Event #11: $10,600 Main Event Dia 2 | 2016 Aussie Millions

2016-01-27 17:35 UTC+10

Huge Three-Way All-In Hand Cripples Pollak, Triples Savard

Nível 11 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

A huge hand just went down at Table 31 that certainly shook up the table dynamics.

Jean-Pascal Savard was enjoying a massage when he raised to 4,000 from the hijack. Shai Liu, perhaps steaming after doubling up Jason Les a short time earlier (at least that is how it could have been interpreted), then three-bet all in for 101,600 from the cutoff. Benjamin Pollak seemed suspicious and eyed up Liu before moving all in over the top from the button. The blinds both folded and then Savard surprised the entire table by snap-calling off for 105,900.

Savard:
Liu:
Pollak:

Liu actually held a legitimate hand, and his overbet would have worked against Pollak. Unfortunately for him, Savard held the granddaddy of all hands and scooped the pot after the board ran out a clean .

Pollak was crippled on the hand while Liu was eliminated from the tournament.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Jean-Pascal Savard	320,000 218,400	218,400
Benjamin Pollak	8,500 -106,500	-106,500
Shao Liu	Eliminado

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2016-01-27 17:58 UTC+10

Painful River Cripples Bardah

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Nível 11 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Bernard Beh just raised to 3,500 and the action folded to Ronnie Bardah in the big blind. Bardah three-bet to 8,800 and Beh moved all in for 55,200. Bardah wasn't too pleased having to a play a massive all-in pre flop, but he made the call.

Bardah:
Beh:

The flop brought out , keeping Bardah in the lead, and the on the turn took away some of Beh's outs. The river however, to much dismay of Bardah, brought the .

"And the river was a club!" Bardah yelled.

"Four outs, only four out!" Bardah continued, as he was left with just 2,000 chips.

Beh was pushed the pot and Bardah sat back down smiling, "I'm just complaining like a little baby."

On the very next hand a player raised to 3,500 and Bardah called all in from the small blind. The player in the big blind called, and Bardah lifted his cards up high, showing them to the player on his right in anticipation of the flop.

It was clearly visible Bardah held , and he showed a big smile when the flop brought out . Bardah flopped a flush, but he had to wait out the action, which was checked all the way down on turn and the river.

"Flopped it" Bardah laughed, showing his cards to the table.

"Nobody has the six or the ace of spades?" he added, but both his opponents mucked, keeping him in the game to mount a possible comeback. A few minutes later Bardah Tweeted the following, as his comeback is now well underway.

Ronnie Bardah @RonnieBardah

Was a 110k pot , left me with 2k , we triple and then we double! 16,800 at 1600!! #neverGiveUp #AussieMillionsJanuary 26, 2016

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Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Bernard Beh	114,000 58,000	58,000
Ronnie Bardah	16,800 -19,200	-19,200

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2016-01-27 19:57 UTC+10

Dunst Knocks Out Colman and Ashby

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Nível 12 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

On the featured table we just saw the tail-end of a three-way all in that involved Richard Ashby, Julian Colman and Tony Dunst. Ashby was the short stack, and all in for 18,400 while Colman risked 77,300 in the following showdown.

Colman:
Ashby:
Dunst:

The board ran out and both Colman and Ashby were knocked out.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Tony Dunst	229,700 115,700	115,700

Richard Ashby	Eliminado

Julius Colman	Eliminado

Tags: Tony Dunst Richard Ashby Julius Colman

2016-01-27 20:21 UTC+10

Dylan Honeyman Leads After Day 2 of Fourth-Largest Aussie Millions in History

Nível 12 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

If there's any thought that poker's in a slump in Australia, the 2016 Aussie Millions Main Event put it to rest. The Southern Hemisphere's most prestigious tournament attracted 732 players, up 84 players from the year before, and the largest turnout since 2010.

The increased turnout, which also made it the fourth-largest Aussie Millions Main Event in its storied 19-year history, created a juicy prize pool of AU$7.32 million that will be distributed to the top 80 players. Of that, AU$1.6 million has been reserved for the winner.

After five one-hour levels of play on Wednesday, approximately 150 players remained in contention with Australia's own Dylan Honeyman and his stack of 517,200 leading the way.

Among those who will return on Day 3 are Jean-Pascal Savard (455,200), Bobby Zhang (425,900), Daniel Engels (421,300), Jason Brown (401,600), and James Obst (378,500), who all bagged big stacks. Also still alive are Samantha Abernathy (269,500), Mustapha Kanit (269,000), Philipp Gruissem (260,100), Kitty Kuo (233,800), Ari Engel (228,600), Stephen Chidwick (222,900), and Joe Hachem (139,700).

Of course, not everyone was so fortunate. Among those to fall on Day 2 were 2015 European Poker Awards Media Person of the Year Marc Convey, European Poker Tour Malta champ Niall Farrell, Australian Poker Hall of Famer Gary Benson, Team PokerStars Pro members Celina Lin, Yaxi Zhu, Bryan Huang, Randy Lew, and Jason Mercier, as well as former Aussie Millions champs Manny Stavropoulos and Tyron Krost.

Stavropoulos and Krost were both eliminated by the same man, Benjamin Pollak, and Stavropoulos' elimination paved the way for no back-to-back winner.

Stavropoulos fell early on when he ran pocket nines into Pollak's tens, and Krost followed him out the door a short time later. If you recall, Krost won the Tournament of Champions back in 2012 — which invited all former Aussie Millions winners to an invite-only freeroll. As a result, he won free buy-ins to the Aussie Millions Main Event for life. Krost was freerolling, but his hope of cashing in came to an end when he ran jacks into Pollak's pocket kings.

That left Ami Barer as the only former champ still in contention. Barer, who topped a field of 668 two years ago, is in good shape to make another deep run bagging a stack of 260,000. Impressively, Barer finished in 11th place last year in his title-defense run.

Day 3 will kick off at 12:30 p.m. local time on Thursday. The money bubble should burst as players look to make it through seven levels of play. The PokerNews Live Reporting team will be there every step of the way to capture the action, so be sure to join us then.

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