2012 Aussie Millions Day 7: Sandeep Pulusani Sole Survivor of Shootout

The 2012 Aussie Millions Championship is in full swing and has already knocked out three of the 26 scheduled events. Brendon Rubie and Dan "djk123" Kelly claimed respective victories in the first two events, starting things off with a bang. More of poker's top pros have been arriving at Crown daily including Jeffrey Lisandro, Gus Hansen, Randy Dorfman, and Erik Seidel, all of whom have had past success in Melbourne. There are still plenty of pros on their way, as well.

Event #3: $1,100 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout


On Tuesday, Jan. 17, the Aussie Millions Event #3: $1,100 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout reached its 150-player cap and played down to a final table. A number of notables came and went on Day 1 including McLean Karr, Vitaly Lunkin, Van Marcus, Billy Argyros, Maria Ho, Jonathan Karamalikis, and Marc Convey, with Karr finishing in 12th place and falling just shy of his second consecutive final table at the 2012 Aussie Millions.

The next day, the final 10 players returned to play down to a winner, with Aussie Millions ring-winner Oliver Speidel leading the pack with 384,500 chips. Joining him at the final table was Joey Lawrence, Mark Segal and Jackie Glazier.


Less than four and a half hours into the final table, a winner was crowned. Speidel managed to make it to heads-up play, but by that time his opponent, Sandeep Pulusani, held a 4-1 chip lead. Unfortunately for Speidel, there was no comeback as Pulusani, a music blogger from the United States who started the final table fifth in chips, captured the $37,500 first-place prize.

Here’s a look at the Event #3 Final Table results:

2012 Aussie Millions Event #3 $1,100 Shootout Results

Place                  Player                                     Price (AUD)

1st                      Sandeep Pulusani                    $37,500

2nd                     Oliver Speidel                         $24,750

3rd                      Ash Gupta                              $17,250

4th                      Matthew Pearson                    $13,500

5th                      Mario Ljubicic                        $11,250

6th                      Jackie Glazier                         $9,750 

7th                      Joey Lawrence                       $8,250

8th                      Salman Behbehani                  $6,750

9th                      Eric Sclavos                           $5,250

10th                    Mark Segal                            $3,750

Event #4: $1,100 No-Limit Hold'em/Pot-Limit Omaha

Event #4: $1,100 No-Limit Hold'em/Pot-Limit Omaha kicked off on Wednesday and attracted 158 entrants, creating  a prize pool of $158,000. Among the entrants were Sam Holden, Dan Kelly, David Gorr, Joseph Cheong, James Dempsey, Mel Judah, and Jim Collopy.

Seat                     Player                                   Chip Count

1                          Sam Vakili                            102,500

2                          Eric Sclavos                          100,000

3                          Michael Benvenuti                 137,000

4                          Cheng Lui                              199,500

5                          Ali Ghezelbash                       236,000

6                          Casey Kastle                         315,000

7                          Dean Francis                          228,000

8                          Khiem Nguyen                       68,500

9                          Aaron Lim                              205,500

Upcoming Events

Events #5 $1,100 Six-Handed NLH is scheduled to kick off on Thursday, Jan. 19 and PokerNews will be providing live updates from the two-day event. Visit our Live Reporting section to follow the action Event#5.



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