January 24, 2016
CHANCE KORNUTH TRIUMPHS IN AUSSLIE MILLIONS HIGH ROLLER POKER EVENT US poker pro Chance Kornuth (29) boosted his career live tournament earnings to more than $2.7 million over the weekend when he added A$790,560 to his stash by winning the A$25,000 buy-in Aussie Millions High Roller event. The competition attracted a total of 122 entries […]
February 2, 2015
Phil Ivey took the Aussie Millions LK Boutique A$250 000 Challenge for the third time in five challenges outlasting 24 high profile competitors. Ivey took home A$2 250 000 having bested the likes of Dan Smith, Isaac Haxton, Richard Yong, Scott Seiver, Erik Seidel and ultimately Mike McDonald heads-up. Event 21: LK Boutique $250,000 Challenge […]
February 1, 2015
High stakes professional player Richard Yong has made millions in live tournaments, yet strangely has never actually finished in first place until this weekend, when he changed all that with a major win in the A$100,000 buy-in Aussie Millions Challenge, boosting his bank balance with a useful A$1.87 million – his biggest single score yet. […]
January 20, 2015
A large entry field of 1,211 for the opening A$1,150 buy-in first event ensured a good start in this year’s Aussie Millions Poker Championship, generating a winner’s prize of $215,000 for local player Vic Spadavecchia, along with a winner’s gold ring and a Rolex watch. Four starting days were required to get the competition rolling, […]
February 9, 2014
With a stellar registration list of 39 players who added 37 re-ups to generate a tasty A$7.4 million prize pool, the A$100,000 Aussie Millions Challenge was always going to be a nail-biter, and so it turned out as a table chock-full of poker aces battled it out in Melbourne over the weekend. The composition of […]
February 4, 2014
The $25,000 buy-in Aussie Millions Challenge event Downunder came to a fast if unspectacular end Monday as the five remaining professional players made a deal and then boosted the blinds to end the match quickly. Max Altergott was the titular winner, having started the final table low on the chip stacks…and the five-way chop meant […]
January 28, 2014
Italian poker pro Mustapha Kanit showed the Aussies how it’s done this week when he took down the first event in this year’s Aussie Millions – the A$1,000 buy-in NLHE tournament – in Melbourne. The event attracted a huge entry list of 1,302 players, among them many top aces, and was eventually whittled down to […]
November 20, 2013
Crown Melbourne and Pokerstars have announced that the 2014 Aussie Millions poker tournament main event will become part of the PokerStars.net Asia-Pacific Poker Tour next year. The sixteenth annual edition of the Aussie Millions commences on January 23 and includes a A$10,600 buy-in main event starting February 2, along with A$25,000 buy-in Challenge; A$100,000 buy-in […]