A raising war broke out with James Obst ending up at risk holding the . Table neighbor Octavian Voegele was far ahead with the and it was all over after the turn of a board .
Obst fell just short of the last three tables and the remaining 27 players will now get re-balanced.
The ever-so-hot run good of Scott Davies was bound to end sooner or later. First he lost with against pocket kings, having shoved for the third time in a row. The remainder of his stack then vanished with against the pocket eights of Bobby Zhang in the big blind, who made the call for 10 big blinds.
From the button, Jack Salter pushed forward his stack of T-5,000 chips and Lin Shi called from the small blind. There was another all in and both were taken care of at the same time. Shi turned over the whereas Salter had the . After a board of , the first player was eliminated but Shi chopped the min-cash.
Ajay Gnanasambanthan and Ignacio Hernandez Duesca got it in with Cotaidis at risk and behind with the versus Gnanasambanthan's . The board rolls out to eliminate Hernandez Duesca.
Straight after the players were sent into a 15-minute break.
Three starting flights of the 2016 Aussie Millions Poker Championship $A1,150 No-Limit Hold'em Accumulator Event have been played and a total of 656 entries took part with the field being reduced to 85 hopefuls after 12 levels each. They will return to the poker room of the Crown Entertainment Complex in one hour from now at 12.10 p.m. local time and the top 63 spots will get paid.
Leading the field of survivors is Six-Max Event #6 runner-up Francesco Sergi with 200,800 chips followed by Ronnie Bardah with 185,900. Jacob Balsiger has also made it into the overnight top 10 with 128,900 while other notables such as Max Silver (118,400), H.O.R.S.E. Event #2 LK Boutique championship ring winner James Obst (113,300), Matas Cimbolas (110,600), Jack Salter (106,100), Marc MacDonnell (105,100) and 2014 World Series of Poker Asia Pacific Main Event winner Scott Davies (104,400) also bagged up above-average stacks.
Other players to look out for include Manig Loeser (64,900), Shane Warne (61,500), Jessica Dawley (58,800) and Mix-Max runner up Ari Engel (41,400). Action recommences in level 13 with blinds of 1,200-2,400 and a running ante of 400. A maximum of 12 levels of one hour each will be played or until the final table of the last ten is reached, whichever of the two comes first. The minimum cash is worth A$2,690 whereas all eyes are set on the LK Boutique championship ring and first-place payout of A$147,930.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be on hand until a winner is crowned on Sunday, so make sure to tune back in regularly.
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. Table neighbor Octavian Voegele was far ahead with the 
and it was all over after the turn of a board 
.
against pocket kings, having shoved for the third time in a row. The remainder of his stack then vanished with 
against the pocket eights of Bobby Zhang in the big blind, who made the call for 10 big blinds.
whereas Salter had the 
. After a board of 
, the first player was eliminated but Shi chopped the min-cash.
. The board rolls out 
to eliminate Hernandez Duesca.
