Aussie Millions Preliminary Event Won by Jimmy Fricke

This past weekend the preliminary events began for the Aussie Millions. Many professionals as wells as regular Joes showed up for the event to try their luck. One winner of an event was Jimmy "Gobboboy" Fricke. He had played in two events without winning anything but in Event #3 he won the top prize. Event #3 was a $550 Limit Seven-Card Stud/Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo/Razz tournament with 96 players vying for top position. Fricke overtook them all and won a prize of almost $17,000.

Fricke had stiff competition with the likes of Mel Judah, David Levi, Thomas Bihl and Lee Nelson among the players in Event #3. "I'm pretty tired tonight since we played the whole tournament in one day, but I'm playing the 1k LHE tomorrow so hopefully I don't get back upstairs until late again," Fricke wrote in his blog after his win.

A well-known celebrity also showed up to play in a few events. Michael Vartan played in the first few events. He is best known for his roll on the TV show Alias and was also at one time linked to Jennifer Garner as her real life love interest.

Event #4 began today and a total of 16 events are set to take place. The 16th event will be the main event which will begin on January 12th. Vartan may still try his hand at other events as well as other pros that were spotted at the events. Emad Tahtouh, Sarah Bilney, Anna Wroblewski and Shaun Deeb as well as many others have been seen participating in the events. We are sure to see many more pros come out to play in the upcoming events.