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

01-29-2019 21:00 UTC+10

Li Flops a Flush

Christian Zetzsche

Level 5 : 200/400, 50 ante

Thomas Muehloecker's raise was three-bet to 2,700 by Vicent Li and a short-stacked Jozef Ricciardello jammed for 7,650. Muehloecker folded, but Li called and tabled the . Ricciardello was ahead with the , but that all but changed with the flop. Suddenly, Ricciardello needed an ace or queen to remain in contention, but found no help on the turn and river.

Player	Chips	Progress
Vincent Li	48,000	48,000
Jozef Ricciardello	Busted

Tags: Jozef Ricciardello Vincent Li

01-29-2019 20:55 UTC+10

Pictures From Day 1c of the Main Event

Christian Zetzsche

01-29-2019 20:46 UTC+10

Chip Counts and Eliminations

Will Shillibier

Level 5 : 200/400, 50 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Ryan Leng	54,000	9,000
Joshua Abady	50,000	2,000
Shane Warne	49,500	8,500
Kazuhiko Yotsushika	45,000
Dominik Nitsche	41,000	11,000
Maria Ho	40,000	-4,000
Connor Drinan	33,000	8,000
Thomas Muehloecker	32,000
Louis Salter	14,000	4,000
Shurane Vijayaram	11,000	-13,000
Alex Foxen	8,000	-8,000
Romain Lewis	Busted

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 20:28 UTC+10

Haddad Calls Down Zobian

Christian Zetzsche

Level 5 : 200/400, 50 ante

Aram Zobian raised to 900 from the cutoff and was called by Majed Haddad in the big blind. Haddad proceeded to check-call 850 on the flop and did so again for 4,200 on the turn. After the river, Haddad checked once more and Zobian bet 10,300 with 11,125 behind.

Haddad gave it some thought and called to get shown the for jack-high, he triumphantly turned over the for a pair of nines. Zobian gasped "what is going on dude" and lost a decent chunk of his stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Majed Haddad	75,000	75,000
Aram Zobian	11,125	-27,875

Tags: Aram Zobian Majed Haddad

01-29-2019 20:13 UTC+10

Toma No More

Christian Zetzsche

Level 5 : 200/400, 50 ante

In a battle of the blinds, Tsugunari Toma got his short stack in with and was trailing the of the small blind. The board came and the kicker played to send Toma to the rail.

Player	Chips	Progress
Tsugunari Toma	Busted

Tags: Tsugunari Toma

01-29-2019 20:02 UTC+10

Assorted Counts After Dinner

Christian Zetzsche

Level 5 : 200/400, 50 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Sam Razavi	75,000	7,000
Cole Swannack	73,000	8,000
Rory Young	65,000	-3,125
Yosuke Sekiya	57,000	26,000
Sosia Jiang	54,000	-5,000
Ana Marquez	52,000	-4,000
David Sun	50,000	14,000
Toby Joyce	48,000	25,000
Mike Del Vecchio	47,000	8,000
Mikael Koistinen	47,000	2,000
David Yan	44,000	-6,000
Rainer Kempe	38,000
James Obst	27,000	-4,000
Dara O'Kearney	23,000	-4,000
Michael Addamo	22,000	-800
Paul Hoefer	16,500	16,500
Soenke Jahn	10,000	-22,000
Jonathan Zarin	6,000	-7,000

Level: 5

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 50

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