The Victorian Poker Championship is taking place at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia, and the preliminary tournaments have attracted big names and large fields.
A few of the events so far have included heads-up and limit hold’em, seven-card stud, short-handed no-limit hold’em, seven-card razz, pot-limit hold’em, and of course, no-limit hold’em.
World Series of Poker main event winner Joe Hachem, along with fellow Australian player Michael “Sticky” Guttman, are playing.
The $3,200 buy-in main event scheduled for Saturday is the Main Event and will be attracting large crowds.
Other big-name pros been spotted in Australia who will most likely be partaking in the main event are Tony Dunst, Mark Vos, and the beautiful Shannon Elizabeth.
Ms Shannon Elizabeth at the Ante up For Africa Charity tournament at this years WSOP*.