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MISSION POSSIBLE: ...travel to Melbourne, Australia... compete in the richest poker tournament in the southern hemisphere...become Aussie Millions 2008 Champion...return home a millionaire...

This message won't self destruct in 5 seconds. In fact you have 3 months to qualify for the Aussie Millions 2008!

This coming January, you could be joining the world's Poker elite in their quest for a slice of the multi million dollar prize pool on offer in the 2008 Aussie Millions AUD $10,500 buy-in Main Event. Filmed and broadcast to an international audience by Fox Sports Net and set within the luxurious Crown Casino, the seven day Main Event begins on Monday 14 January.

This year, first prize is a GUARANTEED AUD $1,000,000. With qualifiers on Betfair Poker starting from just $5.25, any player can qualify whatever the stakes they play! In 2007 Gus Hansen took the prize. For 2008, history is waiting to be made.

Betfair Poker offers a massive USD $15,000 package including:

• AUD $10,500 buy-in to the main event * Ten nights accommodation at the fantastic 5* crown Towers Hotel from January 11th and January 21st 2007 (rooms can sleep two) * USD $4,000 for travel expenses and spending money * Australian open ticket (tennis) * entry for two to the Aussie Millions player party
• Plus, don't forget that ONLY at Betfair Poker you can take advantage of the famous Threedom Pass. If you make the final table at the Main Event you will be invited back to the Aussie Millions for another THREE years! Betfair player Hans Vogl will be back in Melbourne for 2008 courtesy of Betfair after he famously finished 5th in 2007

How to qualify:

The first phase of qualification for Aussie Millions will start on Saturday 15th September and run until Sunday 30th September. Entry level will start with two micro satellites per day at just $5+0.25. There will also be one mini satellite per day with a buy-in of $52.50+2.50 and these will lead to the 2 seat GTD Final on 30th September. Satellites are live in the tourney lobby right now.
The second phase will be confirmed later in the month.

Melbourne minutiae...

• Melbourne was founded in 1835 by John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner.
• Melbourne's Chinatown, established in 1854, is not only the oldest in Australia but one of the oldest in the world.
• Melbourne Cricket Ground has a capacity of 100,000.
• Matt Day, Cate Blanchett, Dame Edna and Portia de Rossi were all born in Melbourne. Mel Gibson wasn't.
• Melbourne is the only city in the world that has five international standard sporting facilities (including three with retractable roofs) on the fringe of its central business district.
• Melbourne is one of the best wired cities globally - broadband infrastructure is located within 100 metres (328 feet) of every office building in the central business district.
• The television soap opera Neighbours is recorded in a suburb of Melbourne. Since it began in 1985 the show has had 18 marriages, 11 deaths and six births, at the last count.
• And finally, Mission Impossible II wasn't filmed in Melbourne. Much of the film was made in Sydney, Australia.

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