Aussie Millions Poker Championship
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
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 | 74 | Alex Horowitz | 25,900 | [1] | |
Aug 1999 | 109 | Milo Nadalin | 38,150 | [2] | |
Aug 27, 2000 | 109 | Leo Boxell | 65,225 | [3] | |
Aug 24, 2001 | 101 | Sam Korman | 53,025 | [4] | |
Jan. 12, 2002 | 66 | John Maver | 150,000 | [5] | |
Jan. 12, 2003 | 122 | Peter Costa | 394.870 | [6] | |
Jan 15, 2004 | 133 | Tony Bloom | 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
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 | 30th | Igor Kurganov | 275,000 | [24] | |
Feb. 2, 2014 | 65 | 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 | 4th | Sam Greenwood | 116,400 | [32] | |
Jan. 27, 2019 | 62 | Toby Lewis | 818.054 | [33] | |
Jan. 17, 2020 | 82 | Michael Addamo | 1,073,790 | [34] |
A $ 100,000 challenge
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 | 882,000 | [46] | |
Feb. 4, 2018 | 19th | Michael Lim | 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
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
- Official website (English)
- Aussie Millions Poker Championship on the Hendon Mob Poker Database
Individual evidence
- ↑ payouts Confirmed; AU $ 1,850,000 (US $ 1,332,000) for First Place on pokernews.com on January 30, 2019, accessed February 2, 2019.
- ↑ $ 250K Aussie Millions Challenge canceled at short notice! on pokerolymp.com on January 29, 2017, accessed January 30, 2017.