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1. 2008 Party Poker Premier League – Black Grabs $250K Grand Prize - The Party Poker Premier League is one of the most exclusive events in all of televised poker. Only 12 top-flight poker stars are invited to participate each year, and those players battle it out in a week of preliminary heats leading up to the Grand Final
2. Aussie Millions Final Table - Michael Chrisanthopoulos started the final table of the Aussie Millions Main Event with a massive chip lead, but he wasn’t able to hold on as Alexander Kostritsyn took over the lead early in the day and rode his aggressive style to his first major victo
3. Aussie Millions Heads-Up Championship - 64 of poker’s biggest names gathered around the felt at the Crown Casino in Melbourne for the $5,300 Heads-Up Championship at the Aussie Millions. The tournament was structured as a single-elimination best of three games tournament, where the winners mo
4. Aussie Millions Main Event Day 4 - The final 22 players in the Aussie Millions Main Event returned to the Crown Casino to play down to a final table. Notable players still in the hunt included Max ‘The Italian Pirate’ Pescatori and 8-time WSOP bracelet winner Erik Seidel, while local f
5. Aussie Millions Main Event Day 3 - The third day of the Aussie Millions Main Event saw 98 players take to the felt in the quest for the money, starting at 80th place. By the end of the day, 22 players remained, with some familiar names atop the leader board. Many poker superstars still had
6. Aussie Millions Main Event Day 2 - 338 players made it through the three flights of Day 1 at the 2008 Aussie Millions. 98 of them made it through Day 2, with several of the biggest stacks at the beginning of the day making their way to the cash game tables before the last chips were shippe
7. Aussie Millions Day 1c - Actors, Professors and Cricketers, oh my! The field on Day 1c of the Aussie Millions contained all three, with the occasional online superstar, world champion and Aussie rules footballer thrown in the mix for good measure. The field of roughly 270 created
8. Aussie Millions Main Event Day 1b - Phil Ivey stormed to the top of the leader board on Day 1b of the Aussie Millions Main Event in a field that included Jennifer Tilly, Phil Laak, Shannon Elizabeth and Clonie Gowen. Also taking the field were 2007 Aussie Millions champion Gus Hansen and Au
9. Aussie Millions Main Event Day 1a - Last year’s 3rd-place finisher, Andy Black, kicked off the Main Event of the 2008 Aussie Millions in stride, following in his successful footsteps, finishing Day 1a with the chip lead over other notable survivors like Erik Seidel, Raymond Rahme, Allen C
10. Aussie Millions Event #11 – PokerPro No Limit Hold ‘Em - Last year’s $1,050 PokerPro No Limit Hold ‘Em Tournament at the Aussie Millions drew 31 players on 4 tables. Imagine the surprise of late registrants when they saw that the 2008 version drew a field of 97 (out of 100 available seats), among them Joe H
11. Aussie Millions Event 10 - $2,200 PLH/Omaha/Omaha Hi-Lo - As the Aussie Millions preliminary events drew to a close in preparation for Monday’s Day 1 of the Main Event, a host of top-notch mixed-game players signed up for the $2,200 Pot Limit Hold ‘Em/Pot Limit Omaha/Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo tournament. Among t
12. Aussie Millions Event #9 – Howard Lederer wins $100,000 Tournament - The biggest buy-in event of the year (so far) kicked off at the Aussie Millions, and it hosted some of the biggest names in poker around the felt. The $100,000 buy-in tournament boasted a Who’s Who of Poker among the 25 entrants. 2007 winner Erick Lindg
13. Aussie Millions Event #8 - Australian 2-Card Manila Championship - 2-Card Manila is a poker variant that you don’t hear much about outside of Australia, and Event #8 of the Aussie Millions may be the only big buy-in Manila tournament in 2008, but the game drew 10 top-notch runners for the $3,250 2-Card Manila Champions
14. Aussie Millions Event #7 - $3,000 Pot Limit Omaha w/Rebuys - The $3,000 Pot Limit Omaha with Rebuys Event at the Aussie Millions drew a crowd of the biggest names in poker, with several WSOP bracelets represented at the final table. After a lengthy final table battle, it was Lee Watkinson who came away from his 200
15. Aussie Millions Event #6 - $1,650 Bounty Tournament - The 2008 Aussie Millions has offered some interesting structures so far, including a mixed Stud event, but the most intriguing to date had to be Event #6 – the $1,650 Bounty Tournament. The tournament started on 32 tables, with one player at each table
16. Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier Takes down PokerStars Caribbean Adventure - After a week of poker in paradise, Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier claimed his first European Poker Tour title by winning the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, worth a cool $2 million! Grospellier outlasted a field of 1,136 players to take down the tourname
17. PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Day 4 – David ‘The Dragon’ Pham takes Chip Lead to Final Table - In a day that only saw 32 eliminations; the action was steady, deliberate, and important. The final 40 players in the PokerStars.net Caribbean Adventure played down to the final table on Day 4, with some big names going home, and one Supernova shining bri
18. Aussie Millions Event #5 - The $1,000 Rebuy tournament at the 2008 Aussie Millions featured the first wave of the internet top guns, including Kevin ‘BeLOWaBOVe’ Saul, Jimmy ‘gobboboy’ Fricke and Shaun Deeb. Josh ‘JJProdigy’ Field also joined the field in his first majo
19. Aussie Millions Event #4 – Jamie Pickering Takes Down Limit Event - 123 players took the field in Event #4 of the 2008 Aussie Millions tournament series at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, including Jimmy ‘gobboboy’ Fricke, who just hours before had claimed the trophy for Event #3, the mixed Stud tournament. Fricke was
20. PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Day 3 - The bubble burst early on Day 3 of the PokerStars.net Caribbean Adventure and 120 players were happy to hear it go. But only one can walk away with the $2 Million first prize, and at the end of Day 3, it was David ‘The Dragon’ Pham who sat in the lead

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