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Poker players will have a number of poker series from which to choose in the first months of 2020.

The poker year is already underway in Melbourne, as players have been descending up Crown Casino for the Aussie Millions. In addition, there are more series lined up for Brisbane and the Gold Coast in the coming weeks.

Australian Poker Tour Kicks Off in Brisbane

The APT (Australian Poker Tour) is a series of poker tournaments that travel around Australia to cities like Sydney, Gold Coast, and Brisbane. Buy-ins usually range from $50 to $2,500 to accommodate a wide range of players.

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Its third season will kick off in Brisbane at the Eatons Hill Hotel and Function Centre on January 29, 2020. A total of 19 events will keep players busy over the five-day series that will end on February 2. There will be $535,000 in guaranteed prize pools.

The full schedule is available on the APT website, but here is an overview:

• Event 1: $75 NLHE Mini Main Event with reentries, two starting flights, $25K GTD
• Event 2: $350 PLO High Roller, unlimited reentries
• Event 3: $60 NLHE Deepstack Freezeout, $5K GTD
• Event 4: $50 NLHE Auslan Deaf Poker Australian Championships
• Event 5: $1,500 NLHE Dracakis Players Championships, $75K GTD
• Event 6: $175 NLHE Main Event with one reentry, four starting flights, $150K GTD
• Event 7: $80 NLHE 6-Max Shootout, $7,500 GTD
• Event 8: Free + $20 top-up CPG NLHE, $5K GTD
• Event 9: $1,200 NLHE Grind with reentries, $100K GTD
• Event 10: $60 WPA Brisbane Ladies Championships
• Event 11: $100 NLHE Big Bounty Game with $50 bounties, $7,500 GTD
• Event 12: $240 National Teams with five players per team, $15K GTD
• Event 13: $100 PokerShop NLHE with two reentries, $15K GTD
• Event 14: $1,100 Andrews Airport Parking 8-Game Mix with one reentry
• Event 15: $550 NLHE 6-Max Shotclock with reentries, $15K GTD
• Event 16: $450 Poker Shares NLHE High Roller with unlimited reentries, $75K GTD
• Event 17: $60 King Playing Cards NLHE Deepstack Freezeout, $7,500 GTD
• Event 18: $220 NLHE Cage, $13K prize package to Costa Rica for winner
• Event 19: $60 PLO with unlimited reentries

There will be an APT Brisbane players’ party on the first night, January 29, with free entries to all players in the Mini Main Event. Players will also find numerous qualifiers to the bigger events and steps tournaments for discounted buy-ins.

In addition, players competing at the five APT tour stops of 2020 will earn points for their in-the-money finishes. They will be calculated through the year for the Player of the Year race, and the eventual winner will receive $50,000 in cash.

Poker Central Delivers Australian Poker Open

This new series was announced in late November 2019. Poker Central decided to expand its Poker Open series and Super High Roller Bowl to Australia in 2020.

The Star Gold Coast in Broadbeach, Queensland will host the high-stakes tournament series from January 25 to February 4. The series consists of these buy-ins and events:

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• Event 1: $10K NLHE
• Event 2: $10K PLO
• Event 3: $10K NLHE
• Event 4: $25K PLO
• Event 5: $25K NLHE
• Event 6: $50K NLHE
• Event 7: $100K NLHE

When those are completed, the Super High Roller Bowl (SHRB) Australia will start its three-day tournament action on February 2 with a $250K buy-in and one reentry opportunity.

Poker Central will also make livestreams available of the events on its PokerGO online subscription service, which can be purchased for $10 per month or $99 for one year.

Aussie Millions Underway in Melbourne

The poker year truly began with the opening of the 2020 Aussie Millions Poker Championship at Crown Casino in Melbourne. The staple on the poker calendar began in 1997 and has grown to encompass a wide range of buy-ins and poker variations through the years.

The 2020 series started on January 4 and will run through January 24. The first of the 23 tournaments are already complete with these results:

• Event 1: $1,150 NLHE with 1,665 entries and $1,706,625 prize pool (Jo Snell won $341,325)
• Event 2: $2,500 HORSE with 42 entries and $94,500 prize pool (Dzmitry Urbanovich won $28,755)
• Event 3: $1,150 PLO with 349 entries and $357,725 prize pool (Matthew Edwards won $83,185)
• Event 4: $1,150 NLHE Mix Max with 342 entries and $350,550 prize pool (Freek Scholten won $86,575)

The full schedule is on the Aussie Millions-dedicated website, complete with structure information and results of every event.

Players can also earn seats into the Aussie Millions tournaments via live satellites happening at the Crown poker room. The lowest buy-in of the series is $1,150, so many players are using qualifiers to earn entries. The highest buy-in event of the series is the final one, a $100K buy-in Super High Roller that starts on January 23.

History of the Aussie Millions

The Aussie Millions tournament has been held at the Crown Casino in Melbourne since 1998. In the beginning, it was a rather small tournament by the standards of major world event; the first ever tournament was held in July of 1998, and had only a $1,000 buy-in. Reflecting the tastes of that time, the tournament was also a Limit Hold’em tournament. That first event draw 74 players, and it was Australia’s own Alex Horowitz who won the first prize of $25,900.

The very next year, the tournament changed formats to Pot-Limit Hold’em, and the number of entries increased to 109. Another Australian player, Milo Nadalin, took home the top prize of $38,150.

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Over the following years, the Australian Poker Championships would begin to more closely resemble the Aussie Millions as we know them today. In the year 2000, the tournament switched to the No-Limit Hold’em format that it has continued to feature to this day. The buy-in for the tournament began to increase as well, first to $1,500, then to $5,000, and finally to $10,000 in 2003. That was also the year of the first million-dollar prize pool, and the first time a foreign player won the event, as England’s Peter Costa took down the top prize. Since 2002, the Aussie Millions has been held each year in January, moving the tournament to the summer (likely with the hopes of attracting players from the United States and Europe, who are in the midst of winter at that time of the year).

The first million dollar prize as the Aussie Millions came in 2005, when Jamil Dia won $1 million for topping the field of 263 players. The biggest prize ever awarded came in 2009 – and was later matched in 2010 and 2011 – when the winner, Stewart Scott, won $2 million. The largest field ever, surprisingly, came in 2008, when 780 players participated. However, attendance has remained strong since then, with over 650 players entering the tournament every year since then.

Aussie Millions Winners and Prize-Money

The following players have won the Australian Poker Championships since its inception. Each player is listed with their first place prize in parenthesis.

• 1998: Alex Horowitz ($25,900)
• 1999: Milo Nadalin ($38,150)
• 2000: Leo Boxell ($65,225)
• 2001: Sam Korman ($53,025)
• 2002: John Maver ($150,000)
• 2003: Peter Costa ($394,870)
• 2004: Tony Bloom ($426,500)
• 2005: Jamil Dia ($1,000,000)
• 2006: Lee Nelson ($1,295,800)
• 2007: Gus Hansen ($1,500,000)
• 2008: Alexander Kostritsyn ($1,650,000)
• 2009: Stewart Scott ($2,000,000)
• 2010: Tyron Krost ($2,000,000)
• 2011: David Gorr ($2,000,000)
• 2012: Oliver Speidel ($1,600,000)
• 2013: Mervin Chan ($1,600,000)
• 2014: Ami Barer ($1,600,000)

As you might expect, Australian players have dominated this tournament since its inception. However, several players from other countries have broken through on occasion to win Australia’s poker championship. The number of winners by nation is shown below:

• Australia: 11 (1998-2002, 2005-2006, 2009-2012)
• England: 2 (2003-2004)
• Denmark: 1 (2007)
• Russia: 1 (2008)
• Malaysia: 1 (2013)
• Canada: 1 (2014)

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Other Events at the Aussie Millions

Since the beginning of the Aussie Millions, there have been a number of tournaments held along with the Main Event, with most of these events featuring lower buy-ins and/or different game formats so that more players have the chance to participate in the festival. The 2013 edition of the Aussie Millions featured no less than 26 different events, including pot-limit Omaha, a six-handed event, and mixed tournaments.

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But the events which have attracted the most attention from poker fans are the high roller events involving some of the world’s most famous players. In 2006, the Aussie Millions began running a $100,000 No Limit Hold’em Challenge, which at the time was the highest buy-in poker tournament in the history of the game. In response to the proliferation of high-roller tournaments in following years, the Aussie Millions once again raised the bar by adding a $250,000 buy-in event in 2011. This tournament – known as the Super High Roller – has been won by Erik Seidel and Phil Ivey.