Aussie Millions day 2A dinner break update

Daithio

OK, so playing yesterday were Andy Black and Frank Cruise Callaghan. Andy made it through with 69k, above average, and Frank has something similar. So all good there.

Playing today were myself, Conor Doyle, Dave Callaghan and Simon Hennessy. All of us are gone bar Dave at this stage , who is well chipped on 46k. Somehow myself Dave and Conor all drew the same starting table, which was pretty tough. There was one fish there who was spewing chips from the first hand, but apart from that there was very little value.

The three of us started playing very solidly, and I won a small pot to go to 22k early. Then I called a guy down with 77 on JJ68K board, I had him on a flush draw which he had but he hit the K with it on the river. Wasn't a huge pot but I was back to starting stack. In the mean time Conor had lost a couple of small ones to go to 17k and Dave had made a great call to double up with 9T off for all his chips on a 6x9cTc flop, up against JcQc. This was all in the first level. Then Dave proceeded to be gifted the table donk's chips with AA on a Kxx flop, where the guy had called a big limp reraise from Dave and got it in with KQ on the flop.

Conor tried a big play with 77 on a straighting turn, which would have worked, only for a flush to come on the river. He bet, and the guy reluctantly called with a set, saying that if the flush hadn't come he would have folded but couldn't see why Conor would bet the straight with the flush there. So Conor was down to 5k, and was gone when I came back from a smoke break. Something about a flush draw vs AA, the details are sketchy!

Then it was level two, I was about even on chips, on roughly 19k or so, and then I played this hand. There was a persistent raiser directly on my right who limped in the cut off. I thought this was a bit strange, as he'd been raising from that position so often but had been reraised a few times and had to give it up. So I figured if he was strong he'd probably raise, anticipating the reraise, but the limp to me looked like something he didn't want to play to a reraise or maybe even a raise. Anyway I made it 1k with blinds 100 200 on the button with KJ suited. He flat called, flop 677, he checks, I bet 2k, he made it 5k. I really thought a push against this player would win the pot, but I gave it up anyway, for some reason, and he declared that he had 99 and would have folded to a push. I don't believe him necessarily, but my bet opened me up to a reraise which was my fault, so I misplayed that hand but was still fine on 16k or so. I had been playing VERY tight though, and was probably about 80% certain a push would work, but couldn't quite find it in me.

Then I limp with 7d8d, and the sb completes, a shortstacked Andy Bloch checks his option in the BB. checked around on a 59J flop, and the turn brings the T. Andy Bloch pushes for 2.5k or so, I call, other guy folds, he has J5 and hits a 5 on the river for a house. So down to 13.5k. Not much happens for a while now, I've found out that this table is to be broken and it's pretty tough so I decide to shut up shop for a while.

Table is broken, I have 13.5k, and get moved to a much better table. A guy manages to do a 25k stack calling all in with Ts8s on a 6s9xKs board, and there are a few players who look weak. Anyway I throw in a few raises with middle pairs/ decent aces from mid to late position and get reraised every time (blinds now 200-400) and I'm down to 9k. I limp with 77 utg, there is another limper and the button makes it 2k to go. The other limper folds out of turn and I decide to push. The raiser didn't look particularly strong and I'm fairly certain he'll fold, which he does. Then a couple of orbits later and I play a raised pot with 9hTh. I misplayed this hand and I'm the first to admit it. I think it was in my head that I'd given up a couple of pots earlier where I thought that a push would win it, but I had absolute air on all those occassions, so when the flop came down 8J3, I decided I was making a play. The other guy, who had just moved to the table a few minutes before, led out for 2.5k and I pushed for 9k. He called with AJ and that was that. Not entirely proud of the move, on reflection I definitely pushed because of the earlier hands I'd played when I think I could have won it with a push but didn't follow through because I had no outs in case I was wrong. On this occassion I wasn't nearly so certain that he'd fold, but pushed because of the outs I had. I still don't think it's a terrible move, he has plenty of folding equity and I have outs if I'm called, but I shouldn't have made it against an unknown. The biggest mistake is playing 9T to a raise preflop when short stacked.

Anyway I've got Conor and Simon to go out boozing with and forget about it, and Dave is still on 46k and well above average. Cheers for all the support from the backers as usual, I'll get to day two one of these days! I was fairly card dead over 6-7 hours of play to be fair, QQ being my best hand which I took down the blinds with, aside from that it was 88 and AK twice I think. Otherwise I had very little to work with and felt I played well on the whole despite my exit hand which was a mistake.

On the plus side Dave C, Andy Black and Frank Cruise Callaghan are all well chipped and all seem to be in form, so I'm expecting a decent result from one of them at least. I'll post later on to let you all know how Dave's going, and I'll try to do a few updates from day two proper tomorrow, GL!

LuckyLloyd

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DeVore

playing 9T to a preflop raise when shortstacked seems... O.ó... alright but I'd have been dissappointed if you hadnt pushed with the draw on the flop, seems quite reasonable! As you say you have outs regardless. Dont beat yourself up, sounds like it was just one of those tournies.

Wish Dave, Frank and Andy the best of luck will you!

DeV.

carrigeen

fintan gavin survived day 1b and is on 35.8k

carrigeen

seating day 2

2 1 FELDMAN, PETER M
2 2 KARAM, MARC
2 3 CALLAGHAN, DAVID J
2 4 ANTONIUS, PATRIK
2 5 SMITH, PHILIP I
2 6 SKOUTERIS, PETER
2 7 LEE-NELSON, J
2 8 WEST, TIMOTHY M

19 1 HANSEN, MORTEN
19 2 WASICKA, PAUL J
19 3 PETRONACK, DENNIS T
19 4 CRUESSCALLAGHAN, FRANK
19 5 LI, SAN MING
19 6 GAVIN, FINTON J
19 7 LOMBARDO, JOHN V
19 8 MONCADA, EDWARD


20 1 LINDGREN, ERICK A
20 2 RENOLDI, SIMON M
20 3 DUARTEDESOUSA, NUNO J
20 4 HOGAN, JAMES J
20 5 PATTERSON, ANDREW
20 6 BLACK, ANDREW
20 7 SUGAWARA, SAKURA
20 8 BRAVER, RYAN

Shortstack

Quote from Dave before he knew the seating draw - "Ivey is out too thankfully so Antonius is my only worry.."

carrigeen

Shortstack wrote:

Quote from Dave before he knew the seating draw - "Ivey is out too thankfully so Antonius is my only worry.."

at least he has only a tiny stack:(

kpnuts

I'd wager Dave's table will almost certainly be TV feature table down there too, with not only tourney chip leader and world's best poker player Antonius but also reigning Aussie Millions champ Lee Nelson on it too.

Shortstack

Oops he must have been joking when he said I could use that quote

Just logged into messenger and got the 'you were sent messages whilst offline" - Dave says - You actually posted that you w***ker, ur dead....

ocallagh

Shortstack wrote:

Oops he must have been joking when he said I could use that quote

Just logged into messenger and got the 'you were sent messages whilst offline" - Dave says - You actually posted that you w***ker, ur dead....

lol

MrPillowTalk

I hope he actually goes to bed instead of blowing his chances by going on the piss like singapore.

Go on Dave due a result.

Daithio

In case you all didn't know Dave finished the day on 68k. Not bad at all, he got paid off in a 5 way pot from the BB on a K33 flop with 83, when some guy called him down with a king.

He was playing REALLY well yesterday when I was at his table, very relaxed and thinking every decision through fully. The call with the 9T was sheer class, I think maybe one in ten players make that call. I certainly don't anyway, I can't remember how it played out 100% but it was a very good call. So yeah I doubt that being on Antonius's table will phase him, Antonius isn't a lunatic and he'll choose players to pick on and players to avoid, Dave will be on his list of players to avoid I'd think.

BigCityBanker

Daithio wrote:

In case you all didn't know Dave finished the day on 68k. Not bad at all, he got paid off in a 5 way pot from the BB on a K33 flop with 83, when some guy called him down with a king.

He was playing REALLY well yesterday when I was at his table, very relaxed and thinking every decision through fully. The call with the 9T was sheer class, I think maybe one in ten players make that call. I certainly don't anyway, I can't remember how it played out 100% but it was a very good call. So yeah I doubt that being on Antonius's table will phase him, Antonius isn't a lunatic and he'll choose players to pick on and players to avoid, Dave will be on his list of players to avoid I'd think.

good stuff - excuse my lack of knowledge but how many starters? How many left etc?

PokerEvents-Ste

BigCityBanker wrote:

good stuff - excuse my lack of knowledge but how many starters? How many left etc?

747 Started

303 will start day 2

Fintan Gavin of PokerEvents has finished the end of day 1 with 35,800 with the average about 46k.

His day 2 table will be:

19 1 HANSEN, MORTEN
19 2 WASICKA, PAUL J
19 3 PETRONACK, DENNIS T
19 4 CRUESSCALLAGHAN, FRANK
19 5 LI, SAN MING
19 6 GAVIN, FINTON J
19 7 LOMBARDO, JOHN V
19 8 MONCADA, EDWARD

Good Luck Fintan

carrigeen

just saw on fintans website

130 players left.

Andy Black is one of the big stacks with 220k
Fintan Gavin 170k
Frank Cruise Callaghan 95k
Dave Callaghan 60k


welldone lads everyone seems to be going well, not sure were they end of day 2 counts or just at a break in the day (was posted irish time 9am)

Shortstack

Andy had 370k now according to pokernews. Dave C's count has not changed since early in play and no counts for Frank or Fintan. Typical. We nearly went to follow this one!

TheDuck32

yeehawwwwww go Fintan.

carrigeen

frank callaghan just doubled up to 60k

carrigeen

Shortstack wrote:

Andy had 370k now according to pokernews. Dave C's count has not changed since early in play and no counts for Frank or Fintan. Typical. We nearly went to follow this one!

ah man it would have been deadly if ye were there:)

waiting on texts are is a pain in the arse

gocall01

Is this going to be shown on TV in the near future?

Hitman Actual

8 players to go to for the bubble (top 80 get paid), Andy is 3rd in chips at 400K. Some links:

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/aussie-millions-2007/event-9-aussie-millions-main-event/blog/

http://www.pokerwire.com/results.php?title=updated-chip-counts&uid=25514

gilmour

andy seems to be on top of his game this week

BigCityBanker

lenny_leonard wrote:

8 players to go to for the bubble (top 80 get paid), Andy is 3rd in chips at 400K. Some links:

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/aussie-millions-2007/event-9-aussie-millions-main-event/blog/

http://www.pokerwire.com/results.php?title=updated-chip-counts&uid=25514

no access to this in work - will somebody throw up a few random updates here when they get a chance.

ty.

carrigeen

frank callaghan busted 85th i think ul

phantom_lord

gilmour wrote:

andy seems to be on top of his game this week

looks like it'll be a nice payday for him.

kpnuts

Just been chatting to pro railbird DaithiO, he's having trouble filing updates on Boards due to some problem with the IP address Down there.

Andy now has "mountains", around 400k probably.

Dave C hanging in there on 80k, lost a large pot just before the final level of Day 2 after being up to 140k, I think DaithiO said.

Fintan had around 150k, he thought.

gilmour

Andy Black shows no fear versus David Pham

Andy Black raised to 12k on the button and David "The Dragon" Pham reraised to 35k from the small blind. Black put in a fourth raise to 115k and Pham thought for a few minutes before showing the K spade and mucking. Black flipped over Kc9h and declared, "We're gambling!"

5starpool

KP, check your PM's.

Hitman Actual

Hand for hand on the bubble now. Andy has slipped back a bit, but he's still 2x average. Interesting to see Paul Wasicka up there again (the guy who folded the big draw at the WSOP FT).

Place Name Chip Count
1 Haralabos Voulgaris 570,000
2 Emanuel Seal 520,000
3 Jan Suchanek 505,000
4 Christopher Chronis 456,000
5 Gus Hansen 440,000
6 Dennis Huntly 400,000
7 Nicki Dalguard Full Tilt Qualifier 370,000
8 Paul Wasicka 360,000
8 David The Dragon Pham 360,000
10 Andy Black 350,000
11 Shane Schleger Full Tilt Qualifier 300,000
11 Kristy Gazes 300,000
13 Patrik Antonius 272,000
14 Ross Boatman 270,000
15 Joe Hachem 265,000

LuckyLloyd

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gilmour

the bubble just burst and play has ended for the night.

kpnuts

Andy, Dave & Fintan all confirmed ITM (source: DaithiO)

BigCityBanker

kpnuts wrote:

Andy, Dave & Fintan all confirmed ITM (source: DaithiO)

wp

Hitman Actual

LuckyLloyd wrote:

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=30546

In all fairness, the guy had some good results before the WSOP and is clearly a player to be reckoned with.

Oh I know, and I'm not ragging on the guy, but his name will be associated with that hand for a long time. And he would have been a much more respected winner than assclown Gold.

Well played to the three lads still in.

MrPillowTalk

Anyone have the Irish final chip counts. Thats a fabulous performance from the Irish to get that many in the money cant imagine more than 8-10 travelled.

Go on Dave get in there son.

DeadParrot

Andy seems to have habit of blowing big stacks doesnt he?

Obviously he's a great player but I sometimes wonder if his temperment could use adjusting somewhat

kpnuts

Irish lads in bold underlined, italicized a few other well-knowns

8 1 Voulgaris Haralabos 634,500
13 1 Hansen Gus 562,500
15 3 Fricke Jimmy 535,500
16 3 Suchanek Jan 516,000
13 3 Seal Emanuel 514,000
12 6 Black Andrew 501,500
11 2 Fletcher Patrick 484,500
9 6 Wasicka Paul 451,500
8 7 Chronis Chris 416,000
11 4 Ismael Michael 400,500
16 8 Huntly Dennis 373,000
18 6 Huminicki Joe 369,000
11 3 Dalgaard Nicki 350,000
15 4 Pham David 350,000
8 2 Schleger Shane 346,500
19 6 Karam Marc 322,500
19 2 Boatman Ross 316,000
9 2 Junglen Adam 309,500
16 4 Colman Julius 301,500
15 1 Goldfarb Robert 289,000
9 8 Hachem Joe 275,000
12 2 Brauer Ryan 274,000
9 3 Vogl Hans Martin 256,500
17 8 Antonius Patrik 236,000
15 6 Childs Simon 226,000
16 7 Kolk Marek 210,000
18 7 Gazes Kristy 199,000
16 5 Topakas Stephen 198,500
15 5 Nelson Lee 192,000
11 5 Vaughan Eric 182,000
19 7 Gavin Finton 181,500
18 1 Xenofontos Xen 178,000
11 8 Buskas Jonas 173,000
15 8 Rothgarn Brent 172,000
19 5 Rawlings Rick 168,500
13 5 Varoxis Kosta 164,000
15 7 Purvis Derek 158,000
19 1 Gerasimov Kirill 150,500
13 2 Prager Josh 143,000
8 8 Georgoulas Nicki 139,500
8 3 Laughton Jackson 137,500
12 3 Tadros Ramy 124,000
8 5 Monaghan Adam 120,500
8 6 Glabl Jacob 120,000
18 3 Atkin Kevin 101,500
9 7 Fisler Ryan 100,500
18 8 Alspach Daniel 99,500
19 4 Hartree Katherine 97,000
13 6 Sexton Keith 96,000
16 6 Foltyn Paul 92,000
13 7 Bobik Nathan 83,500
17 4 Skouteris Peter 81,500
19 3 Howe Jeffery 79,000
9 1 Bosman Jaques 77,500
12 8 swenski Chris 76,000
11 7 Duante de Sousa Nuno 74,000
18 2 Provaznik Peter 72,000
17 1 Ryan Leon 70,000
9 5 Wynkoop Drew 68,500
17 6 Hunter Kent 67,000
13 4 Barron Alvin 66,500
15 2 Pratis Peter 64,000
12 5 Fourie Matrin 62,000
16 2 Arevalo John 59,500
19 8 Griffiths David 59,000
12 7 Posberg Pierre 55,500
16 1 Yeo Korte 53,500
12 4 Krebs Aaron 53,000
17 5 Engel Robert 52,500
18 4 Ahmad Thariq 47,000
17 2 Ford Stephen 45,500
18 5 Laukkanen Ville 38,000
17 7 Kalliokoski Lasse 37,000
11 1 Callaghan David 36,500
13 8 Kallinicos Peter 35,000
11 6 Cottam Martin 33,000
12 1 Allen Scott 31,500
9 4 Zenonos Chris 19,000
17 3 Petronack Dennis 17,000
8 4 Horowitz Michael 11,000

30something

What blind level they at?

Shortstack

16 6 Foltyn Paul 92,000

This Pab a few of you will know him from the heads up games and the Drogheda Festival. Plays on Tribeca as Pirate-Pab or Pab 09. Made a WSOP final this year.

Well done Andy, Dave & Finton.

BigDragon

Shortstack wrote:

16 6 Foltyn Paul 92,000

This Pab a few of you will know him from the heads up games and the Drogheda Festival. Plays on Tribeca as Pirate-Pab or Pab 09. Made a WSOP final this year.

Well done Andy, Dave & Finton.

...and used to kill the big re-buys on Paradise before it went sh1t. BadPab on P5's ranking too.

kpnuts

DeadParrot wrote:

Andy seems to have habit of blowing big stacks doesnt he?

Obviously he's a great player but I sometimes wonder if his temperment could use adjusting somewhat

Andy knows this better than anyone. Not sure if you would have played many multi-day deep-stack tournaments, DeadParrot, but whether you have or not, you will undoubtedly appreciate that they are a severe test of mental strength and stamina. Andy pursues a range of mental, physical and spiritual disciplines that he feels help him in this regard. Here is a TV interview with him, filmed late last week after he picked up $100,000 for winning the $3,500 PLO Aussie Milions tourney in Melbourne.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=dEBBreQ1gVY

gilmour

Dave Callaghan is first out when he pushed all in with A 8 and gets beat by K J.

gg wp

MrPillowTalk

Just on to Dave there understandibly pissed off with the whole thing however another time knocking on the door and Im sure big touch around the corner.:mad:

He will probably go online tomo and win the equivalent of final table money anyway.

Shortstack

MrPillowTalk wrote:

Just on to Dave there understandibly pissed off with the whole thing however another time knocking on the door and Im sure big touch around the corner.:mad:

He will probably go online tomo and win the equivalent of final table money anyway.

He says he is retiring from tournaments.......again.

Finton is out AQ vs 77.

MrPillowTalk

Shortstack wrote:

He says he is retiring from tournaments.......again.

Finton is out AQ vs 77.

Such a load of pants he's getting good at them again, tourneys are so annoying no matter how well you play at some point you end up in a massive race that basically decides the tourney for you, hate that ****.

ocallagh

ul Dave & FIntan. Both wp to get in the money. Dave giving up tournaments would be ridiculous, you've played in like 5 total and prob earned more money out of them than most of us here!

Andy Black up to 560k in 6th position with average at 360k. CL, Haralabos Voulgaris has 1M. DeadParrot I know what you are saying, but IMO Andy goes far in these tournaments by playing his own unique, aggressive, "attack the big stacks" style. Nobody including Phil Ivey can deal with this! All methods have a few drawbacks however and Andy has worked hard in the last 2 years to try and minimise the risk associated with his style. I believe he is a much more rounded player than he was in WSOP 2005 and he is one of the favourites now.

Can't believe luckbox Patrik Antonius is still there. He went from CL yesterday to tilting off about 250k to drop to 3k. Doubled, trebled, doubled yesterday to get back into it. I just read he doubled a little while ago with 77 v 99 (he hit a 7 on turn) and is back on 400k!:eek:

ocallagh

Andy up to 690k. 36 remain and they're playing 6-max now.

carrigeen

well done lads !!!!!!!!

go on andy!!!!!!!!

ocallagh

andy 800k, just 160k off CL.

Pab is gone. 33 v AA.

29 left

ionapaul

Is Jimmy 'Gobboboy' Fricke a teenage relative of Jabba the Hut? An advertisement for avoiding prolonged periods of sitting on your ass in front of the PC if ever there was one.

Well done to Dave C and Fintan for cashing, hope Andy takes it down.

peeko

Yeah well done lads, great results, good to see some familiar names up there