Aussie Millions 250k Challenge (Sick Field, Sick Prizepool)

Players have decided to take a dinner break while the TV crew gets everything setup.

Ike Haxton is a mammoth leader with around 40% of the total chips in play. He needs to finish at least 4th to cover his high roller bill which included firing 6 bullets in the 100k Challenge and 2 in the 250k Challenge or a total of $1.1 Million.

Isaac Haxton 4,256,000
Mike McDonald 1,379,000
Tom Dwan 1,292,000
Erik Seidel 1,225,000
Daniel Negreanu 1,055,000
Fabian Quoss 976,000
Phil Ivey 976,000
Max Altergott 341,000

Will post the seating draw as soon as it comes to hand.

Notable players busted during today's play include:

10th-Jason Mercier
11th-Yevgeniy Timoshenko
13th-Sorel Mizzi
14th-Antonio Esfandfiari
15th-Justin Bonomo
16th-Doug Polk
17th-Tobias Reinkemeier
18th-Dan Smith
20th-Philipp Gruissem
21st-Richard Yong
22nd-Igor Kurganov
24th-Paul Phua
26th-Scott Seiver
27th-Patrik Antonius

Max Altergott has just been eliminated in 8th place. With the blinds at 15k/30k/4k, Tom Dwan opened to 67k and Altergott defended his blind. Flop 4 6 9 .

Altergott shoved the flop holding K 9 but was behind to Durr's T T .

No help forthcoming on the turn 4 and river 6

We are now at the money bubble with the next bust receiving Nil and the final 6 guaranteed a minimum $500k.

Level 13 commencing 20k/40k/5k

1 Isaac Haxton 4,400,000
2 Tom Dwan 1,945,000
3 Mike McDonald 1,283,000
4 Erik Seidel 1,183,000
5 Daniel Negreanu 1,170,000
6 Phil Ivey 1,020,000
7 Fabian Quoss 502,000

Action folded to Durr in the SB who shoved A 5 into short stack Fabian Quoss' big blind. Unfortunately for Durr, Quoss had Q Q .

Flop J 4 Q , gicing Qoss a big lead. K arrived on the turn to give Durr some hope, but the Q peeled off on the river to give Quoss quads.

Fabian Quoss 1,400,000 +898,000
Tom Dwan 1,200,000 -745,000

Phil Ivey has just doubled through Ike Haxton. Ivey Min raised from the hijack to 80k and Haxton 3B to 225K on the button, Ivey 4B shoved and Haxton called. The cards were flipped over and the news was good for Ivey.

Ivey A Q
Haxton A J

The board ran out K 4 3 9 2

Isaac Haxton 3,500,000 -900,000
Phil Ivey 1,900,000 +880,000

Is there a live stream online?

Originally posted by peche025
Is there a live stream online?

Sadly No. We'll just have to wait for it to come out on ESPN.

Players are currently on a 15 minute break with a level change upon the resumption.

1 Isaac Haxton 4,005,000
2 Phil Ivey 1,705,000
3 Daniel Negreanu 1,665,000
4 Tom Dwan 1,325,000
5 Mike McDonald 1,020,000
6 Erik Seidel 915,000
7 Fabian Quoss 740,000

The bubble has burst. Erik Seidel open shoved for about 15 BBs with JJ and got snapped of by Fabian Quoss who reshoved with KK to clear out the field.

The Kings held and Seidel leaves empty handed.

1 Isaac Haxton 3,650,000
2 Daniel Negreanu 2,105,000
3 Phil Ivey 2,080,000
4 Fabian Quoss 1,465,000
5 Tom Dwan 1,250,000
6 Mike McDonald 825,000

Tom Dwan has just been eliminated by Ike Haxton. Durr got the last of his chips in with 88 against KJ of Haxton. The board ran out AK7J6 and Durr was off to the payout cage to pick up $500k.

1 Isaac Haxton 3,650,000
2 Fabian Quoss 2,400,000
3 Phil Ivey 2,080,000
4 Daniel Negreanu 1,900,000
5 Mike McDonald 825,000