In 2011, Crown Melbourne’s Aussie Millions Poker Championship was the first event in the world to introduce a Super High-Roller Event, which saw an astounding 20 players enter the ‘$250,000 Challenge’, creating a prize pool of AUD$5,000,000. The success of this event has since been mirrored across the world at almost all the poker majors.
This year in 2017, more visitors came to Crown to experience the Aussie Millions than ever before, including many of the highest ranked poker players in the world. However, there was a distinct lack of recreational players at the Super High-Roller level. For this reason, Crown added the $50,000 No Limit Holdem Shot Clock Six Max to offer choice and variation and canceled the $250,000 this year.