Phil Ivey has once again won the Aussie Millions $250,000 LK Boutique Challenge. The third time he has done so in the past four years.

There are plenty of reasons to love Australia. There is the wonderful wildlife, amazing people, and for Phil Ivey: the Aussie Millions $250,000 LK Boutique Challenge!

The great man has just defeated Mike ‘Timex’ McDonald, in heads-up action, to take the first prize of AU$2,205,000, and leapfrog over Daniel Colman to take third spot in the All-Time Hendon Mob Live Tournament money list.

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It’s the third time in four years that Ivey has won this title. Sam Trickett’s 2013 victory against a German onslaught the only blot on Ivey’s Melbourne landscape. In truth, you could sense it was coming. The great man sharpening up his weapons of mass destruction with a 23rd place finish in the $10,600 Aussie Millions Main Event just days earlier.

25 entrants created a total prize pool of AU$6.1m, and only five players would walk away with a profit. Actually, that’s inaccurate because one of the five cashers didn’t make a profit. Scott Seiver bought in for AU$750,000, and must have been extremely grateful to end up in fourth spot for a $15,000 loss.

Erik Seidel, himself an Aussie Millions specialist, finished fifth after running A3 into the pocket kings of Doug Polk; Scott Seiver would be flushed out in fourth by Timex; and Polk would cash in third after his A5cc ran into the AQo of the Canadian.