27 Jan 12

Aussie Millions Day 4: Ivey survives, Dion Leads, Nelson Alive

Yann Dion takes over the chip lead at the 2012 Aussie Millions Main Event while Phil Ivey slips down the leaderboard to the unenviable shortstack position. Meanwhile, Lee Nelson is gunning for his second Aussie Millions title with 12 players remaining.

Phil Ivey is the shortest stack as two six-handed tables return for Day 5. Image source: PokerNews

It was another short day at the 2012 Aussie Millions Main Event, with just 14 eliminations before play wrapped up for the night. With 12 players left, Yann Dion leads the way while railbird favourite Phil Ivey trails as the short stack.

Main Event Day 4 highlights

12 players remain - Another short day of just a few blind levels whittled the field down from 26 players to 12. The dozen will resume play at two six-handed tables tomorrow, where they will reach a final table that will play out on Sunday.

Movers and shakers - Phil Ivey dropped down the chip stack leaderboard after something of a rollercoaster day. Beginning play with over 1.1 million chips, he built up to 1.6 million before getting on the wrong side of a set-over-set confrontation. Nevertheless, he returns for Day 5 with a stack of around 35 big blinds.

The biggest movers were Day 3 chip leader Matt Turk, who saw his monstrous stack vanish throughout the course of Day 4 to bust in 15th, as well as current chip leader Yann Dion. Turk lost half his stack to a coinflip before dwindling down to elimination late in the day.

On the other hand, Yann Dion - who began Day 4 in fifth place, chipped up nicely to end Day 4 as chip leader. Despite this, his stack at the end of Day 4 is actually less than the chips Matt Turk boasted to end Day 3!

The champ is here - New Zealander Lee "Final Table" Nelson is one man who is not at all unfamiliar with this situation, having won this event for AU$1,295,800 back in 2006. He has outlasted every other former champion and currently sits sixth in chips, in with a very good chance of becoming the first two-time champion of the Aussie Millions.

Aussie Millions Main Event End of Day 4 Chip Counts
Place	Name	Chips
1st	Yann Dion	2,670,000
2nd	Bjorn Li	2,471,000
3rd	Mohamad Kowssarie	2,230,000
4th	Karim Jomeen	2,063,000
5th	Daniel Idema	1,840,000
6th	Lee Nelson	1,651,000
7th	Patrick Healy	1,565,000
8th	Janis Lesinskis	1,501,000
9th	Kenneth Wong	1,498,000
10th	Oliver Speidel	809,000
11th	Mile Krstanoski	755,000
12th	Phil Ivey	699,000
Players:  12 (659) Prize pool: AU$6,590,000 Blinds: 10,000/20,000/3,000 Average Stack: 1,648,000