2014 Aussie Millions › $100,000 Challenge

Day 1 completed

Posted 10 hours 28 minutes ago

Mike McDonald Leads After Day 1 of the $100,000 Frenzy

Posted 10 hours 30 minutes ago • Level 9: 2,500-5,000, 500 ante

Day 1 of the 2014 Aussie Millions AU$100,000 Challenge was, well, an insane flurry of action like nothing we've ever seen before. At the end of the day, 66 entries were generated. Ten of those came from the tandem of Isaac Haxton and Daniel Negreanu, each of whom fired five bullets into the event. Negreanu ended the day with 221,500 in chips, while Haxton busted for a fifth time.

Leading the 29 survivors into Day 2 was Mike "Timex" McDonald. After a making a late appearance to this year's festival, McDonald finished an exciting first day with a field-leading 468,500 in chips. The only other player over 400,000 to finish was Paul Newey, and he bagged up 428,500. Then Richard Yong, Antonio Esfandiari, and Phil Ivey round out the top five stacks.

With over 40 unique players in the event, the field was jam packed with poker's high-rolling superstars. Jason Mercier, Justin Bonomo, Doug Polk, Viktor Blom, Patrik Antonius, Fabian Quoss, Philipp Gruissem, Mike Watson, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, and Tom Dwan were just a handful of names to take a shot (or two, or three) and advance to Day 2. Joining them will be reigning World Series of Poker Main Event champion Ryan Riess, who he bagged up 208,500 in chips.

Furthermore, there are rumors swirling of even more entries to come. Registration and reentry will remain open right up until the start of Day 2 at 12:30 p.m. local time on Saturday, and the word on the street is that Tobias Reinkemeier will be back in the mix after busting, and Sorel Mizzi and Scott Seiver may join up on their day off from the Main Event final table. The field could easily eclipse 70 entries, which would put quite the icing on the cake for this highly-anticipated event.

The Day 2 table draw, prize pool, and payouts won't be made available until registration officially closes, so you will have to stay tuned for that information. If Day 1 is any hint of what's to come in this event, Day 2 will be a day you won't want to miss. Be sure to stay tuned right here to PokerNews for all of the live updates straight from the tournament floor as we hunker down for a long finish.

Official End-of-Day Chip Counts (full)

Posted 10 hours 47 minutes ago • Level 9: 2,500-5,000, 500 ante

With 29 players remaining, Mike "Timex" McDonald has the chip lead entering Day 2. Official end-of-day chip counts are posted below and a recap will follow shortly.

Chip Counts
Mike McDonald			468,500	201,500
Paul Newey			428,500	18,500
Richard Yong			379,500	199,500
Antonio Esfandiari			364,000	-161,000
Phil Ivey			341,500	101,500
Tom Dwan			323,000	63,000
Igor Kurganov			310,000	-20,000
Winfred Yu			301,000	21,000
Max Altergott			288,800	48,800
Paul Phua			274,000	-71,000
Philipp Gruissem			258,000	23,000
Jeff Rossiter			233,000	58,000
Daniel Negreanu	PokerStars Team Pro		221,500	121,500
Fabian Quoss			219,500	-55,500
Ryan Riess			208,500	33,500
Ole Schemion			202,000	102,000
Doug Polk			177,500	-197,500
Tony Bloom			171,000	21,000
Patrik Antonius			151,000	-19,000
Jason Mo			141,000	-59,000
Justin Bonomo			141,000	55,000
Max Lehmanski			135,500
Mike Watson			123,500	-126,500
Viktor Blom	Full Tilt Poker Professional		110,000	10,000
Christoph Vogelsang			104,000	4,000

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Three More Hands

Posted 11 hours 4 minutes ago • Level 9: 2,500-5,000, 500 ante

Christoph Vogelsang has opted to reenter. He won't get much of a chance to run it up though as the tournament staff has just announced that they will play three more hands before bagging and tagging for the night.

We're headed out to catch any last minute action and to compile some counts, so stay tuned for those as well as a recap of the Day 1 action.

Chip Counts
Christoph Vogelsang			100,000	100,000

Say Goodbye To...

Posted 11 hours 8 minutes ago • Level 9: 2,500-5,000, 500 ante

Smith Will Wait Until Day 2

Posted 11 hours 18 minutes ago • Level 9: 2,500-5,000, 500 ante

Dan Smith @dansmithholla

Had a great start to the day but it fizzled out when QJ < AT on KQJ then lost the rest versus Patrick Kk < AA. Will be back at it tomorrowFebruary 07, 2014

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Some Late Night Shots from the $100k

Posted 11 hours 23 minutes ago by

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Haxton Gone Again

Posted 11 hours 25 minutes ago • Level 9: 2,500-5,000, 500 ante

Isaac Haxton has just busted for a fifth time in this event. If he reenters, it will be his sixth bullet.

Tags: Isaac Haxton.

Phua Busts Hartman

Posted 11 hours 32 minutes ago • Level 9: 2,500-5,000, 500 ante

Craig Hartman was all in pre flop with the against a dominating for Paul Phua. The board ran out , and Hartman was eliminated.

Phua moved to 345,000 in chips.

Chip Counts
Paul Phua			345,000	175,000
Craig Hartman			Busted

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Updated Chip Counts

Posted 11 hours 43 minutes ago • Level 9: 2,500-5,000, 500 ante

Chip Counts
Antonio Esfandiari			525,000	185,000
Paul Newey			410,000	240,000
Igor Kurganov			330,000	30,000
Winfred Yu			280,000	50,000
Mike McDonald			267,000	137,000
Tom Dwan			260,000	20,000
Max Altergott			240,000	140,000
Phil Ivey			240,000	84,000
David Steicke			240,000	5,000