2007 Aussie Millions Crown Casino Poker Championship

Event 9 - $10,500 Main Event
Day: 3
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Event Info
2007 Aussie Millions Crown Casino Poker Championship
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a♣a♥
Prize
$1,500,000
Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$7,470,000
Entries
747
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 747
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A Long and Unfair Walk?

The "TV" table is a long way from the Las Vegas room here at the Crown Casino. For most of this Main Event the "TV" feature table has gone up to the Crown Tower studio, played a 90 minute round and been swapped for another table of players for the next round. Now that we are playing with fewer and fewer players, there is always the possibility of needing to balance tables.

That is what just happened. The "TV" table had six players and the other tables in the poker room had five each and then one was lost. So naturally one of the players from the "TV" table had to make the trek down to the poker room and by random draw a player who (name withheld) was not in the best of physical shape was asked no only to move but to move quickly to the Las Vegas room.

His chips arrived several minutes before he did and when he did arrive it was out of breath and thirsty. He complained to the tournament director about the disadvantage he was now under but play goes on.

One railbird was heard to say: "Why not have all the other players jog once around the room, just to be fair."

Shaniac Eliminated by a Brutal River Suckout

All the money went in on the flop of Q-9-2. Shaniac had Q-J and had Jimmy Fricke dominated with Q-10. Fricke caught running cards (King on the turn and a Jack on the river) to river a straight against Shaniac. That pot was close to 3M and a disgusted Shaniac headed to the rail in 19th place after getting his soul sucked out on the river. Fricke is the first player over 3M in this tournament.

Tags: Jimmy FrickeShaniac

Recent Placings

19 Shane Schleger $60,000 (USA)
20 Ville Laukkanen $60,000 (Finland)
21 Haralabos Voulgaris $60,000 (CA, USA)
22 Jan Suchanek $60,000 (New Zealand)
23 Joe Hachem $60,000 (Melbourne, Australia)
24 Keith Sexton $60,000 (NV, USA)
25 Jackson Laughton $40,000 (Melbourne, Australia)
26 Ross Boatman $40,000 (England)

Level: 20

Blinds: 10,000/20,000

Ante: 3,000

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