AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE!
SAY G’DAY TO 23-YEAR-OLD SYDNEY LOCAL TYRON KROST WINS $2 MILLION AND CROWNED AUSSIE MILLIONS CHAMPION
The new king of poker was crowned this evening, when 23-year-old Australian poker player Tyron Krost won Crown Casino’s 2010 Aussie Millions Poker Championship ‘Main Event’ and took home AUD$2 million, one of the largest prizes ever awarded in a live poker tournament in the Southern Hemisphere.
Krost outlasted a field of 746 players who anted up the AUD$10,500 buy-in for the ‘Main Event’ creating a prize pool of AUD$7.46 million. The ‘Main Event’ at Melbourne’s Crown Casino was the culmination of the 20 Championship Events, which this year generated more than AUD$15 million in total prize money.
After playing a marathon session at the Final Table that lasted 13 hours, 23-year-old Krost from Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs had it in the bag, it unfolded like this…
Frederik Jensen raised to 200,000 from the button and Tyron Krost called from the big blind. The flop came down and Krost checked. Jensen bet 225,000 before Krost put in a raise to 650,000. Needing to at least call 425,000 more to continue with the hand, Jensen had another option in mind. He reraised to 1.1 million. Krost wasted little time in moving all in and Jensen was right there to meet him with a call.
Jensen held the dominated hand and needed to find some help on the turn or river or else he would be sent home as the runner-up. As everyone rushed to get a close view on what might be the final hand of the 2010 Aussie Millions Main Event, the dealer burned and turned, placing the on the turn. Jensen now needed a six and a six only to stay alive.
The river card was the and it was all over. Chants of “Aussie! Aussie! Aussie!” rang through the arena for the champion from Sydney, Tyron Krost.
Danish poker player, Frederik Jensen played amazing poker and held his own against some of the best players in the world, busted out in second place winning a tidy AUD$1.1 million.
‘We congratulate Tyron on his tremendous accomplishment,’ said David Courtney, Crown Casino’s Chief Executive Officer. ‘He played superb poker over a prolonged period against a field that included virtually every top professional and hundreds of talented amateurs from Australia and around the world.’
Finishing third and collecting AUD$715,000 was 23-year-old Canadian, Sorel Mizzi, better known for his online poker prowess as “Imper1um”.
