The organisers of Australia’s premier poker event, the Aussie Millions Poker Championship, are already gearing up for its next edition, which is planned for January 17 to February 5 next year at the Crown Casino in Melbourne.
The 2018 tournament will include 26 events with a wide range of buy-ins that start at A$1,150 and go up as high as A$100,000 in the Challenge high roller competition, along with other Challenge contests with buy-ins of A$50,000 and A$25,000.
The A$10,600 buy-in Main Event kicks off on January 28 and will be well supported by online satellites qualifiers.
The event attracted 725 entries this year, among them some of the best professional players on the planet. Despite this a satellite qualifier and amateur player emerged as the victor, earning himself A$1.6 million (see previous InfoPowa report).
Crown Melbourne tournament director Joel Williams says he is confident that the record numbers across almost all events in 2017 will be experienced again in 2018.