If you follow high-stakes poker tournaments, then the name Fabian Quoss is certainly one that you've heard before. The German's impressive poker résumé consists of over $6.8 million in live cashes, and specifically plenty of big ones from the Aussie Millions.
In 2013, Quoss took third in the Aussie Millions $250,000 Challenge for AU$750,000 ($791,774) and fifth in the $25,000 Challenge for AU$51,000 ($53,841). Then in 2014, he reached the final table of the $250,000 Challenge once again and took fifth for AU$800,000 ($716,551).
Additionally, Quoss won the $100,000 Super High Roller at the 2014 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure to the tune more than $1.6 million and the APPT 2014 Asia Championship of Poker High Roller for HK$5.271 million ($679,862).
Coming into the final day of the 2016 Aussie Millions $100,000 Challenge, Ben Tollerene leads the way with 1.522 million in chips. If you were to only go by the player's Hendon Mob page, you'd know that he's from Texas and has nearly $500,000 in live tournament earnings.
The 28-year-old player is one of the best and biggest online poker players in the world, regularly crushing limits most of us can only think about playing in our wildest dreams. He started playing back in 2005 in home games with friends before he migrated to online poker in the years to come, working his way up from the $0.10/$0.25 level to the $5/$10 level within a couple years. The progression continued from there and not thing everyone know, "Ben86" or "Bttech86" was a regular in the $200/$400, $400/$800, and $500,$1,000 games against the biggest names in poker.
Although he hasn't found a ton of live poker success that resonates with the common fan, make no doubt about it that Tollerene is a remarkable player and will be extremely tough to beat coming into the final day of this event with a large lead. His biggest live tournament cash prior to this one was a €99,800 ($112,663) score from August 2015 when he took 10th in the European Poker Tour Barcelona €50,000 Super High Roller event.
After a 4-day hiatus, the 2016 Aussie Millions Poker Championship $100,000 Challenge get back underway today at 2:10 pm (3 hours from now). The live stream and our live coverage (including hole cards) will be on an half hour delay. The tournament started on Sunday the 24th of January and had its second day of play on Monday the 25th, but for the players to have the option to play the Main Event, the final table was on hold for four days.
The 41 entry strong field (30 unique + 11 reentries) is down to it final 6 players. The $4,018,000 prize pool will be entirely divided today, with the eventual winner taking home AU$1,446,480 (just over $1 million).
The player best position to make a run at the top prize is online pro Ben "Ben86" Tollerene, who leads the final six with a stack of 1.522 million. Tollerene, who has amassed millions online, is guaranteed the largest live score of his career no matter where he finished.
Others still in contention for the title are Connor Drinan, Fabian Quoss, Sam Greenwood, Fedor Holz, and Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier.
The PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be on hand to capture all the action, which will also be live streamed on Jason Somerville's runitup.tv.
