300	64
15	9	Andrew Saliba	Australia	89,700	112

16	1	Wei Zhu	China	86,400	108
16	2	James Hachem	Australia	25,300	32
16	3	Mazyar Misaghian	Australia	33,500	42
16	4	Myeong Hwan Park	Korea	61,600	77
16	5	Robert Glasspool	Hong Kong	31,700	40
16	6	Edward Holyoke	United States	88,000	110
16	7	Luke Edwards	Australia	20,400	26
16	8	Joel Havea	Australia	80,800	101
16	9	Xiaorui Xu	China	47,300	59

17	4	Kanaan Yakhanna	Australia	6,900	9
17	5	Martin Ward	Australia	22,700	28
17	7	Damien Walsh	Australia	35,200	44
17	8	Ali Ghezelbash	Australia	88,500	111
17	9	Jamie Lee	Australia	98,400	123

25	1	Dylan Honeyman	Australia	47,100	59
25	3	Matthew Wakeman	Australia	141,700	177
25	4	John Chu	Australia	29,300	37
25	5	Chang Tan	Taiwan	53,600	67
25	6	Benjamin Michell	Australia	36,100	45
25	7	Mir Moghimi	Australia	50,400	63
25	8	Billy Argyros	Australia	57,500	72
25	9	John Hagen	United States	31,800	40

26	1	Luc Meritan	France	103,100	129
26	2	Andrew Hinrichsen	Australia	83,400	104
26	3	Joel Feldman	Australia	24,000	30
26	4	Taylor Black	United States	57,400	72
26	6	Alex Lynskey	Australia	105,200	132
26	7	Mitchell Watson	Australia	42,500	53
26	8	Mark Wright	Australia	40,400	51
26	9	Zizheng Huang	China	15,300	19

27	1	James Hopkins	Australia	41,600	52
27	2	Samuel Welbourne	United Kingdom	86,300	108
27	3	Jiachen Gong	Canada	81,600	102
27	4	Ravindran Maravar	Australia	86,900	109
27	5	Steven Miller	Australia	10,000	13
27	6	Sam Simon	Australia	48,700	61
27	7	Tobias Leknes	Norway	14,700	18
27	8	Gregory Woodman	Australia	36,300	45
27	9	Robert Heidorn	Germany	45,000	56

28	1	Kieran Liston	Australia	26,900	34
28	2	Justin Roper	Australia	55,300	69
28	4	Carlo Savinelli	Italy	17,400	22
28	5	Ajay Chabra	United States	92,400	116
28	6	Scott Sanders	United States	80,800	101
28	7	Pheap Chea	Australia	12,500	16

29	1	Brendon Rubie	Australia	22,600	28
29	2	Thomas Schulze	Germany	51,000	64
29	3	Jeremy Pekarek	United States	153,000	191
29	4	David Wang	Australia	28,500	36
29	5	Andrew Chen	Canada	34,800	44
29	6	Wang Yi Long	China	176,200	220
29	7	Tom Alner	United Kingdom	63,700	80
29	8	Michael Dyer	United States	86,200	108
29	9	Chun Kwok	Hong Kong	69,200	87

30	1	David Yan	New Zealand	96,200	120
30	2	Mel Judah	United Kingdom	48,200	60
30	3	Marco Perri	Australia	36,600	46
30	4	Kevin Clark	New Zealand	121,400	152
30	5	Matt Edwards	United Kingdom	92,200	115
30	6	Paul-Francois Tedeschi	France	195,400	244
30	8	Errolyn Strang	Australia	60,400	76
30	9	Andrew Michael	Australia	40,100	50

31	1	Netanel Amedi	Israel	30,800	39
31	2	Kishore Kumar	Australia	20,900	26
31	3	Chris Wookey	Australia	57,800	72
31	4	Jie Gao	Canada	53,300	67
31	5	Dylan Sendeckyj	Australia	50,500	63
31	6	Nicholas Petitti	United States	26,400	33
31	7	Anthony Kingston	Australia	81,400	102
31	9	Eric Coffman	United States	53,400	67

32	1	Ryan Leng	United States	74,200	93
32	2	John-Christian Templeton	United States	135,100	169
32	3	David Stanton	Australia	12,300	15
32	4	Casey Kastle	Slovenia	28,000	35
32	5	Ryan Bownds	Australia	57,100	71
32	7	Patrick Vo	Australia	38,700	48
32	8	Anthony Luong	Australia	31,600	40
32	9	Mathias Sijander	Australia	34,400	43

33	1	John Mingos	Australia	69,200	87
33	2	Darryll Fish	United States	36,800	46
33	3	Jesse Sylvia	United States	68,600	86
33	4	Antonio Tavella	Australia	104,000	130
33	6	Enrico Rudelitz	Germany	23,400	29
33	7	Sahil Soni	South Africa	59,400	74
33	8	Darin Sweet	Australia	18,800	24
33	9	Roy Agresta	Australia	51,300	64

34	1	Ryan Pignatelli	United States	29,600	37
34	2	Joel Dodds	Australia	42,500	53
34	3	Nicolas Walters	United States	25,500	32
34	4	Niall Murray	United Kingdom	5,700	7
34	5	Martijn Gerrits	Netherlands	13,700	17
34	6	Julius Colman	Australia	20,700	26
34	7	Minh Nguyen	Australia	59,100	74
34	8	Goran Srejic	Australia	14,000	18
34	9	Joseph Teanotoga	France	42,100	53

35	1	Takahiro Nakai	Japan	67,700	85
35	2	Angel Guillen	Mexico	66,500	83
35	3	Sparrow Cheung	Hong Kong	42,300	53
35	4	Shoshiro Karita	Australia	83,800	105
35	6	Christian Nolte	Austria	23,000	29
35	7	Paul Palsovic	Australia	128,600	161
35	8	Matthew Richards	Australia	18,400	23

36	1	Thomas Wing	Australia	44,100	55
36	2	Preston Lee	United States	56,400	71
36	3	Jim Chahoud	Australia	64,900	81
36	4	Dominik Panka	Poland	98,900	124
36	5	Ricky Lim	Australia	26,300	33
36	6	Michael Egan	Australia	45,100	56
36	7	Johan Lees	Australia	32,400	41
36	8	Paul Elliot	Australia	42,400	53
36	9	Thomas Muehloecker	Austria	46,500	58

37	1	Manig Loeser	Germany	29,700	37
37	2	Thibaut Klinghammer	France	43,300	54
37	3	Shao Liu	China	96,000	120
37	4	Michael Nenes	Australia	48,300	60
37	5	Rodrigo Meneses	Australia	64,600	81
37	6	Charles Jett	Australia	39,500	49
37	7	Jan Larsson	Sweden	42,600	53
37	9	Richard Ashby	United Kingdom	180,000	225

38	1	Chao Duan	China	129,300	162
38	2	Charles Caris	Australia	74,900	94
38	3	Xue Wu	China	56,800	71
38	4	Chin Wei Lim	Malaysia	69,900	87
38	5	David Wu	Australia	140,100	175
38	6	Josip Simunic	Austria	12,300	15
38	7	Frank Mirza	Australia	71,200	89
38	8	Andrew Theakstone	Australia	60,900	76
38	9	Jason Gray	Australia	8,600	11

39	1	Adrian Indovino	Australia	90,200	113
39	2	Tino Lechich	Australia	39,400	49
39	3	Robert Kaggerud	Norway	81,000	101
39	4	Kiavash Arbabi	Australia	42,200	53
39	5	Manny Rodrigues	Australia	16,500	21
39	6	Xavier Bustamante	Belgium	36,800	46
39	7	Ning Zhang	China	81,500	102
39	8	Travis Endersby	United States	75,500	94
39	9	Pete Chen	Taiwan	72,000	90

40	1	Rory Weiner	Australia	31,100	39
40	3	Sosia Jiang	New Zealand	138,200	173
40	5	Roland Hawkins	Australia	75,000	94
40	6	Bryan Pellegrino	Italy	89,900	112
40	7	Haibin Yan	China	73,700	92
40	8	Michael Hahn	United States	24,300	30
40	8	Attila Bognar	Australia	24,100	30
40	9	Ashish Gupta	Australia	74,600	93

41	1	Karl Symonds	Australia	53,600	67
41	2	Miroslav Vincic	Australia	31,200	39
41	4	Rainer Kempe	Germany	54,100	68
41	5	Aaron Beattie	Australia	110,600	138
41	6	Ana Marquez	Spain	60,100	75
41	7	Luke Bindon	Australia	15,300	19
41	8	Fedon Phaedonos	Australia	34,400	43
41	9	Andreas Klatt	Germany	45,600	57

42	1	Thorben Vellrath	Germany	126,900	159
42	2	Michael Song	United States	77,400	97
42	3	Christopher Park	United States	43,200	54
42	4	Vojtech Ruzicka	Czech Republic	125,500	157
42	5	Huijie Zhou	China	49,500	62
42	6	Ize Bourne	Australia	11,700	15
42	7	Tatjana Zizic	New Zealand	75,000	94
42	8	Koray Aldemir	Germany	117,900	147
42	9	Joshua Abady	United States	34,600	43

43	1	Tony Tartaglia	Australia	42,400	53
43	3	Jiang Huang	Singapore	16,800	21
43	4	Tao Chen	China	27,300	34
43	5	Daniel Demicki	Poland	45,400	57
43	6	Hui Zhang	China	108,100	135
43	7	Xiaojun Zhang	Australia	52,000	65
43	8	David Hanlon	Australia	40,000	50
43	9	Ben Lai	Hong Kong	153,000	191

44	1	Seyed Hosseini-Nasab	Australia	133,800	167
44	2	Blake Lockwood	Australia	30,000	38
44	3	Jez Menzel	Australia	44,800	56
44	4	Clinton Taylor	Australia	53,500	67
44	5	Denis Zhang	Australia	58,000	73
44	6	Riku Piiroinen	Finland	69,800	87
44	7	Michael Gathy	Belgium	101,200	127
44	8	James Broom	Australia	135,000	169
44	9	Gavin Flynn	Ireland	43,400	54

45	1	Martin Rowe	Australia	110,500	138
45	2	Matthew Rolfe	Australia	44,800	56
45	3	Maria Lampropulos	Argentina	23,200	29
45	4	Che-Li Lin	Taiwan	47,000	59
45	5	Herb Mackay	Australia	25,100	31
45	6	Dara O'Kearney	Ireland	20,900	26
45	7	Ryan Hong	Australia	19,500	24
45	8	Aram Zobian	United States	27,600	35
45	9	Javad Etaat	Australia	35,000	44

46	1	Joel Cohen	Australia	79,900	100
46	2	Joni Jouhkimainen	Finland	83,100	104
46	3	Paawan Bansal	India	49,000	61
46	4	Yang Lei	Australia	30,400	38
46	5	Wayne Stichling	Australia	33,200	42
46	6	Alex Lee	Singapore	79,800	100
46	7	Julian Stuer	Austria	196,500	246
46	8	Jarod Cunningham	Australia	43,600	55
46	9	Vincent Li	China	58,100	73

47	2	Haitao Luan	China	8,100	10
47	3	Nickolas Oiberman	Australia	68,800	86
47	4	Ioannis Angelou Konstas	Greece	42,300	53
47	6	Gyeong Byeong Lee	Korea	112,200	140
47	7	Tolly Sakellariou	Australia	80,000	100
47	9	Jongwon Yoon	Korea	122,000	153

48	1	Wei-Cheng Yin	Taiwan	26,500	33
48	2	Huishen Cui	Australia	47,100	59
48	3	Oliver Weis	Germany	10,000	13
48	4	Dennis Huntly	Australia	56,500	71
48	5	Scott Hamilton-Hill	New Zealand	59,200	74
48	6	Robert Spano	Australia	86,700	108
48	7	Karim de Picciotto	Australia	18,500	23
48	8	Hao Tian	China	59,700	75
48	9	Sadan Turker	United Kingdom	47,500	59

49	1	Jarred Graham	Australia	30,300	38
49	3	Benedict Chiang	Australia	15,800	20
49	4	James Petzing	United States	55,400	69
49	5	Bruno Portaro	Australia	76,200	95
49	6	Justin Stein	Australia	21,900	27
49	7	Victor Teng	Australia	75,700	95
49	8	Hiroyuki Noda	Japan	17,200	22
49	9	Toby Lewis	United Kingdom	47,100	59

50	1	Hayato Kitajima	Japan	33,900	42
50	2	Russell Thomas	United States	38,000	48
50	3	Jia Tang	China	73,800	92
50	4	Michael Soyza	Malaysia	106,800	134
50	5	James Rann	United Kingdom	74,000	93
50	6	Tristan Bain	Australia	145,600	182
50	7	Raphael Khalili	Australia	30,200	38
50	8	Senthil Subramaniam	Australia	55,700	70
50	9	Tobias Ziegler	Germany	103,500	129

51	1	Corey Kempson	Australia	141,500	177
51	2	Yuri Ishida	Japan	125,300	157
51	3	Tyron Krost	Australia	95,100	119
51	4	Kenneth Buck	Australia	14,800	19
51	5	Scott Davies	United States	33,000	41
51	6	Hussein Hassan	Australia	46,000	58
51	7	Peter Kotsiris	Australia	25,100	31
51	8	Dhiya Majeed	Australia	62,200	78

52	1	Vincent Huang	United States	41,500	52
52	2	Shane Stark	Australia	32,000	40
52	3	Corey Zarb	Australia	38,600	48
52	5	Quan Zhou	China	168,600	211
52	6	Constantin Harach	Australia	19,500	24
52	7	Joshua Mccully	Australia	39,600	50
52	8	Ajay Gnanasambanthan	United States	80,300	100
52	9	Jacky Wong	Hong Kong	21,300	27

53	1	Jack Salter	United Kingdom	93,500	117
53	2	Jeremy Menard	United States	11,900	15
53	3	Daniel Hachem	Australia	48,000	60
53	4	Mikel Habb	Australia	46,800	59
53	5	Hyun Kim	Korea	29,500	37
53	6	Greg Heaver	Australia	72,300	90
53	7	Kilian Loeffler	Germany	49,900	62
53	8	Yustinus Karib	Australia	52,100	65
53	9	Rory Young	Australia	90,000	113

54	1	Jeremy Hyman	United States	49,600	62
54	2	[Removed:172]	Germany	12,700	16
54	3	Adam Cusenza	Australia	71,900	90
54	4	Hajime Haraikawa	Japan	28,700	36
54	5	Yingui Li	China	63,000	79
54	6	Ari Shin	United States	22,800	29
54	7	John Duggan	Australia	89,600	112
54	8	Dion Mavrangelos	Australia	60,900	76
54	9	Luke Roberts	Australia	25,400	32

55	1	Xu Dong Hui	China	69,000	86
55	2	Mark Ericksen	Australia	13,900	17
55	3	Vinod Megalmani	India	32,300	40
55	4	Hung-Sheng Lin	Taiwan	54,300	68
55	5	Bryan Huang	Singapore	37,200	47
55	6	Pierce McKellar	United States	170,100	213
55	7	Orjan Skommo	Norway	43,900	55
55	8	Luis Pampliega	Australia	103,300	129
55	9	Shane Cranney	Australia	49,700	62

56	1	Michael Behnert	Germany	29,500	37
56	2	Anthony Hachem	Australia	62,100	78
56	3	Nauvneel Kashyap	Australia	109,200	137
56	4	Dean Cox	Australia	63,700	80
56	5	Oliver Gill	Australia	67,800	85
56	6	Shucong Wang	Australia	55,300	69
56	7	Maxi Lehmanski	Germany	80,700	101

56	8	Masatoshi Tanaka	Japan	46,000	58
57	1	Kylea Trewin	Australia	27,700	35
57	2	Jun Jia	Taiwan	73,600	92
57	3	Harry Basle	Australia	47,700	60
57	4	Shane Moran	Australia	64,100	80
57	5	Abraham Passet	Germany	27,800	35
57	6	Yin Liu	China	60,600	76
57	7	Jason Pritchard	Australia	76,700	96
57	8	Kenneth Robert	Australia	51,100	64
57	9	Raghav Bansal	India	114,000	143

59	1	Dylan Kii	Australia	30,100	38
59	2	Dinh Chien Pham	Australia	51,200	64
59	3	Zhang Jingwei	China	73,300	92
59	4	Alex Gibbons	Australia	55,800	70
59	5	Michael Tran	Australia	52,800	66
59	6	David Gorr	Australia	51,200	64
59	7	Jonathan Roy	Canada	71,200	89
59	9	Roberto Damelian	Australia	46,400	58

60	1	Anthony Harach	United States	45,900	57
60	2	Pim De Goede	Netherlands	187,000	234
60	3	Yosuke Sekiya	Japan	28,800	36
60	5	Mikael Koistinen	Finland	79,900	100
60	6	Jiayu Ruan	China	31,800	40
60	7	Ryan Otto	New Zealand	143,200	179
60	8	Amir Minagar	Australia	38,200	48

70	3	George Mamacas	Australia	59,400	74
70	4	Randy Lew	United States	103,100	129
70	5	Wenlong Jin	China	48,300	60
70	6	Karim Jomeen	United Kingdom	36,900	46
70	7	Luke Marsh	United Kingdom	53,900	67
70	8	Carl Robinson	New Zealand	20,300	25
70	9	Evelyne Roy	Australia	43,000	54

71	1	Ashley Sleeth	United States	122,200	153
71	2	Stefano Accardo	Australia	150,200	188
71	3	Mario Mosbock	Austria	58,600	73
71	4	Jun Seong So	Australia	68,400	86
71	5	Nikolce Bizimoski	Australia	26,500	33
71	6	Joel Douaglin	France	59,200	74
71	7	Nazih Sibaei	Australia	84,400	106
71	8	Bjorn Ostby	Australia	90,300	113

Tags: Alexander Trevallion Ami Barer Artur Koren Aussie Millions Ben Lai Cole Swannack David Gorr Gautam Dhingra Kitty Kuo Kristen Bicknell Michael Addamo Mike Del Vecchio Natalie Teh Richard Ashby Shane Warne Shurane Vijayaram Sosia Jiang Stefan Huber Tyron Krost Weiming Yu Yevgeniy Timoshenko

01-30-2019 00:08 UTC+10

Chip Leader vs. Defending Champion

Will Shillibier

Level 7 : 300/600, 100 ante

On a flop defending champion Toby Lewis and current chip leader David Wu checked to a third player who bet 2,500. Lewis then check-raised to 10,000, Wu called and the third player folded.

The turn was checked by both players.

The river was the putting a straight on the board. Lewis bet 15,000 and after a short tank, Yu folded.

Player	Chips	Progress
David Wu	185,000	-10,000
Toby Lewis	52,000	33,000

Tags: David Wu Toby Lewis

01-29-2019 23:41 UTC+10

Wu Rivers a Royal Flush to Move into the Chip Lead

Will Shillibier

Level 7 : 300/600, 100 ante

According to his tablemates, David Wu has been the lucky recipient of a big pot after a three-way all in.

The board read when the money went in. One player held , another for the straight and Wu was drawing with .

The turn was a brick, but the river completed his royal flush. Earlier, Wu also eliminated Anthony March who did the shuffle up and deal on Day 1b bringing his chip stack to almost 200,000 with just over an hour left in the final level of the night.

Player	Chips	Progress
David Wu	195,000	105,000

Tags: Anthony March David Wu

01-29-2019 22:54 UTC+10

Former Champion Barer Eliminated

Will Shillibier

Level 6 : 250/500, 75 ante

Ami Barer opened and was shoved on by Sadan Turker. Barer called it off with for his last 25 big blinds.

Turker held and the flop came . The turn brought Barer a flush draw, but the river bricked and the Barer became the latest former champion to exit this year's Main Event.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sadan Turker	55,000	10,000
Ami Barer	Busted

Tags: Ami Barer Sadan Turker

01-29-2019 21:55 UTC+10

Former Champion Vijayaram Eliminated

Will Shillibier

Level 6 : 250/500, 75 ante

Mark Ericksen opened to 1,200 on the button and 2017 Aussie Millions Main Event champion Shurane VIjayaram moved all in for around 7,000 from the small blind.

The big blind folded and Ericksen called.

Ericksen:
Vijayaram:

The flop came giving Ericksen the lead, and he made a straight on the turn. There was no chop on the river as Vijayaram was eliminated.

Shurane Vijayaram - $10,000 Main Event Aussie Millions Winner 2017 — Vijayaram was eliminated with the same hand - red fives - that he won the 2017 Main Event with

Player	Chips	Progress
Mark Ericksen	45,000	45,000
Shurane Vijayaram	Busted

Tags: Shurane Vijayaram

01-29-2019 20:41 UTC+10

Luke Eliminated After Turker Double-Up

Will Shillibier

Level 5 : 200/400, 50 ante

On a flop, Sid Luke bet 6,000 and Sadan Turker moved all in for 19,600. A third player in the hand tank-folded.

"You want me to call you?" Luke asked.

"Always," replied Turker, before Luke called.

Turker:
Luke:

"The ace of spades!" called Luke, but it was not to be. The turn and river changed nothing and he was left short.

He put his chips in pre-flop next hand. The two other players checked down a board of . One forced the other out on the river and showed . Luke turned over and was eliminated.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sadan Turker	53,000	53,000
Sid Luke	Busted

Tags: Sadan Turker Sid Luke

01-29-2019 18:51 UTC+10

Day 1c Enters Dinner Break With New Record in Sight

Christian Zetzsche

Level 4 : 150/300, 25 ante

With more than 450 satellite qualifiers, there was little doubt that the 2019 Aussie A$ 10,600 Millions Main Event wouldn't disappoint and a new record is looming as the 800-entry field of the previous edition is not far off in the dinner break on Day 1c. Thus far, 359 players entered the third and final starting day, which has created a field of 792 entries. The registration remains open for the remainder of the day and the first level of Day 2, and the team at the Crown Casino in Melbourne will very likely be able to confirm a new record attendance soon.

More than 50 players have already been eliminated in the first four levels of the day with such notables as Julien Martini, Jack O'Neill, Didier Guerin, Andrew Hulme, Victor Chong, Andras Nemeth, Kitty Kuo and Gautam Dhingra all among the casualties. Martini lasted all but half an hour when he spiked top set with a pair of aces only for Weiming Yu to send the Frenchman packing with the turned straight.

O'Neill ran with kings into aces and Nemeth was ousted by Ryan Otto, who flopped a full house with jacks. Hulme suffered a deadly blow when he got it in with top two pair against the top pair and top kicker of Sosia Jiang, who immediately improved to the superior two pair on the turn.

Among the big stacks heading into dinner are Korea's Jongwon Yoon (122,000), Ryan Otto (118,750), Tobias Ziegler (90,000), Farid Jattin (83,000) and Joni Joihnikimainen (75,000). All of them would bag an above-average stack at the end of level seven in the early morning hours if they were to keep up their momentum in the remaining three levels.

Defending Main Event champion Toby Lewis was busy taking down the A$ 50,000 Challenge on an unscheduled third day and soon after jumped into the Main Event to head into dinner slightly below the average stack. Further former Aussie Millions champions in contention also include Ami Barer and Shurane Vijayaram.

Tags: Ami Barer Andras Nemeth Andrew Hulme Didier Guerin Farid Jattin Gautam Dhingra Jack O'Neill Jongwon Yoon Julien Martini Kitty Kuo Ryan Otto Shurane Vijayaram Sosia Jiang Tobias Ziegler Toby Lewis Victor Chong Weiming Yu

01-29-2019 17:55 UTC+10

Nemeth Eliminated by Otto

tRaMSt0p

Level 4 : 150/300, 25 ante

On the turn with the board reading and the pot sitting at roughly 15,000, Andras Nemeth bet out 9,000 from the big blind and Ryan Otto called in late position.

The river landed the and Nemeth announced he was all in for 36,725. Otto quickly called and tabled his for a flopped full house.

Nemeth mucked, and then headed to the rail.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ryan Otto	108,000	108,000
Andras Nemeth	Busted

Tags: Andras Nemeth Ryan Otto

01-29-2019 17:14 UTC+10

Jiang Sends Hulme to the Rail

Christian Zetzsche

Level 4 : 150/300, 25 ante

Picking up the action on the flop, Sosia Jiang in the under-the-gun position made it 1,600 to go and Andrew Hulme raised to 4,700. Jiang eyed the stack of her opponent and Hulme replied "I started the hand with 21,000", after which Jiang moved all in and received an instant call by Hulme.

Andrew Hulme:
Sosia Jiang:

The turn instantly improved Jiang, leaving Hulme with just two outs, and the river was a blank.

"Do you have more than me?" Hulme asked and Jiang nodded. By then, Joshua Abady returned to the table and added to the chatter. "Bet, raise and shove? Did it get in after the flop or turn?" he asked, then suggested some Kiwi-related headlines for the outcome of the hand.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sosia Jiang	59,000	26,000
Joshua Abady	44,000	1,000
Andrew Hulme	Busted

Tags: Andrew Hulme Joshua Abady Sosia Jiang

01-29-2019 15:48 UTC+10

Early Christmas for Yoon

Christian Zetzsche

Level 3 : 100/200, 25 ante

With only very few chips in to the flop - 1,100 apiece preflop to be precise - and Jongwon Yoon raised a 2,500 bet by Arthur Kalantzis to 7,000, Kalantzis reraised to 13,000. Yoon moved all in for well over 40,000 and Kalantzis gave it just some consideration before calling it off for more than 35,000.

Arthur Kalantzis:
Jongwon Yoon:

The turn gave Kalantzis some further outs, but the river was a blank. Kahle Burns and Chin Wei Lim shook their heads in disbelief and once all was over, John Hagen joked "Merry Chrismas" to table neighbor Yoon.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jongwon Yoon	90,000	90,000
Kahle Burns	34,000	4,000
Chin Wei Lim	31,000	31,000
Arthur Kalantzis	Busted

Tags: Arthur Kalantzis Chin Wei Lim Kahle Burns