The specifics of the hand escaped us, but we do know that Tom "toll8" Grigg was just eliminated by Brendan Hurtig.
Grigg shoved all in for right around 90,000 on the river with a board reading .
Unfortunately for him, Hurtig held the nuts with the .
Grigg mucked his hand so we're not sure what he had, but the results is the same — he's been eliminated from the 2014 Aussie Millions Main Event shy of the money.
Jason Mercier began the action with an opening raise to 16,000 from early position. Scott Seiver was next to act, and flat-called before action folded to Florian Bussmann in the big blind. Bussmann reraised and made it 59,000 to go. Mercier folded to get out of the way, and it was a good thing he did because the fireworks were about to fly.
Seiver opted to reraise, and he made it 146,000. Not to be outdone, Bussmann clicked it back with a min-reraise to 233,000 — another 87,000 more to Seiver. Seiver then moved all in for a total shove of 736,000. Bussmann called, and the cards were on their backs.
Seiver tabled the and had Bussmann's in bad shape. The flop, turn, and river ran out to keep Seiver's aces in front and give him the massive pot. Seiver moved to 1.5 million in chips, which was good enough to take the chip lead, while Bussmann was knocked all the way back to a little over 300,000.