2009 Aussie Millions High Stakes Gam

Many Internet sites are reporting about million dollar buy-in poker game on Sunday in Melbourne’s Crown Casino. The game started as head-up match between Patrik Antonius and Tom “Durrrr” Dwan with $ 1,000/ 2,000 blinds and alternation between no-limit hold’em and pot-limit Omaha. Sound like Tom Dwan had a first taste of what his ongoing challenge to the world might look like. Patrik Antonius was quickly up 500,000 dollars which only confirms Phil Ivey words that before it is all over somebody might lose a number of millions.

Some more high stakes players joined the game and blinds were scaled back to to $500/$1,000 with $200 ante. It is amazing that one of the hands between Phil Laak and Niki Jedlicka went down in exactly the same way as a typical hand on $0.25/ 0.50 online table would go. Having a full buy-in of $ 200,000 Phil Laak raised with AK offsuit and Niki Jedlicka re-raised to $20,500. At this point with AK it would be a standard play to call and see the flop, putting in only 10% of your original buy-in. After all, top professionals are aware of many difficult situation you can get yourself in by playing AK too hard in cash games.

Phil Laak decided to push harder with his hand and re-raised again to $103,000 and Jedlicka moved all in. I think at this point it is pretty much clear that you are against AA or KK which means that you are “dead” or close to it. Phil Laak called and indeed was against AA.There was no sick suck out and Laak lost $200,000 on a pretty simple hand against a solid player. It could be that some unknown factors played a role in Phil Laak decision but it is hard to imagine that Niki Jedlicka was playing super aggressively with Tom Dwan and Patrik Antonius at the table. So an old saying is right again: ” Small pots for small hands..”. And AK is not , by any means, a big hand preflop against competent opposition.

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2. 2 Consecutive Disaster Hands at the High Stakes Tables
3. Barry Greenstein Talks “High Stakes Poker”
4. Playing Aggressively at Micro Stakes Tables Against Passive/Weak Players
5. A Pot Limit Omaha High/Low Hand

Posted by admin on January 27th, 2009
Categories: Poker News