Event #12: $100,000 Challenge
Dia 3 Começado
2016 Aussie Millions
Event #12: $100,000 Challenge
Dias: 3
Event Info
Resultados Finais
Event Info
Informações do Nível
2016 Aussie Millions
Buy-in
98,000 AUD
Premiação
4,018,000 AUD
Entries
41
Nível
19
Blinds
20,000 / 40,000
Ante
5,000
Ben Tollerene Leads 2016 Aussie Millions $100,000 Challenge
After a 4-day hiatus, the 2016 Aussie Millions Poker Championship $100,000 Challenge get back underway today at 2:10 pm (3 hours from now). The live stream and our live coverage (including hole cards) will be on an half hour delay. The tournament started on Sunday the 24th of January and had its second day of play on Monday the 25th, but for the players to have the option to play the Main Event, the final table was on hold for four days.
The 41 entry strong field (30 unique + 11 reentries) is down to it final 6 players. The $4,018,000 prize pool will be entirely divided today, with the eventual winner taking home AU$1,446,480 (just over $1 million).
The player best position to make a run at the top prize is online pro Ben "Ben86" Tollerene, who leads the final six with a stack of 1.522 million. Tollerene, who has amassed millions online, is guaranteed the largest live score of his career no matter where he finished.
Others still in contention for the title are Connor Drinan, Fabian Quoss, Sam Greenwood, Fedor Holz, and Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier.
The PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be on hand to capture all the action, which will also be live streamed on Jason Somerville's runitup.tv.
| Seat | Player | Country | Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Connor Drinan | USA | 943,000 |
| 2 | Fedor Holz | Germany | 192,000 |
| 3 | Jason Mercier | USA | 508,000 |
| 4 | Sam Greenwood | Canada | 458,000 |
| 5 | Fabian Quoss | Germany | 478,000 |
| 6 | Ben Tollerene | USA | 1,522,000 |
| Position | Prize in AUD | Prize in USD |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | AU$1,446,480 | $1,024,645 |
| 2 | AU$924,140 | $654,634 |
| 3 | AU$602,700 | $426,951 |
| 4 | AU$441,980 | $313,097 |
| 5 | AU$321,440 | $227,707 |
| 6 | AU$281,260 | $199,281 |
| Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
|---|---|---|
|
1,522,000 | |
|
943,000 | |
|
508,000 | |
|
478,000 | |
|
458,000 | |
|
192,000 |
Seat 6: Ben Tollerene (1,522,000)
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Coming into the final day of the 2016 Aussie Millions $100,000 Challenge, Ben Tollerene leads the way with 1.522 million in chips. If you were to only go by the player's Hendon Mob page, you'd know that he's from Texas and has nearly $500,000 in live tournament earnings.
The 28-year-old player is one of the best and biggest online poker players in the world, regularly crushing limits most of us can only think about playing in our wildest dreams. He started playing back in 2005 in home games with friends before he migrated to online poker in the years to come, working his way up from the $0.10/$0.25 level to the $5/$10 level within a couple years. The progression continued from there and not thing everyone know, "Ben86" or "Bttech86" was a regular in the $200/$400, $400/$800, and $500,$1,000 games against the biggest names in poker.
Although he hasn't found a ton of live poker success that resonates with the common fan, make no doubt about it that Tollerene is a remarkable player and will be extremely tough to beat coming into the final day of this event with a large lead. His biggest live tournament cash prior to this one was a €99,800 ($112,663) score from August 2015 when he took 10th in the European Poker Tour Barcelona €50,000 Super High Roller event.
Seat 5: Fabian Quoss (478,000)
If you follow high-stakes poker tournaments, then the name Fabian Quoss is certainly one that you've heard before. The German's impressive poker résumé consists of over $6.8 million in live cashes, and specifically plenty of big ones from the Aussie Millions.
In 2013, Quoss took third in the Aussie Millions $250,000 Challenge for AU$750,000 ($791,774) and fifth in the $25,000 Challenge for AU$51,000 ($53,841). Then in 2014, he reached the final table of the $250,000 Challenge once again and took fifth for AU$800,000 ($716,551).
Additionally, Quoss won the $100,000 Super High Roller at the 2014 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure to the tune more than $1.6 million and the APPT 2014 Asia Championship of Poker High Roller for HK$5.271 million ($679,862).
Seat 4: Sam Greenwood (458,000)
Sam Greenwood's run to the final six of the 2016 Aussie Millions $100,000 Challenge comes in a timely manner, as it takes place in the first month of the new year following the one that saw him truly break out with more than $2 million in earnings and several top results.
Prior to 2015, Greenwood boasted career live tournament earnings just north of $500,000. Last year saw him land scores of $396,920, $318,977, and $632,905, among others, and one of those was a World Series of Poker bracelet win in Las Vegas. That golden win was in a $1,000 no-limit hold'em event with 1,951 entrants.
All told, Greenwood had seven six-figure scores last year and many cashes from big buy-in events.
While he has been around for a few years now, Greenwood has always seemed to be in the shadows of his brother, Max. This final table appearance, when combined with the impressive string of results he put together in 2015, has really vaulted him into the spotlight.
Seat 3: Jason Mercier (508,000)
Another man who needs little introduction is Jason Mercier. A member of Team PokerStars Pro, a European Poker Tour champion, and a three-time World Series of Poker gold bracelet winner, Mercier is in the argument for best poker player in the world right now. He boasts nearly $16 million in live tournament earnings and has three different seven-figure results.
Mercier's first live cash on record came in 2008, and it was a massive one that ignited his career. He won EPT Sanremo for €869,000 ($1.373 million) and hasn't looked back since. In the three years to follow, Mercier earned a million dollars or more in each, and prior to 2016 he's only had one year — 2012 — when he hasn't surpassed seven figures in live cashes. His best year was 2014 when he won nearly $3.7 million.
A resident of Florida, Mercier is making his third cash in an Aussie Millions event and will enter the final day with 508,000 in chips.
Seat 2: Fedor Holz (192,000)
The shortest stack returning to the final day in the 2016 Aussie Millions $100,000 Challenge is Fedor Holz. He's also the youngest player of the bunch and will bring 192,000 in chips to play.
Holz got his first big breakout when he won the 2014 World Championship of Online Poker Main Event on PokerStars for $1.3 million playing as "CrownUpGuy." That name seems quite fitting as Holz is in the money and looking to make a big splash if he can run it up in this event at Crown Melbourne.
After that big win online padded Holz's bankroll and helped put his face on the map, Holz took to the live tournament scene. He's since all but taken over the poker world, amassing over $7.35 million in live tournament earnings in a short period. Most recently, Holz win the World Poker Tour Alpha8 $100,000 Super High Roller at Bellagio in Las Vegas for nearly $1.6 million in December. He followed that victory up with another huge win, this time for more than $3.46 million, in the Triton Super High Roller Series $200,000 Cali Cup at WPT Philippines in January.
Holz also booked a deep run in the 2015 World Series of Poker Main Event, finishing 25th for $262,574 and getting a ton of air time on ESPN thanks to his recent success and highly-aggressive play.
Seat 1: Connor Drinan (943,000)
Second place in the chip counts to start the final day of the 2016 Aussie Millions $100,000 Challenge belongs to Connor Drinan. Despite boasting an impressive pile of live tournament results totaling nearly $7.65 million in winnings, Drinan's biggest poker moment — or at least the one he's most recognized for — would be when he lost with his own pocket aces to the pocket aces of Cary Katz in the $1 million Big One for One Drop at the 2014 World Series of Poker.
Although that would be a huge hit to take, Drinan has done just fine for himself in the time since. One of the results he's posted recently was a third-place finish in the $500,000 Super High Roller Bowl at Aria in Las Vegas for $3.225 million. Another recent score saw him finish runner-up to Steve O'Dwyer in the 2016 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $50,000 Single-Day High Roller for $870,625.
Drinan is from Illinois and will enter the day with 943,000 in chips.
The Finale Has Started
Our hand for hand coverage starts in about 30 minutes, to prevent spoilers for people following along with the live stream.
Nível: 16
Blinds: 10,000/20,000
Ante: 3,000