It was about 4pm and the cash games were filling up around me as the mood changed in the poker room at Crown Casino.
The cameras were flying around the room as everyone waited for the bubble to burst.
For those that don’t know, the ‘bubble bursting’ is where the last player who is NOT in the money gets knocked out of the tournament. Once this happens, the bubble has burst and the remaining players are all in the money.
In the case of the Aussie Millions, the top 64 players walk away with at least $15,000.
So with the bubble now burst and the final days ahead of us, you can bet the poker room at Crown will really start to fill up as spectators scramble to see the action.
As Day 3 closed, here’s the top 10 chip stacks
Antonio Casale – 1,513,000
Nico Behling – 1,306,000
Dane Lomas – 1,158,000
Max Pescatori – 1,082,000
Robert Akery – 940,000
Peter Mobbs – 908,000
Maximilian Bracht – 837,000
Michael Chrisanthopoulos – 803,000
Robert Holster – 770,000
Erik Seidel – 752,000
Already a well know player online, Mike ‘The Big SiCkO’ Guzzardi has a great interview here on PokerNews TV at the recent H.O.R.S.E event at the Aussie Millions. Remember you can get all your Aussie Millions updates from PokerNews.com
Day one of the H.O.R.S.E. event had the finla table like this:
Seat 1: Joe Meissner — 43,000
Seat 2: Jarred Solomon — 65,000
Seat 3: Van Marcus — 123,500
Seat 4: Leo Boxell — 104,500
Seat 5: David Morton — 38,500
Seat 6: Michael Guzzardi — 98,000
Seat 7: Kerry Stead — 81,000
Seat 8: Anthony MacNamara — 34,500
Using the new PokerPro automated poker tables, event 2 of the Aussie Millions was staged at Crown Casino on Monday with Brisbane player Mitchell Carle taking out the 2nd ring of the series.
Carle is no stranger to the event, taking out 3rd place in the PokerPro event in 2008.
PokerPro’s automated ‘dealerless’ poker tables suit online players better as it’s very much a ‘singular’ game, with less opportunity for spotting ‘tells’.
Each table has 10 players and the smaller field and faster pace of the game meant that it took 83 players less than 8 hours to finish the whole tournament.
Carle got to the final sitting up against Daniel Neilson but was still going head to head with a 3:1 chip stack.
It only took a few hands and Carle emerged victorious, picking up the $25,000 prize with Neilson taking home a handy $16,600 for his troubles. For full play by play coverage of the game, please visit pokernews.com.
110 players kicked off for Day 2 of the Aussie Millions event with previous night’s chip leader, Dean Blatt, in good form for the win. After a long fought battle and a number of casualties (sadly including NZ’s own ‘Kiwi G’ Graeme Putt) Christian Heich of Germany emerged as the day’s winner and took home a coveted Aussie Millions ring and the $150,000AUD prize money. Check out this video from pokernews.com
If you thought event 1a was big with 342 players, event 1b was even bigger with 389 players all ponying up the $1100 buy-in to compete for the big prize. This created a combined pool of over $700,000, well in excess of the guaranteed $500,000 advertised.
After another grueling day on the felt, the cards went Dean Blatt’s way and he finished at the top with 145,300. Blatt picked up an 8th place recently at the 2008 PokerNews Cup Championship in October.
Today 110 of the survivors from day 1a and day 1b will compete for the first title of the Aussie Millions tournament and a grand prize of $150,000.
Play starts at 12:30pm local time and should finish around midnight.
Here’s how the chips stacked from day 1b
Dean Blatt 145,300
Paul Rochford 99,600
Jim Ghobrial 86,800
Ben Delaney 80,000
Steve Goldwater 69,200
Thomas Lindbjerg 63,900
Marcel Jaggi 58,700
Guiseppe Gumina 57,700
Clint Jordanou 57,600
James Broom 47,300
Day one of the Aussie Millions event kicked off in Melbourne’s Crown Casino on Friday with 342 players drawn to the felt on the opening round.
Familiar famous faces were found in the field including Australia’s Tony Hachem, Michael Chrisanthopoulos, Jamie Pickering and New Zealand’s own Graeme ‘Kiwi G’ Putt…
It was about 4pm and the cash games were filling up around me as the mood changed in the poker room at Crown Casino.
