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Aussie Millions
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Melbourne, Australia. Sunday 31 January 2010. The new king of
poker was crowned this morning, when 23-year-old Australian poker
player Tyron Krost won Crown Casino's 2010 Aussie Millions Poker
Championship 'Main Event' and took home AUD$2 million, one of the
largest prizes ever awarded in a live poker tournament in the
Southern Hemisphere.
Krost outlasted a field of 746 players who anted up the
AUD$10,500 buy-in for the 'Main Event' creating a prize pool of
AUD$7.46 million. The 'Main Event' at Melbourne's Crown Casino was
the culmination of the 20 Championship Events, which this year
generated more than AUD$15 million in total prize money.
After playing a marathon session at the Final Table that lasted
13 hours, 23-year-old Krost from Sydney's Eastern Suburbs had it in
the bag. Chants of "Aussie! Aussie! Aussie!" rang through the arena
for the champion from Sydney, Tyron Krost.
Danish poker player, Frederik Jensen played amazing poker and
held his own against some of the best players in the world, busted
out in second place winning a tidy AUD$1.1 million.
'Finishing third and collecting AUD$715,000 was 23-year-old
Canadian, Sorel Mizzi, better known for his online poker prowess as
"Imper1um".
Runner Up: Frederik Jensen - AUD$1.1 million
3rd place: Sorel Mizzi - AUD$715,000
4th place: Kosta Varoxis - AUD$450,000
5th place: Peter Jetten - AUD$350,000
6th place: Steve Friedlander - AUD$250,000
7th place: Annette Obrestad - AUD$175,000
8th place: Stephen Shelley - AUD$125,000
WSOP Europe
The WSOP Europe (WSOPE) is the biggest poker series, with the
biggest single event prize pool on offer in the whole of Europe. It
is also the only poker series outside of the US where WSOP
bracelets are up for grabs and attracts the very best players in
the world. In 2007 there was barely a single name from the "who's
who of poker" missing from the registration list and 2008 was no
different.
The WSOPE arrived in Europe for the very first time in September
2007, with London, England chosen as it's first location. The
series was made up of three bracelet events, including the 362
runner £10,000 Main Event. Internet superstar, Annette Obrestad was
the talk of the event, eventually walking off with the £1 million
first prize - the biggest ever sum of money won by a woman in a
sporting event.