Matt Turk leads the remaining 26 players into Day 4 at the Aussie Millions Main Event. No, it's no typo, Matt Turk leads the Aussie.
I'm willing to bet many of you did or are in the process of doing what I did earlier today - go to the Hendon Mob database to check out just who Matt Turk is.
According to the Mob, Matthew Turk has about 4K in winnings in his live tournament career - his last cash coming in August 2010.
So, excuse us for asking, just who is Matt Turk? Simple answer, he's the dude that leads the Aussie Millions in Friday play - and he has double the chips that second place Tim O'Shea has.
It's obvious that Turk (2011 PTPR Rank: NR) has momentum on his side, he hopes to keep it up on Day 4.
As mentioned, Tim O'Shea is second in chips after Day 3 play. O'Shea (2011 PTPR Rank: 346th) held the chip lead at the end of Day 2 - it looks like he continued to accumulate chips at a rapid rate on Thursday.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that ALL the attention remains on Phil Ivey. Some are actually wondering at what point he will break his media silence. Would a win get Phil to open up? Probably not, knowing that Ivey has never been big on exposure.
Well, Phil is letting his play do the talking. Ivey (2011 PTPR Rank: NR) will start Day 4 sixth in chips as one of seven players with above 1M chip stacks. The picture at the top of this article says it all when it comes to Ivey, what a rail!
Former Aussie Millions Champion Lee Nelson is still in this thing. Nelson (2011 PTPR Rank: 835th) has a Top 10 stack heading into Friday play.
A pair of Canadians are also holding their own down under as Yann Dion (2011 PTPR Rank: NR) and 2011 WSOP bracelet winner and former BCPC Champ Daniel Idema (2011 PTPR Rank: 145th) both hold Top 10 chip stacks and shouldn't be overlooked on Friday.
NOTABLE CHIP STACKS (over 200K in chips)
Matt Turk 2,675,000
Tim O'Shea 1,376,000 Day 2 Chip Leader
Yann Dion 1,156,000
Phil Ivey 1,107,000
Daniel Idema 1,033,000 2011 WSOP Bracelet Winner
Minh Nguyen 992,000
Lee Nelson 878,000 2006 Aussie Millions Champ
Oliver Speidel 614,000
Joey Lawrence 504,000
Grant Levy 381,000
David Steicke 183,000
TOP 26 PAYOUTS (in AUD): 1st $1,600,000 2nd $1,000,000 3rd $610,000 4th $405,000 5th $300,000 6th $230,000 7th $170,000 8-9th $125,000 10-12th $100,000 13-15th $75,000 16-18th $60,000 19-24th $45,000 25-26th $35,000 RELATED POSTS >>O'SHEA LEADS DAY 2 >> IVEY'S ROOM OPENS AT CROWN >> SMITH COLLECTS 1M >> IRISHMAN PARKHILL WINS BOUNTY >> WEISNER LEADS FINAL 32 >> PEDLEY OUTLASTS KARAMALIKIS >> MIDDLETON DEFEATS DODDS >> MAD MARVIN LEADS FT CHARGE >> RUBIE WINS AUSSIE OPENER >> GOING INTO OVERTIME DOWN UNDER >> BLOOD, GUTS AND GORR!!! (2011) | PTPR PREMIER EVENT Aussie Millions NLH Main Event January 22-28, 2012 Crown Casino | Melbourne Buy-in: $10,465 | Prizepool: $6,896,435 Entries: 659 DEFENDING CHAMPION David Gorr (2011 PTPR Rank: 127th) PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION 1st place 131 2nd place 81 3rd place 51 4th place 41 5th place 36 6-7th place 31 8-11th place 16 12-15th place 14 16-18th place 11 |
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