Phil Ivey has once again won the Aussie Millions $250,000 LK Boutique Challenge. The third time he has done so in the past four years.
There are plenty of reasons to love Australia. There is the wonderful wildlife, amazing people, and for Phil Ivey: the Aussie Millions $250,000 LK Boutique Challenge!
The great man has just defeated Mike ‘Timex’ McDonald, in heads-up action, to take the first prize of AU$2,205,000, and leapfrog over Daniel Colman to take third spot in the All-Time Hendon Mob Live Tournament money list.
25 entrants created a total prize pool of AU$6.1m, and only five players would walk away with a profit. Actually, that’s inaccurate because one of the five cashers didn’t make a profit. Scott Seiver bought in for AU$750,000, and must have been extremely grateful to end up in fourth spot for a $15,000 loss.
Erik Seidel, himself an Aussie Millions specialist, finished fifth after running A3 into the pocket kings of Doug Polk; Scott Seiver would be flushed out in fourth by Timex; and Polk would cash in third after his A5cc ran into the AQo of the Canadian.
The amazing story of the day belonged to Brian Rast. After finishing in fifth place in the Main Event, he decided to jump into the $250,000 event, at the last minute, and only managed to play three hands before being eliminated.
That’s $83,000 per hand folks.
Ivey started the heads-up encounter with a slight chip lead (3.61m v 2.64m) and Timex got unlucky in the exit hand. It was KQcc of Ivey versus AsQh of Timex, but a king on the flop made sure the plaudits went the way of the man dubbed the world’s greatest player – and with good reason.
Aussie Millions $250,000 Challenge Payouts (AU)
1st. Phil Ivey – $2,205,000
2nd. Mike McDonald – $1,592,500
3rd. Doug Polk – $1,041,500
4th. Scott Seiver – $735,000
5th. Erik Seidel – $551,000
