Sorel Mizzi among leaders in Aussie Millions Main Event

Poker News / Matthew Pitt / 27 January 2010 / Leave a Comment

Roger Federer wearing Sorel's lucky sweat band

Day 2 of the 2010 Aussie Million Main Event has come to an end and of the 294 who started only 85 will return for Day 3. Amongst those coming back tomorrow is Sorel Mizzi who finds himself in third position overnight with a huge 470,000 chip stack.

Joining Mr Mizzi at the felt will be fellow Betfair pro, Annette Obrestad who would have had more than the 134,000 she has at her disposal if she had managed to win a flip late on in proceedings with Ace-King against her opponent's pocket nines.

A special hand took place on the feature table that involved James Keys, who used to keep a blog on Betfair, that saw him move up to the 100,000 mark. His opponent showed a set of aces on a board reading 6cKdTdAd5s but Keys turned over QdJd for the ultimate poker hand, a Royal Flush!

Sorel was seen sporting a lucky sweat band around his wrist, that he apparently caught when Roger Federer threw it into the crowd after he won his tennis match. It was obviously working as he was hoovering chips up all day long but someone with no luck was Betfair qualifier NigDawG who suffered a horrendous beat.

Five players saw a flop reading 3c9h8c and David Olsen fired out an 11,000 bet. NigDawG then made it 25,000 to go, prompting Olsen to move all-in. NigDawG made the call and showed 3s3h for bottom set, ahead of Olsen's Tc9c. NigDawG went further ahead with the arrival of the 9d on the turn, giving him a full house but a cruel Th on the river gave Olsen a higher full house and knocked the Betfair qualifier down to 80,000 chips, which incidently is how many he finished with when play came to an end.

David Frieling is the overnight chip leader with 537,000 chips, followed by Pierre Aoukar with 501,000 and Sorel Mizzi with 470,000. Some other big names to keep an eye out for during Day 3 are JP Kelly, Barry Greenstein and 2007 Aussie Millions Main Event winner Gus Hansen.

Play restarts at 1230 Australian time with the 85 remaining players will play down to the final 27 meaning 13 players will go home empty handed and whoever is left when the tournament director calls it a night will be guaranteed AUD$40,000.