Vincent Wan Crowned Aussie Millions Event #1 Champion
Full Tilt Poker is hosting one of the biggest poker events in Australia with the Aussie Millions. A series of poker tournaments, which include poker games like Seven-Card Stud, Omaha High and Low, Limit Texas Hold’em, No-Limit Texas Hold’Em, Pot-Limit Omaha and more will be held at the Crown Casino in Melbourne as part of Full Tilt Poker’s Aussie Millions poker series, which will guarantee a lot of huge prizes in terms of cash. Yup, millions!
In fact, the first event of the Aussie Millions had a $1,100 buy-in for a No-Limit Hold’em poker tournament that had nearly 540 players signing up at the Crown Casino in Melbourne. Among the big names that joined the field for Even # 1 of the Aussie Millions were Kenna James, Mel Judah and Lee “Final Table” Nelson. Event #1 of the Aussie Millions took three days to complete with the first 2 days of the event grabbing over 500 casualties before moving in with the final 20 to play the final rounds for day 3 of Event #1 of the Aussie Millions.
20 players returned to the Crown Casino in Melbourne for the final rounds of the Aussie Millions opening event, $1,100 No-Limit Hold’em. Jovan Scekic took the chip lead into the second day of the event, but it was Melbourne native Vincent Wan who came from behind to claim the top prize, after besting Michael ‘Timex’ McDonald in a lengthy heads-up battle.
Vincent Wan took a nearly 2:1 chip lead into heads-up play, but the back and forth duel lasted over 60 hands and featured several early double-throughs by each player. McDonald doubled through early when he flopped an ace with 
to crack Wan’s kings. Just two hands later, Wan doubled through McDonald when his aces held up, again giving Wan the lead. The jockeying for position continued until Wan took a small chip lead into the final hand. In the concluding action, McDonald raised preflop from the button, and Wan re-raised. McDonald shoved all in, and Wan quickly called with 
, which was ahead of McDonald’s 
. The flop came down 
, leaving McDonald well behind. The turn 
left him drawing to only three outs, and when the 
fell on the river, the title was Wan’s. Mcdonald departed in second with $85,920 while Vincent Wan was crowned the champion in Event #1 of the 2008 Aussie Millions and was the winner of AUD $142,302 in first-place prize money.
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