Aussie Millions - 3K PLO, 10K NL & playing with Mark Philippoussis
PLO – Played the PLO tournament – my first one ever!
To my surprise many other full time pro players had little or limited experience in this type of tournament. Small field but the $3000 buy in with rebuy’s made the prize pool very healthy. Made a star-studded final table with WSOP bracelet winner Mark Vos, one of the cutest boys in Aussie, Irish sensation Andy Black, WPA founder Jesse Jones ,Aussie tournament pro Van Marcus ,local legend Ralph “Da Man” Burd , last years champ Steve Hegyi and last but not least WPT finalist and super fly guy Kevin O’ Donnell.
When we got to 7 we chopped it up for 65K each with Andy receiving 100K being the chip leader at the time. Had a great time and enjoyed the fun and gamesmanship at the table. Australia is really unique in that the players are all friendly here, hopefully time doesn’t change that.
Off to the main event, after my day off at the spa. Worked hard early and was a clear chip leader early in the day, getting to $45k by the end of level 1. Had my share of luck which everyone needs and finished the day strongly on $130,000 in chips. Today is a day off with day 1 flight 2 being played out now
Also had fun playing this event, was seated next to tennis great Mark Philippoussis for a few levels. He was a great guy and mentioned to me after winning a decent sized pot that he felt more nervous during the hand then stepping onto the court at Wimbledon in front of 15,000 crazy fans.
Enjoying my day off here in beautiful Melbourne and looking forward to tomorrow action.
The best place to catch all the action at the Aussie Millions is either on pokerwire.com or pokernews.com
Ta
To my surprise many other full time pro players had little or limited experience in this type of tournament. Small field but the $3000 buy in with rebuy’s made the prize pool very healthy. Made a star-studded final table with WSOP bracelet winner Mark Vos, one of the cutest boys in Aussie, Irish sensation Andy Black, WPA founder Jesse Jones ,Aussie tournament pro Van Marcus ,local legend Ralph “Da Man” Burd , last years champ Steve Hegyi and last but not least WPT finalist and super fly guy Kevin O’ Donnell.
When we got to 7 we chopped it up for 65K each with Andy receiving 100K being the chip leader at the time. Had a great time and enjoyed the fun and gamesmanship at the table. Australia is really unique in that the players are all friendly here, hopefully time doesn’t change that.
Off to the main event, after my day off at the spa. Worked hard early and was a clear chip leader early in the day, getting to $45k by the end of level 1. Had my share of luck which everyone needs and finished the day strongly on $130,000 in chips. Today is a day off with day 1 flight 2 being played out now
Also had fun playing this event, was seated next to tennis great Mark Philippoussis for a few levels. He was a great guy and mentioned to me after winning a decent sized pot that he felt more nervous during the hand then stepping onto the court at Wimbledon in front of 15,000 crazy fans.
Enjoying my day off here in beautiful Melbourne and looking forward to tomorrow action.
The best place to catch all the action at the Aussie Millions is either on pokerwire.com or pokernews.com
Ta
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