Britain’s Sam Trickett was named Player of the Year at the 2012 European Poker Awards, held at the Aviation Club de France at the weekend. Trickett, who hails from Nottinghamshire, beat off the challenges of a host of other big names, including Jake Cody, Bertrand Grospellier and Pius Heinz, to land the award. Trickett, who [...]
Phil Ivey put the disappointment of narrowly missing the final table at the Aussie Millions Main event behind him as he took down the $250,000 Super High Roller side event. The A$2 million first prize was the biggest of his distinguished poker career. The win sees him overtake Daniel Negreanu on the all-time money list, [...]
Oliver Speidel dominated the final table of the Aussie Millions Main Event in Melbourne to secure a victory which netted him AU$1.6 million, comfortably the biggest payday of his poker career. He defeated Kenneth Wong after a short heads up battle, with Wong making his stand with pocket nines only to find Speidel holding AA. [...]
Bjorn Li seized the chip lead on the penultimate day of the Aussie Millions Main Event in Melbourne. The big news, however, was the elimination of Phil Ivey and of former winner Lee Nelson on the day when the field was reduced to a final table. Just twelve players began the day, and only seven [...]
Day 4 of the Aussie Millions Main Event at the Crown Casino in Melbourne took two hours longer than Day 3 even though only fourteen players hit the rail compared with the forty-nine who departed the day before. The big news was that Phil Ivey managed to survive the day, although he will start tomorrow [...]
Just three levels of blinds were required on a short Day 3 to reduce the 75 remaining players in the Aussie Millions Main Event down to 26, making it look unlikely that Sunday’s reserve day will be needed, unless the organizers decide to make the next two days short ones as well. When play did [...]
After three opening days which saw a total of 659 players pay the A$10,600 entry fee, 314 players returned for Day 2. By the end of the day that number had been reduced to 74, with plenty of big names hitting the rail along the way. The only former winner left in the tournament is [...]
Gus Hansen began the final table of the Aussie Millions $100,000 Challenge with a narrow chip lead but he was to be frustrated in his quest for the first prize of more than a million dollars, as he finished on the bubble. Nam Le, Sam Trickett and Sorel Mizzi had all departed by the time [...]
The Aussie Millions $100,000 Challenge attracted the cream of world poker once again in 2012, with 22 players stumping up the hefty entrance fee. By the end of a ten-hour day the field had been reduced to a final table of eight. By the end of the day the in-form Gus Hansen was heading the [...]
2005 World Series of Poker Main Event winner Joe Hachem has announced that he is to become an ambassador for the Asian Poker Tour. The Australian recently left his former sponsor, PokerStars, with whom he had been affiliated for the past six years. Hachem commented: “I will be working with the Group in several areas, [...]
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