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Aussie Millions update – Eric Seidel takes down the Biggest Buy-in Tournament
Posted by: James Carter. - Sat, 2011-01-29 10:57
The Aussie Millions rolled on Thursday, with the Main Event inching ever closer to the final table and the Biggest Buy-in Tournament reaching a conclusion.
76 players returned to action on the third day of the Main Event. The money bubble was just 4 eliminations away at the beginning of the day and it didn’t exactly take long until the paying positions were reached. The bubble burst when Carter Phillips and Julius Colman were both sent to the rail in one swoop, which meant a min-cash for both of them and a sigh of relief for the surviving players.
That sense of relief also meant that the action would show quite an uptick past the bubble. Around the dinner break, the field had already reached the 36-player mark. Patrik Antonius shot to the chip lead then, and though he later sunk back into the field, he still managed to finish in seventh place on a more than decent stack.
Chris Moorman was the one who secured the lead for the day. He amassed a stack of 1.6 million chips. Sorel Mizzi finished 3rd, and start of the day chip leader Dorfman remained among the leaders in 4th place.
The $250k Super High Roller event had been under the shadow of doubt for a while, as no one was certain whether it would come to fruition or not. Eventually, all doubts were shooed away when no fewer than 20 players found it within their means to cough up the buy-in. Obviously, all these guys were “name” pros (like Phil Ivey, John Juanda, Tom Dwan, Chris Ferguson and Daniel Cates), except for the 3 Chinese businessmen whom the poker world got to know through the Million Dollar Cash game earlier.
Sam Trickett committed an absolute carnage at the final table but eventually he fell to Eric Seidel heads-up. Seidel picked up $2.5 million for his efforts.
