Aussie Millions Highlights
Day 5 Started
Aussie Millions Highlights
Day 5 Started
It's a big day today at the 2019 Aussie Millions with the final flight of the AUD$1,150 Opening Event getting underway at 12:10 pm.
So far the event has attracted 1,016 entries with 124 players advancing to Day 2. Today players will have 12 40-minute levels and 10,000 chips to try and join them.
Late registration is available for six levels, and a huge turnout is expected as players try to get in on the action.
Here's today's schedule:
Day | Event | Time | Buy-in |
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19th January | Opening Event Day 1 Flight 5 | 12:10 PM | AUD$1,150 |
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Certain poker players tend to make a habit of performing well in specific poker tournaments. From Ronnie Bardah's five WSOP Main Event cashes in a row from 2010 to 2014 to Davidi Kitai cashing the Winamax Poker Open Dublin Main Event in five of the last six years.
But some players make a habit of not just cashing in certain events, but making deep runs. Enter Sorel Mizzi and the Aussie Millions.
Mizzi had built up a string of cashes in the Main Event, cashing in three consecutive years between 2009 and 2011. Then came a fallow patch of two years, but he more than made up for it with a second place finish for A$1,000,000 in 2014 as he finished second to Ami Barer.
Here are Mizzi's Aussie Millions Main Event cashes to date:
Year | Entrants | Place | Payout |
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2009 | 681 | 9th | AUD$130,000 |
2010 | 746 | 3rd | AUD$715,000 |
2011 | 721 | 16th | AUD$65,000 |
2014 | 668 | 2nd | AUD$1,000,000 |
We asked Mizzi what keeps him coming back to Australia time and time again, besides the fact that whenever he's here he tends to crush.
"I mean that's a big reason!" he replied. "The other couple of reasons are the breakfast here is fantastic. Literally the best breakfast I've ever had. I know it sounds crazy but that's a big factor as to why I come here.
"It just tastes so good. I've been trying to skip breakfast a lot; I've been doing intermittent fasting, but I decided in Australia that's all going out the window. The other day I had a bagel with avocado and egg. Just all the ingredients taste so much nicer.
"The weather's really nice here as well. No better place to be in the world as a professional poker player who also likes tennis, who also likes a good breakfast as Australia."
Mizzi has been playing in the Opening Event, a AUD$1,150 event, with AUD$1,000,000 guaranteed. The Canadian expects the tournament to be huge.
"There's going to be at least a couple hundred thousand dollars for first place. There's value and $1k is $1k. It's still a lot of money and this tournament is going to be huge!
"I decided a few years ago that I wouldn't travel to any place for poker that I didn't like being. So I definitely am playing less poker when I come to places than I used to, but for Australia, I just love the events here.
"I love the poker and I'm probably going to play a lot of events this year specifically. But it varies a lot. Sometimes I'll come and I'll only play a few, and sometimes I'll play as many as I can."
And sometimes he comes and final tables the Main Event!
The final flight of the 2019 Aussie Millions AUD$1,150 Opening Event attracted 736 players bringing the total number of entries to 1,752 across all five flights.
An astonishing 138 advanced from the final flight, more than the other flights combined, including last year's Main Event runner-up Stefan Huber (111,200) and champion Toby Lewis (119,300).
"It's great to be back," said Lewis. "I flew in this afternoon, so jumped in this and I've just been trying to stay awake! Just tried to run it up. I feel a bit out of it, but it's all good.
"Back at it tomorrow for Day 2. There weren't too many spots though, thankfully. It's a pretty fast structure as well so most of the spots are pretty standard. Just a lot of going all in and winning flips."
For someone who left Melbourne almost twelve months ago AUD$1,156,653 richer, it's no surprise to see Lewis back here, and we asked him what he was looking forward to.
"Everything. The sunshine, the tennis, the breakfast; just walking around, cycling everywhere and meeting all the different people I've met over the years. I can't get enough of this place.
And what about another deep run in the Aussie Millions Main Event?
"That would be nice, yeah!"
Also advancing are Jesse Sylvia (40,100) and Joshua Abady (80,100) as well as Deaf Poker World Champion Alisha Wormald.
Wormald took down the 2018 International Deaf Poker Federation (IDPF) World Championship which was held right here at the Crown Casino in Melbourne for AUD$5,930.
She bagged up 62,200 in chips and will be back tomorrow for Day 2.
The overall chip leader from the fifth and final flight is Simon Chahine with 184,800, followed closely by Francis Artufel (178,400) and Oribe Rivero (168,600).
The payouts were also confirmed today, with the guaranteed prize pool of $1m smashed with the tournament generating a total prize pool of $1,795,800.
Just 171 players will be paid with the bubble busting tomorrow. Here is a list of the payouts:
Position | Payout (AUD) | Payout (USD) | Position | Payout (AUD) | Payout (USD) |
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1 | $350,464 | $252,334 | 19-21 | $10,056 | $7,240 |
2 | $219,608 | $158,118 | 22-24 | $8,799 | $6,335 |
3 | $129,836 | $93,482 | 25-27 | $7,542 | $5,430 |
4 | $93,920 | $67,622 | 28-36 | $6,285 | $4,525 |
5 | $62,493 | $44,995 | 37-45 | $5,566 | $4,008 |
6 | $44,535 | $32,065 | 46-54 | $5,028 | $3,620 |
7 | $37,173 | $26,765 | 55-72 | $4,669 | $3,362 |
8 | $31,785 | $22,885 | 73-90 | $4,309 | $3,102 |
9 | $26,398 | $19,007 | 91-108 | $3,950 | $2,844 |
10 | $21,908 | $15,774 | 109-126 | $3,591 | $2,586 |
11-12 | $17,419 | $12,542 | 127-144 | $3,232 | $2,327 |
13-15 | $14,545 | $10,472 | 145-171 | $2,873 | $2,069 |
16-18 | $11,672 | $8,404 | |||
Aussie Millions Highlights
Day 5 Completed