[user25067]
Mmmmm... Tastes even better while winning
John Juanda limped in on the button, Gavin Smith raised to 1,600 from the small blind and Juanda called. The flop was . Smith bet 2,200, Juanda raised to 5,000 and Smith folded his Q-Q face-up. Juanda showed for a stone bluff and raked in the pot.
After the hand, Smith was down to 5,700 while Juanda was up to 21,700.
[user25067]
On a flop of , Grant Levy checked, Daniel Zink bet 1,200, Levy raised to 3,500 and Zink called. The turn was the . Levy bet 10,000, sending Zink into the tank. After having the clock called on him, Zink announced "all in" and Levy immediately called. Zink showed and needed some serious help against Levy's set of fives. The river was the , making Levy a full house, and Zink made an early exit.
[user24788]
Eric "jeciimd" Chadwick.
Eric "jeciimd" Chadwick is here because he won a seat on Full Tilt via the "Battle of the Blogger Tournamets: Aussie Millions Challenge." The series was run by popular blogger by the name of AlCantHang. He hosted weekly events and the winners of each of those events qualified for the Tournament of Champions (TOC), with the winner of that winning a seat to the Aussie Millions.
That fortunate blogger who won the TOC happened to be Eric "jeciimd" Chadwick. He's a doctor in his normal life and took some time off from his work in Pennsylvania to play in the Aussie Millions main event.
[user57954]
A short-stacked Doug Lee committed all of his chips into the middle in a raised pot on a board of . David Singer had plenty of chips and decided to take a shot at eliminating Lee by making the call with .
Lee flipped over and when the board ran out Doug Lee had doubled up to around 13,000 chips.
[user57954]
Carl Olson
Out on a popular table 16, Carl Olson watched four players call a 300 chip raise as he looked down at his cards in the small blind and saw . Olsen bumped it up to 1,600 to go and found only one customer in Amnon Filippi from the cutoff position.
The flop came and both players checked. The turn brough the . Olson checked once again and Filippi fired 3,600 in the middle. Olson casually tossed out a yellow 5,000 denomination chip to signal a call. The river is the and once again both players checked.
Olson's showed his aces, Filippi simply tapped the table and tossed his cards into the muck as Olson takes down a nice pot.