Event 4 - $1,150 (R) No Limit Holdem Day 1 | 2007 Aussie Millions Crown Casino Poker Championship

01-09-2007 09:49 UTC

27 runners left

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With 5 minutes to go till the dinner break, there's only 9 places to go before the money.

Average stack 25777

01-09-2007 09:46 UTC

Julian Powell loses chips to Sam Khouiss!

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Julian Powell with A-10o loses chips to Sam Khouiss on a board of 6-5-A-10-5 when Sammy turns over pocket 5s for quads!

Tags: Julian Powell Sam Khouiss

01-09-2007 09:39 UTC

BOOM!!! Bloom and Hachem out same hand!!!

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UTG raises to 2400, Tony Bloom in the cutoff pushes all-in for around 10k, Tony Hachem on button thinks about it for awhile before announcing he's all-in for around 12-14k. Gary Benson in the BB immediately calls. UTG folds.

Bloom turns over {A-Spades}

, Hachem has pocket Q's and Benson has pocket K's! Hachem says he's been running into monster hands all day. As the dealer turns over the flop, the first card is a Q and Hachem is jumping up and down until he sees the next card which is a K!!! The board read something like Q-K-9-5-6 and in one hand, 2 players are knocked out by the chip leader.

Gary now has around 87000, nearly 4 times the average stack!

Tags: Gary Benson Tony Bloom Tony Hachem

01-09-2007 09:25 UTC

Sam Khouiss lays down to Jimmy Siu

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Sam Khouiss on the button makes it approximately 5000 to go and Jimmy Siu in the BB pushes all-in. Sam shows an {A-Spades}

, says he puts Jimmy on Kings and then mucks his cards. Jimmy shows {10-Clubs}

. Sam says it woulda been 50/50 and if he'd known Jimmy had pocket 10s only he'd have called.

Tags: Jimmy Siu Sam Khouiss

01-09-2007 09:25 UTC

32 players remaining

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Average stack 21750. There's 25 minutes left at this blind level before the remaining players have their long dinner break.

01-09-2007 09:18 UTC

33 players remaining

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Average stack 21090

01-09-2007 09:17 UTC

Julian Powell survives an all-in!

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Julian Powell sticks all of chips in pre-flop with Andy Winkett from England and they show {A-Hearts}

and

respectively. A rainbow flop comes and it's chopped up!

Tags: Andy Winkett Julian Powell

01-09-2007 09:09 UTC

David "The Dragon" Pham knocked out!

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David "The Dragon" Pham, in his first tournament on Australian shores this year having only arrived yesterday afternoon in Melbourne, has been eliminated by Jeff Heiberg who now has around 22000 chips.

The Dragon had been doing well until he lost most of his stack to Matt Hilger at the last blinds level.

Tags: David Pham Jeff Heiberg The Dragon

01-09-2007 09:02 UTC