Event 9 - $10,500 Main Event | 2007 Aussie Millions Crown Casino Poker Championship

01-19-2007 07:59 UTC

Jimmy Fricke Grinding Out $9M

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Jimmy Fricke is over 9M in chips after chopping away at small pots. Andy Black is the shortstack under 2M while Gus Hansen has 3.3M.

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01-19-2007 08:07 UTC

Jimmy Fricke ran the good old fashioned squeeze play after Andy Black raised on the button to 250K and Gus Hansen called from the small blind. Fricke re-raised to 1.5M from his big blind. Hansen and Black both folded.

Tags: Jimmy Fricke

01-19-2007 08:15 UTC

Andy Black Chops a Pot

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Andy Black moved all in and Gus Hansen called. Black showed {A-Spades}

and Hansen flipped over {A-Clubs}

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"Stu Ungar always made a Wheel with this hand," Black said.

The flop was {Q-Spades}

, giving Black a gutshot draw to the Wheel. The turn was {4-Clubs}

, which gave Black outs for a chop. The river was {10-Hearts}

for a split pot.

Tags: Andrew Black Full Tilt Gus Hansen

01-19-2007 08:26 UTC

Players Are Currently on a 25 minute break

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Chip counts are as follows:

Gus Hansen $2,840,000
Jimmy Fricke $10,895,000
Andy Black $1,210,000

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01-19-2007 08:30 UTC

Chip Counts (Official)

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The current chips counts are official and total 14,945,000
747 entrants X 20,000 starting chips equals 14,940,000

With color-ups over six days that is a very accurate chip count.

Nicely done Crown Casino poker staff.

Tags: andrew black fulltilt gus hansen jimmy fricke

01-19-2007 08:34 UTC

Does Size Really Matter?

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Chip Stacks from the beginning of today's final table and results:

#1 stack Jimmy "Gobboboy" Fricke currently in 1st place
#2 stack Gus Hansen currently in 2nd place
#3 stack Andrew Black currently in 3rd place
#4 stack Kristy Gazes finished in 7th place
#5 stack Julius Colman finished in 4th place
#6 stack Marc Karam finished in 6th place
#7 stack Hans Martin Vogl finished in 5th place

Tags: andy black fulltilt gus hansen kristy gazes