The Crown Casino poker room in Melbourne Australia saw the 2009 “Aussie Millions” poker event number 8 begin for the chase towards the 41.2 million top prize. The day I AUD$100,000 “high Rollers” no limit event began with top players such as Erik Seidel, John Juanda, Phil Ivey, Nam Le, Gus Hansen, and JC Tran, were evident on the days play.
Feature of this tournament is the “speed poker” format, where players had 30 seconds to act before their hands were killed. The action was fast-paced, as several of the big names headed to the rail in the first few levels and the betting was the pot limit pre-flop and no limit after the flop.
After the breakneck pace that was seen on day 1, the second day started more slowly and David Steicke entered the day’s action with the lead, soon to be lost early in the day but he came back in style to begin his elimination of all but one of his opponents on the way to claim the Raymond Weil winner’s watch and the $1.2 million top prize.
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