Goooooood Afternoon PFO!

Apologies for not keeping you all up to date with news in the world of poker, it has been a hectic couple of months being away for Christmas & New Year and with the Aussie Millions currently on in Melbourne I've been busy crushing souls in the cash games and also playing some home games too.

On with the good stuff...

Aussie Millions 2009 Results Events 1-7

Event 1: $1100 No Limit Hold Em


  1. $150,000 Christian Heich
  2. $110,380 Steve Topakas
  3. $73,100 Steve Bouya
  4. $51,170 Paul Rochford
  5. $36,550 Sam Khouiss

Event 2: $1050 PokerPro No Limit Hold Em

  1. $25,000 Mitchell Carle
  2. $16,600 Daniel Nielson
  3. $11,205 Michael Russell
  4. $9,030 Daniel Noja
  5. $7,055 Hai Bo Chu

Event 3: $1100 Omaha Hi-Lo

  1. $30,600 Mel Judah
  2. $21,420 Rainer Quel
  3. $14,280 Jeffrey Duvall
  4. $10,170 Derek Raymond
  5. $8,160 Danny Mountt

Event 4: $1100 Limit Hold Em

  1. $35,000 Zach Gruneberg
  2. $25,200 Craig Bergeron
  3. $17,500 Jesse Maguire
  4. $12,600 Ken Eastwood
  5. $9,800 Grant Levy

Event 5: $1100 H.O.R.S.E

  1. $30,380 Jarred Solomon
  2. $20,580 Van Marcus
  3. $15,190 Kerry Stead
  4. $10,290 Michael Guzzardi
  5. $8,330 Anthony MacNamara

Event 6: $1150 No Limit Hold Em with rebuys

  1. $160,326 Mark Kassis
  2. $120,098 Jonathan 'xMONSTERxDONGx' Karamalikis
  3. $82,203 Clark Hamagami
  4. $53,927 Larry Karambis
  5. $37,895 Sorel 'Imper1um' Mizzi

Event 7: $1650 Bounty Feature Event

  1. $151,200 Saidal Wardak
  2. $110,250 Ben Delaney
  3. $69,300 Edison Nguyen
  4. $47,250 Sean Keeton
  5. $31,500 Neil Channing

Currently in progress is the $100,000 No Limit Hold Em Challenge which drew a very impressive field featuring JC Tran, Patrik Antonius, Phil Ivey, John Juanda, Andrew Robl, Jeff Lisandro, Tony G, Nam Le, Chris Ferguson, Erik Seidel & Gus Hansen.
They are now down to 6 handed after having 23 initial runners and the following are the chip counts as of 5:45pm Australian EST

David Steicke 695,000
Tony Bloom 585,000
JC Tran 410,000
Dan Shak 315,000
John Juanda 187,000
Bill Jordanou 115,000

Day 1a of the $10,500 Main Event is also underway with Pokerforum.org's own tightaggressive (Also known as Wesley Whybrew) in action but in a precarious situation with just 12k in chips (starting stack 20k) at the 100/200/25 however he still has a comfortable 60bb stack.
He avoided a near disaster after the following at the 50/100 level;

Khalil and Whybrew Clash...Almost

Ali Khalil raised to 300 and Wesley Whybrew made the call in the big blind. They took a flop of and Whybrew checked to Khalil who fired 400. Whybrew made the call.

The turn was a scary looking and both players checked. The river was the and again Whybrew checked to Khalil who tanked for a long time before checking behind.

Incredibly the turn card potentially saved Whybrew his stack as he showed for two pair and Khalil tabled for top set!
Thanks to Pokernews.com for the update.

Another Pokerforums.org regular (me) will be teeing off in the main event on say 1c after registering for the wrong day (I thought I was registering for 1b!) So keep your eye out on Pokernews.com & Pokerforums.org for updates