A Format Unlike Any Other

Today's event features a rather unusual format. First of all, each player will have only twenty seconds to act on his or her hand. There are no extensions. If after twenty seconds a player has not acted, the hand is dead.

There will be one "bounty player" drawn to each table. Any player who eliminates a bounty player will receive a cash prize of AU$1,000 directly from the prize pool.

Play will otherwise proceed as normal until there are thirty-two players remaining. At that time, players will be seeded, based on chip count, into four shootout tables. The clock will be rewound one full level, and then play will proceed in a shootout format, with the top two players from each table advancing to the final table. The twenty-second rule for acting on a hand still applies.

At the final table, scheduled to take place tomorrow, the level will be set to the level that was in play at the time of the completion of the second of the four shootout tables. Players will carry over their exact chip counts from the shootout tables to the final table and will be given several forty-second time extensions.

The novelty of the format seems to have drawn quite a few players. We imagine it will take at least an hour to process the registration line.

2009 Aussie Millions

2009 Aussie Millions

A Format Unlike Any Other