The MAIN EVENT title is again heading to NSW after Amjed Slewa’s victory at Crown Melbourne yesterday. The Sydney South West player (pictured left) prevailed after a marathon heads-up battle with South Australia’s Andrew Dales.
Slewa earned a first prize package of $100,000, which included more than $80,000 in cash along with seats into the 2014 Aussie Millions Main Event and MAIN EVENT IV, to be played later this year. He plans to spend his winnings on a holiday and a deposit for a house.
Dales and Slewa swapped the chip lead back and forth for more than an hour with both players seeing many cheap flops and carefully picking their spots in a mark of mutual respect (click here for PMA’s complete live report from the final table).
After 78 hands of heads-up play with just a single all-in and call, MAIN EVENT III came to a sudden end. The blinds were at 120,000/240,000 when Slewa shoved all-in over the top of Andrew Dales’ pre-flop raise to one million, with Dales making the call. It was Ac-5c for Dales against Ah-Qd for Slewa.
The flop was dealt 2h-7h-4c, with the 7c on the turn giving Dales plenty of outs. The As wasn’t one of them as Slewa erupted from his seat and the celebrations were underway.
Andrew Dales’ runner-up finish was the best for a South Australian in the MAIN EVENT, earning him a package of $65,000, which also includes seats in the 2014 Aussie Millions Main Event and MAIN EVENT IV.
NSW players Daniel Keast and Michael Ho placed third and fourth respectively while Jonathan Bredin, a wheelchair bound youngster from Victoria earned a package worth $25,000 for fifth. Jono had two assistants handling the hole card and betting duties for him throughout the tournament, but the decisions were all his and he quickly earned the respect of players and spectators in this deep run.
The other result of note was the sixth-place finish of Connie Diakovasilis, who surpassed the performance of husband Con who was eighth in MAIN EVENT III.
On behalf of PokerMedia Australia, we’d like to congratulate the Full Group on another highly successful MAIN EVENT and thank the team for the support and assistance through the tournament. Bring on MAIN EVENT IV!
MAIN EVENT III (total players 445; prizepool $445,000; 54 players paid) results
1 Amjed Slewa (NSW) $100,000 ($80,800 cash plus Bracelet, Aussie Millions Main Event and MAIN EVENT Entry)
3 Andrew Dales (SA) $65,000 ($50,800 cash plus Aussie Millions Main Event package and MAIN EVENT entry)
3 Daniel Keast (NSW) $50,000 ($35,800 cash plus Aussie Millions Main Event package and MAIN EVENT entry)
4 Michael Ho (NSW) $35,000 ($33,800 plus MAIN EVENT entry valued at $1200)
5 Jonathan Bredin (Vic) $25,000 ($23,800 plus MAIN EVENT entry valued at $1200)
6 Connie Diakovasilis (NSW) $20,000 ($18,800 cash plus MAIN EVENT entry valued at $1200)
7 David Chilcott (NSW) $15,000 ($13,800 cash plus MAIN EVENT entry valued at $1200)
8 Luke Simpson (NSW) $12,500 ($11,300 cash plus MAIN EVENT entry valued at $1200)
9 Sum Trinh (NSW) $10,000 ($8800 cash plus MAIN EVENT entry valued at $1200)
10 Michael Geremia (Vic) $7800 ($6600 cash plus MAIN EVENT entry valued at $1200)
11 Gerhard Neiss $3600
12 Sam Papadimatos $3600
13 Mark Pendergast $3600
14 Alan Bird $3600
15 Dorothy Bagwell $3600
16 Shaun Elliott $3600
17 Jamie Blackman $3600
18 Aldo Ortitullo $3600
19 Marc Jancovic $2600
20 Sam Perkins $2600
21 Tyson Chaplin $2600
22 Paul O’Connell $2600
23 Terrence Revell $2600
24 Brad Warner $2600
25 Stephen Parker $2600
26 Gavin Awyzio $2600
27 Sean Perkins $2600
28 Ryan Tantschev $2100
29 Joseph Tablie $2100
30 Lee Clark $2100
31 Aaron Jenkins $2100
32 Carmen Fenech $2100
33 Daniel Kidd $2100
34 Dieter Corsten $2100
35 Paul Fenton $2100
36 Chris Zammit $2100
37 Ross Bella $1800
38 Edith DeGiambattista $1800
39 George Obiso $1800
40 Ronald Cruz $1800
41 Daniel Magrin $1800
42 Deanne Carabetta $1800
43 Wayne Parkes $1800
44 Scott Lunn $1800
45 Billy Gatt $1800
46 Justin Wong $1800
47 Daniel Ey $1800
48 Ian Courtney $1800
49 Paul Ridsdale $1800
50 Jason Butler $1800
51 Tony Allen $1800
52 Toby Giles $1800
53 Wayne Serasin $1800
54 John Dredge $1800
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