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Melbourne, Australia. Tuesday 17 January 2017. The first event of the 2017 Aussie Millions was a whopper which saw Robert Raymond successfully navigate the massive field to earn the Event 1 title and AUD$320,830. Raymond, a Melbourne local, bested a field which included 1,565 total entries up from the 1,320 entries the same event saw in 2016. Please refer to the attached for more details.
Melbourne, Australia. Tuesday 17 January 2017. On the third day of the 2017 Aussie Millions Poker Championship, Taiwan's James Chen won the first championship ring of the series, thanks to ANTON jewellery, taking down Event #2: $2,500 H.O.R.S.E. and walking away with the top prize of AUD$39,700 (USD$29,322) for his efforts. The tournament attracted 49 players, representing a 26 percent increase from the 39 entrants that played this event the year before. Please refer to the attached for more details.
Melbourne, Australia. Tuesday 17 January 2017. After an exciting weekend of play in Melbourne, the 2017 Aussie Millions is heating up with Austrian Thomas Muhlocker taking down the third event of the series for AUD$40,125. Event #3 featured an AUD$1,150 buy-in and a fun, fast-paced shootout format that instituted a shot clock to keep the game moving. Muhlocker, who has USD$2.9 million in lifetime tournament earnings to his name leads all Austrians for money earned playing live poker tournaments and has been a regular at the Aussie Millions since 2013. He's got five Aussie Millions cashes to his name, but this is his first victory. Please refer to the attached for more details.
Melbourne, Australia. Wednesday 11 January 2017. Crown’s highly acclaimed Aussie Millions Poker Championship will commence tonight, Wednesday 11 January with Event #1 No Limit Holdem ‘Opening Event’ at 6:10pm. The Opening Event, with a AUD$1 million dollar prize-pool guarantee, will be the first of the series of 26 highly anticipated individual poker events, that range in price from AUD$1,150 to AUD$250,000. As Asia-Pacific’s most prestigious poker championship, the Aussie Millions continues to draw record crowds from across the globe, resulting in unprecedented multimillion dollar prize pools and making legends one hand at a time. Crown has recently announced Jason Somerville’s Twitch.tv account as the exclusive broadcast partner for the 2017 Aussie Millions. Somerville will be streaming exclusively through his channel on Twitch.tv from Friday 27 January to Sunday 29 January 2017. Click to view full Media Release. Click to view Tournament Schedule.
As the Official Jeweller of the 2017 Aussie Millions, ANTON Jewellery will produce 25 Championship Rings and the widely-cherished diamond-encrusted ‘Main Event’ Champion’s bracelet. Please refer to the attached Media Release for more details.