Donnie Peters opened from under the gun with a raise to 1,500. Action folded over to last year's Aussie Millions champion Stewart Scott in the cutoff seat and he moved all in for 9,200. The button and blinds folded and then Peters made the call.
Peters:
Scott:
The board ran out and Peters sent over the 9,200 chips, leaving his team with just 700.
It was the last hand of the level and Peters' teammate James Bernard sat down to the remaining stack in the big blind. The blinds had moved up to 400-800 and Bernard was forced all in.
The player under the gun raised to 2,000 and everyone folded. Bernard had two live cards with the against the under-the-gun player's .
The player flopped two pair with big slick and that was all he needed to finish off Peters and Bernard.
The biggest stack we saw out on our travels around the Teams Event was around 38,000. The guy with it sounded Scandinavian and was threatening to call anyone with any face card - we're not sure those chips will be in the stack when we go back.
Some of the notable stacks in the field:
Team Balaban - 20,000
James Bernard/Donnie Peters - 15,000
Raj Ramakrishnan/Stewart Scott - 11,000
Andrew Demetriou/Antonio Casale - 9,000
Aaron Benton/Tony Hachem - 12,000
Lee Clever/Shane Fletcher - 9,500
Mick Guttman/Mel Judah - 9,000
Billy Jordanou/Joey Baker - 17,000
Joe and Anthony Hachem were unseen, therefore it's probable that their busto.
Nobbi Tanaka and Michael Guzzardi are confirmed busted after running into the of Shane Fletcher and Lee Clever.
Aaron Benton has delivered a light-hearted jab at his team mate Tony Hachem. According to Benton Hachem had left him with 10,000 chips after he took over for the first time. Benton ran that up to 22,000.
At the latest change Benton has returned to a 20,000 chip stack.
A unique situation only possible in teams events just occured.
After taking exception to being called down by an opponent, a player began to blow up.
"That's a rubbish play, you're such a donkey. If you think your hand is no good, why don't you just fold," said the player.
His opponent began to serve it back to him, telling him to "shut up" and "shut your mouth".
The two players argued for about three minutes, until the change of levels when their team mates rotated into the game. The team mates came into the game, defused the situation, shook hands with each other and got on with the game like normal.
The original angry player is over near the rail still complaining. But action is normal on the felt.
The game is No Limit Hold'em. Teams of two, only one member from each team is on the felt at a time.
The partner's rotate whose turn it is to play the team's stack each level. The first players in the game get half of the team's start bank, if they bust in the first level the team mate comes in immediately and plays with the other half of the team's starting bank.
That person will play the remainder of the first level, and the second, before the original partner resumes play in the third level.
From the second level onwards team will have their full stacks in play, and once it's gone the team is eliminated.
Should be fun. Back soon with some of the big name team's in the field and hopefully some numbers.