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2012 Aussie Millions – Day 9 Report
Posted by: Randy Williams - Fri, 2012-01-20 13:39
The 9th day of the 2012 Aussie Millions saw another winner added to the tally. Tom Middleton was the one who added his name to the winner’s list, by working his way to triumph in the $1.1k NL Holdem 6-Max event. Event #6 reached its final table.
18 players returned to the tables of event #5 with one goal in mind: to play down to a winner. The action kicked off on the right foot, with one player biting the dust on the very first hand: Tayna Puppa was the first victim of the day. Greg Tucker didn’t last much longer either. Early on, it looked like every single all-in would result in an elimination. As the pressure increased on the short stacks, they began making their stand one by one. Stefan Jedlicka was one of these short-stacks. He was eliminated in 8th place. A whole bunch of ‘name’ players bit the dust short of the final table.
The official 7-handed final table was reached after Stefan Jedlicka’s elimination. Middleton than sprung into action and took care of the final stretch of the
poker tournament in less than 2 hours. Middleton bested Joel Dodds heads-up to pick up the AUD$84k top prize. Dodds was rewarded with AUD$58k for his second place.
Event #6, the $1,1k NLH Re-buys event drew a starting field of 92 players. When all the re-buys were accounted for too, 331 buy-ins were in the middle. The massive size of the prize-pool meant that the eventual winner would take home $122.6k, the first 6-figure prize of the series.
As soon as the action kicked off, players began shoving all-in. Several of them – like McLean Karr and Faraz Jaka were forced to re-buy shortly. At the end of the day, the 10-handed final table was set. Marvin Rettenmaier has the largest stack (113.7k chips), followed by Mike Watson and Jonathan Karamalikis. Jim Collopy and Tyron Krost also made the final table.
