Brendon Rubie’s standing as one of Australia’s premier poker players has again been underlined with his victory in the 2012 Aussie Millions $1100 No Limit Hold’em Opening Event.
After collecting his first major live title 18 months earlier in the 2010 Melbourne Poker Champs Main Event, Rubie celebrated his first Aussie Millions title after typically tough scrap against final table chip leader Scott Wilson.
Although the total of Opening Event entries dipped below 1000 for the first time since 2009, players were still battling for a slice of a $946,000 prizepool and a $200,000 first prize. Wilson started the final day in the box seat:
Scott Wilson 2,628,000
Brendon Rubie 1,625,000
Rob Angood 1,384,000
Tam Truong 934,000
Naz Sibaei 849,000
Sherif Derias 696,000
Manny Stavropoulos 554,000
John Thomson 363,000
Sean Robey 262,000
Tamara Volkoff 191,000
Rubie and Wilson were the last two standing, with the former holding a 2:1 chip lead. Chips were pushed back and forth for almost two hours until a massive hand in which Rubie’s Qd-8d found two-pair on a board of 8h-2d-7d-Qs-Ac.
Such was the scale of betting that Rubie thought it was all over, but Wilson was left with a handful of chips. After a couple of double-ups, Wilson’s final stand came on a flop of 10s-4d-Qs holding 4c-3c, but Rubie showed Qc-Jd for top pair. The turn and river blanked, and for the second year in-a-row, the title was claimed by a young New South Welshman.
2012 Aussie Millions $1100 No Limit Hold’em Opening Event (re-repechage format; entries 946; total prizepool AUD $946,000; 81 players paid) results
1 Brendon Rubie $200,000
2 Scott Wilson $125,000
3 Rob Angood (UK) $80,000
4 John Thomson $61,000
5 Tam Truong $49,000
6 Manny Stavropoulos $39,000
7 Sherif Derias $29,000
8 Nazih Sibaei $19,000
9 Tamara Volkoff $14,500
10 Sean Robey $10,900
11 Matviy Bilenky $7600
12 Tony Kociski $7600
13 Stefan Jedlicka (Austria) $7600
14 Andrew Capelin $7600
15 Antonios Delavinias $7600
16 Chris O’Donnell $7600
17 Tino Lechich $7600
18 Jackie Glazier $7600
19 Rhys Gregson $6200
20 Philip Iglesias $6200
21 Sam Youssef $6200
22 Stephen Ford $6200
23 Ben Harper $6200
24 Jimmy Siu $6200
25 Martin Comer $6200
26 Luke McLean $6200
27 Chris Pisani $6200
28 Octavian Voegele $5000
29 John Dalessandri $5000
30 David Chilcott $5000
31 Kenna James (USA) $5000
32 David Munday $5000
33 Jie Gao $5000
34 Gregory Ronaldson (South Africa) 5000
35 Michael Rumbold $5000
36 Lukas Byrns $5000
37 Michael Tran $4500
38 Bill Jordanou $4500
39 Adam Cusenza $4500
40 Stephen Lindeblad $4500
41 Grant Levy $4500
42 Bernard Beh $4500
43 Eiji Matsumura (Japan) $4500
44 Matthew Vonreyn (USA) $4500
45 Alek Givotovsky (USA) $4500
46 Zachary Hall (USA) $4000
47 William Skountzos $4000
48 Mike Comer $4000
49 Michelle MacLean $4000
50 Ross Parkhill (Ireland) $4000
51 Nigel Peck $4000
52 Joel Dodds $4000
53 Robert Goodwin $4000
54 Damir Alidzanovic (Slovenia) $3500
55 Mario Ljubicic $3500
56 Shane Cassidy (Ireland) $3500
57 Michael Kohlman $3500
58 Peter Natoli $3500
59 Vic Spadavecchia $3500
60 Joel Feldman $3500
61 Thoai Tran $3500
62 Kerry Chambers $3500
63 Mark Rubinstein $3500
64 Daniel Dessmann $3000
65 Panchara Wongwichit $3000
66 Geoff Smith $3000
67 Shao Liu $3000
68 Alexander Lynskey $3000
69 Ricardo Faura $3000
70 Jim Sachinidis $3000
71 Lorinda Johnson $3000
72 Jay Kinkade $3000
73 Philip Pirovano (Netherlands) $2500
74 Matthew Wakeman $2500
75 Kris Nedanovski $2500
76 Robert Sova (NZ) $2500
77 Ali Ghezelbash $2500
78 Manuel Hansimikali $2500
79 Ahmad Barakat $2500
80 Matthew Pearson $2500
81 Malcolm McDougall $2500
• Chip counts with thanks to www.aussiemillions.com
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