Aussie Millions Poker Championship

Crown Casino (2005)

The Aussie Millions Poker Championship (from 1998 to 2005 Australasian Poker Championship and 2006 Crown Australian Poker Championship ) is a poker tournament series that is held annually at the Crown Casino in Melbourne .

history

In July 1997, poker was introduced at the Crown Casino in Melbourne . The first major tournament was held in July 1998 under the name Australasian Poker Championship . In the main event, 74 people played for a total of 74,000 Australian dollars in prize money . Since 2002 the tournament series has always been played at the beginning of the year. From 2003 onwards, the number of participants increased continuously every year. In January 2005, 263 players paid the buy-in of Australian dollars to enter the Main Event. The result was the largest prize pool in a poker tournament in the southern hemisphere to date, valued at more than 2.5 million Australian dollars. Over half of the participants were players from abroad. The A $ 100,000 Challenge was offered for the first time in mid-January 2006 , and with its buy-in of 100,000 Australian dollars, it was a novelty in the poker world. Since 2007 the poker tournament series has been called the Aussie Millions Poker Championship . An A $ 250,000 challenge was played from 2011 to 2016, won three times by Phil Ivey . In 2018 and 2019, the tournament series set a new participant record in the main event, which is now 822 players.

Event overview

Main events

Gus Hansen won the Main Event in 2007

The buy-in has been around A $ 10,600 since 2003. The following table lists all main events and their winners.

Beginning	Attendees	winner	origin	Prize money (in A $ )	source
July 26, 1998	074	Alex Horowitz		0.025,900	[1]
Aug 1999	109	Milo Nadalin		0.038,150	[2]
Aug 27, 2000	109	Leo Boxell		0.065,225	[3]
Aug 24, 2001	101	Sam Korman		0.053,025	[4]
Jan. 12, 2002	066	John Maver		0.150,000	[5]
Jan. 12, 2003	122	Peter Costa		0.394.870	[6]
Jan 15, 2004	133	Tony Bloom		0.426,500	[7]
Jan. 18, 2005	263	Jamil Dia		1,000,000	[8th]
Jan. 14, 2006	418	Lee Nelson		1,295,800	[9]
Jan. 14, 2007	747	Gus Hansen		1,500,000	[10]
Jan. 14, 2008	780	Alexander Kostritsyn		1,650,000	[11]
Jan. 21, 2009	681	Stewart Scott		2,000,000	[12]
Jan. 24, 2010	746	Tyron Krost		2,000,000	[13]
Jan. 23, 2011	721	David Gorr		2,000,000	[14]
Jan. 22, 2012	659	Oliver Speidel		1,600,000	[15]
Jan. 27, 2013	629	Mervin Chan		1,600,000	[16]
Feb. 2, 2014	668	Amichai Barer		1,600,000	[17]
Jan. 25, 2015	648	Aristomenis Stavropoulos		1,385,500	[18]
Jan. 24, 2016	732	Ari angel		1,600,000	[19]
Jan. 22, 2017	725	Shurane Vijayaram		1,600,000	[20]
Jan. 28, 2018	800	Toby Lewis		1,458,198	[21]
Jan. 27, 2019	822	Bryn Kenney		1,272,598	[22]
Jan. 17, 2020	820	Vincent Wan		1,318,000	[23]

A $ 25,000 challenge

Igor Kurganov won the first A $ 25,000 Challenge in 2013

A high roller event with a buy-in of A $ 25,000 has been held since 2013 . The table below lists all of the A $ 25,000 challenges and their winners.

Beginning	Attendees	winner	origin	Prize money (in A $)	source
Feb. 2, 2013	030th	Igor Kurganov		275,000	[24]
Feb. 2, 2014	065	Max Altergott		241,785	[25]
Jan. 23, 2015	104	Alexander Trevallion		645.150	[26]
Jan. 22, 2016	122	Chance Kornuth		790.560	[27]
Jan. 20, 2017	133	James Chen		861.840	[28]
Jan. 26, 2018	114	Ben Lamb		738.720	[29]
Jan. 25, 2019	151	Rainer Kempe		826.465	[30]
Jan 15, 2020	169	Farid Jattin		983,646	[31]

A $ 50,000 challenge

At the end of January 2018, the first A $ 50,000 Challenge with a buy-in of A $ 50,000 was held.

Beginning	Attendees	winner	origin	Prize money (in A $)	source
Jan. 28, 2018	04th	Sam Greenwood		0.116,400	[32]
Jan. 27, 2019	62	Toby Lewis		0.818.054	[33]
Jan. 17, 2020	82	Michael Addamo		1,073,790	[34]

A $ 100,000 challenge

John Juanda won the first A $ 100,000 Challenge in 2006

A super high roller event with a buy-in of A $ 100,000 has been held since 2006 . The table below lists all A $ 100,000 challenges and their winners.

Beginning	Attendees	winner	origin	Prize money (in A $)	source
Jan. 14, 2006	10	John Juanda		1,000,000	[35]
Jan. 12, 2007	18th	Erick Lindgren		1,000,000	[36]
Jan. 12, 2008	25th	Howard Lederer		1,250,000	[37]
Jan. 17, 2009	23	David Steicke		1,200,000	[38]
Jan. 23, 2010	24	Dan Shak		1,200,000	[39]
Jan. 22, 2011	38	Sam Trickett		1,525,000	[40]
Jan. 22, 2012	22nd	Dan Smith		1,012,000	[41]
Jan. 27, 2013	22nd	Andrew Robl		1,000,000	[42]
Feb. 7, 2014	76	Yevhen Tymoshenko		2,000,000	[43]
Jan. 25, 2015	70	Richard Yong		1,870,000	[44]
Jan. 24, 2016	41	Fabian Quoss		1,446,480	[45]
Jan. 22, 2017	18th	Nick Petrangelo		0.882,000	[46]
Feb. 4, 2018	19th	Michael Lim		0.931,000	[47]
Feb. 1, 2019	42	Cary Katz		1,481,760	[48]
Jan. 22, 2020	54	Bald Burns		1,746,360	[49]

A $ 250,000 challenge

Phil Ivey won the $ 250,000 challenge three times

A super high roller event with a buy-in of A $ 250,000 was held from 2011 to 2016 . In 2017 the challenge was canceled at short notice due to a lack of interest and replaced by an A $ 50,000 event. The table below lists all of the A $ 250,000 challenges and their winners.

Beginning	Attendees	winner	origin	Prize money (in A $)	source
Jan. 27, 2011	20th	Erik Seidel		2,500,000	[50]
Jan. 27, 2012	16	Phil Ivey		2,000,000	[51]
Feb. 1, 2013	18th	Sam Trickett		2,000,000	[52]
Feb 9, 2014	46	Phil Ivey		4,000,000	[53]
Feb. 1, 2015	25th	Phil Ivey		2,205,000	[54]
Jan. 31, 2016	16	Steve O'Dwyer		1,051,959	[55]

Web links

Commons : Aussie Millions Poker Championship  - collection of images

• Official website (English)
• Aussie Millions Poker Championship on the Hendon Mob Poker Database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ payouts Confirmed; AU $ 1,850,000 (US $ 1,332,000) for First Place on pokernews.com on January 30, 2019, accessed February 2, 2019.
2. ↑ $ 250K Aussie Millions Challenge canceled at short notice! on pokerolymp.com on January 29, 2017, accessed January 30, 2017.