The 2009 $100,000 No Limit Texas Hold’em challenge event created a first place prize of $1.2 million AUD and the winner of the prestigious event went to poker player David Steike as he survived a field full of sharks and high rollers.

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The much anticipated 2009 WSOP Schedule will finally be released on Monday (January 19, 2009). A generally reliable source has informed poker-prop.net, “there will be considerably less events this year with rebuys being the most noticeable absence”. We’ll need to wait till Monday to find out just how many fewer events and if any rebuys at all will be included. Visit poker-prop.net/news/ Monday for an update.

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Event 6 of the 2009 Aussie Millions $1,150 No Limit Texas Hold’em with Rebuys went to Mark Kassis and received the first place prize of $160,326 AUD

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Playboy Poker and its parent company, Playboy Gaming are calling it quits and have officially announced they will be closing its doors on January 29th, 2009. Playboy Poker operates on the Cyptologic poker network and the casino runs off the Waterlogic casino platform.

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The 2009 Aussie Millions Event 5 $1,100 AUD buy-in HORSE tournament went to Jarred Solomon after he beat Van Marcus heads up and won $30,380 AUD first place prize, along with a gold championship ring. Marcus earned $20,580 AUD for his second place effort.

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Doylesroom is in the final stages of preparation for their migration on the Cake Poker Network. It is expected the transition will be complete by Jan 20, 2009. New players will be pleased to learn their Loyalty Point balances will be converted to the Cake Network’s equivalent: Gold Chips, there will be no downtime, and many new promotions await them.

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Event 4 at the Aussie Millions had an impressive turn out with 140 players paying the $1,100 buy-in, which created a first place prize of $35,000 AUD. The first place prize went to a very excited Zac Gruneberg.

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Poorya Nazari spent $700 in a $33 triple re-buy qualifier and won his way to the Bahamas with a seat to the 2009 PokerStars Carribean Adventure European Poker Tour Main Event. The event had 1,347 entrants with 746 of them being qualified via PokerStars. The remaining players coughed up $10k to enter the event, which created a prize pool of $12.5 million and a first place prize of $3 million, which was won by Canadian Poker Player Poorya Nazari.

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The first ever Omaha hi-lo event of the 2009 Aussie Millions was deemed a success with a 102 entrants ponying up the $1,100 AUD buy-in. Although, Mel Judah was the most successful player and it took over 17 hours for him to win the first place prize of $30,600 AUD at Event 3.

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Event 2 had a total of 83 players enter the unique Aussie Millions event, which was played on electronic computerized poker tables that are made by PokerPro. The tournament had a $1050 AUD buy-in, which created a first place prize of $25,000 that went to Mitchell Carle. Please visit link to read full recap that Staypuff has written for us live from Australia.

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