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Event 9: $10,500 Aussie Millions Main Event
Day 4 Completed
2010 Aussie Millions
Event 9: $10,500 Aussie Millions Main Event
Day: 4
Event Info
2010 Aussie Millions
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
10,000 AUD
Total Entries
746
Level
27
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 746
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Seat 1: Sorel Mizzi - 6,033,000
Seat 2: Stephen Shelley - 991,000
Seat 3: Annette Obrestad - 1,349,000
Seat 4: Tyron Krost - 1,869,000
Seat 5: Frederik Jensen - 1,754,000
Seat 6: Kosta Varoxis - 635,000
Seat 7: Peter Jetten - 1,700,000
Seat 8: Steven Friedlander - 694,000
Though short, Day 4 was packed with action from start to finish. We began the day with 18 players, including $100,000 Challenge winner Dan Shak and local favorites Steve 'The Big Show' Topakas and Joel Dodds.
Forgive the cliché, but it was Topakas who stole the show this afternoon, sending the crowd to their feet about once every half an hour, surviving all in after all in before eventually busting from the tournament in 12th place ($100,000 AUD).
Your overnight chip leader is Sorel Mizzi, who finished the day with a 3-1 chip lead over his next closet opponent. Mizzi was absolutely dominant this afternoon, though if you were to ask the man himself, we're sure he's likely to tell you that he had plenty of help from the deck throughout the day. "Run good," he said with a smile at one point in the day, after making quads in a hand against Kosta Varoxis. With so many chips, Mizzi has to be the favorite heading into the final table.
Joining Sorel at the final table is Betfair teammate Annette Obrestad. She is the second female to ever make the Aussie Millions Main Event final table since its conception. Obrestad finished 21st in this same event last year and won one of the preliminary events earlier in the series. If there's anyone who can catch Mizzi, it's her.
Our coverage of the 2010 Aussie Millions Main Event continues Saturday at 2:00 p.m. local time, live from Studio 3 in Crown. Do join us then to find out who will take home the most prestigious poker title in the Southern Hemisphere and the $2 million grand prize.
Until then, good night and good luck!
The flop came down
and Dratsas checked. Mizzi fired 65,000 and then Dratsas moved all in for about 750,000. Mizzi made the call and held 
. Dratsas held 
.The turn was the
and left Dratsas needing a seven or a six on the river to stay alive and drag on the day. A black lady in the form of the 
hit the felt on the river and that was it; Dratsas was eliminated in 9th place on the bubble of the final table. Mizzi wound up with 6.033 million chips and will be the chip leader going into tomorrow's final day of competition.
Sorel Mizzi - 5.39 million
Kosta Varoxis - 650,000
Kosmas Dratsas - 700,000
Peter Jetten - 1.7 million
Dratsas limped on the button, Mizzi completed from the small blind and Varoxis kicked it up an additional 65,000 from the big, getting both Dratsas and Mizzi to come along.
All three players checked the
flop, sending the action to the turn -- 
-- where Mizzi led out with a bet of 105,000. Varoxis called and Dratsas folded.5th Street delivered the
and Mizzi fired a 250,000 bet on the end. Varoxis tank-called the bet and Mizzi quickly turned over 
for quads. Varoxis mucked.After the hand, we counted Mizzi at 5.13 million in chips.
Obrestad:
Friedlander:
The flop added a-heckuva-lotta more outs for Friedlander when it came
. Needing a heart, an ace or a queen, Friedlander waited to see his fate on the next card.The
peeled off and Friedlander nailed his flush. The river was the 
and officially sealed the win for the at-risk Friedlander. He's now up to about one million in chips.
Varoxis opened the pot with a raise to 50,000 from the small blind and Kerper made the call in the big. The flop came down
and Varoxis led out with a 90,000 bet. Kerper then moved all in over the top for about 400,000 and Varoxis snap-called, holding . Kerper would need some help, holding nothing but 
.The turn brought the
giving Kerper a world of new outs, but the river blanked -- -- and Kerper joined the rail in 10th place.After the hand, Varoxis was a bit shell-shocked and revealed to the table that he barely knew he'd won the hand. We counted Varoxis at 1.3 million in chips after the dust settled.
Krost:
Shelly:
The window card was the
and the other two cards on the flop were the 
and . The turn was the and the river the .Krost found the miracle he needed to stay alive and let out a big sigh of relief after the hand was over. He's up to 1.95 million now while Shelly dropped to 800,000.
Action folded around the table to Jetten in the small blind who opened with a raise to 65,000 in chips. Dratsas then kicked it up to 165,000 from the big before Jetten moved all in over the top.
Dratsas then open-mucked pocket tens face up on the table, surrendering the hand to Jetten and leaving himself with 1.1 million in chips.
"How much are you playing?" asked Mizzi.
"Around 600," answered Kerper.
Mizzi then moved all in. Kerper tanked for a while and then mucked his hand, dropping to about 450,000. Mizzi moved up to 4.4 million.
