2008 Aussie Millions

Event 9 - $100,000 No Limit Holdem
Day: 1
Event Info

2008 Aussie Millions

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a♣j♣
Prize
1,250,000 AUD
Event Info
Buy-in
100,000 AUD
Prize Pool
2,500,000 AUD
Entries
25
Level Info
Level
12
Blinds
20,000 / 40,000
Ante
0

The $100,000 NL Event Starting in One Hour

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Coverage of the highly anticipated $100,000 NL event will begin in an hour or so. Erick Lindgren won last year's event which featured 18 players. Lindgren took down $1 million after he beat Erik Seidel heads up. Japanese pro Masaaki Kagawa took third place last year.

Stay tuned for full coverage of today's event.

The Format for the $100K Event

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There are some interesting things about today's $100K event.

Players start with 100,000 in chips.

The duration of each level is 40 minutes for the first three levels and 60 minutes from there on.

The betting is Pot Limit before the flop and No Limit after the flop. The betting is all No Limit when only two players remain in the tournament.

Players have 30 seconds to act on their hand and an equal number of 30 second time-breaker buttons at the commencement of the tournament.

Players will receive an additional two 30 second time breaker buttons for the final table.

The tournament will move to 8 handed as soon as possible and remain 8 handed for the duration of the tournament.

Who's Playing?

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Of course last year's champion Erick Lindgren is in the field, along with Andy Bloch, Tony G, Jeff Lisandro, and Michael "Timex" McDonald.

Who Else Is Here?

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The field is star studded... including Phil Ivey, John Juanda, Dan Shak, ActionJeff, Tom "Durrr" Dwan, Emanuel Seal, Masa Kagawa, Brandon Adams, Erik Seidel, and Nikolaus Jedlicka.

A massive crowd has gathered on the rail and they're standing ten deep just to catch a glimpse of poker's superstars.

Tags: Phil Ivey

Level: 1

Blinds: 500/500

Ante: 0

Cards Are in the Air

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Director of tournament operations Jonno Pittock, introduced last year's winner Erick Lindgren, who kicked off the tournament by uttering the famous words, "Shuffle up and deal!"

Seating Assignments

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Table 29
Seat 1: Nickolaus Jedlicka
Seat 2: Joe Reina
Seat 3: Jeff "ActionJeff" Garza
Seat 4: Emanuel Seal
Seat 5: Jeff Lisandro
Seat 6: Erik Seidel
Seat 7: Sergey Rybachenko
Seat 8: John Juanda
Seat 9: Chris "Jesus" Ferguson

Table 31
Seat 1: Michael "Timex" McDonald
Seat 2: Howard Lederer
Seat 3: Michael Sampoerna
Seat 4: Tony Bloom
Seat 5: Allen Cunningham
Seat 6: Eli Elezra
Seat 7: Dan Shak
Seat 8: Phil Ivey

Table 32
Seat 1: Tony G
Seat 2: Tom "Durrr" Dwan
Seat 3: Masa Kagawa
Seat 4: Mark Teltscher
Seat 5: Andy Bloch
Seat 6: Sandor Demjan
Seat 7: Erick Lindgren
Seat 8: Gus Hansen
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