Three players each put in 3,500 preflop and took a flop of . Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu checked from the small blind, Mike "Timex" McDonald did the same from the under-the-gun position, and Viktor "Isildur1" Blom bet 6,800 from the cutoff. Negreanu folded and McDonald wasted little time in doing the same.
On a side note, Blom is seated at the same table as fellow online superstar Doug "WCGRider" Polk. It should be interesting to see see how there two titans of the virtual felt fair in the live realm.
On a flop of , Senh Ung, who you may recall won the 2013 PokerStars.net ACOP HK$250,000 High Roller for HK$4,086,700 back in November, checked to Christoph Vogelsang on the button. The German bet 1,600, Ung called, and then both players checked the turn.
When the completed the board on the river, Ung led out for 2,500 and Vogelsang quickly folded.
Mike Watson opened the action for 1,600 from the hijack and Isaac Haxton called from the cutoff. Justin Bonomo came along from the big blind and three players saw a flop of . Bonomo checked, Watson bet 3,200, and Haxton thought for a bit before raising to 10,000. Bonomo got out of the way, Watson called, and then both players checked the turn.
When the river put three ladies on the board, Watson led out for 18,000 and it did the trick as Haxton released his hand.
Each player started the tournament with two red chips. These chips don't have a value, but are instead designed to give players a little extra time to think. That's because in this tournament there is a "Shot Clock" in effect. That means each player has just 30 seconds to make their decision.
Once 20 seconds pass, the dealers activate a stopwatch for the last ten. If the player hasn't acted by the time the clock expires, their hand is dead. Of course they can always use one of their red chips if they want to buy some time to think about their decision.
Right now it looks like all the players still have their red chips.
Only 36 players remain in the 2014 Aussie Millions and by days end, there will only be a final-table of seven. Kristy updates you on who is still fighting for the $1.6 million AUD.
We didn't see the hand as it happened, but the tournament staff was kind enough to fill us in on a big hand that just went down at Table 24.
According to the floor, an action flop saw Paul Newey get his chips in with the for a straight flush draw, Jonathan Karamalikis got it in with , and Dan Smith had them both on the ropes with for a set of sixes. Neither the turn nor river influenced the hand and Smith's set held to send two players to the rail.
From the button, Doug Polk raised to 2,500. Viktor Blom called from the small blind, and then Antonio Esfandiari reraised to 8,300 from the big blind. Polk then made it 23,200 to go, Blom folded, and Esfandiari shoved. Polk called, and the cards were tabled.
Polk showed the and was up against the for Esfandiari.
"Let's see how good I am at tournaments!" cried Polk.
The flop came down , and kept Esfandiari in front.
"Well, not too good!" Polk added after seeing the flop.
The turn was the , and the river was the , both missing Polk. Upon the final count of the chips, Polk was eliminated, and Polk added, soared to over 200,000 in chips.
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. Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu checked from the small blind, Mike "Timex" McDonald did the same from the under-the-gun position, and Viktor "Isildur1" Blom bet 6,800 from the cutoff. Negreanu folded and McDonald wasted little time in doing the same.
, Senh Ung, who you may recall 
turn.
completed the board on the river, Ung led out for 2,500 and Vogelsang quickly folded.
turn.
river put three ladies on the board, Watson led out for 18,000 and it did the trick as Haxton released his hand.
for a straight flush draw, Jonathan Karamalikis got it in with 
and was up against the 
for Esfandiari.
, and kept Esfandiari in front.
, and the river was the 
