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Jason Potter, a 22 year American professional poker player, was fortunate enough to cash for $30,000 in the 2008 Aussie Millions Main Event but his fortune would not last long. On the walk back to his hotel room he was brutally attacked by a mugger who emptied his pockets. Potter walked away from the attack with no serious injuries and the mugger remains at large…Full Story Here

The final day of the 2008 Aussie Millions Main event saw both Erik Seidel and Alexander Kostritsyn overcome massive chip disadvantages to become the last two standing. After two hours and 64 hands of heads up play, it became apparent that even if for only this day, the two players were equally matched. On the 65th hand, Erik Seidel appeared eager to see the event end soon. He shipped about half his chip to Kostritsyn on this hand. Then 300,000 of his chips the next hand and his last 3 million on the 67th hand. Alexander Kostritsyn won $1,650,000 and has been crowned the 2008 Aussie Millions Main Event Champion, Seidel takes home a cool million buck for his runner up finish.

The Game is the first ever high stakes cash game to be broadcast on national television in Sweden. It airs at 12:35 AM Sunday and Monday on Kanal 5, for a total of nine weeks. High profile players are attending including Tony G, Patrik Antonius and Juha Helppi. Also, Party Poker posted the $50k min buyin for two online qualifiers.

This past Saturday, 8 players returned for the final three rounds of the Aussie Millions’ $5,300 Heads Up Championship. The 8 players that were battling it out for the $100k first place prize were, Lee Nelson, Roy Winston, Masaaki Kagawa, Michael McDonald, Jeff Garza, David Sonelin, Alexey Popov and Xuan Nguyen. The days heavy favorite was Jeff Garza, better known as ActionJeff, who is a regular short handed high limit online professional often considered to be one of the best online poker players in the world.

There was some concern as to why United States Postal mail trucks were regularly being parked outside of Westmoreland County convenience store. A detailed investigation proved that these mail carriers were gambling on the clock. The convenience store had a back room with several video slot machines. When the police raided the store, they found the mail carriers in uniform. $10,000 and four video poker machines were confiscated.

The 2008 National Heads-Up Poker Championship is scheduled for February 29 – March 2 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada. 64 players will compete in this tournament which uses a single elimination bracket with seeding determined by random draw. For the most part this is an invitation only event with many of the biggest names in poker receiving an invite. Today a list of 60 confirmed entrants was published, to see the list continue reading here

The first three days of the 2008 Aussie Million Main Event saw the field narrowed to 22 of its original 780 entrants. Today these 22 players squared off till just 7 remained. Now that the 7 final tables have been determined play will resume tomorrow at 12:30 local time. To get caught up on today’s action see our full Aussie Millions Day 4 Recap.

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We partnered with Poker News early last year to offer players a chance to participate in the “Poker Pro for a Year” promotion. At the time players were competing for a chance to become one of the ten finalists to be flown to a “secret location” to compete in a high stakes poker tournament. This secret location was later revealed to be the Crown Casino is Melbourne Australia and this past weekend Luke Abolins of the UK competed in and won this event to become the newest “Poker Pro for a Year”.

Day three of the 2008 Aussie Millions main event is now complete. For a recap of day 3 actions and update chip counts of the 22 remaining players see our full day three coverage.