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…
Alexander Kostritsyn, the 2008 Aussie Millions Winner
If you were walking around South Bank in Melbourne, you would almost feel the anticipation in the air. The Aussie Millions has become like the Melbourne Cup for poker players and Crown Casino certainly knows how to turn it on.
Last year it was 21 yr old Alexander Kostritsyn who was crowned 2008 Aussie Millions Champion, could it be you this year?
Crown Casino is offering local players (Kiwis, you just need to jump on a plane) the chance to have a shot too….
