Crown's Million Dollar Cash Game

The 2009 Aussie Millions Poker Championship broke from its traditional tournament schedule on Sunday, spreading a cash-game with a million-dollar buy-in some of the world's most famed and deep-pocketed players. The game started as a duel between two of the biggest of all, Tom Dwan and Patrik Antonius. Dwan's aggressiveness and fearless play has made him the cash-game star of the online poker world, while Antonius, also a top-tier is famous for his skill at the table, his movie-star good looks, and his willingness to gamble. This game was so big, the players had to carry briefcases of bills to meet the table stakes.

The game started off heads up, with Dwan and Antonius clashing in a rotation of no-limit hold'em and pot-limit Omaha. Blinds were $1,000/$2,000, and the game switched each twenty hands. Dwan sat down with AUD $2 million to Antonius' $1.5 million, and the action was on. Dwan elected to "only" put $1 million in play to start things off, and the games began. 

After a short break, four more big names arrived, as Jamie Pickering, Andrew Robl, Niki Jedlicka and Phil Laak joined the game. A little later Chris Ferguson joined in.

That monster hand drew the game near to its end, as Tom Dwan had managed to climb out of most of the hole his session against Antonius had created. Jamie Pickering netted over $100,000 profit on the game, and Andrew Robl's big Omaha pot was the game's signature hand. Phil Laak suffered the night's toughest run, down some $250,000 through the course of play.

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