The remaining 23 players in the $2,500 Shot Clock Six-Max No-Limit Hold'em have taken their seats, opened their bags, stacked their chips, and are now ready for action. They are playing down to a winner today, who will walk away with $141,150 and the LK Boutique Championship ring.
Chip leader Christian Nolte will be aiming to continue his impressive run in this years Aussie Millions Championship, after running deep in Event #6 last week - also a Six Max event.
Nolte will have some tough competition for the title, however, with Daniel Neilson, Niall Farrell, Jarred Graham and Andrew Hinrichson close behind him on the leader board.
Play begins with the start of Level 16 and blinds at 1,500/5,000 with a 500 ante. Levels will be 40 minutes until the final table is reached.
Andrew Hinrichsen has become somewhat of a terminator in this event, having recently eliminated Didier Guerin, and now Xuan Liu.
Hinrichsen raised to 20,000 from the cutoff, and Liu made the call from the big blind. The flop came and Xuan Liu checked. Hinrichsen fired another 20,000 bets, and Xuan Liu check-raised all-in for 77,000 total. Hinrichsen made the call, opening for an open ended straight draw. Liu showed for middle pair of Jacks.
Liu was in the lead, but had to fade a lot of cards in order to win the pot. The turn card was the , giving Hinrichsen even more outs to a diamond flush. The river card fell , completing the straight for Hinrichsen and busting Xuan Liu in 11th place (AU$9,685).
Start-of-day chip leader Christian Nolte is back on top again.
He got in a preflop raising war with chip leader Andrew Hinrichsen and by the time the dust was settled, found himself all in for 430,000 total and the .
Hinrichsen called with the dominated , the board ran out and Nolte doubled into the lead.
Walter Treccarichi raised to 34,000 in the cutoff, and Christian Nolte three-bet to 85,000 from the big blind. It was folded around to Treccarichi, who moved all-in for 601,000. Nolte made the call.
Walter Treccarichi -
Christian Nolte -
The board bricked out completely and Treccarichi's Jacks held to double him up to over 1.2mil and give him the chip lead.
Walter Treccarichi made it 45,000 under the gun and Andrew Hinrichsen defended his big blind.
Hinrichsen checked the flop, then check-raised all in when Treccarichi made it 65,000. Treccarichi called with the and Hinrichsen was at risk with the .
The turn and river were the last cards Hinrichsen would see in this event as he hit the door seventh.
Simon Chahine moved all-in from the button, and Daniel Neilson moved all-in over the top from the small blind. Walter Treccarichi folded the big blind and the cards were opened.
Chahine:
Neilson:
Neilson's Ten's held up as the board ran out , and Simon Chahine was eliminated in 5th place for AU$29,050
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run out to give him the double knockout and the lead.
and Xuan Liu checked. Hinrichsen fired another 20,000 bets, and Xuan Liu check-raised all-in for 77,000 total. Hinrichsen made the call, opening 
, giving Hinrichsen even more outs to a diamond flush. The river card fell 
, completing the straight for Hinrichsen and busting Xuan Liu in 11th place (AU$9,685).
smack into Walter Treccarichi's dominating 
board made them both a pair.
versus Patrick Mahoney's 
and held through a 
and Nolte doubled into the lead.
and Treccarichi's Jacks held to double him up to over 1.2mil and give him the chip lead.
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river were the last cards Hinrichsen would see in this event as he hit the door seventh.
river gave Treccarichi a bigger pair, crushing all Nolte's hopes and dreams.
