2010 Aussie Millions

Event 10: $550 PokerPro No Limit Hold'em Shootout
Day: 1
Event Info

2010 Aussie Millions

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
95
Prize
11,480 AUD
Event Info
Buy-in
500 AUD
Prize Pool
41,000 AUD
Entries
82
Level Info
Level
19
Blinds
800 / 1,600
Ante
0

Level: 5

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 0

Beggs-er Belief

Ronald Beggs pushed for 7,325 over the top of a 4,000 bet from Angelo Scicchitano on a {K-Hearts} {8-Spades} {8-Diamonds} {A-Hearts} board.

Scicchitano took his time to call with {8-Clubs} {4-Clubs}, miles ahead of Beggs' {K-Clubs} {3-Hearts} but the river was the {K-Diamonds} making Beggs the bigger full house.

Oliver Gill played the part of Captain Obvious in the hand, "That was a helpful card..."

Scicchitano was crippled and knocked out soon after. Beggs is the chip leader on his table with about 33,000.

Oops...

Slight problem for Steven Ducharme, who bet out on the river of a {K-?} {J-?} {5-?} {J-?} {K-?} board only to be quickly called by Thuy Quach. Ducharme had had to bluff with {7-?} {5-?} but unfortunately Quach had overquads, holding {K-?} {K-?}.

Quach has 21,000 but Ducharme is the chip leader on the table with 25,000 still.

Level: 4

Blinds: 150/300

Ante: 0

Appreciation For The Structure

We were speaking to Scott O'Reilly, who very much is a fan of the structure, comparing it favourably to the main event, liking the high number of hands per hour though he would've liked antes in the tournament.

He's still on 9,900 at the moment.

All tables still have at least five players playing on them with a couple still having a full compliment of nine players.

Level: 3

Blinds: 100/200

Ante: 0

Hero Call Of The Day

With a board reading {5-Clubs} {A-Diamonds} {Q-Hearts} {6-?} {7-?} one player fired out a bet of 7,600 on the river into a 10,000 pot, covering his opponent who had checked.

The second player defiantly called with just {8-?} {8-?} but alas, his foe who had fired all three streets turned over {Q-?} {Q-?} for second set.

One of the other players said, without too much sympathy, "I knew you were going to donk off all your chips mate!"

The youngster who won the pot though, couldn't stop giggling uncontrollably.

Show One

Over on the James Keys table, the eight players are playing the show one card game if you win the pot. They've also been the first to lose a player after someone ran {A-?} {K-?} into {A-?} {A-?}.

Level: 2

Blinds: 50/100

Ante: 0

Pressing The Red Reset Button

It looks as though the tournament is going to have to be restarted with all chip counts reset to their starting stacks. Several players have come over to Pokernews, very unimpressed out that some players on their tables had stacks of up to 19,000 and are now losing out.

"Someone could have been knocked out," said James Keys, inferring that they'd have a full stack again from this restart. Others are apparently going to ask for their buy-in back.

The tournament has now restarted, but it remains to be seen how happy those playing this event are with this decision.