bdawg Down Under...
 

As you may or may not remember, bdawg had less than 24 hours of "home time" in between the Bahamas and leaving for Australia. He is down there now, and Day 1 is in the books.

As soon as I got home from camping today, I fired up the Poker Stars Blog to see if I could find any info, and I sure did!


With his permission, I will now tell you that bdawg31 = Bernie Martinelli. He had his picture taken for this blog entry:


:cool:

And according to the most recent entry:
Very nice! Go bdawg!!!

Very cool! Not sure if he'll be reading this down there but GO BDAWG!!!!!

Is it just me, or does that guy in the other picture look like Mark Martin? (before anyone asks - the NASCAR driver Mark Martin)

wow thats awesome, i cant wait till i'm old enough to get into some of these events- GL man.

nice job BDawg... hopefully you can keep it going and tell us all about it once you get back.

Sending lucky vibes full of anti bad beat...stuff. Go Bdawg.

That's awesome GL Bernie.

3% of those vibes are coming to me! I sure can use them, they way my MTTs have been going lately.

Goooooooooooo bdawg!

tunica
 

GO BERNIE John and I will be in Tunica this weekend. He will try to defend his title. Hope all those players stay in Austrailia with Bernie - we dont need them in Tunica.

GL to you and John. And remember to stay in touch before the UB freeroll - Knowing me, my dumb ass will forget about it :o

lol

Dammit!

lol

Looks like bdawg made it through Day 2!

There is another pic of him in the Poker Stars Blog, but according to the email I got from him, the caption isn't entirely true. He said it was taken early on when his chip stack was at around 52k. He ended up losing a lot of chips - mostly to Michael Gracz - throughout the day and found himself down to 19k chips. He pushed in from the SB with 9Ts and the BB called with A9. Uh oh! But a 10 on the flop saved him!!!

He was able to work his stack up to near 50k again, but the average going into Day 3 is 90k. There are 86 players left and 48 will cash. The minimum cash is about $10k.

Here's hoping bdawg can hang on and catch a few breaks on Day 3, so he can go really deep in this thing...

Aussie Millions: Day 3 beginning chip counts



Fitt Gerry 331,600
Shorr Shannon 311,100
Fischman Scott 280,600
James Kenna 280,100
Davies Russell 248,500
Baca Cruz 240,800
Neary Robert 228,300
Derei Asher 219,800
Nelson Lee 201,400
Ivey Phil 194,700
McGregor Andrew 193,900
Italiano Dom 184,700
Bugiera Wes 184,100
Esfandiari Antonio 171,200
Matthews Phil 164,300
Medic Nenad 148,400
Gracz Michael 140,500
Horowitz Jethro 129,600
Bloom Tony 129,600
Malki Mourad 123,800
Fair Nicholas 119,200
Cook Greg 117,400
Tann Willie 116,200
Hohn Steve 113,800
Slambough Cody 113,200
Argyros Billy 110,000
Thorn Charlton 104,400
Sealey Jeff 104,100
Stanton Mick 103,300
Diciacoa Mario 102,600
Jones Benjamin 98,700
McCowan Randall 98,100
Donjerkovic Anthony 97,100
Colman Julius 96,000
Dia Jamil 91,800
Youseff Sam 90,300
Demetriou Harry 86,600
Gazes Kristy 84,200
O'Donnell Kevin 82,100
Reina Joe 82,100
Lababio Sam 81,800
Liebert Kathy 81,700
Tahtouh Emad 81,400
Hayes Anthony 77,600
Schuele Dave 75,600
Marcos Michael 75,400
Beh Bernard 74,800
Smithies Mark 74,600
Grolemund Dan 72,300
Galanis Nick 71,900
Gilpin Joh 71,300
Mellross Jason 71,100
Thomas Brett 69,800
Jennis Ian 65,100
Hoey Gillian 64,400
Beshara Sukkar 62,000
Benson Gary 59,900
Mouazzafi Babak 59,600
O'Leary Kevin 59,100
Hachem Joe 56,000
Chanduloy David 53,200
Keating Jim 52,100
Sundin Olle 51,700
Trimarchi Tony 51,100
Martenelli Bernard 49,600
Cuschieri Charles 48,700
Silk Danny 47,000
Kilcullen Scott 42,400
Barker Alex 42,100
Georgoulas Nick 41,400
Vos Mark 40,800
Natoli David 38,200
Plumb Myron 37,800
Marino Dario 37,600
Davis Aaron 33,000
Cairns Daniel 30,800
Ashby Richard 30,100
Lee Alan 28,300
Zarb Michael 26,400
Szeremeta Kate 23,500
Comer Mike 15,000
Simon Patrick 13,100
Putt Graeme 8,300

Looks like he's doing pretty good - any idea what the blinds are starting at ?

still in with a good shout, keep it up man.

my tip to win, apart from the abvious Bdawg, is the magician, feel its his turn..

According to the email I got earlier: 1000/2000 with a 300 ante, and they are playing 8 seated.

Keep an eye on Fischman........ and Ivey of course. Both are VERY dangerous with those stacks.

Bah.... just got an email from bdawg (not a good sign). Here are the first two lines from it:

Oh well.... hopefully he can enjoy Australia for a few days.

god damn it. Never mind, another day another sattelite

Holy crap! I'm reading his email now.... I won't post everything (I'll leave that to him if he wants, when he gets back), but how about this:

He ended up busting out with his AK all in preflop against TT. A T hit the flop and that was that... He shook hands and gave an exit interview.

Nice job, bdawg!!!

that sucks... nice run BDAWG...