Media Releases

MEDIA RELEASES

• 2010 Aussie Millions 'Main Event' CHAMPION Tyron Krost

  Sunday 31 January 2010

  SAY G’DAY TO 23-YEAR-OLD SYDNEY LOCAL TYRON KROST WINS $2 MILLION AND CROWNED AUSSIE MILLIONS CHAMPION The new king of poker was crowned this evening, when 23-year-old Australian poker player Tyron Krost won Crown Casino’s 2010 Aussie Millions Poker Championship ‘Main Event’ and took home AUD$2 million, one of the largest prizes ever awarded in a live poker tournament in the Southern Hemisphere
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• 2010 Aussie Millions 'Main Event' FINAL TABLE

  Saturday 30 January 2010

  The quest for poker's ‘Crown Jewel’ and the richest prize in the Southern Hemisphere is down to eight players (from 746) at Crown’s 2010 Aussie Millions ‘Main Event’ FINAL TABLE starting at 2:00pm TOMORROW - Saturday 30 January 2010. Everything the Aussie Millions ‘Main Event’ was building towards crystallized today on ‘Day-4’ of this coveted event. We saw huge names sent to the rails, expert play, serious gambles and gut wrenching flops!
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• 2010 Aussie Millions 'Main Event' Day 4

  Friday 29 January 2010

  It was another action packed day yesterday at Crown’s Aussie Millions Poker Championship for ‘Day-3’ of the ‘Main Event’, where play lasted for ten gruelling hours and saw the 83 starters dwindle to 18! Play will resume TODAY at 12:30pm in Studio 3 and will see all 18 players vying for the slice of the AUD$7.46 million prize pool. The ‘Main Event’ will be played down to 7 players and the ‘Final Table’ will be scheduled for Saturday 30 January at 12:30pm.
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• 2010 Aussie Millions 'Main Event' Day 3

  Thursday 28 January 2010

  Melbourne, Australia. Thursday 28 January 2010. The Crown Poker Room was on high alert yesterday for another day of furious action with ‘Day-2’ of the coveted Aussie Millions ‘MAIN EVENT’. The field started with 294 runners spread throughout the film set in Studio 3 and the Crown Poker Room, ending with a little more than a third of those players still in the running for a first prize of AUD$2 million with ‘Day-3’ starting TODAY at 12.30pm.
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• 2010 Aussie Millions 'Main Event' Day 2

  Wednesday 27 January 2010

  Yesterday Day 1-Flight 3 of Crown’s 2010 Aussie Millions Poker Championship ‘Main Event’ drew one of the largest and most star-studded fields of the three opening sessions. Among the ‘names’ competing yesterday were the Hachem Brothers (Joe and Tony), as well as Tony G, Mark Vos, Chris ‘Moorman1’ Moorman, Clonie Gowen, Josh ‘JJ Prodigy’ Field, Andrew ‘Adgee’ Jeffreys, Jan Suchanek and Rayan Nathan.
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• 2010 Aussie Millions 'Main Event' Day 1 Flight 2.pdf

  Monday 25 January 2010

  More of the biggest and best poker players in the world will flood Crown TODAY to play Event Number 9 at the 2010 Aussie Millions Poker Championship, for ‘Day 1-Flight 2*’ of the coveted AUD$10,500 No Limit Holdem ‘MAIN EVENT’.
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• 2010 Aussie Millions 'Main Event' LAUNCH Day 1 Flight 1

  Sunday 24 January 2010

  The largest and most anticipated day of Crown’s Aussie Millions Poker Championship, the coveted AUD$10,500 No Limit Holdem ‘MAIN EVENT’*, will be launched by Australia’s poker king ‘Joe Hachem’ and Hollywood actor ‘Jesse Metcalfe’ TOMORROW - Sunday 24 January at 12:30pm in the Crown Poker Room.
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• 2010 Aussie Millions ‘Celebrity Poker Challenge’

  Thursday 21 January 2010

  Crown will deal another royal flush tomorrow with the annual Aussie Millions ‘Celebrity Poker Challenge’ that will see the likes of Hollywood star Jesse Metcalfe, world poker champion Joe Hachem, spin king Shane Warne, the lead cast of Jersey Boys, actor Kit Gurry, AFL legends Glenn Archer and Anthony Rocca, along with Grant Smile and Zoe Badwi battle it out for charity. World poker pro’s Gus Hansen, Lee Nelson, Clonie Gowen and defending Aussie Millions Champion Stewart Scott, and possibly tennis stars Andy Roddick and Tommy Haas will also put their best poker face.
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• 2010 Aussie Millions Welcome Party

  Wednesday 20 January 2010

  A ROYAL FLUSH WELCOME Poker Royalty to Descend on Crown for the 2010 Aussie Millions Poker Championship. Crown will be welcoming some of the world’s greatest poker players from around the globe to celebrate what is set to be the biggest and most exciting championship to date, at the official 2010 Aussie Millions ‘Welcome Party’.
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• 2010 Aussie Millions Hollywood Star Arrives in Melbourne

  Wednesday 20 January 2010

  Jesse Metcalfe, will be arriving in Melbourne tomorrow Thursday 21 January at 9:40am to attend one of the world’s largest and richest poker events, Crown Casino’s Aussie Millions Poker Championship.
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• CROWN CONFIRMS HOLLYWOOD ACTOR FOR AUSSIE MILLIONS POKER CHAMPIONSHIP

  Tuesday 19 January 2010

  Jesse Metcalfe Confirmed as Special Guest for Australia’s Most Prestigious Poker Event Crown can today announce that one of the world’s most high profile emerging actors Jesse Metcalfe, will be arriving in Melbourne on Thursday 21 January to attend one of the world’s largest and richest poker events, Crown Casino’s Aussie Millions Poker Championship.
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• 2010 Aussie Millions Event Notification

  Tuesday 12 January 2010

  For over 10 years, Crown’s Aussie Millions Poker Championship has been the Southern Hemisphere’s undisputed poker championship, drawing record crowds, generating unprecedented prize pools and making legends one hand at a time. This year, at the 20-tournament series, the expected prize pool will reach over AUD$13 million with the action commencing on Thursday 14 January.
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• Media Accreditation: 2010 Aussie Millions Poker Championship

  Monday 4 January 2010

  Media Accreditation Forms for the 2010 Aussie Millions must be completed by Monday 4 January 2009 and returned via fax on +61 3 9292 7041
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• 2010 Aussie Millions Poker Championship

  Friday 1 January 2010

  Crown's hugely popular ‘Aussie Millions Poker Championship' with an expanded schedule of 20 events that will see the world's poker elite tangle with online qualifiers, cashed-up locals and the odd celebrity over a period of 18 days starting on Thursday 14 January 2010.
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• 2010 Aussie Millions Player Academy

  Friday 1 January 2010

  Crown Casino today announced a partnership with online training site DeucesCracked.com. A deal that will see poker seminars named ‘The Aussie Millions Academy’, hosted throughout the duration of the Aussie Millions Poker Championship.
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