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Lee Watkinson Wins Aussie Millions Event No. 7

Tom Dwan Finishes as Runner-Up, Jamie Pickering Makes Another Final Table

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Lee WatkinsonLee Watkinson is the winner of the Aussie Millions AUD $3,000 pot-limit Omaha with rebuys event that attracted 65 entries and 107 rebuys. He will take AUD $180,600 back home to the states. The players generated a prize pool of AUD $516,000.

Tom Dwan, of Edison, New Jersey, was the runner-up, which was good for AUD $103,200. The rest of the top eight follows: third — Van Marcus of Melbourne, AUD $61,920; fourth — Mike Sexton, AUD $51,600; fifth — Mark Kassis of Sydney, AUD $41,280; sixth — Michael Guttmann of Melbourne, AUD $30,960; seventh — Lenny Barshack of Idaho, AUD $20,640; eighth — Jamie Pickering of Gold Coast, Australia, AUD $15,480; and ninth — Max Pescatori, of Italy, AUD $10,320.

This is Pickering’s second final table at the Aussie Millions. He won event No. 4, an AUD $1,000 limit hold’em event, which was good for AUD $39,358.

Tomorrow, the AUD $100,000 event takes place. The six-day AUD $10,000 main event starts Monday. Click here to view the entire schedule.