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Level: 5
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 600
2026 Aussie Millions Poker Championship
$10,600 Aussie Millions Main Event
Day: 1b
Players Left 257 / 692
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Level 4
: Blinds 300/500, 500 ante
The remaining players take a 60-minute dinner break.
Action will resume in Level 5 at approximately 8.15 p.m.
Level 4
: Blinds 300/500, 500 ante
Ming Wei opened to 1,200 from under the gun and the hijack called as did Paul Rochford on the button and both the blinds.
Five players saw the K♦3♣A♠ flop with action checking around to the K♠ turn.
Action checked to Rochford who bet 3,000 on the turn and only Wei called. The 9♥ river saw Wei check-call a 5,000 bet by Rochford and show K♥2♥ for trip kings. Rochford turned over K♣J♣ also having rivered trip kings, but his jack played to give him the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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85,000
7,000
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7,000 |
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40,000 |
Level 4
: Blinds 300/500, 500 ante
Michael Tchong had a tough start to the day and fell down to his last 6,000 chips. He moved all in from the small blind and was called by Mansour Motlagh in the big blind.
Michael Tchong: Q♦10♣
Mansour Motlagh: K♠J♠
Tchong was behind and looked to the board for some help. The A♥9♣5♠ flop didn't change much, but the J♥ turn saw Motlagh pick up a pair of jacks. It also brought in some hope of a straight for Tchong.
The 10♥ river saw to Tchong's elimination as although he paired up, Motlagh kept the lead.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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75,000
75,000
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75,000 |
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Busted |
Level 4
: Blinds 300/500, 500 ante
Chenliang Li opened to 1,000 from early position and both the cutoff, and the small blind called. Vittorio Gambetta three-bet to 6,500 and only Chenliang Li called.
The pair saw a A♠3♥2♦ flop and Gambetta bet 2,500. Li called, and another ace came on the turn.
After seeing the A♦, Gambetta took a while to check, with Li quickly checking behind.
A 7♣ river came, and Gambetta checked. Li bet 16,000 and Gambetta snap called and tabled his pocket queens Q♠Q♣. Li quickly mucked.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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124,000
124,000
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124,000 |
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102,000
102,000
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102,000 |
Level 4
: Blinds 300/500, 500 ante
The players were already heads up and on the turn with a pot of around 45,000. The pair were looking at the 10♣5♥4♣6♦ board with Ming Wei having moved all in from under the gun for his remaining ~47,000.
Action was on Ruizi Lin who was sitting with just 42,000 behind, and he went into the tank, taking around 2 minutes to make a decision.
Lin opted to fold, passing a huge pot across to Wei. Another player at the table remarked "you had an over-pair right?", to which Lin responded "Obviously". Table talk continued with another player guessing "Kings?..." but nothing further was revealed.
Ruizi was right back in the next hand and opened to 1,200 on the button. Ruizi was called by the big blind, and he continuation-bet on the flop, seeing his opponent fold, allowing him to recover a few of his lost chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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92,000
39,000
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39,000 |
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42,000
42,000
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42,000 |
Level 4
: Blinds 300/500, 500 ante
Some players have pulled away from the pack and are sitting well above the average stack.
Ehsan Amiri was just pipped to the top position by Benjamin Richardson who looks to be sitting at the top of the counts going into Level 4.
Notables such as Tristan Wade and Vladas Tamasauskas both added a fair few big blinds to their starting stacks during Level 3, where as Alex Lynskey looks to be holding steady at just under 60,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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155,000
155,000
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155,000 |
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142,000
7,300
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7,300 |
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130,000 | |
|
|
128,000
87,000
|
87,000 |
|
126,000
126,000
|
126,000 |
|
83,000
24,000
|
24,000 |
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80,000
20,000
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20,000 |
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58,000
2,000
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2,000 |
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56,000 | |
Level: 4
Blinds: 300/500
Ante: 500
Level 3
: Blinds 200/400, 400 ante
The players take a 15-minute break of play.
Action will resume at 5.45 p.m.
Level 3
: Blinds 200/400, 400 ante
Andrew Theakstone started the action by opening to 1,200 from early position, with Bruno Portaro and Jim Giannoukos defending the small and big blind respectively.
The 3♣7♠6♥ flop was checked by all to see a J♦ turn. Potaro bet 1,500 and Giannoukos quickly called. Theakstone folded leaving the blinds to battle it out heads up on the 6♦ river.
Portaro bet 5,000 and Giannoukos went into the tank. He called out "Did you hit that jack?". After around 3-minutes, he flicked in a 5,000 chip to call and Portaro tabled his A♥J♣. Giannoukos slammed his card onto the table, face down and remarked "That f***ing jack", as his hand was mucked.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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130,000
130,000
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130,000 |
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42,000
42,000
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42,000 |
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39,000
39,000
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39,000 |
