$10,600 Main Event
Day 1b Completed
2018 Aussie Millions
$10,600 Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2018 Aussie Millions
Buy-in
10,600 AUD
Prize Pool
8,000,000 AUD
Entries
800
Level
31
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000
Level 7
: 300/600, 100 ante
The 2018 Aussie Millions Main Event continued today with 196 entries in the second starting flight here at the Crown Casino in Melbourne. This brings the total number of entries to 408, with a bumper third straight flight tomorrow, and late registration open until the end of the first level on Day 2.
Just 97 players remain at the end of today’s seven 90-minute levels and they are lead by Cole Swannack who bagged an impressive 197,300, helped in part by winning a monster pot off of Australian bracelet-winner James Obst.
In the last level of the day Swannack called Obst's five-bet shove, with Swannack showing 
against the 
of Obst. There was an ace on an all-club flop, with Swannack dodging a club to double up and leave Obst perilously short. Obst was eliminated shortly thereafter, but the monster pot saw Swannack rocket to the top of the chip counts.
Other big stacks heading through to Day 2 include Tobias Hausen (156,800), Stephen Graner (145,800), Tony Tartaglia (141,700) and Jonathan Karamalikis (137,100).
2005 WSOP Main Event champion Joe Hachem (56,100) and 2015 WSOP APAC Main Event winner Scott Davies (107,800) will also be present in Day 2, along with Sam Grafton (118,000), Julius Colman (98,600), Alex Foxen (86,900), Jack Salter (68,300), Winfred Yu (56,900), Sam Panzica (43,000), Ana Marquez (36,000), Kahle Burns (28,600), Yevgeniy Timoshenko (25,500), Daiva Byrne (12,100), and Manig Loeser (10,100).
Day 1b recap
Early names in the field today were two-time WSOP final tablist Antoine Saout, and Australian bracelet-winner James Obst. Obst also has two Aussie Millions rings (2014 A$2,500 8-Game & 2016 A$2,500 H.O.R.S.E) and was in action early on, increasing his stack by over 10,000 by the end of the first level.
Another big name in the field was former international cricketer Shane Warne. Warne took over 1,000 international wickets (in Tests and One-Day Internationals) in an international career spanning 15 years. He also has just under USD$100,000 in lifetime cashes, the biggest of which coming here in Melbourne in a High Stakes A$10,000 event in 2010.
Warne was joined by his son Jackson in this year’s Main Event. The pair appeared to go in polar opposite directions, with Jackson hovering around the 50,000 mark while his father battled with a sub-20 big blind stack for most of the day. In the end, the pair were eliminated quite soon after one another with Jackson heading to the rail after doubling up Adriano Scagnetti and subsequently losing tens against ace-ten.
His father Shane was more unfortunate. He got the last of his chips in having flopped a straight, and was called by an opponent with a flush draw. Unfortunately for Warne, the river completed his flush and sent one of Australia’s most famous sporting sons to the rail.
Also among the early casualties on Day 1b were Sosia Jiang, Niall Farrell, Daniel Strelitz, Joni Jouhkimainen, $25,000 Challenge winner Ben Lamb and Adam Owen.
Big names such as 2005 WSOP Main Event winner Joe Hachem and 2015 WSOP APAC Main Event winner Scott Davies were both in attendance, but it was German Tobias Hausen, who finished seventh in the $2,500 8-Game event, who held a strong chip lead at this point.
However it was Szymon Wysocki who was the first player over 100,000; joined shortly thereafter by Benjamin Benoit who eliminated Jack Sinclair. Sinclair had flopped two-pair on an 
flop with 
but was up against the 
of Benoit. The turn and river were both hearts 
and Sinclair was eliminated.
Jonathan Karamalikis, James Obst and Stephen Graner soon followed into the six-figure stack territory, but Hausen surged ahead once more to hold a stack in excess of the Day 1a chip leader when the dinner break got underway.
Kazuhiko Yotsushika, Michael O’Grady, David Steicke and Shane Howlett joined the Warne family on the rail before Obst suffered a huge cooler at the start of the final level of the day. His vanquisher was Swannack, who moved to the top of the chip counts, and he would end the day there, taking forward a healthy stack to Day 2.
Day 1c of the Aussie Millions Main Event gets underway tomorrow at 12:30 local time. It's expected to be a large one, so be sure to stay tuned to d9y.shop for all the live updates from our team in Melbourne.
Level 7
: 300/600, 100 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
197,300
7,300
|
7,300 |
|
||
|
156,000
2,000
|
2,000 |
|
153,300
-9,700
|
-9,700 |
|
145,800
-7,700
|
-7,700 |
|
||
|
143,100
17,600
|
17,600 |
|
141,700
1,700
|
1,700 |
|
137,100
32,100
|
32,100 |
|
|
130,700
2,700
|
2,700 |
|
|
121,600 | |
|
118,300
10,300
|
10,300 |
|
118,000
-9,000
|
-9,000 |
|
||
|
117,500
-2,500
|
-2,500 |
|
114,000
-6,000
|
-6,000 |
|
114,000
28,000
|
28,000 |
|
|
112,800
2,800
|
2,800 |
|
107,800
-12,200
|
-12,200 |
|
||
|
107,700
107,700
|
107,700 |
|
104,500 | |
|
102,600
62,600
|
62,600 |
|
||
|
100,800
-31,200
|
-31,200 |
|
98,600
42,600
|
42,600 |
|
93,000
64,000
|
64,000 |
|
91,900 | |
|
86,900
40,900
|
40,900 |
|
||
|
85,400 | |
Level 7
: 300/600, 100 ante
Day 1b of the 2018 Aussie Millions Main Event is in the book. An assortment of end-of-the-day chip counts and an extensive recap will follow shortly.
Level 7
: 300/600, 100 ante
Christian Christner was down to 5,400 after paying off a double with 
against 
on a board of 
. We didn't see when the money went in.
The next hand, he defended big blind from a button open to 1,300 and saw a 
flop. Christner shoved in and got a call. He showed 
and needed help against 
. The turn was the he needed and the river was a 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
12,000
-33,000
|
-33,000 |
Level 7
: 300/600, 100 ante
In a battle of the blinds, Jamie Pickering and his table neighbour went to war and the latter was the one at risk for around 37,000 only to find his dominated by the only pocket pair that beat him, preflop anyways. Pickering had the 
and there was little fear of an upset on a board of 
.
Tom Alner also bumped up his stack once more after yet another double and almost approaches the average close to bagging and tagging.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
108,000
58,000
|
58,000 |
|
56,000
29,500
|
29,500 |
Level 7
: 300/600, 100 ante
There will be four more hands in Day 1b of the Aussie Millions Main Event before players bag up ahead of Day 2.
Level 7
: 300/600, 100 ante
Jack Salter raised to 1,400 and Antoine Saout three-bet to 5,800. Salter called and the flop came 
.
Saout continued for 4,500 and Salter called. The pair checked the turn and the came on the river. Saout bet 10,800.
Salter took a long while thinking out his options. First cutting out his chips as if to call, then placing them back on top of his stack. Then repeating the action, before checking and re-checking his cards.
Eventually, he folded.
"I feel like you might have had something totally random," Salter said, but Saout just stacked his chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
70,000
-20,000
|
-20,000 |
|
58,000
14,000
|
14,000 |
Level 7
: 300/600, 100 ante
Sam Grafton raised to 1,300 in the cutoff and got action from Jack Brown on his left, but it was aggressive action in the form of a 4,500 three-bet. Grafton peeled to see 
and both players checked. The turn was a 
and Grafton bet 6,600. Brown made it 16,000 and Grafton called. The river brought the 
and Grafton checked. Brown bet 22,000. Grafton raised his eyebrows and thought for a bit before tossing in a call.
Brown opened for top set and dragged the hefty pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
127,000
-38,000
|
-38,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
125,500 | |
Level 7
: 300/600, 100 ante
After a raise by the player on the button, Tom Alner three-bet all in for 12,200 out of the small blind and the button called with the . Alner was ahead and at risk with 
, and the Brit saw the board run out 
to double with two pair.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
26,500 |