De Goede Tops Moving Day; Aussie Millions Sets a New Record

Christian Zetzsche

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

Before the cards for Day 2 of the 2019 Aussie Millions Main Event were in the air, a new record attendance was in sight as 797 players had entered the A$ 10,600 flagship event at the Crown Casino in Melbourne throughout the three starting days At least 405 hopefuls returned to the poker room of the biggest casino complex in the Southern Hemisphere and the registration for the flagship event of the record-setting festival remained open for the first 90-minute level.

Thanks to 25 new entries on Day 2, the field size increased to 822 entries in total and a new record was set once more with a total prize pool of A$ 8,220,000 up for grabs. Only the top 88 spots will get paid at least A$ 15,600 while the winner of the record-setting 2019 Aussie Millions Main Event can look forward to a payday of A$ 1,850,000.

More than half of the remaining field will leave empty-handed when the race to the money will get underway on Day 3 and best-positioned after the 12th level of play is Dutchman Pim De Goede. He may not be well-known yet on the live circuit yet, but has recently scored one of the biggest paydays in the history of online poker. De Goede won a tight race for the overnight chip lead and bagged up 413,000. He is closely followed by Bjorn Ostby (386,300) and Ben Lai (378,000). Further big names in the top 10 include David Yan (363.300), Michael Soyza (317,100), Minh Nguyen (315,700) and Maxi Lehmanski (314,000).

Some of Australia's finest also remains in the hunt for the title on home soil such as Michael Egan (292,800), Michael Addamo (279,300), Corey Kempson (238,800), Matthew Wakeman (217,700), Rory Young (210,000) and Jackie Glazier (149,900). The sole remaining former Aussie Millions Main Event champion is Tyron Krost with 122,700, whereas defending champion Toby Lewis and David Gorr were eliminated on Day 2.

Before the action of the day got underway, Joe Hachem awarded the Australian Poker Young Achiever award to Alex Lynskey followed by the induction of Jonathan Karamalikis into the Australian Poker Hall of Fame. Karamalikis is the youngest player to achieve this. While Karamalikis had already been eliminated on Day 1c, Lynskey remained in contention and bowed out just before bagging and tagging after losing almost all of his chips with queens to kings in the final level of the night.

Jonathan Karamalikis inducted into Australian Poker Hall of Fame

Throughout the five 90-minute levels on the moving day of the tournament, plenty of notables fell short in their bid to claim a stack for the expected money bubble on Day 3 and that also included Toby Lewis. After running hot in the High Roller events of the current year with a victory and runner-up finish, the Brit was unable to defend his Main Event title. Australian Poker Hall of Fame members Jason Gray and Mel Judah were also among the plentiful casualties, as were big names such as Scott Davies, Benny Glaser, Maria Ho, Rainer Kempe, Tom Alner, Dzmitry Urbanovich, and Maria Lampropulos.

Fewer than 170 players bagged up chips and they will return to the poker room at Crown Casino on Thursday, January 31, as of 12:30 p.m. (AEDT) for Day 3. The action recommences in level 13 with blinds of 1,200/2,400 and a running ante of 400. Another seven 90-minute levels are scheduled and the money bubble is expected to burst.

You can follow all the action right here on PokerNews, the one-stop-shop for all updates from the 2019 Aussie Millions.

2019 Aussie Millions Day 3 Seat Draw

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
7	1	Anthony Kingston	Australia	39,900	17
7	2	Manig Loeser	Germany	124,400	52
7	3	James Petzing	United States	114,400	48
7	4	Chris Wookey	Australia	58,600	24
7	5	Fedon Phaedonos	Australia	55,200	23
7	6	Roy Agresta	Australia	167,200	70
7	7	Andrew Saliba	Australia	45,500	19
7	8	Mile Krstanoski	Australia	103,000	43

8	1	Joel Havea	Australia	152,300	63
8	2	Gavin Flynn	Ireland	185,000	77
8	3	Enrico Rudelitz	Germany	76,700	32
8	4	Anthony Harach	United States	138,800	58
8	5	Kitson Kho	Hong Kong	32,400	14
8	6	Scott Hamilton-Hill	New Zealand	150,000	63
8	7	Aram Zobian	United States	44,200	18
8	8	John Chu	Australia	62,500	26

10	1	Rory Young	Australia	210,000	88
10	2	Hamish Crawshaw	New Zealand	157,800	66
10	3	Harry Basle	Australia	68,800	29
10	4	Pim De Goede	Netherlands	413,000	172
10	5	Yustinus Karib	Australia	63,300	26
10	6	Ajay Chabra	United States	256,700	107
10	7	Chun Kwok	Hong Kong	162,700	68
10	8	Justin Roper	Australia	52,000	22

25	1	Mike Del Vecchio	United States	280,300	117
25	2	Shane Moran	Australia	346,900	145
25	3	Maxi Lehmanski	Germany	314,000	131
25	4	Gregory Woodman	Australia	64,700	27
25	5	Jason Pritchard	Australia	66,300	28
25	6	Senthil Subramaniam	Australia	144,800	60
25	7	Wei Zhang	United States	72,400	30
25	8	Martin Rowe	Australia	108,800	45

26	1	Vinod Megalmani	India	29,500	12
26	2	Spiros Maroulis	Australia	308,700	129
26	3	Aditya Sushant	India	292,800	122
26	4	Samuel Welbourne	United Kingdom	118,000	49
26	5	Dominik Panka	Poland	103,000	43
26	6	Cole Swannack	New Zealand	236,600	99
26	7	Celina Lin	China	62,600	26
26	8	Jan Larsson	Sweden	84,300	35

27	1	James Broom	Australia	23,000	10
27	2	Vojtech Ruzicka	Czech Republic	51,500	21
27	3	Robert Glasspool	Hong Kong	224,600	94
27	4	Chit Loong Saw	Taiwan	142,200	59
27	5	Julian Stuer	Austria	195,000	81
27	6	Robert Kaggerud	Norway	24,800	10
27	7	Nauvneel Kashyap	Australia	166,800	70
27	8	Ryan Otto	New Zealand	272,500	114

28	1	Hayato Kitajima	Japan	32,900	14
28	2	Tolly Sakellariou	Australia	162,500	68
28	3	Mikel Habb	Australia	76,100	32
28	4	Jerome Tan	Australia	45,200	19
28	5	Tao Chen	China	299,100	125
28	6	Clinton Taylor	Australia	224,200	93
28	7	Jesse Sylvia	United States	155,800	65
28	8	Simon Chahine	Australia	56,100	23

29	1	Paawan Bansal	India	197,300	82
29	2	Karim Jomeen	United Kingdom	58,600	24
29	3	Karl Symonds	Australia	108,200	45
29	4	Thibaut Klinghammer	France	89,300	37
29	5	Jiachen Gong	Canada	21,400	9
29	6	Angel Guillen	Mexico	49,300	21
29	7	Ravi Maravar	Australia	120,500	50
29	8	Kevin Clark	New Zealand	233,400	97

30	1	Takashi Ogura	Japan	53,500	22
30	2	Michael Soyza	Malaysia	317,100	132
30	3	John Duggan	United Kingdom	188,500	79
30	4	Jackie Glazier	Australia	149,900	62
30	5	Michael Song	United States	119,100	50
30	6	Huijie Zhou	China	232,600	97
30	7	Christian Nolte	Austria	289,900	121
30	8	Zackery Lowrie	Australia	178,800	75

31	1	Richard Ashby	United Kingdom	174,000	73
31	2	Bryn Kenney	United States	153,800	64
31	3	Jie Gao	Canada	157,800	66
31	4	Kiavash Arbabi	Australia	116,400	49
31	5	Jeremy Pekarek	United States	137,900	57
31	6	Andrew Hinrichsen	Australia	75,000	31
31	7	[Removed:415]	Australia	148,700	62
31	8	Sosia Jiang	New Zealand	44,500	19

32	1	Do Hoang	Vietnam	58,500	24
32	2	Michael Gathy	Belgium	198,000	83
32	3	Gyeong Byeong Lee	Korea	286,000	119
32	4	Vincent Huang	United States	125,500	52
32	5	Oliver Gill	Australia	247,900	103
32	6	David Yan	New Zealand	363,300	151
32	7	Paul Palsovic	Australia	122,600	51
32	8	Dennis Huntly	Australia	32,000	13

33	1	Tatjana Zizic	New Zealand	78,800	33
33	2	Harold Chandler	Australia	145,500	61
33	3	Chao Duan	China	267,100	111
33	4	Michael Egan	Australia	292,800	122
33	5	Mario Mosbock	Austria	166,400	69
33	6	Bjorn Ostby	Australia	386,300	161
33	7	Kanaan Yakhanna	Australia	48,900	20
33	8	Michael Behnert	Germany	163,800	68

41	1	Bas De Laat	Netherlands	171,800	72
41	2	Ben Lai	Hong Kong	378,000	158
41	3	Rodrigo Meneses	Australia	52,000	22
41	4	Ashish Gupta	Australia	45,500	19
41	5	Yosuke Sekiya	Japan	185,200	77
41	6	Ryan Bownds	Australia	130,300	54
41	7	Morgane Portier	France	142,200	59
41	8	Attila Bognar	Australia	92,100	38

42	1	Melana Petrack	Australia	35,800	15
42	2	Andrew Theakstone	Australia	152,400	64
42	3	Luc Meritan	France	218,900	91
42	4	Shane Cranney	Australia	59,600	25
42	5	Ali Ghezelbash	Australia	214,000	89
42	6	Tobias Ziegler	Germany	196,400	82
42	7	Billy Argyros	Australia	121,400	51
42	8	Jongwon Yoon	Korea	228,300	95

43	1	Dingxiang Ong	Singapore	316,300	132
43	2	Kilian Loeffler	Germany	187,100	78
43	3	Antonio Tavella	Australia	178,400	74
43	4	Matthew Richards	Australia	40,300	17
43	5	Kishore Kumar	Australia	227,800	95
43	6	David Wang	Australia	139,200	58
43	7	Dejan Boskovic Sr	Australia	114,300	48
43	8	Bruno Portaro	Australia	185,200	77

44	1	Jamie Lee	Australia	27,300	11
44	2	Andrew Michael	Australia	81,500	34
44	3	James Rann	United Kingdom	124,500	52
44	4	Yang Lei	Australia	88,300	37
44	5	Ngoc Hoang	Vietnam	183,000	76
44	6	Matthew Wakeman	Australia	217,700	91
44	7	Norihiro Otani	Japan	212,400	89
44	8	Mitchell Watson	Australia	69,000	29

45	1	Corey Kempson	Australia	238,800	100
45	2	Robert Spano	Australia	106,100	44
45	3	Miroslav Sheynin	New Zealand	50,400	21
45	4	Martin Ward	Australia	95,200	40
45	5	Michael Addamo	Australia	279,300	116
45	6	Farid Jattin	Colombia	246,700	103
45	7	Zizheng Huang	China	39,400	16
45	8	Taylor Black	United States	38,000	16

46	1	Dylan Honeyman	Australia	77,700	32
46	2	Jim Chahoud	Australia	87,900	37
46	3	Yuri Ishida	Japan	160,500	67
46	4	Orjan Skommo	Norway	243,200	101
46	5	Hussein Hassan	Australia	198,500	83
46	6	Andrian Chin	Australia	298,800	125
46	7	Jack Salter	United Kingdom	202,900	85
46	8	Wang Yi Long	China	222,800	93

47	1	Quan Zhou	China	219,200	91
47	2	Minh Nguyen	Australia	315,700	132
47	3	Takahiro Nakai	Japan	60,300	25
47	4	Stefano Accardo	Australia	179,200	75
47	5	Martin Finger	Germany	128,000	53
47	6	Mihai Barbu	Australia	251,100	105
47	7	Adrian Indovino	Australia	216,200	90
47	8	Tristan Bain	Australia	190,000	79

48	1	Ajay Gnanasambanthan	United States	113,000	47
48	2	Yi Huang	China	34,000	14
48	3	Nicholas Wright	Australia	189,400	79
48	4	David Hanlon	Australia	22,800	10
48	5	Constantin Harach	Australia	37,100	15
48	6	Andrew Chen	Canada	111,300	46
48	7	Patrick Vo	Australia	52,700	22
48	8	Jun Jia	Taiwan	166,600	69

49	1	Casey Kastle	Slovenia	49,200	21
49	2	Paul Raseta	Australia	37,700	16
49	3	Tyron Krost	Australia	122,700	51
49	4	Greg Heaver	Australia	172,000	72
49	5	Alex Gibbons	Australia	57,100	24
49	6	Daniel Chambers	United States	238,400	99
49	7	Nazih Sibaei	Australia	116,800	49
49	8	Luke Roberts	Australia	128,700	54