2007 Aussie Millions Poker Championship Day Eight
MELBOURNE Australia, January 13, 2007 – The Aussie Millions Poker Championship yesterday was one of the most electrifying to date. The $100,000 No Limit Holdem Invitational Event attracted some of the world’s best and biggest names in poker world including Phil Ivey and a very strong support crowd to match. 18 poker players sat down to battle it out in an exciting game that ended well into this morning.
The offer of the $1.8 Million prize pool with an even $1 Million going to the winner, attracted the largest crowds to date in the Crown Poker Room. By midnight it soon became a ‘carnival like atmosphere’ with Team Full Tilt’s Erick Lindgren and Erik Seidel joined at the table with the unknown Masaaki Kagawa from Japan remaining, Lindgren responded by shouting spectators that were climbing the rails to see a piece of the action Crown Lagers!
Karma must has rewarded Lindgren, known by his online nickname ‘EDOG’ who took the title after a heads up struggle with fellow Full Tilt team member Erick Siedel.
Event:
DAY EIGHT – 2007 Aussie Millions Poker Championship
Date:
Saturday January 13, 2007
Championship Schedule:
12.30pm: Supershot Satellite 4
Total Cost: $1,100 (Buy-In $1,050 + Entry Fee $50)
6.15pm: Supershot Satellite 5
Total Cost: $1,100 (Buy-In $1,050 + Entry Fee $50)
Location:
Crown Poker Room
Level B2, Crown Entertainment Complex
(Entry Via Clarendon Street, opposite Jeff’s Shed)
News Crews:
Please Note: All Media Crews must wear their AUSSIE MILLIONS Media Accreditation Lanyards. If your News or Pictorial Departments have not yet received their passes please contact:
Natasha Stipanov, Crown Media Relations Department on 0434 187 828
Visuals:
- Shannon Elizabeth, American Pie Actress
- Phil Ivey, America’s ‘Tiger Woods of Poker’
- Daniel Negreanu, 2004 Card Player Magazine Player of the Year
- Chris ‘Jesus’ Ferguson, 2000 World Series of Poker Champion
- Gus Hansen, World Poker Tour Champion
- Howard “The Professor” Lederer, WSOP and WPT champion
- Lee ‘Final Table’ Nelson, Defending Aussie Millions champion
Details:
The international reputation of the Aussie Millions Poker Championship as the richest poker game in the Southern Hemisphere continues to escalate and has contributed to securing a celebrated field of world class poker players that have travelled to Melbourne’s Crown Casino to compete for the title of 2007 Aussie Millions Champion.
Tournament information visit http://www.aussiemillions.com.au
