Three More Hands
And the day is done. We'll report back to you with an extensive end of day recap of today's action as soon as the day has wrapped up.
And the day is done. We'll report back to you with an extensive end of day recap of today's action as soon as the day has wrapped up.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Sam Ingham
|
160,100
-7,300
|
-7,300 |
Sam Higgs |
107,900
7,900
|
7,900 |
|
||
Jennifer Tilly |
85,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
||
Luigi Knoppers |
72,400
57,400
|
57,400 |
Vojtech Ruzicka |
68,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
Cate Hall |
67,000
55,000
|
55,000 |
Rainer Kempe |
58,400
22,900
|
22,900 |
Bas de Laat |
52,600
24,600
|
24,600 |
Martin Jacobson |
49,300
1,300
|
1,300 |
|
||
Richard Ashby |
48,500
26,900
|
26,900 |
|
||
Fabian Quoss |
15,700
2,200
|
2,200 |
Sam Higgs had become very active as the day drew to a close, taking down several pots with some canny positional play. This trend continued against the short-stacked Jason Gray.
We caught the action on a flop of with Gray and Higgs heads-up just as Gray fired out a bet of roughly 2,500. Higgs came straight over the top with a re-raise to 7,500 and Gray open folded . Higgs turned over for a huge draw and after both players asked the dealer for a rabbit hunt he obligingly peeled off the meaning Higgs would have hit his club flush.
That brings the action to a close and Higgs finished the day with a stack of 107,900 while Gray dropped to 37,200.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Sam Higgs | 107,900 | |
|
||
Jason Gray |
37,200
200
|
200 |
The first of three starting days of the 2017 Aussie Millions drew a crowd of 212 players, up from the 180 last year, and it was Sam Ingham who came out on top with an impressive 160,100-chip stack.
After a word from Australian former cricketer and the countries best bowler to date Shane Warne, the action got underway, and Warne took his seat as well. The man who took over 1,000 test and one-day international wickets in his career didn’t have an outstanding day but still managed to bag up 37,600 in chips.
Things didn’t go well for Phil Laak, who was among the first players to get knocked out, and the same can be said for Jonathan Karamalikis. Sylvain Loosli, Sam Trickett, Annette Obrestad and Dan Shak were among the other casualties as well as WSOP bracelet winner and EPT champion Martin Finger who ran his ace-king into his opponent's pocket queens, and that made sure he wouldn’t make a deep run in the event.
Plenty of familiar faces played on Day 1a, with Sam Higgs among those that did very well, bagging up 107,900. Other top pros that advanced include Corey Kempson (91,900), Jennifer Tilly (85,000) Kahle Burns (73,600), Martin Jacobson (49,300) and Bryan Huang (43,500).
In the mid stages of the last level, Ingham faced off against Chance Kornuth in a hand that saw both players commit all their chips on the turn. Ingham had flopped a straight and was leading against Kornuth's flopped set. No repeat card came on the river and Ingham rocketed up to the top of the chip counts leaving a once big-stacked Kornuth to suddenly hit the rail.
Another to take his seat and progress through was Fabian Quoss (15,700), who didn’t intend on defending his $100,000 Challenge win from last year, opting to jump into the main event instead. The $100,000 Challenge was scheduled to start today, but after only two players took their seats, the event never got up and running. The event was postponed with the new start time being tomorrow at 1 p.m. Players were told that if they take their seats before the start of the second level, then only $1,000 rake will be charged instead of the initial $2,000.
Day 1b of the 2017 Aussie Millions Main Event will begin at 12:30 p.m. local time on Monday. Players will once again play seven 90-minute levels, and of course, the PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be there every step of the way to bring you all the action and eliminations straight from the floor of the Crown Melbourne Poker Room.
$10,000 Main Event
Dia 1a Terminado