Event 10 - $5,300 Heads Up Championship
Day 2 Completed
2009 Aussie Millions
Event 10 - $5,300 Heads Up Championship
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
2009 Aussie Millions
Buy-in
5,000 AUD
Entries
32
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Tabatabai:
Torelli:
The flop was all Tabatabai when it landed
to make him trip sevens. The turn was the 
and river the 
and John Tabatabai becomes our Australian Heads Up Champion!Alec Torelli collects another runner-up finish in a major Heads Up event following his 2nd place finish to Kenny Tran at the WSOP. We think that AU$60,000 should ease the pain a little.
Meanwhile John Tabatabai collects the Aussie Millions Gold Ring and AU$100,000!
The flop came down
and Tabatabai checked from the big blind to Torelli who bet 2,600. Tabatabai then moved all in and Torelli was forced to give it up.Tabatabai has 31,200 and a strong hold on the ring as Torelli is down to 8,800.
The flop arrived
and both players checked. The turn was the 
and Torelli check-called the 1,700 bet from Tabatabai.The river brought the
and Torelli this time fired 3,400 which Tabatabai called.Torelli tabled
for ace-high as Tabatabai's 
was good. Tabatabai is up to 26,000 as a visibily steaming Torelli is back to 14,000.
Torelli:
Tabatabai:
The board fell
and Tabatabai pairs up his king to capture the pot and take a 1-0 lead!
Everything seemed to go smoothly and play continued.
After another twenty minutes of play and several double ups, Torelli looked at Tabatabai's stack and asked him how many chips he had.
"33,000" came the reply from Tabatabai.
"Well I have 17,000" said Torelli.
After some 2nd-grade math, it was realized that an extra 10,000 chips had crept into play during the chip change-over as the total amount of chips should've been 40,000.
The tournament supervisor was called over and a lengthy discussion held as to the best approach to resolve the matter. In the end, both players generously agreed to restart the match.
So play is once again underway, with the scoreboard still reading 0 vs 0 and the chip counts starting at 20,000 vs 20,000!
and was called by John Tabatabai's . The board ran out 
to give Torelli a chip-infusion. He's up to more than 14,000.
. Those 8,000 chips alllowed Tabatabai to open up a more than two-to-one chip lead over Torelli.
, then snap-mucked when Torelli raised him to 3,900.
The final between Alec Torelli and John Tabatabai will commence shortly.