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2009 Aussie Millions
$1 Million Cash Game
Day: 1
With the game back to hold'em, Tom Dwan bet $68,000 on the river of a board that showed
after the action checked through on the turn. It was a strange bet as there was only $40,000 in the pot. Antonius, who is notoriously hard to read, just sat at the table without moving a muscle in his face, slowly blinking his eyes. After about a minute, he raised to $168,000. Dwan quickly mucked.
. The flop checked through. On the turn, Dwan bet $12,000. Antonius raised him to $38,000. Dwan thought it over and ultimately fired a call into the pot. Antonius immediately shut down, checking behind after Dwan checked the river 
. Dwan tabled 
for two pair, eights and nines. It was the winner.
. Dwan sighed and craned his neck before mucking.The next hand was raised preflop to $6,000. Dwan check-called $12,000 on a flop of
, then led into Antonius for $31,000 when the turn came 
. Antonius responded by raising pot, a total of $98,000 more to Dwan. He smiled, sighed and said, "Such a cool hand," before giving up the ghost.They're back to hold'em. If the game were to end right now, Antonius would have the best of it by a couple hundred thousand.
A couple of times I've heard production staff ask if the players are playing two hands simultaneously, since each is being dealt four cards during the PLO round.
Ten hands into PLO. Despite the reputation of the game as being for true degenerate gamblers, there hasn't been much PLO action so far. But we're only ten hands in.
board. Antonius called the turn bet but mucked on the river.
. He showed down after snap-calling Dwan's $31,000 river bet; Dwan had top pair with 
.Patrik has a plate of bananas and grapes on the table next to him. And since we're in Australia, you'd better pronounce that "ba-nahhhh-nahhhs."
I can't imagine that's going to sell well for television, but these guys don't have to be here. It's their game. They're going to dictate the rules or go home.