Aussie Millions 2012 Main Event - Phil Ivey Among Leaders

January 25, 2012
Robin Ylitalo took position as chipleader at the Aussie Millions Main Event Day 1C. Phil Ivey is also among the ones in lead.
317 poker players registered for the A$10,600 buy-in main event of day 1C, which means that a total of 659 players started the competition this year. The total prize pool thus makes a grand A$6,590,000 with the winner taking home A$1,600,000. 
 
Many high-profile players appeared on Tuesday, like Phil Ivey, Erik Seidel, Daniel Negreanu, Sorel Mizzi, Nam Le, Chris Moorman, Dan Smith, Sam Trickett, Joseph Cheong, Toby Lewis, Victor Ramdin, Mike Sowers, Jason Mercier and last year's winner David Gorr. Out of these big names, Phil Ivey did best: he took place 4 on day 1C with 184,000 chips. 
 
Phil Ivey
Phil Ivey
 
Also in the top finishers is David Sonelin (186,200) and Jason Koon (155,300), who took place 4 at the PCA High Roller event. Most of the other big names got eliminated, including Cheong, Seidel, Negreanu, Nam Le, Trickett, Lewis, Moorman, Ramdin and Mizzi. 
 
The chipleader position of day 1C has been taken by Robin Ylitalo with 192,600 in chips. Best in the qualifiers was Brett Watson (he closed day 1A with 257,000 chips). 
 
305 players start day 2, with dealing resuming at the eighth blind level (100/500/1000).
 
The top ten players so far: 
 
Brett Watson - 257.400
RobinYlitalo - 192.600 
Robert Lam - 191.400
James Dempsey - 189.000
Janis Lesinskis - 188.700
David Sonelin - 186.200
Phil Ivey - 184.000
Ilir Beluli - 182.700
Paul Sing - 177.100
Chad Awerbuch - 161.000
 
Other interesting chip counts:
 
Andrew Hinrichsen - 132.900
Tom "durrrr" Dwan - 107.400
Dominik Nitsche - 87.400
Mohamad Kowssaire - 85.600
Ramzi Jelassi - 83.600
Fabian Quoss - 68.200
Grant Levy - 66.500
Minh Nguyen - 65.500
Jason Mercier - 61.600
Tyron Krost - 56.400
David Bach - 52.900
David Vampew - 47.300
Maria Ho - 44.600
JP Kelly - 44.100
Vitaly Lunkin - 40.300
Isaac Baron - 36.700
Michael Tureniec - 35.400
James Obst - 33.500
Annette Obrestad - 28.300
Tony Hachem - 23.300
Sebastian Ruthenberg - 22.700
Jonathan Karamalikis - 21.000
Donnacha O'Dea - 20.900
 
Prizes:
 
1. A$ 1.600.000
2. A$ 1.000.000
3. A$ 610.000
4. A$ 405.000
5. A$ 300.000
6. A$ 230.000
7. A$ 170.000
8-9. A$ 125.000
10-12. A$ 100.000
13-15. A$ 75.000
16-18. A$ 60.000
19-24. A$ 45.000
25-30. A$ 35.000
31-36. A$ 30.000
37-40. A$ 25.000
41-56. A$ 20.000
57-72. A$ 15.000
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