A$10,600 Main Event Jour 2 | 2020 Aussie Millions

A$10,600 Main Event

Jour 2 terminé

2020-01-20 21:09 UTC+10

Madsen Goes From Two-Outer for Life to Rise Near Top Stacks After Day 2

Jan_Kores

Niveau 12 : 1,000-2,000, 2,000 ante

The 2020 Aussie Millions Main Event fell just two entries short of last year's record, drawing 820 players to the felt. The top 88 finishers will share the A$8,200,000 prize pool with A$1,850,000 reserved for the eventual champion. About 160 players will return to Crown Melbourne for Day 3 on Tuesday, January 21, at 12:30 p.m. local time.

The tournament has cemented its place as one of the major events on anyone's calendar, and the international participation has been well demonstrated today with notable grinders from around the world pulling the strings. Jeff Madsen is a prime example. The American pro may be known mainly for his prowess in the Las Vegas and Los Angeles casinos, but he made the trip across the Pacific to draw a lot of attention on Day 2.

Madsen got involved in a gigantic pot in the fourth level of the day, getting his chips in on the flop with aces. Madsen was up against David Yan's set and Martin Zamani's flush draw. Yan had both of his opponents covered and Madsen could only hope for one out to break even and another to skyrocket near the top of the rankings. The rest of the deck would eliminate him, but he caught the ace of clubs on the river to twist the plot. Madsen would later bag 356,400, which is not enough for the pole position, but enough for the provisional top 10.

Another highly resonating name through the day was that of Fabian Quoss'. The former German high stakes pro, who retired from the game in 2018, returned to Melbourne--where he'd live a few years ago--and his campaign has been excellent so far. After topping the field on Day 1a, Quoss has kept crushing today, torturing his table in many three- and four-bet pots. He finished with 372,400.

The unofficial chip-leading stack belongs to Jordan Tentori (439,700) whose rise to the top accelerated when he coolered Kristen Bicknell in a 200,000-pot with sixes full over deuces full. Other heavy bags belong to Shao Liu (410,000) and Terence Clee (389,300).

Local hero Kahle Burns, who was inducted to the national Poker Hall of Fame today, showcased his talent during the day when he was seen pacing the field. Burns wouldn't eventually finish at the top, losing a portion of his stack towards the end. Still, the high roller from Geelong remains one of the hottest contenders, considering his experience and the 257,100 in his bag.

Defending champ Bryn Kenney had been drawn to the toughest table in the room, but, just as always, he didn't seem to have any problem competing against the best. Kenney will be back with 186,000, which is more than the tournament average.

While Kenney and many stellar grinders made it through, today's stretch saw tons of familiar faces lose their chances at reaching paid places. Those included five former winners: Ami Barer, David Gorr, Toby Lewis, Manny Stavropoulos, and Tyron Krost. That leaves Kenney the only former champ still in the hunt.

Day 3 will bring the fundamental turning point for many with the bubble expected to burst sometime in the middle of the day. There will be another seven levels played and PokerNews will be on the ground to provide live updates from start to finish. Come back at 12:30 local time to follow the action.

Tags: Ami Barer Aussie Millions Bryn Kenney Crown Melbourne David Gorr Jeff Madsen Jordan Tentori Kahle Burns Kristen Bicknell Manny Stavropoulos Shao Liu Toby Lewis Tyron Krost

2020-01-20 21:08 UTC+10

Main Event Day 3 Seat Draw

zedmaster84

Niveau 12 : 1,000-2,000, 2,000 ante

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
7	1	Phachara Wongwichit	Thailand	190,000	79
7	2	Simen Gulbrandsen	Norway	153,300	64
7	3	Jinsoo Kang	Australia	267,600	112
7	4	Samuel Korman	Australia	39,000	16
7	5	Maria Lampropulos	Argentina	51,700	22
7	6	Kan Lin	Australia	163,100	68
7	7	Vesna Pope	Australia	130,400	54
7	8	Wei Low	Australia	165,700	69

8	1	Maxi Lehmanski	Germany	106,000	44
8	2	Mike Del Vecchio	United States	164,500	69
8	3	Terence Clee	Australia	389,300	162
8	4	Alan Friedmann	Uruguay	191,100	80
8	5	Egor Bulychev	Russia	170,400	71
8	6	Yin Liu	China	191,900	80
8	7	Slade Fisher	Australia	78,500	33
8	8	Steven Tabb	United States	85,400	36

10	1	Aram Zobian	United States	74,000	31
10	2	Simon Carter	Australia	198,500	83
10	3	Russell Thomas	United States	198,000	83
10	4	Rishabh Vekaria	India	312,200	130
10	5	Rahul Melwani	India	124,900	52
10	6	Liam Doyle	Australia	303,700	127
10	7	Goran Mandic	Croatia	264,700	110
10	8	Zachary Duce	Australia	91,700	38

25	1	Joni Jouhkimainen	Finland	186,900	78
25	2	Giovanni Barone	Australia	132,100	55
25	3	Bryce Yockey	United States	148,100	62
25	4	Kahle Burns	Australia	257,100	107
25	5	Denis Wei Zhang	Australia	62,400	26
25	6	Jack Sinclair	United Kingdom	59,000	25
25	7	Ricky Vikas	Australia	60,200	25
25	8	Shao Liu	Australia	410,000	171

26	1	Francois Goulet	France	52,400	22
26	2	Tony G	Australia	144,800	60
26	3	Daniel Oshea	Australia	258,100	108
26	3	Vincent Wan	Australia	292,800	122
26	4	Sarkiss Osalian	Australia	54,100	23
26	5	Sam Cohen	United States	47,700	20
26	7	Vivian Im	South Korea	116,900	49
26	8	Timothy Chung	Hong Kong	163,200	68

27	1	Tomas Ribeiro	Portugal	175,700	73
27	2	Alex Lynskey	Australia	242,800	101
27	3	Nino Ullmann	Germany	166,600	69
27	4	Julien Sitbon	France	125,500	52
27	5	Adriano Cendron	Australia	113,500	47
27	6	David Steicke	Hong Kong	96,900	40
27	6	Igor Yaroshevskyy	Ukraine	91,200	38
27	8	Jesse Sylvia	United States	26,300	11

28	1	Corey Zarb	Australia	148,600	62
28	2	Hamza Firdawcy	Canada	102,900	43
28	3	Jack Wu	Taiwan	117,200	49
28	4	Nick Pupillo	United States	281,500	117
28	5	John Dalessandri	Australia	58,200	24
28	7	Zong-Chi He	Taiwan	342,600	143
28	8	Michael Behnert	Germany	99,800	42

29	1	Goran Srejic	Australia	54,700	23
29	2	Tom Rafferty	Australia	146,800	61
29	3	Paul Abela	Australia	232,800	97
29	4	Thibaut Klinghammer	France	68,100	28
29	5	Peco Stojanovski	Australia	50,000	21
29	6	Paawan Bansal	India	355,800	148
29	7	Daniel Hinh	Australia	85,100	35
29	8	David Wells	Australia	39,000	16

30	2	Steven Miller	Australia	148,800	62
30	3	Jack Salter	United Kingdom	203,200	85
30	4	Mladen Vukovic	Australia	76,700	32
30	5	Manig Loeser	Germany	210,900	88
30	6	Steven Morris	Australia	162,900	68
30	7	Benedikt Eberle	Austria	189,300	79
30	8	Maxwell Young	Australia	286,300	119

31	1	Zachary Tay	Singapore	238,400	99
31	2	Sparrow Cheung	Hong Kong	101,300	42
31	3	Filipp Mamedov	Australia	162,700	68
31	4	Shan Huang	China	150,000	63
31	5	Luke Edwards	Australia	36,800	15
31	6	Ngoc Tai Hoang	Australia	109,000	45
31	7	Halil Bozdugan	Australia	154,200	64
31	8	Dzmitry Urbanovich	Poland	241,200	101

32	1	Nabeel Mahiyuddin	Australia	84,000	35
32	2	Weiming Yu	China	133,400	56
32	3	Petar Vujic	Australia	155,000	65
32	4	Hyung Sun Jung	South Korea	173,200	72
32	5	Scott Margereson	United Kingdom	328,900	137
32	6	David Miscikowski	United States	252,200	105
32	7	Tony Hachem	Australia	161,100	67
32	8	Alan Pun	Hong Kong	28,700	12

33	1	Joel Cohen	Australia	172,100	72
33	2	Zhihong Ma	Australia	71,700	30
33	3	Jean-Serge Baril	Canada	125,300	52
33	4	Michael Gross	United States	104,300	43
33	5	Max Deveson	United Kingdom	274,400	114
33	6	Ize Bourne	Australia	43,800	18
33	7	Didier Guerin	Australia	198,000	83
33	8	Oliver Weis	Germany	155,200	65

34	1	Gavin Flynn	Ireland	213,700	89
34	2	Ashish Gupta	Australia	56,000	23
34	3	Shane Stark	Australia	119,800	50
34	4	Daniel Gabriel	Australia	107,000	45
34	5	Ali Ghezelbash	Australia	136,500	57
34	6	Shoshiro Karita	Japan	48,000	20
34	7	Thomas Wing	Australia	239,100	100
34	8	Anthony Xu	Australia	104,900	44

37	1	Jun Ho Hwang	South Korea	63,400	26
37	2	Calvin Tan	Singapore	93,800	39
37	3	Bernie Stang	Australia	83,300	35
37	4	Rintaro Kagawa	Japan	59,200	25
37	5	Erik Seidel	United States	228,700	95
37	6	Dan Shak	United States	77,600	32
37	7	Gareth Pepper	Australia	400,400	167
37	8	Pierce Mckellar	Australia	59,300	25

40	1	Sergio Aido	Spain	133,400	56
40	2	Brody Furness	Australia	21,400	9
40	3	Nicolas Majeau	Canada	107,500	45
40	4	Bryn Kenney	United States	186,000	78
40	5	Quan Zhou	China	345,900	144
40	6	Chi Zhang	United Kingdom	168,200	70
40	7	Wei Zhu	Australia	64,100	27
40	8	Pete Chen	Taiwan	294,000	123

41	1	Bobby Zhang	Australia	175,900	73
41	2	Cole Swannack	Australia	84,700	35
41	3	Stanley Wu	Australia	88,200	37
41	4	David Hackenberger	Australia	130,500	54
41	5	Yake Wu	China	111,000	46
41	6	Anthony Hachem	Australia	97,000	40
41	7	Jeff Madsen	United States	356,400	149
41	8	Steve O'Dwyer	Ireland	126,100	53

45	1	Randy Lew	United States	126,400	53
45	2	Dingxiang Ong	Singapore	199,600	83
45	3	Koray Aldemir	Germany	118,700	49
45	4	Robert Sanchez Callol	Spain	157,200	66
45	5	Lawrence Bayley	United Kingdom	171,800	72
45	6	James Romero	United States	148,000	62
45	7	Tu Tran	Australia	156,400	65
45	8	Michael Sideridis	Australia	226,700	94

47	1	Sam Razavi	United Kingdom	155,600	65
47	2	Jordan Tentori	Australia	439,700	183
47	3	Jussi Nevanlinna	Finland	182,100	76
47	4	Corentin Ropert	France	126,100	53
47	5	Ben Lamb	United States	166,000	69
47	6	Daniel Ross	Australia	99,100	41
47	7	Jeremy Pekarek	United States	147,600	62
47	8	Fabian Quoss	Germany	372,400	155

48	1	Hussein Hassan	Australia	36,400	15
48	2	Warwick Dunnett	Australia	196,300	82
48	3	Rory Young	Australia	19,500	8
48	4	Andrew Moreno	United States	83,400	35
48	5	David Wang	Australia	76,200	32
48	6	Mai Ha	Australia	194,900	81
48	7	Louis Luo	Australia	73,400	31
48	8	Simon Burns	United Kingdom	264,400	110

49	1	Jarryd Godena	Australia	111,600	47
49	2	Wan Gan	Australia	117,300	49
49	3	Brendon Rubie	Australia	79,800	33
49	4	John Chu	Australia	151,000	63
49	5	Thomas Fairrie	Australia	131,300	55
49	6	Spiros Maroulis	Australia	53,000	22
49	7	Matthew Wantman	United States	343,000	143
49	8	Qiu Wenjian	New Zealand	254,600	106

2020-01-20 20:31 UTC+10

End of Day 2 Chip Counts (complet)

will_shill

Niveau 12 : 1,000-2,000, 2,000 ante

The full chip counts will be published when PokerNews receives them and a recap of today's action is to follow.

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Jordan Tentori	439,700	194,700

Shao Liu	410,000	10,000

Gareth Pepper	400,400	332,400

Terence Clee	389,300	285,000

Fabian Quoss	372,400	2,400

Jeff Madsen	356,400	-78,600

Paawan Bansal	355,800	77,800

Quan Zhou	345,900	-4,100

Matthew Wantman	343,000	143,000

Zong-Chi He	342,600	312,400

Scott Margereson	328,900	138,900

Rishabh Vekaria	312,200	62,200

Liam Doyle	303,700	107,300

Pete Chen	294,000	24,000

Vincent Wan	292,800	201,200

Max Young	286,300

Nick Pupillo	281,500	256,000

Max Deveson	274,400	14,400

Jinsoo Kang	267,600	107,600

Goran Mandic	264,700	-5,300

Simon Burns	264,400	54,400

Daniel O'Shea	258,100	102,100

Kahle Burns	257,100	-157,900

Qiu Wenjian	254,600	203,200

David Miscikowski	252,200	-27,800

Lire Plus

2020-01-20 20:27 UTC+10

Zhou Takes Another Hit

zedmaster84

Niveau 12 : 1,000-2,000, 2,000 ante

Igor Yaroshevskyy jammed for 43,100 and was called by big stack Quan Zhou.

Yaroshevskyy tabled the and Zhou was trailing with the .

The board came and the kings held.

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Quan Zhou	350,000	-45,000

Igor Yaroshevskyy	90,000	17,000

Tags: Igor Yaroshevskyy Quan Zhou

2020-01-20 20:20 UTC+10

Godena Doubles Through Zhou

Jan_Kores

Niveau 12 : 1,000-2,000, 2,000 ante

Quan Zhou was in the big blind, firing 31,000 into 28,000 with the board reading . Jarryd Godena, sitting two seats to Zhou's left, raised all in for slightly more and Zhou called when he found out it was only 34,300. Godena flipped for the nut flush and Zhou flashed before he mucked his hand.

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Quan Zhou	395,000	-105,000

Jarryd Godena	97,000

Tags: Jarryd Godena Quan Zhou

2020-01-20 20:18 UTC+10

The Last Three Hands on Day 2

zedmaster84

Niveau 12 : 1,000-2,000, 2,000 ante

The clock has been stopped with ten minutes left in the level and 162 hopefuls still in contention. They will play another three hands until bagging and tagging for the night.

2020-01-20 20:11 UTC+10

Cheung Doubles Through Maroulis

zedmaster84

Niveau 12 : 1,000-2,000, 2,000 ante

Sparrow Cheung four-bet jammed for the last 36,800 and three-bettor Spiros Maroulis made the call.

Cheung was at risk with and Maroulis had one overcard in . The board came and Cheung turned the full house to double.

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Sparrow Cheung	77,000	-8,000

Spiros Maroulis	50,000	-85,000

Tags: Sparrow Cheung Spiros Maroulis

2020-01-20 20:07 UTC+10

Adams Knocked Out

Jan_Kores

Niveau 12 : 1,000-2,000, 2,000 ante

Timothy Adams got his last 16,200 into the middle with and he raced against . While the flop looked to be decisive, Adams got some hope when a hit the turn. The river, however, missed his gutshot and a eliminated him late into Day 2.

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Timothy Adams	Eliminé

Tags: Timothy Adams

2020-01-20 20:05 UTC+10

Salter Makes Painful Call to Catch Kenney's Bluff

Jan_Kores

Niveau 12 : 1,000-2,000, 2,000 ante

Bryn Kenney and Jack Salter met in a blind-versus-blind spot, making it to the river of the board with 15,000 in the middle. Kenney checked, Salter fired 5,800, and Kenney check-raised to 31,000.

Salter was visibly puzzled, and he needed several minutes to figure out his move. He kept staring at the board, and eventually convinced himself to look Kenney up. It turned out well for Salter as Kenney had only , and Salter scooped the pot upon showing .

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Jack Salter	205,000	125,000

Bryn Kenney	160,000	6,000

Tags: Bryn Kenney Jack Salter