News: The Aussie Millions Main Event Is Raring To Go

The Crown Casino in Melbourne opened its gates on the 14th of January and is offering tournament players the biggest poker event of the southern hemisphere. The main event begins on Sunday and two of the Team PokerStrategy.com players who will be participating are: Allanon and Bongbob.

The Aussie Millions 2010 are in full swing and one famous player has already secured a title in Event #4: Annette Obrestad was able to prove herself in the AUD $1,000 pot-limit Omaha tournament and moved to the top of the field. The Norwegian cashed in AUD $40,000 for her victory.

Tomorrow, Saturday, a highlight of the tournament series will begin: The AUD $100,000 event offers several high-rollers the opportunity to measure themselves against each other at the tables. Amongst the expected participants are Gus Hansen (pictured right) and Phil Ivey. Hansen will fondly recall his previous appearance in the Aussie Millions. He was able to decide the main event of 2007 for himself. He will surely make use of the opportunity to pay the buy-in of AUD $10,500 this year as well and try his luck at the tournament with the highest payout of this series.

Last year, Stewart Scott was able to secure the victory in the main event along with its record payout of AUD $2,000,000. A flatter payout structure is expected this year. It is therefore likely, that a higher number of players will participate than ever before. The main prize however will be lower. Whilst 681 players took part in last year's tournament, more than 800 are expected to play this year. With the meeting of these expectations a new record for the number of participants in Aussie Millions is anticipated as well. So far the highest number of players was recorded in 2008 – 780 players filled the Crown Casino in Melbourne two years ago.

PokerStrategists Down Under

Amongst the many expected players and top pros of the scene are two Team PokerStrategy.com members. bongbob and

Allanon are running as well. Whilst Bongbob announced that he would be at the tables from the first starting day on Sunday, Allanon will decide shortly on which of the three starting days he will join.

chessmasterD

chessmasterd (pictured left) will be at the start as well. The best placed German of this year's PokerStars.com Caribbean Adventure Main Events won't miss this further highlight at the beginning of the year and will attempt to to be as successful as his he was in his first appearance in a major main event.

Additional players who have announced their participation are alcapone2000, the4thphase, groni, christuff and fa_morgoth.

The last mentioned will be playing a final table tomorrow. Florian Langmann enters the race in the AUD $1,150 No Limit Hold'em rebuy event with the second biggest chip stack. This will be rewarded with AUD $129,920. James Obst will go to the final table as chip leader. With 194,600 Obst holds a substantially higher amount of chips than fa_morgoth who has a stack of 114,700 chips.

Team PokerStrategy.com united once again in Berlin

The whole Team PokerStrategy.com will be participating in the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour in Berlin. Germany will be hosting the tour from the 2nd to the 7th of March and at least €1,000,000 await the winner.

As always you can expect detailed reporting in our live ticker at that time.