The Aussie Millions thread

[Dubai]

Nice to see u there Trigg. Brammer done well to get there after being the starter at Romford dogs on Wednesday

[titaniumbean]

Nice to see u there Trigg. Brammer done well to get there after being the starter at Romford dogs on Wednesday

The dogs ftw.

[outragous76]

<3 Middy

"So how did today compare to yesterday?"

"pretty similar, won every show down"

[mondatoo]

Congrats Middyyyyyy.

[The Camel]

Nice to see u there Trigg. Brammer done well to get there after being the starter at Romford dogs on Wednesday

LOL

I said exactly the same thing!

[action man]

lol behave

[SuuPRlim]

middy just hates it lol

all he wants to do is win at poker tournaments quietly, wearing tracksuit bottoms covered in 6day old macdonalds stains in the privacy of his bedroom.

massive gratz tho middy top notch score

[Doobs]

Just noticed this

http://www.aussiemillions.com/live/updates/70009/aussie-millions-main-event?day=2306

Dempsey Day 1b Chip Leader

Dempsey had an up-and-down day, dropping to just 6,000 chips at the dinner break; however, things turned around for him shortly thereafter as he ran it up to over 100,000 in the next level! "Just printing. Just Printing!" he said when asked how he did it. By the end of the night, Dempsey claimed the chip lead with 189,000

[AndrewT]

[pleno1]

oioi ivey

http://www.pokerstrategy.com/news/world-of-poker/Aussie-Millions-Day-1C:-Ivey-Highlights-Strong-Turnout_55884/

[TightEnd]

Phil Ivey was the big story at Day 1C of the Aussie Millions Main Event. The eight-time WSOP bracelet winner closed the day with a stack of 184,000, good enough for fourth place on the leader board at the close of play. At one stage Ivey dropped down to 85,000 chips but a timely double up courtesy of Aussie cricket legend Shane Warne put him right back into contention.
A total of 317 players bought into the third opening flight with fewer than 150 of them surviving for day two. Leading the way was Robert Lam with 198,400. Also in the top ten at bagging up time were David Sonelin on 186,200 and David Steicke on 140,000.


Plenty of big names came and went on the final first day with Erik Seidel, Joe Hachem, Daniel Negreanu, Nam Le and Daniel Alaei all hitting the rail.


The overall numbers won't be confirmed until tomorrow as registration is open until 12.30pm local time but is expected to be slightly lower than last year's figure of 712. 657 have entered so far with 309 making it back for day 2.

[TightEnd]

Dempsey Trys to Find the Fold Button


Table 25 has been a happy hunting ground for Jason Koon. The same cannot be said for James Dempsey. The two just clashed in a pot where a third player was all-in, and it didn't end well for the Brit.

We reached the action after the flop had fallen as {6-Hearts}{a-Hearts}{6-Clubs} and the small blind had moved all-in for 23,100. Dempsey was in early position and raised up to 49,300. Koon called from the button and the action passed to the {q-Diamonds} turn. Dempsey slowed to a check and called when the American bet 30,000.

The river brought another queen in the {q-Clubs} and Dempsey checked. Koon bet 55,000 and this bet really got under Dempsey's skin. He went into the tank for a few minutes and tried to reason (sometime mumbling thoughts) what was going on. His instincts seemed to tell him to fold but he threw in the calling chips.

Koon opened {a-Spades}{q-Hearts}, beating Dempsey's {a-Clubs}{k-Clubs}.

"How did you get there?" asked Dempsey. "I fold if it doesn't come a queen."



Well, it's been quite a hard fall for James Dempsey here in the after-dinner session.

A few hands after his crippling at the hands of Jason Koon, we watched James Dempsey drop the rest of his stack and fall by the wayside. There was a aise to 5,000 and a call in front of Dempsey when he squeezed to 31,000 on the button. The gent in the small blind asked how much he was playing, then announced an all in reraise. That folded the other two out of the way, but Dempsey put his remaining ~22,000 into the pot to put himself at risk.

"I probably have three outs," he correctly surmised.

Showdown
Dempsey: {A-Hearts} {9-Hearts}
Opponent: {9-Diamonds} {9-Clubs}

The board was dry and blank for Flushy, coming {3-Diamonds} {2-Clubs} {6-Hearts} {Q-Spades} {8-Clubs}, and with that, Dempsey has been reduced to the felt here in the waning stages of Day 2.
Chip Counts
   James Dempsey       Busted    


 http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-aussie-millions/aussie-millions-main-event/

[smashedagain]

every half decent player is wearing em

[Royal Flush]

Raging beyond belief, played good and got shafted

Onto the next one.

[TightEnd]

Day 3 Cut Short; Ivey, Idema, Nelson in the Hunt
Level 17: 4,000-8,000, 1,000 ante

Day 3 of the Aussie Millions Main Event came and went far more quickly than most everyone anticipated. From the starting field of 659 runners, the final 75 returned to the Crown Casino today for a scheduled five levels of action. Instead, play was cut short after just three levels as the field was dashed all the way down to just 26 players. When the bags game out, Matthew Turk had worked his stack up to the top of the leader board with nearly double the chips of his nearest challenger. But more on him in a bit.

With 75 players returning and only room for 72 of them on the payout sheet, three unlucky souls were sent off empty handed this afternoon. As anticipated, the bubble arrived very early in the day, but it took nearly two hours to find the next knockout and lock up a payday for the remaining 72. Frank Paul was all the way down to just 11,000 chips — barely 2bb — when he pushed the last of it in with {A-Diamonds} {J-Clubs}. Kenna James didn't have much of a decision in the big blind, and his {8-Hearts} {5-Diamonds} was drawing live for the knockout. Sure enough, the board ran out {Q-Clubs} {9-Diamonds} {6-Diamonds} {5-Spades} {Q-Hearts}, and Paul was sent away with only a wooden spoon to show for his AU$10,000 investment.

Once the soft-stepping on the bubble was out of the way, the doors were thrown open and the march to the payout desk began in full force. Tom Grigg was one of the first to bow out with a small cash, and he was quickly followed out the door by the likes of Daniel Botta, James, Billy "The Croc" Argyros, Alexander Roumeliotis, Michael Tureniec, Dominykas Karmazinas, and Michael Pedley. Towards the end of the evening, Australia's newest bracelet winner, Andrew Hinrichsen was done in as well after running his pocket queens into Matthew Turk's two kings to mark an unfortunate end to his day.

It was a game of leapfrog at the top of the chip counts today, and a handful of players traded the top spot around for a few hours. Most notable among them was Phil Ivey who plugged along steadily to bag up 1.107 million at night's end. That would be in contention for the overall lead if not for a monster pot that unfolded on the final hand of the night. We'll let you read about it below, but the long and short of it is that Matthew Turk won a monster flip to pile 2.675 million chips into his thin plastic bag.

The remaining field is a pretty talented one with a couple bracelet winners and a former champion of this event still in the mix. Lee Nelson won this thing in 2006, and he'll be returning tomorrow with an above average stack of 878,000. Daniel Idema managed a shade more with 1.033 million to end the night, and the eight-time bracelet winner, Ivey is just out of the overnight top five with 1.107 million. Other notables still in the mix include Yann Dion, Oliver Speidel, Danny Chevalier, Grant Levy, and David Steicke.

1    Matt Turk       2,675,000
2    Tim O'Shea    1,376,000
3    Patrick Healy    1,353,000
4    Bjorn Li       1,222,000
5    Yann Dion       1,156,000
6    Phil Ivey       1,107,000
7    Daniel Idema    1,033,000
8    Minh Nguyen    992,000
9    Borge Dypvik    882,000
10    Lee Nelson    878,000

Rob Angood and Ben Jenkins were the UK cashers

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-aussie-millions/aussie-millions-main-event/#post-200227