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One Drop

La semaine dernière, les World Series of Poker a annoncé que huit joueurs plus confirment leur participation dans The Big One for One Drop. Nous sommes plus de deux mois de début de 1 million de $ buy-in l'événement, et le nombre total de participants est maintenant jusqu'à 30, seulement 18 timide de la PAC de 48 joueurs. Le prix de la première place est actuellement $12,266,668 – le plus important dans l'histoire de poker – et sera seulement grandir comme nous près du début de l'événement le 1er juillet.

Il est facile pour nous de se perdre dans le nombre astronomique levé autour, mais la partie la plus intrigante sur le tournoi (en ce moment) est que seul un tiers du champ est composé de joueurs professionnels. Les 10 meuleuses comprennent, Erik Seidel, Justin "a relancé J" Smith, Patrik Antonius, Gus Hansen, Daniel Negreanu, Johnny Chan, Tom Dwan, Tony G, Jonathan Duhamelet Bertrand « ElkY » Grospellier.

On pourrait même soutenir que Tony G est un homme d'affaires qu'un joueur de poker professionnel. Cependant, je dirais que sa capacité à envoyer les joueurs sur leurs vélos parle d'elle-même.

Supposons que la moitié des 20 autres acteurs, y compris Dan Shak qui bat la tête de Phil Ivey jusqu'à remporter le défi de 100 000 $ à la 2010 Aussie Millions et vient de terminer finaliste à Viktor Blom dans le Super High Roller 100 000 $ à 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, sont compétents, et les autres 10 sont simplement Accueil-jeu des héros qui ont un milliard de dollars. Dans ce scénario, il n'y aurait presque 9 millions de dollars en argent amateur.

9 millions de dollars. Oui.

Et je suis conservateur. Si vous demandez des pros dans ce domaine, ou tout les pros qui se cache et essaient de vendre l'action, ils vous diront qu'il existe probablement plus près de 13 millions de dollars en argent amateur déjà dans la cagnotte. C'est incroyable, et c'est peut-être qu'une occasion unique pour les meilleurs joueurs du monde.

Dans le passé, nous avons vu le méli-mélo de joueurs de vendre des actions pour un buy-in six chiffres car il y a un ou deux amateurs inscrits, mais atteignant 100 000 $ ou même de 250 000 $ est beaucoup plus facile à atteindre 1 million de dollars, surtout lorsque les 11 % va directement à One Drop. Étant un organisme de bienfaisance est incroyablement noble et Guy Laliberté et quiconque volontairement donne plus de 100 000 $ pour aider à fournir l'eau potable à ceux qui en ont besoin le plus sont impressionnantes, mais c'est une entrave aux investisseurs potentiels qui recherchent purement d'une longueur d'avance dans le jeu. Afin de vendre des pièces pour cet événement, vous devrez avoir une grande réputation, excellents résultats et des amis très riches qui veulent acheter un morceau de vous, plutôt que de les vendre action eux-mêmes.

S'il y a un groupe de joueurs qui sont proches et sont tous intéressés à jouer dans the Big One mais ne sont pas correctement mis au pour faire, alors peut-être que nous allons voir la société 2.0. Maintenant, vous êtes probablement familier avec Andy Beal et ses deux batailles avec un groupe de joueurs professionnels, dirigé par Doyle Brunson qui a été nommée « La Corporation ». (Si ce n'est pas le cas, alors vous avez des lectures à faire.) Eh bien, il ne serait pas étonnant si nous voyons un groupe de joueurs de regrouper leur argent et de désigner le meilleur joueur du tournoi multi-table de jouer sur leur nom. Ou, mieux encore, ils pourraient accueillir leur propre satellite de six chiffres avec aucun rake et offre des pourcentages à tout le monde qui s'inscrit.

Il y a cependant un inconvénient très clairement à cette idée, ce n'est qu'un seul tournoi. Si le représentant du groupe de bustes sur la première main avec les noix de seconde contre les noix, c'est tout. C'est fini. Il n'y a aucune recave, ni pouvez vous sous un joueur si quelqu'un est en difficulté comme la société l'a fait contre Beal, vous devez donc sélectionner une personne et roule avec eux.

Mais il convient de la variance ? Vaut-il la peine de prendre telle une big shot ?

Si vous avez le bon groupe de personnes, avec le joueur de droite qui les représentent, je le crois. Du haut de ma tête, je pense à un groupe de cinq joueurs qui seraient tous parmi les favoris si ils ont joué, et tous ont 200 000 $ pour plonger dans le pot. Scott Seiver, Eugene Katchalov, Jason Mercier, David "Doc" sableset Isaac Haxton , sont tous certifiés sickos et ont tous fini troisième ou plus dans un six chiffres buy-in au cours des deux dernières années. Seiver, Katchalov et Mercier ont toutes les victoires enregistrées.

Il ne m'étonne pas si tous les cinq de ces joueurs vendus action et jouée, mais si ils sont entrés en tant que groupe, ils économiseraient probablement un joli penny et, si elles n'étaient pas jouer eux-mêmes, ils seraient investir dans l'un des meilleurs joueurs de poker dans le monde. Cependant, l'orgueil est une chose délicate, et il serait difficile pour ces joueurs de s'asseoir sur la ligne de touche et de regarder quelqu'un jouer pour eux.

Peu importe, l'argent est assis là, attendant d'être réclamé. Que ce soit par un amateur, ou l'un des meilleurs joueurs du monde.

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02:15 min., January 25 2012

Things were very tense in the Crown Poker room today as players wait for the bubble to burst in the 2012 Aussie Millions Main Event. Find out if Grant Levy makes the cash.


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January 26 2012, Eric Ramsey, Chad Holloway

Phil Ivey

Two major scheduling changes were announced during Day 15 of the 2012 Aussie Millions Poker Championship. The first was that an extra day would be added to the $10,000 Main Event, meaning the final table would be pushed back to Sunday. The second announcement regarded the start of the $250,000 Challenge being postponed until Saturday.

The biggest story on Thursday, though, was Phil Ivey's deep run in the Main Event. Here’s a look at the action from Day 15 of the 2012 Aussie Millions Poker Championship:

Event #8: $10,000 Main Event Day 3

Day 3 of the Aussie Millions Main Event came and went much faster than most everyone anticipated. From the starting field of 659 runners, the final 75 returned to the Crown Casino Thursday for five scheduled levels of action. Instead, play was cut short after three levels as the field was dashed all the way down to 26 players. When the bags game out, Matthew Turk had worked his stack up to the top of the leaderboard with nearly double the chips of his nearest challenger.

With 75 players returning and only room for 72 on the payout sheet, three unlucky souls were sent off empty handed. As anticipated, the bubble arrived early in the day, but it took nearly two hours to find the next knockout and lock up a payday for the remaining 72. Frank Paul was all the way down to 11,000 chips — barely two big blinds — when he pushed the last of it in with {A-Diamonds} {J-Clubs}. Kenna James didn't have much of a decision in the big blind, and his {8-Hearts} {5-Diamonds} was drawing live for the knockout. Sure enough, the board ran out {Q-Clubs} {9-Diamonds} {6-Diamonds} {5-Spades} {Q-Hearts} and Paul was sent away with only a wooden spoon to show for his AUD$10,000 investment.

Once the soft stepping on the bubble was out of the way, the doors were thrown open and the march to the payout desk began in full force. Tom Grigg was one of the first to bow out with a small cash and was quickly followed out the door by Daniel Botta, James, Billy "The Croc" Argyros, Alexander Roumeliotis, Michael Tureniec, Dominykas Karmazinas, and Michael Pedley. Australia's newest bracelet winner Andrew Hinrichsen was eliminated toward the end of the evening after running his pocket queens into Turk's two kings — an unfortunate end to his day.

It was a game of leapfrog at the top of the chip counts on Day 3, and a handful of players passed the top spot around for a few hours. That included Ivey, who plugged along steadily to bag up 1,107,000 at night's end. He was in contention for the overall lead until a monster pot unfolded on the final hand of the night.

It happened on Table 32 with 280,000 pulled into the pot. Jason Koon had 89,000 out in front of him, meaning some sort of raising war had taken place. Turk took about 40 seconds before moving all-in, and a visibly stunned Koon make the call to create a pot worth around 2 million!

Showdown

"Let's flip for all the chips," Koon said when he saw his opponent's cards. "Whoever wins this wins the tournament." It was a huge hand that would essentially guarantee the winner a spot at the final table. As the railbirds surrounded the table, the dealer burned and the {K-Hearts} was in the window! Koon's excitement vanished instantly when the full flop rolled out {K-Hearts}{10-Spades}{9-Spades}. Turk had flopped a set to take a commanding lead.

Koon, clearly dejected, pleaded for a sweat card on the turn, but the {4-Clubs} left him drawing dead. The {A-Hearts} river sent Koon home in 27th place while Turk ended the night as the massive chip leader with 2.675 million.

The remaining field includes with a couple bracelet winners and a former champion of this event still in the mix. Lee Nelson won this thing in 2006, and he'll be returning Friday with an above average stack of 878,000. Daniel Idema bagged up 1.033 million to end the night, and eight-time bracelet winner Phil Ivey is just out of the overnight top five with 1.107 million. Other notables still in the mix include Yann Dion, Oliver Speidel, Danny Chevalier, Grant Levy and David Steicke.

Day 4 kicks off at 12:30 pm in Melbourne, and the PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be on hand capturing all the action.

Event #16: $2,500 H.O.R.S.E.

On Thursday, the final table of eight in Event #16: $2,500 H.O.R.S.E. returned to battle down to a winner. The tournament had attracted 39 entrants the day before, creating a prize pool of $87,750. Here is how things stacked up at the start of the final table:

With only five spots being paid, the players were eager to turn on the aggression. Matt Woodward and Tom Koral were the first two to go, and Jarret Bullock followed them out the door as the unfortunate bubble boy. David Bach, former winner of the World Series of Poker $50,000 Poker Players Championship, then took over the chip lead and rode it all the way to victory.

For more on the H.O.R.S.E. tournament, be sure to check out the following video with Australian Poker Hall of Famer Marsha Waggoner.

Upcoming Events

The PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be on hand for the duration of the 2012 Crown’s Aussie Millions Poker Championship Main Event on Friday. In addition, Event #19 $2,500 NLHE Six Handed and Event #21 $1,100 8 Game Mixed Event will get under way. Unfortunately, anyone who was looking forward to updates from the $250,000 Challenge will have to wait an extra day because that event has been rescheduled for Saturday.

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03:52 min., 25 janvier 2012

Kenna James a une idée intéressante non seulement sur les aspects mentaux de poker mais également quelques conseils utiles pour les joueurs de l'inclinaison.


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01:17 min., January 25 2012

Nicki Pickering manages to catch up with Australian Poker Hall of Fame legend as she final tables the H.O.R.S.E event at the 2012 Aussie Millions.


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01:34 min., 25 janvier 2012

Découvrez qui sera de retour à jour 3 du 10e anniversaire Aussie Millions Main Event.


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01:34 min., January 25 2012

Find out who will be returning to Day 3 of the 10th Anniversary Aussie Millions Main Event.


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01:49 min., 24 janvier 2012

Tony g doit d'été dans une humeur généreuse arrêté par table de Shane Warne pour lui présenter un cadeau à 2012 Aussie Millions Main Event.


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January 25 2012, Chad Holloway

Randy Dorfman

Randy Dorfman played in his first World Series of Poker in 2007. Since then, he has amassed $1,421,130 in tournament cashes, with his biggest score of $601,546 coming in May 2009 at the £25,000 European High Roller Championship at the European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monte Carlo. Less than two years later, Dorfman made his first trip to Australia and took part in the 9th Annual Aussie Millions Poker Championship, a jaunt that would end up putting him on the poker map.

The 2011 Aussie Millions was a highly anticipated event, attracting notable players like Phil Ivey, John Juanda, and Tom "durrrr" Dwan, just to name a few. With the eyes of the industry focused on Melbourne, Dorfman had an incredible week and dominated the poker headlines.

First, he played in the AUD$1,000 No-Limit Hold’em with Rebuys event, which attracted 86 entries who accounted for 255 rebuys. With a AUD$341,000 prize pool on the line, Dorfman navigated a tough field and finished in second place for AUD$71,610.

As if that weren't enough, Dorfman made waves in the Main Event a few days later, finishing as the chip leader on Day 2. He went on to bulldoze his way to the final table, which he also began as chip leader as he faced off against Patrik Antonius and Chris Moorman, among others. Unfortunately, a devastating river card sent Dorfman to the rail in fifth place.

Dorfman returned to Melbourne for the 2012 Aussie Millions and sat down with PokerNews to discuss his first trip Down Under.

"It’s been about a year and I’m still not over it. I’m a type-A personality; I’m very competitive and I hate losing to a point that it’s not really healthy. I’m very, very competitive. You never get over it, you just always replay it. When I spoke to Erik [Seidel] about how he handles it, you just have to realize that it’s poker. It happens, and you can go a year or two running bad and then all of a sudden you just start running good. You’ve got to accept the fact that you’re going to lose, even though you might think you’re the best player there.

"There were no nerves or anything like that [going into the final table]. There were just two people at the table that I was worried about — Patrik and Chris Moorman. The rest of the field I really didn’t pay any mind to. Having the chip lead doesn't usually last, so it really makes no difference as it seems the short stacks always come back to win these things anyway.

"Patrik was the first one out and Moorman was out early. Patrik got out early when he limped in with pocket kings under the gun, I called with {A-}{J-}, and David Gorr called with {Q-}{10-}. I probably should have raised Patrik, but it was just so early I thought I’d see a flop, which came with a queen and a ten. Gorr flopped two pair, Patrik put it all in on the flop, and that was the end of Patrik.

"I felt good [after Antonius and Moorman were gone], but I’ve witnessed quite a few final tables and I’ve never seen anybody run as lucky as Gorr. I've never seen more four-card flushes in my life and he was just hitting every hand known to mankind. Against Samad Razavi, David had the {A-Spades} in his hand and Sam had {K-Spades}{Q-Spades}. The flop was all spades and David turned a flush on Sam, who quite amazingly laid down his hand.

"In my last hand, I got three-outed on the river. Small blind versus big blind, I think I had 25 big blinds left, and I had pocket tens, which knocked me out this year, too. I need to learn to never play pocket tens anymore. Anyway, I shipped it because he had so many chips, and I know he’s going to call me with any small pair, but I didn’t think he’d call me with a weak ace. He called me, the board was dry, and then boom, the lucky ace on the river as Barry Greenstein would say. Had I won that hand, I think I would have won the tournament. It was devastating.

"If anybody was to win it, I was so happy David won it. He’s a grandfather, this is his hometown, and he was a total gentleman the whole tournament. You couldn’t have found a nicer man to win the tournament. In fact, when I saw him here three days ago, he came over, hugged me, and said hello.

“You know, you try to replay what you did, and I can’t even remember what I did. I just tried to stay out of really bad situations and I got lucky. I had aces against kings, and avoided getting sucked out on. I don’t even recall ever going all in at any time during the tournaments except at the final tables, where I got three outed on the river. Pretty much cost me the tournament. It's really just staying out of trouble and playing the field. They play their own brand of poker here. They open very large, and they tend to bluff off their stacks pretty easily.”

After leaving the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in 2011, Dorfman and his wife, Joy, took a trip to Sydney, Australia, for a week before heading to Melbourne for the Aussie Millions.

"To me, Melbourne is just the most amazing city. I’ve been all over the world and it’s just a young, vibrant town. The structure and the way that they run the tournaments here have just been amazing. The field has been, in my opinion, very soft and a lot of fun to play.

“Last year was a great year and I really hope to repeat it. I’m very glad that was my first time in Australia and I plan on coming back every year. They schedule the Aussie Millions at the perfect time of the year; it’s the summer and the weather is just beautiful. You’ve got the Australian Open going, so any off day or off night we’ve been going to watch tennis. I’m a big tennis fan. I just love hanging with my wife and going there.

“The restaurants here are just amazing. We really didn’t do much of the nightlife or clubs because I’m with my wife. Next year I’ll leave her at home and try to sneak out to a club, but I don’t know if that will happen [laughs]. We got married in November of [2010], and [the 2011 Aussie Millions] was pretty much our honeymoon. We scheduled it to come to the Aussie Millions, and after that we went to New Zealand for a couple of days and then we went to Bora Bora for 10 days, which was just amazing. It broke up the trip a lot, so it wasn’t that bad. Flying from L.A. to Australia really isn’t that bad because you leave at night. You just sleep on the plane, wake up in the morning and you’re already here. It’s pretty good."

The PokerNews Live Reporting Team is currently onsite at the 2012 Crown’s Aussie Millions Poker Championship to bring you live updates from the Main Event.

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02:37 min., January 25 2012

Nicki Pickering tests the international players on their knowledge of Aussie slang words at the 2012 Aussie Millions Main Event.


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03:23 min., 25 janvier 2012

Découvrez qui sera couronné le « Champion des Champions » au Premier événement de 2012 Aussie Millions.


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01:17 min., 25 janvier 2012

Nicki Pickering parvient à rattraper la légende de la renommée du Poker australien comme elle final tables l'événement H.O.R.S.E à 2012 Aussie Millions.


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02:15 min., 25 janvier 2012

Les choses allaient très tendues dans la salle de Poker de la Couronne aujourd'hui comme joueurs attendent la bulle d'éclater dans l'événement principal de 2012 Aussie Millions. Découvrez si Grant Levy rend la trésorerie.


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24 Janvier 2012, Chad Holloway

Phil Ivey and Daniel Negreanu

Le 2012 Aussie Millions Poker Championship a continué mardi avec jour 1 c de l' AUD$ 10 000 Main Event. Il attire un champ absolument empilé qui inclus Erik Seidel, Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu, Jason Mercier et Tony G, pour n'en nommer que quelques-uns.

Voici un aperçu de l'action du jour 13 du 2012 Aussie Millions Poker Championship :

Événement # 8:10 000 $ Main Event jour 1 c

Jour 1 c de 2012 Aussie Millions Main Event terminé mardi soir à Melbourne, en Australie belle. Après sept niveaux de jeu et beaucoup d'action magnifique poker, le champ de 317 qui sort pour le dernier vol de départ a été coupé à moins de 150 ans. À l'avant-garde après ensachage à 198 400 en copeaux fut Robert Lam.

Avec la plupart des gros canons en attente jusqu'au dernier jour de départ pour participer à l'action, Phil Ivey, Jason Mercier, Daniel Negreanu, Joe Hachem, Erik Seidel, Le Nam et Daniel Alaei étaient tous dans la pièce. Ivey ont pris d'assaut de la porte à une avance au début de la puce et occupé son poste pendant la plus grande partie de la journée.

Une fois qu'il a obtenu en six figures, Ivey atteint environ 175 000 avant il se mit à saigner puces baisser et retour à environ 85 000. De là, Ivey a doublé en un affrontement massif avec Shane Warne et retrouva à droite en haut de la Commission. Il a ensuite pour terminer en quatrième dans le classement de c 1 jour avec 184 000 en jetons.

Alors que Ivey a prospéré, Hachem, Alaei, Negreanu, Seidel et Le étaient tous éliminés le jour et n'être aller plus loin dans le Main Event. Mercier avait un jour rugueux accroché autour ou au-dessous de la pile de départ de 30 000 pour la plupart du temps, mais il réussit à gagner un bon nombre de puces avec une flush de diamants contre Dan Smith avant de se terminer avec 61 600.

Autres notables qui en sacs jusqu'à certaines piles décents le jour 1 c ont été Jason Koon, Michael Pedley, David Steicke, Melanie Weisner et Tino Lechich. Ils ont tous retournerai dans salle de poker du Casino de la Couronne le mercredi à partir de 1230 AEST (1730 PST mardi) de poursuivre la recherche. Inscription restera ouverte jusqu'à la première pause sur 2 jours, même que plus de joueurs ont la chance de sauts dans l'événement. Tel qu'il est tout à l'heure actuelle, le plan est de jouer les six niveaux de deux heures, mais qui est sujet à changement.

Quelques unes de la bustouts notables sur la journée comprenaient Mike Watson, Tony Bloom, Sorel Mizzi, Victor Ramdin et Chris Moorman.

À l'avant-garde avec le plomb de puce globale en 2 jours est Brett Watson. Il en sacs jusqu'à 257 400 le jour 1 a.

Événement # 11:550 $ NLHE

Les frais pour le Main Event et le défi de 100 000 $ peuvent se révéler trop onéreux pour certains, mais les gens de la Couronne ont mis quelques options plus abordables sur le calendrier. Un tel tournoi était l'événement # 11 : Hold sans limite de $550, qui a eu lieu le lundi et a été plafonné à 170 joueurs. Peter Costa, le champ de Aussie Millions 2003, était sur le terrain et qui cherchent à capturer la partie de la cagnotte de 85 000 $. De cela, 19 130 $ a été réservée aux premier, tandis que le reste du top 18 est garantis au moins 1 060 $.

Costa n'a pas été capable de faire de l'argent, mais certains noms familiers tels que Tony Delavinias et Chris Ozer fit. Voici un coup d'oeil au tableau final de cet événement :

Événement # 12:5 000 $ chinois Poker

Événement # 12 : Poker chinois de 5 000 $, coups de pied au large de lundi. L'événement a attiré 25 joueurs qui étaient cinq assis à une table, avec le bouton siégeant à chaque transaction. Tout à fait un certain nombre de notables entre l'événement dont Barry Greenstein, Daniel Cates, Jason Gray, Jeffrey Lisandro, Sam Trickett, Eric Crain, Terrence Chan, Gary Benson, Sam Khouiss, Florian Langman, Ivan Tan, Bernard Beh, Graeme Putt, Mike Watson et Sebastian Ruthenberg.

L'événement a été une addition Bienvenue à l'annexe Aussie Millions, et il semblait la plupart des participants eux-mêmes appréciés.

tchanpoker tournoi de poker chinois Chan Terrence #AussieMillions est intense ! Pas le temps de tweet ! Mais beaucoup trop fun. 22 Janvier 2012

Si vous êtes en savoir un peu plus sur Poker chinois, assurez-vous de vérifier Nicki Pickering de vidéo.

Événements à venir

L'équipe de Reporting de vivre PokerNews sera jour 2 du 2012 Aussie Millions Poker Championship Main Event tout au long de la journée de la déclaration en direct. Nous seront également être rechapage des événements plus préliminaires, comme Événement # 13 5 300 $ Heads-Up NLH et Événement # 14 $550 NLHE Terminator, dans notre prochaines récapitulations quotidiennes de Aussie Millions.

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January 25 2012, Chad Holloway

Phil Ivey & Jason Koon

The 2012 Aussie Millions Poker Championship continued Wednesday with Day 2 of the AUD$10,000 Main Event. The field was stacked with the likes of Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Phil Ivey, Jason Mercier, Gus Hansen and Tony G taking their shot at the Southern Hemisphere’s most prestigious title.

Here’s a look at the action from Day 14 of the 2012 Aussie Millions Poker Championship:

Event #8: $10,000 Main Event Day 2

Thanks to a few late registrants, the 2012 Aussie Millions Poker Championship Main Event officially drew 659 players. Day 2 began with a field of 314, all competing for their share of a $6.59 million prize pool with $1.6 million reserved for first place.

Former Aussie Millions Main Event champs Lee Nelson, Tyron Krost, Stewart Scott and Gus Hansen returned on Day 2, but only Nelson managed to survive the day, bagging up 432,500 chips. The first former champ to go was the 2009 champ Scott, who was all-in for his last 36,000 chips with {A-Diamonds}{9-Hearts} and up against the {K-Clubs}{K-Diamonds} of his opponent. The board ran out {8-Hearts}{8-Clubs}{5-Hearts}{6-Clubs}{J-Clubs} and Scott’s day came to an early end.

Tyron Krost, who had won a lifetime of Main Event buy-ins by taking down the 10th Anniversary Tournament of Champions a few days earlier, followed Scott out the door a short time later.

Gus Hansen opted to skip Day 1 altogether and take advantage of the one-level late registration on Day 2. Unfortunately for him, his day didn’t last long. "I busted the Great Dane," Tony G told us with his chest puffed out wide. "Gus always wants to move in, and I trapped him!"

It happened when Aage Ravn opened with a raise to 2,500 from middle position and Tony G looked down at {A-Hearts}{K-Hearts} in the small blind. He decided to call, and that sent the action over to Hansen's big blind. He had {A-Diamonds}{Q-Diamonds} and put on a squeeze play with a bet of 10,000. Ravn folded, Tony G reraised all-in, and Hansen called off the rest of his short stack. The board ran out blank for Hansen, and his Main Event ended almost before it began.

Not long after, Jason Mercier was eliminated when his {A-Hearts}{K-Spades} failed to overcome the {8-Hearts}{8-Spades} of Tom Grigg. Other eliminations during the day included Sebastian Ruthenberg, JP Kelly, Van Marcus, Vitaly Lunkin, Annette Obrestad, JC Tran, David Bach, Tony G, Tom Dwan, and James Dempsey. The latter having finished as the Day 1b chip leader.

Seventy-four players will return for Day 3, and the man best positioned to capture the title is Tim O’Shea, who bagged up 921,000 in chips. With less than an hour left in the day, a monster pot took place that resulted in O'Shea vaulting into the chip lead. It happened when O'Shea opened from under the gun and Josh Barrett defended from the big blind. A raising war ensued on the {3-}{5-}{7-Spades} flop before the {4-Spades} was put out on the turn. At this point, Barrett check-called a bet of 125,000, and followed that up with another check-call of 150,000 on the {A-} river.

O'Shea rolled over {A-Spades}{6-Spades} for a straight, and Barrett inquired, "How do you have a six there?" Barrett revealed that he held {5-}{7-} and was clearly upset at losing the monster pot. With that, O'Shea is the tournament chip leader.

Others taking big stacks into Day 3 are Phil Ivey (778,500), Ravn (708,500), Jason Koon (667,500), Oliver Speidel (540,000), and Patrick Healy (521,000),

Here's a look at some of the notable chips counts:

Day 3 of the Aussie Millions Main Event is set to get under way Thursday at 12:30 p.m. local time. The remaining 75 players are expected to break through the money bubble and begin their march to the final table. For a look at the full list of chip counts headed into Day 3, click here.

The $550 buy-in events have proven tremendously popular here at the Aussie Millions, and Event #14: $550 NLHE Terminator that took place on Tuesday was no exception. The event, which saw a $100 bounty on each player’s head, drew 224 players and created a prize pool of $112,000. Several notables entered the event, such as Peter Aristidou, Jackie Glazier, Ben Richardson, Andrew Demetrious, and our own Lynn Gilmartin. However, the big story turned out to be the deep run of Kevin Mathers, known to the poker world as “Kevmath” on Twitter. We’ll let the tweets tell the story:

Kevmath Kevin Mathers I'm now the proud owner of a Hendon Mob Australian flag!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! January 24 2012

Kevmath Kevin Mathers Out in 6th for 6055, k8

Kevmath Kevin Mathers Again, thanks very much to everyone for the congrats. Still can't believe that just happened to me January 24 2012

Event #14: $550 NLHE Terminator Final Table Payouts

Another $550 buy-in event, which drew 165 entrants, concluded late Wednesday evening when Jackson Zheng defeated Adrian Gravelle in heads-up play. Here’s a look at that event’s results:

Event #15: $550 NLHE Final Table Payouts

Upcoming Events

The PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be on hand for Day 3 of the 2012 Crown’s Aussie Millions Poker Championship Main Event throughout the day. In addition, Event #17 $550 NLHE and Event #18 $2,500 Pot Limit Omaha will kick off on Thursday. Of course, we will review those, and all of the preliminary events, in our daily recaps of the Aussie Millions.

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