Seven-Handed Final Table Set: Ajez and Hachem in the Lead

The 2020 Aussie Millions $1,150 Six-Max Event is down to the final seven players out of a field of 560 entries, all aiming for the biggest slice of the A$574,000 prize pool and the ANTON Jewellery championship ring. Najeem Ajez, who already led the final 12 players when the action kicked off at 1 p.m. local time, remains at the top of the leader board and has pulled further ahead of the other six contenders.

After the first three levels of play on the final day, there were only eight players remaining. Jiayuan Liu, who came into the day as the shortest stack, tripled up once and doubled up twice against Pasquale Braco to keep his hopes of victory alive. Jordan Tentori was less fortunate and became the first casualty while Paul-Francois Tedeschi fell victim of the hot run of Ajez. Tedeschi flopped a set of aces and the stack went in against Ajez, who held for the nut straight. Two blanks later, an enormous pot was pushed to Ajez and the field was down to 10.

Within one minute, Thomas Scholze and Shane Stark departed in 10th and 9th place respectively after they ran out of chips on different tables. Scholze was the first to go when his for top pair on the flop was no good, as once again Ajez had the best of it with the . The turn and river run out changed nothing whatsoever.

At nearly the same time, Shane Stark was all-in with against the of Daniel Hachem and the turn left Hachem with some outs. One of them was the and that brought the end to Stark's run.

Once the break with eight was reached, the chip counts were as follows:

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count
8	2	Kristy Arnett	United States	465,000
8	4	Najeem Ajez	Australia	2,020,000
8	5	Philipp Kaempf	Germany	290,000
8	6	Kian Wee	Singapore	64,000
10	1	Michael Tran	Australia	640,000
10	2	Daniel Hachem	Australia	1,237,000
10	5	Pasquale Braco	Italy	417,000
10	6	Jiayuan Liu	Australia	465,000

Kian Wee was left short after he lost a race with against the of Kristy Arnett, as the mighty ducks held up on a board of to give Arnett a flush. It would only take one hand after the break to set up the seven-handed final table as Wee lost the remaining three big blinds with against the of Ajez as he stood no chance on a board.

Final Table Seat Assignments

Seat	Player	Country
1	Najeem Ajez	Australia
2	Pasquale Braco	Italy
3	Daniel Hachem	Australia
4	Michael Tran	Australia
5	Kristy Arnett	United States
6	Philipp Kaempf	Germany
6	Kian Wee	Singapore
7	Jiayuan Liu	Australia