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2012 Aussie Millions – Day 13 Report
Posted by: Mark Baldwing - Wed, 2012-01-25 06:18
The 13th day of the 2012 Aussie Millions saw the third flight of the $10k Main Event belly up to the tables. The true cream of the crop of the poker world yet again waited out the last opportunity to swing into action, and swing into action they did: Erik Seidel, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey, Tony G and Jason Mercier were all among the registrants. The total starting field for the day was 317. Day 1C saw 7 levels of play logged, at the end of which 150 players were left standing. Robert Lam was the player who clinched the chip lead.
As soon as the action kicked off, Ivey took down a few big pots and stormed right into the lead. He managed to hold on to his position for most of the day, although eventually he slowed down. At one point during the day, he had 175k chips in his stack. He kind of just stopped then though and he began dropping chips until he found himself back at the 85k mark. He locked horns with Shane Warne then, and took down a massive pot from him, shooting right to the top of the leader board again. He finished the day 4th, with a stack of 184k chips.
Even as Ivey was battling for the
poker tournament’s chip lead, some of his “name” peers were unsuccessfully struggling for their tournament lives. Joe Hachem, Daniel Negreanu, Daniel Alaei, Erik Seidel and Nam Le all bit the dust on Day 1C. Jason Mercier didn’t join them on the rail but he didn’t exactly thrive either. He struggled around 30k chips for most of the day, but just as the action was winding down, he managed to chip up a bit, so he eventually finished with 61k chips to his name.
Michael Pedley survived the day too, together with David Steicke and Jason Koon.
Events #11 and #12 also played down to their respective winners: Borge Dypvik and Benjamin Breadsell were the victors.
