An even dozen players will return to the felt at The Star this afternoon (Sunday) at 2pm to decide the 2012 Sydney Poker Champs Main Event title and who will take home the first prize of $127,133.
Play wrapped up at 2am after 12 levels of play on day two. From the 337 players that sat down at the start of this year’s event, 140 returned on Saturday but for most their dreams of joining an elite club quickly faded.
Among those to hit the rail on day two were Grant Levy, John Caridad, Joel Dodds, Bruno Portaro, Martin Rowe, Leo Boxell, Gary Benson, Haibo Chu, Andrew Hinrichsen and Andrew Scarf.
The bubble burst when Paul Webster shoved with his A-Q on an A-J-9 board. Yal Kaya snap-called with pocket 9s to leave Webster drawing to running cards and when he turned quads!
Aaron Benton was eliminated in 14th after a deep run – his hopes of going all the way taking a big hit when he was involved in a huge three-way all-in that saw him get it in with straight and flush draws against the A-A of John Caridad and the set of Queens held by Kahle Burns. Although he climbed back off the canvas from that hit to get close to the final table, he wasn’t able to pull off a miraculous comeback.
David Borg (pictured), who recently finished second in Event 56 ($1500 No Limit Hold’em) at the WSOP for well over $400,000 enters Day 3 as the chip leader with 1,270,000 in chips heading into the final day’s play.
He will be joined by a quality final 12 including Queenstown Snowfest winner David Allan, Singapore pro Bryan Huang and Kahle Burns who was the first to top one million in chips.
2012 Sydney Champs Main Event end of day two chip count
David Borg 1,270,000
Kahle Burns 1,103,000
Stephen Buchanan 1,103,000
Bryan Huang 722,000
Dean Yuen 700,000
David Allan 432,000
Jimmy Ghobrial 373,000
Luis Arrilucea 322,000
Ismail Ismail 300,000
Mitch Macedo 206,000
Suzy Khoueis 155,000
Yal Kaya 105,000
Prizepool/payouts
1 $127,133
2 $80,374
3 $44,989
4 $34,880
5 $28,560
6 $23,253
7 $18,450
8 $13,901
9 $10,616
10 $7079
11 $7079
12 $7079
13 Tony Kondevski $5813
14 Aaron Benton $5813
15 Michael Kanaan $5813
16 David Tam $5308
17 Jimmy Tran $5308
18 Ronnie Shabtay $5308
19 Andrew Davis $4802
20 Luca Borreggine $4802
21 George Daskalakis $4802
22 Chris Bridle $4297
23 Laurence Hall $4297
24 Narbeh Hovsepian $4297
25 Cale MacLean $3791
26 Con Angelakis $3791
27 Ramy Tadros $3791
28 Karib Karib $3285
29 Loan D. Lazar $3285
30 Edgar Florez Montenegro $3285
31 Steve Yibo Zhou $3033
32 Peter Dykes $3033
33 Michael Levy $3033
34 Sefehr Naderi $2780
35 John Caridad $2780
36 Fred Alam $2780
37 Phillip Georgiou $2780
Schedule
August 12
12.30pm Event 9: $220 No Limit Hold’em/Pot Limit Omaha
2pm Event 7: $1650 Sydney Champs Main Event No Limit Hold’em day 3/final table
4pm: Event 10: $5000 No Limit Hold’em Challenge
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