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2012 Aussie Millions Update – Day 6
Posted by: James Carter. - Wed, 2012-01-18 16:34
The second event of the 2012 Aussie Millions, the $1.1k PLO one, went into the books on Monday. The event drew a relatively feeble starting field of 129 players, taking the prize-pool to $129k. The first prize was AUD$33.4k and it ended up in
online poker player Dan Kelly’s possession.
Despite the relatively shallow starting field, there were plenty of big names in it: the Aussies were well represented by Leo Boxell and Billy Argyros, but Mel Judah and Van Marcus were there as well. Other name pros who took part were Sam Holden, McLean Karr and James Dempsey.
Billy Argyros was the first victim of the final table. He picked up $4.1k for his efforts. He was followed to the rail by Michael Guzzardi, who took down $6.1k. McLean Karr failed to catch the 5-figure train too: he busted out in 6th place for a $8.2k reward. Geoffrey Smith was the first one to ascend to 5-figure land: his 5th place was worth $10.8k.
Charles Cuschieri finished 4th, followed by Van Marcus in 3rd place. The heads-up battle was between Kelly and Martin Kozlov. Kozlov picked up $25k for his second place.
The other event which took place on Day 6 of the series was the $1.1k NL Holdem Shootout, event #3. Registration was capped at 150 participants and the limit was indeed met as many of the players who had played in event #2 re-surfaced here: Billy Argyros, Van Marcus and McLean Karr all played, together with Maria Ho, Vitaly Lunkin and Jonathan Karamalikis.
McLean Karr nearly managed to make the final table of this event too: he eventually ran out of steam in 12th place. Joey Lawrence is the one taking by far the largest stack into the final stretch of the event. He has 1.3 million chips. The second largest stack is Oliver Speidel’s 384.5k one, so the difference is indeed quite substantial.
