No doubt that Oliver Gill is a polarizing figure within the Australian poker community. He's outspoken about most topics and loves to tell people the best way he sees it. Even though those people aren't actually listening. Some like his honest approach, but for some, it rubs them the opposite direction. Gill knows that and accepts that you simply can't please everyone.
As a poker reporter, it's great to have players like Gill within the game. He's a continuing source of entertaining quotes and information, and he doesn't mind us poking some fun at his expense every now and then.
We've have some fun with a couple of different nicknames for Gill this tournament, but he said he wasn't impressed with any of our attempts. It's seems that the nickname "Capitao" has stuck for good. Apparently the name originated from when Gill was playing a Brazilian player online on PokerStars and, once defeated, Gill's opponent called him the "Capitao" within the chat box, simply meaning "Captain" in Portuguese.
The Capitao gimmick got him significant airtime at the WSOP televised coverage, but it's yet to land him a massive live tournament victory. He hoped that his time would come on the ANZPT Sydney Main Event, but unfortunately it wasn't to be.
Gill lost a large chunk of chips on a board of J♠7♠J♦9♦T♦ when he called three barrels from Peco Stojanovski who showed down pocket tens for an entire house. Gill claimed he held jack-eight for a straight and exclaimed, "I literally win with some other river card within the deck."
On the fast stack, Gill jammed from the small blind with queen-ten but again Stojanovski found big cards together with his pocket jacks holding true on a board of 8♣A♥5♦7♥2♠.
With that, the table got a bit quieter and we now have rather less to jot down about. Gill is out in sixth place for $38,900 as just five players remain, and we are not even on the first break of the day! It's mostly way to Peco Stojanovski who have been on an important heater thus far. He's as much as 4.7 million in chips for over half the chips in play.
Heath "TassieDevil" Chick is a contract Contributor for the PokerStars Blog.
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