The $250,000 Challenge is currently underway and there are only three players remaining of twenty-five entries: Doug Polk, Mike McDonald and Phil Ivey, who is in the big lead with 3.7 million chips to McDonald's 1.6 and Polk's 795k. Believe it or not but Ivey won this event both in 2012 and 2014. Now, he has a fantastic opportunity of winning a third title! Pretty amazing when you think about it.
The next player to hit the rail with take home AU$1,041,400, second place pays AU$1,592,500, and the last man standing will get just about AU$2.2 million! Check back in a few hours for a final table recap!
Incredible! Phil Ivey has just won his third $250,000 Challenge at the Aussie Millions! In 2012, he bested a field of 16 entries for AU$2 million, two years later he outlasted 46 entries to claim a AU$4 million first-place prize, and this time he defeated a field of 25 entries over two days of play to lay hands on AU$2.2 million!
The second (of three) Day 1 flight drew a field of 173 players (10 less than Day 1a), and approximately 91 remained after seven 90-minute levels of poker. Ian Wassell finished the day at the top of the chip counts with 229,500.
The $100k buy-in event is down to 8 players after 2 intensive days of play. Germany's Ole Schemion will lead the remaining 8 players into Saturday's final table with 1,888,000 in chips - about 700k more than his closest opponent, Jason Mo.
In case you missed it, the schedule for the 2015 Aussie Millions (part of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour) has now been released. Not much has changed since last time and PokerStars will be the main sponsor of the Main Event once again. Crown's 2015 Aussie Millions Poker Championship begins on January 14 with the opening event and concludes on February 2. In total, there are 21 separate events with buy-ins ranging from AUD$1,150 to AUD$250,000!
