[ Posted January 20th, 2026 ] by contract

How about this… 23 players in a tournament, winner takes $1,200,000 AUD. The only catch is it costs $100k to enter. Event number 8 on the list at this years Aussie Millions is the high profile 100k challenge. This event always brings big names. Here is how the table draw fell…

Table 29
Seat 1: Chris Ferguson
Seat 2: Tony Bloom
Seat 3: Alexander Kostritsyn
Seat 4: Michael Sampoerna
Seat 5: Erik Seidel
Seat 6: Jason Gray
Seat 7: Sandor Demjan
Seat 8: John Hennigan

Table 31
Seat 1: (empty)
Seat 2: Jeff Lisandro
Seat 3: Dan Shak
Seat 4: JC Tran
Seat 5: Sergey Rybachenko
Seat 6: Bill Jordanou
Seat 7: Jamie Pickering
Seat 8: John Juanda

Table 32
Seat 1: Andrew Robl
Seat 2: Nam Le
Seat 3: (empty)
Seat 4: Patrik Antonius
Seat 5: Masa Kagawa
Seat 6: Gus Hansen
Seat 7: Tony G
Seat 8: David Steicke

2 days of play and only the top 4 get paid. Not discounting his talent, David Steicke was the unlikely here, defeating some of the biggest names poker could put together. Here’s how the payouts finished up…

Check out Video of David Steicke, winner of the 100k Challenge

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