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January 18th 2007
Aussie Millions Main Event Day Three: 80 play down to 14, big guns still in the running
While a number of pros put in good perfomances on Day Three of the Aussie Millions main-event, ultimately the day belonged to one man, or should i say boy. Jimmy "gobboboy" Fricke, aged just 19, started the day third in chips and ended as the runaway chip leader after a string of remarkable bust-outs and suck-outs which sent the watching crowd into a frenzy.
Gobboboy's habit of coming from behind to win became something of a legend over the course of the day with the incredulous crowd evetually nicknaming him "luckbox" instead of "gobboboy".
Gobboboy began his run with a fairly routine hand against Day Three chip leader Haralobos Voulgaris, catching a flush to bust his opponenents two pair. Next he busted Ville Laukenen when he called Laukenen's all-in with K-7o and was lucky to only be up against a pair of twos. Even so the J-9-8 flop did not bode well for Gobboboy and the ace on the turn left him a big dog, but a ten fell kindly on the river to complete a gutshot straight and send Laukkanen packing.
But it was Gobboboy's next win that precipated the change of nickname. Up against the healthy stack of Shane "Shaniac" Schleger the confident Gobboboy was perhaps a little rash to get his chips in with Q-T on a Q-9-2 board and was in big trouble when Shaniac flipped up Q-J. A king on the turn meant Gobboboy was drawing to dead to just three jacks in the deck. Of course you've already guessed how this ended. The pot was close to $3 million in chips and a digusted and shocked Shaniac headed to the rail in a daze after a beat that will take him some time to get over.
The newly named "Luckbox" went on to bust Nathan Bobik's pocket kings after he caught a ten on the flop and the legend of Gobboboy/Luckbox was assured.
Meanwhile Gus Hansen was busy doing what he does best from the TV table, namely bamboozling his opponents with his unpredicatble play. He did also win some conventional pots however, busting Lee Nelson wtih A-Q against K-9, and raking a $600k pot when his jacks held up in a three-way all-in pot against As-Ks and Qc-Tc. He ended the day where he started, in second position, but with a lot more chips! It was also a good day for Andy Black, who ended in thrid, and Patrik Anotnius, who followed up his extraordinary end to Day Three (see yesterdays news) with another barn-storming perfomance, adding roughly $1.3 million to his stack. These three ought to prove a serious danger to Gobboboy's dominance tomorrow.
Not so lucky was Joe Hachem who exited in 23rd place to tumultuos applause from players and fans alike. But another WSOP hero, Paul Wasicka, made it to the penultimate day, although he will have some work to do if he is to make it to the final table.
Fourteen players start Day Four tomorrow, here's how the chip counts looked at the end of Day Three:
Jimmy "Gobboboy" Fricke $2.6M
Gus Hansen $1.861M
Andrew Black $1.759M
Patrik Antonius $1.637M
Marc Karam $1.249M
AVERAGE STACK $1.067M
Julius Colman $1.018M
Hans Martin Vogl $849K
Jonas Buskas $820K
Kristy Gazes $713K
Paul Wasicka $560K
Jacob Glassl $464K
Patrick Fletcher $462K
Dennis Huntly $449K
Emanuel Seal $434K
Submitted: 18/01/2007 13:12:12
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