AUSSIE MILLIONS: Dion tops final dozen in Main Event

The slow march to the 2012 Aussie Millions Main Event final table continued on day four with the field cut from 26 to 12 and a tight squeeze at the top of the chip count. Canadian poker pro Yann Dion leads the field on 2.67 million but the chips are evenly spread down the count to short stack Phil Ivey on 699,000.

Lee Nelson, who the 2006 Aussie Millions Main Event, remains firmly in contention for an unprecedented second victory in sixth chip position while four Aussies – Patrick Healy, Janis Lesinskis, Oliver Speidel and Mile Krstanoski – are still in the hunt for a spot at the final table.

It was a tough day for the day three chip leaders with Matt Turk bowing out in 14th (he held more chips going into day four than the current chip leader) while Queensland’s Tim O’Shea struggled for traction and bowed out 22nd. Others to be KOed on day four included Danny Chevalier (13th), Grant Levy (15th, to go with his 13th in 2008), Joey Lawrence (17th) and David Steicke (26th). Play will continue until the final table of seven is decided today (Saturday) with the final table to be played on Sunday.

2012 Aussie Millions Event 8: $10,600 No Limit Hold’em Main Event (659 players, 72 players paid, total prizepool AUD $6,590,000) end of day 4 chip count – 12 players remain, chip average 760,385

Yann Dion (Canada) 2,670,000
Bjorn Li (USA) 2,471,000
Mohamad Kowssarie (Sweden) 2,230,000
Karim Jomeen (UK) 2,063,000
Daniel Idema (Canada) 1,840,000
Lee Nelson (New Zealand) 1,651,000
Patrick Healy (Australia) 1,565,000
Janis Lesinskis (Australia) 1,501,000
Kenneth Wong (China) 1,498,000
Oliver Speidel (Australia) 809,000
Mile Krstanoski (Australia) 775,000
Phil Ivey (USA) 699,000

Payouts (13-72)

13 Danny Chevalier $75,000
14 Matt Turk $75,000
15 Grant Levy $75,000
16 Minh Nguyen $60,000
17 Joey Lawrence $60,000
18 Slade Fisher $60,000
19 Borge Dypvik $45,000
20 Josh Barrett $45,000
21 Elton Tsang $45,000
22 Tim O’Shea $45,000
23 Louie Srour $45,000
24 Andrew Mellado $45,000
25 Ioannis Makris $35,000
26 David Steicke $35,000
27 Jason Koon $35,000
28 Octavian Voegele $35,000
29 Aage Ravn $35,000
30 Stanley Wu $35,000
31 Dennis Huntly $30,000
32 Andrew Hinrichsen 30,000
33 Steve Hansen $30,000
34 Michael Pedley $30,000
35 Pat Dillon $30,000
36 Sean O’Reilly $30,000
37 Michael Russell $25,000
38 Alexander Antonios $25,000
39 Robert Lam $25,000
40 Bob Sova $25,000
41 Rob Angood $20,000
42 Alexander Roumeliotis $20,000
43 Ben Jenkins $20,000
44 Paul Sing $20,000
45 Ben Savage $20,000
46 Michael Tureniec $20,000
47 Dominykas Karmazinas $20,000
48 Brett Watson $20,000
49 Robert Raymond $20,000
50 Wissam Boumadi $20,000
51 Billy Argyros $20,000
52 Mike Ivin $20,000
53 Ali Ghezelbash $20,000
54 Emad Moaref $20,000
55 Jeremy Simon $20,000
56 Diego Zeiter $20,000
57 Kenna James $15,000
58 Daniel Botta $15,000
59 Zakria Zahid $15,000
60 Armin Zoike $15,000
61 Louis Sawa $15,000
62 Stuart Kerr $15,000
63 Tom Grigg $15,000
64 Amanda De Cesare $15,000
65 Khiem Nguyen $15,000
66 Oscar Kemps $15,000
67 Matt Wakeman $15,000
68 Michael Langdon $15,000
69 Anthony Marenko $15,000
70 Patrick Lui $15,000
71 Lorinda Johnson $15,000
72 Paul Wilde $15,000