Aussie Millions Highlights
Dia 9 Concluído
Aussie Millions Highlights
Dia 9 Concluído
After 12 levels on play on the first flight of Event #8: A$1,150 Accumulator just 23 players advanced to Day 2 from a starting field of 238.
Leading the way is Ang Seng who already has one cash at the Aussie Millions this year after finishing 32nd in the Opening Event for A$6,285.
Close behind him is Luke Martinelli. Martinelli has two previous second-place finishes at the Aussie Millions; last year in the Team Event and the year before in the Deep Freeze. Having safely ensured his passage through to Day 2, he'll be hoping for another deep run.
Here is a list of the players advancing to Day 2:
Name | Chip Count |
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Ang Seng | 252,500 |
Luke Martinelli | 243,500 |
James Hopkins | 146,600 |
Vincent Huang | 141,000 |
Rahul Rastogi | 129,300 |
Gyeongbyeong Lee | 108,700 |
Vic Spadavecchia | 108,400 |
Benedict Chiang | 98,000 |
Sam Vakili | 96,800 |
Wei-Cheng Yin | 93,700 |
Sean Ragozzini | 88,600 |
Paul-Francois Tedeschi | 87,400 |
Sadan Turker | 86,800 |
Christopher Colaneri | 76,100 |
Natalie The | 70,900 |
Antonis Kambouroglou | 55,800 |
Luigi Knoppers | 55,400 |
John Duggan | 52,700 |
Te Mai | 49,800 |
Jacky Wong | 48,400 |
Myeong Hwan Park | 44,800 |
Chun Kwok | 42,800 |
Dylan Kii | 19,500 |
Other notable players advancing include Hwan Park, who made it to the semi-finals of the Mix Max event and Pot Limit Omaha runner-up Dylan Kii, although he bagged the fewest chips.
There are two more flights, with the second getting underway at 12:10 pm on Thursday 24th January, and the second at the same time on Friday 25th January.
Stay tuned to PokerNews for continued coverage of the 2019 Aussie Millions.
After 18 levels of play, it is perhaps apt that just eight players remain in Event #7: A$2,500 8 Game after Day 1.
The plan for the day was to play 18 levels or down to a final table of seven and by the time 2 am rolled around - and after an extended hand-for-hand bubble period - the tournament was just one elimination short of combining for a final table of seven.
And for the second day in a row, Benny Glaser is bagging up chips ahead of another Day 2. Sitting pretty at the last break in the day, he navigated the final three levels including the bubble with ease to bag up 541,500.
Also bagging up a big stack is Michael Gathy, who will be hoping to emulate fellow Belgian Bart Lybaert's ring-winning exploits earlier in the day.
"It's obviously been a pretty good day," said Glaser. "I actually went from 600,000 down to around 300,000 at one point, but I'm happy to be bagging 540,000. I ran well and just had fortunate spots where I was able to put pressure on the bubble."
Here are the remaining players in the 8 Game Mix and the seat draw for the start of Day 2:
Table 10 | Name | Chip Count | Table 8 | Name | Chip Count |
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1 | Dean Francis | 153,000 | 1 | David Munday | 89,000 |
2 | Michael Gathy | 390,000 | 2 | Dale Townsend | 66,000 |
3 | Benny Glaser | 541,500 | 3 | Sal Ribbera | 278,500 |
4 | Tim Marsters | 214,000 | 4 | Oliver Gill | 180,500 |
Players who jumped in the 8 Game field but failed to make Day 2 include Mix Max champion Ari Engel, Johannes Becker, Joe Hachem, Julien Martini, Michael Moore, James Obst, Graeme Putt, Dzmitry Urbanovich and Jerry Wong.
The money bubble burst midway through the penultimate level of the night, with Mel Judah the unfortunate bubble boy, eliminated in Omaha Hi-Lo. Richard Ashby (11th - A$6,275) would bust in the last level of the night along with 2019 Shootout Champion Justin Liberto (10th - A$7,325) and Daniel Ospina (9th - A$7,325).
Here are the remaining payouts:
Place | Payout (AUD) | Payout (USD) |
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1 | $58,590 | $42,185 |
2 | $39,760 | $28,627 |
3 | $26,155 | $18,832 |
4 | $19,355 | $13,936 |
5 | $14,125 | $10,170 |
6 | $11,510 | $8,287 |
7-8 | $9,415 | $6,779 |
Play resumes at 1 pm tomorrow with Glaser in pole position for the A$58,590 first prize and ANTON Championship Ring.
Belgian Bart Lybaert has won Event #6: A$1,150 Six Max for A$124,355 after besting a field of 542 runners to earn one of the biggest victories of his career so far.
Lybaert beat Travis Endersby in a come-from-behind victory heads-up to score his second side event victory in a little over two weeks - and on opposite sides of the planet!
Endersby doubled up three times at the final table after coming in as the shortest stack at the final table. He adds A$82,695 to the A$6,640 he earned for finishing eighth in the Shot Clock Shootout earlier in the week.
Place | Name | Country | Payout (AUD) | Payout (USD) |
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1 | Bart Lybaert | Belgium | $124,355 | $89,536 |
2 | Travis Endersby | Australia | $82,695 | $59,540 |
3 | Ong Dingxiang | Singapore | $48,905 | $35,212 |
4 | Ta-Wei Tou | Taiwan | $36,080 | $25,978 |
5 | Gautam Dhingra | Australia | $24,930 | $17,950 |
6 | Michel Bouskila | Australia | $17,960 | $12,931 |
7 | Ali Ghezelbash | Australia | $12,385 | $8,917 |
Ari Ghezelbash was the first elimination, bringing the tournament down to its final six players. This was Ghezelbash's 12th Aussie Millions cash and his first since 2017, taking home A$12,385.
Coming into the final table as the shortest stack, Travis Endersby had chipped up somewhat, and doubled his 200,000 chip stack when he got kings in against the jacks of Michel Bouskila and held to score a vital double-up.
Endersby then grabbed himself another double through Tou. Endersby was in bad shape with queen-king against the ace-king of Tou, but a queen on the river kept him alive.
Bouskila had scored small double of his own through Tou shortly after but was eliminated with ace-king against the pocket aces of Bart Lybaert. Bouskila cashed for A$17,960.
This boosted the Belgian into the chip lead with five players left but Tou quickly wrestled it back with the elimination of Gautam Dhingra. Dhingra held king-queen against the ace-four of Tou. An ace on the flop was enough to eliminate Dhingra in fifth place for A$24,930.
Endersby then doubled through Lybaert with pocket nines against the Belgian's ace-king for his third double at the final table, moving him into the chip lead in the process.
Ong Dingxiang had been pretty quiet at the final table, despite coming in as the chip leader and was down to ten big blinds in the big blind when Endersby shoved pocket nines. However, it was Tou who called with sevens and was eliminated in fourth place. The start-of-day chip leader takes home A$48,905.
Both Endersby and Lybaert were still locked at the top of the chip counts, but that would change with the elimination of Dingxiang shortly after the break. King-high was enough to send the final table chip leader home in third for A$48,905.
That gave Endersby a strong chip lead ahead of heads-up with a 3:1 chip lead. However, Endersby called off with second pair to double up his opponent who held top pair, and Lybaert used the right mix of aggression and timing to chip up.
Eventually, it was Lybaert who emerged victorious adding an Aussie Millions ANTON Championship Ring to his poker resume.
With 15 players starting the day, it didn't get long to get down to an unofficial final table of seven in Event #6: A$1,150 Six Max.
Benny Glaser (9th - A$9,595) and David Yan (8th - A$12,385) were eliminated leaving the final seven seated around a single table. The chip leader was Ong Dingxiang who had risen from being one of the short stacks at the start of the day.
Start-of-day chip leader Ta-Wei Tou and Bart Lybaert were also sitting pretty on over one million chips:
Seat | Name | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
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1 | Ta-Wei Tou | Taiwan | 1,200,000 | 75 |
2 | Michel Bouskila | Australia | 328,000 | 21 |
3 | Ong Dingxiang | Singapore | 1,500,000 | 94 |
4 | Bart Lybaert | Belgium | 1,300,000 | 81 |
5 | Ali Ghezelbash | Australia | 238,000 | 15 |
6 | Gautam Dhingra | Australia | 646,000 | 40 |
7 | Travis Endersby | Australia | 124,000 | 8 |
Coming into the day as the chip leader, Tou still sits with over one million in chips. This is the Taiwanese player's first Aussie Millions cash having played predominantly in Macau and Taiwan. The biggest cash of his career came in December, winning a Jeju Red Dragon Deepstack event for US$31,514.
With over US$1,000,000 in lifetime earnings, Bouskila sits comfortably inside the top 50 on the all-time Australian money list. This is his 12th Aussie Millions cash, and the fifth year in a row that he has registered a cash at the southern hemisphere's most prestigious tournament.
A former winner of this event in 2013, Bouskila will be hoping to eclipse the A$110,00 he won back then with victory today.
Dingxiang has made a blistering start to the day to lead heading into the final table. The player who hails from Singapore was fourth-shortest when the cards were in the air at 1 pm but has risen through the ranks to take the chip lead with seven players left. This is already Dingxiang's biggest cash of his career.
By far the biggest name at the final table, Lybaert sits fourth in the Belgian all-time money list with close to US$3,000,000 in career cashes. With one Aussie Millions cash to date - an 11th place in last year's Bounty tournament for A$9,790, Lybaert will be looking to add an ANTON Championship Ring to career titles won in Monaco, France, the Bahamas and the Czech Republic.
Just like fellow final tablist Bouskila, this is also the 12th Aussie Millions cash of Ghezelbash's career. A runner-up finish in the 2012 Hold'em/Omaha Event is his best result so far, but will be hoping to go further at only his second Aussie Millions final table.
You have to go back eight years, but Dhingra is a former final tablist in the Aussie Millions Six Max event, finishing fourth in 2011 for A$29,760. Since then he has racked up three more cashes here at the festival in Melbourne, but it is his first since 2015.
Having already made one final table this trip in the Shot Clock Shootout, finishing eighth for A$6,640, Endersby decided that he wasn't done there and duly made another one. Coming into this year's festival with only one Aussie Millions cash to his name, he has surpassed even his wildest expectations and will be looking to take down the title having been so close earlier this festival.
Here are the remaining payouts:
Place | Payout (AUD) | Payout (USD) |
---|---|---|
1 | $124,355 | $89,536 |
2 | $82,695 | $59,540 |
3 | $48,905 | $35,212 |
4 | $36,080 | $25,978 |
5 | $24,930 | $17,950 |
6 | $17,960 | $12,931 |
7 | $12,385 | $8,917 |
Today at the 2019 Aussie Millions sees the start of two more events, the 8-Game Mixed Event and the exciting Accumulator which allows players to combine stacks should they advance from more than one starting flight.
The champion of the Six Max will also be crowned, with Ta-Wei Tou starting the day as the chip leader with only 15 players remaining.
Here's today's schedule:
Day | Event | Time | Buy-in |
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23rd January | Event #7: 8 Game Mixed Event | 12:10 PM | AUD$2,500 |
Event #8: No Limit Hold'em Accumulator Day 1 Flight 1 | 6:10 PM | AUD$1,150 | |
Event #6: No Limit Hold'em Six Max Final Day | 1 PM | Registration closed |
Last year British bracelet winner Richard Ashby outlasted a field of 71 players and defeated a star-studded final table to win the AUD$2,500 8 Game Mixed Event for AUD$52,270.
This year's tournament gets underway shortly after noon, with players receiving 20,000 in chips and playing 18 40-minute levels or until the final table of seven is reached if earlier
Late registration is available for six levels.
Finally, the first of three flights in Event #8: AUD$1,150 No Limit Hold'em Accumulator gets underway at 6:10 pm. Last year it was Eugene Portlen who took down this event for AUD$154,925, defeating Wei-Cheng Yin heads-up to secure his second Aussie Millions title.
With 10,000 starting chips, there will be 12 40-minute levels on each of the starting flights. The event is an accumulator/repechage format. Players may play multiple starting flights.
Players who survive multiple flights will have their stacks combined on Day 2. Day 2 will play until the final table is reached.
Late registration and re-entries are available for six levels. This tournament is played with a big blind ante, with the big blind posted before the ante.
Stay tuned to PokerNews for all the updates live from the 2019 Aussie Millions.
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