Its not something that is seen too often in live tournaments, a combination of computerized poker with live play. Event number 2 at The Aussie Millions includes just this!
Eighty-three played on the PokerPro computerized poker tables at the Crown Casino in Melbourne on Sunday for event number 2, the "$1,050 PokerPro No-Limit Hold'em tournament". Several stars played in the event, including Tony "Bond18" Dunst, Annette Obrestad, Peter Aristidou, Emad Tahtouh and Jamie Pickering.
The automated, dealerless, poker tables seat up to ten players. Each player has a touch screen which controls all of their betting actions, tracks their chip stacks and shows only their hole cards. In the center of the table is a large display that shows the community cards, pot size, stack sizes and player actions.
It took the 83 players less than eight hours to play the entire tournament. Queensland's Mitchell Carle took down the final pot of the day. Carle also took third place in the PokerPro event at the 2008 PokerNews Cup, so he was no stranger to the virtual tables.
When the final eight merged, the chip stacks look like this:
Seat 1: James Potter - 28,000
Seat 2: Mitchell Carle - 300,000
Seat 3: Michael Russell - 62,000
Seat 4: Nasr Elnasr - 97,000
Seat 5: Haibo Chu - 80,000
Seat 6: Daniel Neilson - 173,000
Seat 7: Daniel Noja - 31,500
Seat 8: Jozef Berec - 58,000
Before long it was heads up. With all opponents eliminated but two being Mitchell Carle on 622,000 chips and Daniel Neilson on 207,000 it took just a few hands for the heads up to complete, as Neilson was unable to overcome Carle's huge chip lead. In the final hand, Carle raised preflop with
, and Neilson moved all in over the top with 
. Carle called. The flop came 
. Neilson needed runner-runner help to stay alive, the turn left him drawing dead with a 3
. Second-place finish paid AUD $16,600.00 while Mitchell Carle picked up the Aussie Millions
Event #2 championship ring and its accompanying $25,000.00 first prize.
Eighty-three played on the PokerPro computerized poker tables at the Crown Casino in Melbourne on Sunday for event number 2, the "$1,050 PokerPro No-Limit Hold'em tournament". Several stars played in the event, including Tony "Bond18" Dunst, Annette Obrestad, Peter Aristidou, Emad Tahtouh and Jamie Pickering.
The automated, dealerless, poker tables seat up to ten players. Each player has a touch screen which controls all of their betting actions, tracks their chip stacks and shows only their hole cards. In the center of the table is a large display that shows the community cards, pot size, stack sizes and player actions.
It took the 83 players less than eight hours to play the entire tournament. Queensland's Mitchell Carle took down the final pot of the day. Carle also took third place in the PokerPro event at the 2008 PokerNews Cup, so he was no stranger to the virtual tables.
When the final eight merged, the chip stacks look like this:
Seat 1: James Potter - 28,000
Seat 2: Mitchell Carle - 300,000
Seat 3: Michael Russell - 62,000
Seat 4: Nasr Elnasr - 97,000
Seat 5: Haibo Chu - 80,000
Seat 6: Daniel Neilson - 173,000
Seat 7: Daniel Noja - 31,500
Seat 8: Jozef Berec - 58,000
Before long it was heads up. With all opponents eliminated but two being Mitchell Carle on 622,000 chips and Daniel Neilson on 207,000 it took just a few hands for the heads up to complete, as Neilson was unable to overcome Carle's huge chip lead. In the final hand, Carle raised preflop with
, and Neilson moved all in over the top with . Carle called. The flop came . Neilson needed runner-runner help to stay alive, the turn left him drawing dead with a 3. Second-place finish paid AUD $16,600.00 while Mitchell Carle picked up the Aussie Millions
Event #2 championship ring and its accompanying $25,000.00 first prize.
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