2007 Aussie Millions Crown Casino Poker Championship

After wearing Erik Seidel down for the better part of an hour, Erick Lindgren finally gets all of Seidel's chips in the middle pre flop. Seidel flips over , while Lindgren is in the lead, as he shows . the flop brings some hope, but brickage on the turn and river ends Seidel's night, and makes Erick Lindgren $1,000,000 richer. Seidel receives $550,000 for his second place finish.

Erik Seidel makes it 90,000 to go, and Erick Lindgren moves all in. Seidel takes some time, but eventually calls, and shows . Lindgren turns up , and is in business. A board of changes nothing, and Erick Lindgren has doubled up to take a two to one chip lead

We are now heads up. The format of the tournament is now no-limit all the time (it was pot limit before the flop until now)

New Chip counts are posted.

After watching his chip stack dwindle for the better part of two hours, Masaaki Kagawa decided to re-raise Erik Seidel with for the last of his chips. Seidel made the call with , and the race was on. A board of changed nothing, and Masaaki Kagawa was our third place finisher, and picked up $250,000 for his efforts.

As the evening wears on, Erick Lindgren has bought a round of beers for the rail. he looked at the floorman, and said "I'd like 31 beers - one for me, and 30 for the rail.' TD Brett Jones obliged, and everyone on the rail has a drink.

Chip Counts are updated, as the players have gone on a 15 minute break.

When we return, the blinds will be 15,000/30,000.

Masaaki Kagawa is beginning to leak away his chips. he got clipped for 200k when Erik Seidel re-raised his re-raise pre-flop, and he layed it down. Masaaki has slowly but surely bled chips, and is now the short stack.

We're seeing flops on at least 1/2 the hands, but no really big pots. Seidel and Lindgren are in a race to see who can get into the pot with Masaaki first. At one stage, the chips got to almost dead even. Chip counts have been updated.