Jennifer Tilly and Shane Warne Survive Aussie Millions Day One

Melbourne, Australia. Monday 23 January 2017. The first of three starting days of the 2017 Aussie Millions Poker Championship ‘MAIN EVENT’ drew a crowd of 212 players, up from the 180 last year, and it was Sam Ingham who came out on top with an impressive 160,100-chip stack at the end of play on day one.

After a word from Australian former cricketer and the countries best bowler to date Shane Warne, the action got underway, and Warne took his seat as well. The man who took over 1,000 test and one-day international wickets in his career managed to bag up 37,600 in chips for his efforts.

Things didn’t go well for Phil Laak, who was among the first players to get knocked out, and the same can be said for Jonathan Karamalikis. Sylvain Loosli, Sam Trickett, Annette Obrestad and Dan Shak were among the other casualties as well as WSOP bracelet winner and EPT champion Martin Finger who ran his ace-king into his opponent’s pocket queens, and that made sure he wouldn’t make a deep run in the event.