Hometown Hero Smashes Aussie Millions Final
“Words can’t describe it,” said an ecstatic Speidel.
Aussie Millions: Oliver Speidel Wins Main Event and $1.6 Million
Poker fans that were disappointed when Phil Ivey missed the final table of the 2012 Aussie Millions Main Event were treated to quite the performance anyways by a relatively unknown 26 year old by the name of Oliver Speidel.
Aussie Millions: Phil Ivey Back in Winners Circle with $250k Challenge Victory
At around 2 pm on Saturday afternoon in Melbourne, Phil Ivey busted in 12th place from the Aussie Millions Main Event. For most people, busting out of a $10,000 buy-in event so close to the final table would be a crushing blow – even with the $100,000 payday that accompanied it. Phil Ivey ain’t most
Ivey Falls Short of Aussie Millions Final Table
Ivey entered Day 5 last in chips with 699,000 and was eliminated in the first level of play. In Ivey’s final hand online grinder Yann Dion opened from under the gun and Ivey three-bet 140,000.
Aussie Millions: Matthew Turk Takes Chip Lead on Final Hand of Day 3
Just before the final hand of the night at the Aussie Millions Main Event there were five or six players who could all be chip leader at night’s end. Those players were all hovering between 1,100,00 and 1,350,000 and it was all going to come down to who picked up a few extra chips on
Hansen Busts Ivey to Set $100k FInal Eight
Hansen will return for Day 2 and the play down to the title with 567,000 chips for a slight edge on new AsianLogic pro Joe Hachem, who will come back with 538,500.
The Sunday Scoop: Europe Dominates Sunday Majors
The Sunday Million, Warm-Up and 500 all smashed their guarantees and awarded a total of $2.6 million to 1,727 poker players from around the world. With much of the live poker world returning from the recently finished PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, or traveling to Melbourne for the upcoming Aussie Millions, the payout lists were noticeably light on big-name pros. Read on for the essentials on this week’s biggest online poker tournaments.
PCA: Bilokur Bests Duhamel Heads-Up in High Roller
Winner photo courtesy of the PokerStars Blog/Neil Stoddart Less than one day after amateur Jonathan Dibello defeated a final table stacked with pros, Leonid Bilokur upset an even tougher line-up at the final table of the $25,000 High Roller event at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure to win the tournament, pick up $1,134,930, and best the