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.
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.
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.
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.
Domantas Klimciauskas, Antonina Anapolska and Josep Maria Galindo Lopez are the next three players on the rail. Whereas the circumstances of the former is unknown, the latter got it in after a raise to 23,000 by Shane Warne and the three-bet all in of Ronnie Bardah from the cutoff.
Galindo Lopez had around 160,000 left in the small blind and Bardah had him covered by two big blinds.
Galindo Lopez:
Bardah:
There was no help for the Spaniard with the board running out and suddenly the field had been reduced to its last 22 participants. Anapolska's pocket kings were previously cracked by an opponent with .
A raising war broke out on the turn and ultimately, Dylan Garland moved all in for what looked like 250,000 chips.
Former chip leader Wing Sang Lee made the call with for the nut flush draw and gutshot straight draw. Garland was sitting on a gutshot as well and had the other flush draw with to spike the on the river for his flush.
Max Silver got the remainder of his short stack, around 125,000 chips, into the middle of the table and Nikola Lackovic looked him up. Behind them sat Senthilkumar Subramaniam and he mucked the . "I always flop a set with them," Subramaniam said.
Silver:
Lackovic:
The flop left Silver in need of running cards, but he was drawing dead on the turn already. The dealer then burned and turned the river and the table burst out in laughter, as Subramaniam would have indeed made a set. As for Silver, he was sent to the rail in 17th place for a payday of $A6,385 and can now prepare for the Main Event.
Aussie cricket legend Shane Warne is out after a massive three-way hand that ended with Jessica Dawley hitting a two outer to skyrocket up the chip counts.
Dawley made it 25,000 under the gun and Warne flatted before Zhang raised it up to 82,000. It folded back to Dawley and she jammed 233,000 with the . Warne snap-shoved for less with the and Zhang refused to fold the .
The flop came down giving Dawley a set that held through the turn and river. She's now a threat, Zhang is still stacked and Warne has a bad beat story to tell going out in 16th place.
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whereas Salter had the 
. After a board of 
, the first player was eliminated but Shi chopped the min-cash.
versus Gnanasambanthan's 
. The board rolls out 
to eliminate Hernandez Duesca.
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.
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and suddenly the field had been reduced to its last 22 participants. Anapolska's pocket kings were previously cracked by an opponent with 
. The board ran out 
and Silver doubled.
for the nut flush draw and gutshot straight draw. Garland was sitting on a gutshot as well and had the other flush draw with 
left Silver in need of running cards, but he was drawing dead on the 
. Warne snap-shoved for less with the 
. 
, however, the board rolled out 