Phil Ivey Is Back After Winning Aussie Millions Super High Roller

Published on January 28th, 2012 11:14 pm EST

Shortly after being bounced from the Aussie Millions main event in 12th place, Phil Ivey took his seat at the Aussie Millions $250,000 Super High Roller event.

A number of hours later, Ivey was celebrating his largest tournament score in years after dispatching of Patrik Antonius in second place. For his victory, Phil Ivey walked away with $2,000,000 AUD (roughly $2.13 million USD), while Antonius took home $1.2 million AUD for his second place finish.

The top three spots in the tournament paid out, with Gus Hansen taking home $800,000 for third place. Daniel Negreanu finished just short of the money after being eliminated by Patrik Antonius.

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The final hand of the event saw Antonius make his final stand holding Ks-3d. Ivey called holding Ah-Qd (which is also what he was holding when he was eliminated from the Aussie Millions main event), and after the board ran out 6s-5s-3c-Qc-8d, Ivey was able to take down the $2 million AUD first place prize.

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With his victory in the Super High Roller event, Ivey moves past Daniel Negreanu to take the #2 spot on the all-time money list. Ivey now has around $16 million in total lifetime tournament cashes, which puts him around roughly $900k behind Erik Seidel.

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The Super High Roller event ended up with a field of 16 players, including the likes of Ivey, Antonius, Hansen, Daniel Negreanu, Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Jason Mercier.

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