A huge St Patrick’s Day at Star Poker ended with an Irish-born player taking out the ANZPT Sydney Opening Event title and the final table decided in the PMA NLHE Special Event.
With a huge rail following the action in the Opening Event, Evan Ryan outpointed Dien Duy Nguyen to pocket the $60,065 first prize. Nizar Nakhle was third while final table chip leader Trudie Sultana finished fourth. The Opening Event was another massive success, generating a field of 863 players and a prizepool of more than $250,000.
Meanwhile the fourth edition of the $1100 buy-in PMA Special Event drew the biggest field yet (91) including Star Poker ambassadors including the likes of Grant Levy and Aaron Benton, IveyPoker’s Jackie Glazier, Dale Marsland, Michael Kanaan, Didier Guerin, Dean Yuen, Tony Kambouroglou, Jackson Zheng and Errolyn Strang.
Most would fall through the day with Glazier among the first to go after twice running sets into straights, however Strang and Guerin survived and head into day two with Guerin the clear chip leader after a huge final 30 minutes. He returns with almost double his nearest rival with 321,600.
Also making it through to a particularly strong final table are James Tai, Thang Truong and Milan Gurung. One man who won’t sleep too well is Iori Yogo who bubbled after a huge clash with Didier Guerin.
It was the second time in 10 minutes that Guerin had got the better of Yogo in a button versus big blind confrontation so when Guerin again raised from the blinds, Yogo shipped it in with A-J. But Guerin was quick to call, tabling a dominant A-Q, and when the board ran out K-9-6-4-4, final 10 were decided and all assured a slice of the $91,000 prizepool.
ANZPT Sydney $1100 PokerMedia Australia No Limit Hold’em Special Event (91 players; total prizepool $91,000; 10 players paid) final table chip count
Didier Guerin 321,600
Victor Teng 183,100
Errolyn Strang 182,400
Con Angelakis 148,900
Thang Truong 146,100
Benjamin Benoit 134,000
Wei Bing Low 132,000
James Tai 54,500
Milan Gurung 47,000
Clement Lau 29,600
Payouts
1 $27,300
2 $18,200
3 $13,195
4 $8645
5 $6370
6 $4777
7 $4095
8 $3413
9 $2730
10 $2275
ANZPT Sydney $330 No Limit Hold’em Opening Event (863 players; total prizepool $258,900; 90 players paid) results
1 Evan Ryan $60,065
2 Dien Duy Nguyen $37,670
3 Nizar Nakhle $19,030
4 Trudie Sultana $15,016
5 Joseph Alvaro $12,168
6 Damien Hubbard $9062
7 Raymond Ruiz $6214
8 Jason Clissold $4919
9 Evgeny Zaydenberg $3625
10 Lior Segre $2589
11 Robert Damelian $2589
12 William Delaney $2589
13 Faysal Kudi $2589
14 Brad Stott $2589
15 Julian Malki $2589
16 John Thomson $2589
17 Fidan Shevket $2589
18 Gary Benson $2589
19 Ngoc Phu $1942
20 Micah Keall-Grant $1942
21 Michael Guzzardi $1942
22 Victor Teng $1683
23 Osama Hassan $1683
24 Rory Young $1683
25 Monica Huynh $1424
26 Siddarth Gunasekran $1424
27 Sheldon Mayer $1424
28 Mike Ivin $1424
29 Edgar Florez $1424
30 Adam Ratten $1424
31 Nebojsa Blanusa $1424
32 Aaron Benton $1424
33 Daniel Salama $1295
34 Joseph Selwyn $1295
35 Rohan Cunico $1295
36 Tony Daoud $1295
37 Jeremi Stepinski $1295
38 George Lazos $1295
39 Siyu Sha $1295
40 Christopher Ciardi $1165
41 Alan Taylor $1165
42 Andrew Starr $1165
43 Jackson Sarge $1165
44 Jarrod Glennon $1165
45 Antonis Kambouroglou $1165
46 Jamal Ayoub $1165
47 Carmen Vella $1036
48 Michael Doodson $1036
49 Weng Cheong Wong $1036
50 Nicola Kordahi $1036
51 Collin Tran $1036
52 Chris Kittos $1036
53 Paul Pedersen $1036
54 Elisabeth Zhang $906
55 Michael Doumani $906
56 Zheng Zhang $906
57 Stefan Sudar $906
58 David Nguyen $906
59 George Elbarhoun $906
60 James Tai $906
61 Sammy Lucisano $777
62 Michael Kanaan $777
63 Andre Dowling $777
64 Rinderson Poerwondo $777
65 Martyn Poytress $777
66 Ahmad Barakat $777
67 Brian Brannigan $777
68 Ruth Jones $647
69 Lee Ladiges $647
70 Iori Yogo $647
71 Saur Kari $647
72 Mark Monteforte $647
73 Alex Falon $517
74 Chris Diamantopoulos $517
75 Kheng Wong $517
76 James Langford $517
77 Bane Jocic $517
78 Richard Blackburn $517
79 David Stefanoff $517
80 Seyed Behzad $517
81 Mel Judah $388
82 Obie Blanusa $388
83 Glenn White $388
84 Gary Levien $388
85 Mark Wong $388
86 Andrew Scarf $388
87 Michael Tran $388
88 Mark Matthews $388
89 Robert Wilson $388
90 Nicholas Polias $388
What’s coming up at ANZPT Sydney
March 18
12.30pm Event 3: $550 ANZPT No Limit Hold’em Bounty (start stack 8000 30-minute levels)
4pm Event 2: $1100 ANZPT Poker Media Australia No Limit Hold’em Special final table
6.15pm $250 ANZPT Main Event Mega Satellite (start stack 6000 25-minute levels)
March 19
12.30pm Event 4: $550 ANZPT Pot Limit Omaha (start stack 10000 30-minute levels)
6.15pm Event 5: $440 ANZPT Teams Event (start stack 8000 20-minute levels)
March 20
12.30pm Event 6: $550 ANZPT No Limit Hold’em Six-Handed (start stack 10000 40-minute levels)
6.15pm $250 ANZPT Main Event Mega Satellite (start stack 6000 25-minute levels)
March 21
12.30pm $250 ANZPT Main Event Mega Satellite (start stack 6000 25-minute levels)
6.15pm Event 7: $2200 ANZPT No Limit Hold’em Main Event day 1 flight 1 (start stack 20000 60-minute levels)
March 22
12.30pm Event 7: $2200 ANZPT No Limit Hold’em Main Event day 1 flight 2 (start stack 20000 60-minute levels)
March 23
12.30pm Event 7: $2200 ANZPT No Limit Hold’em Main Event day 2
4pm $550 Mega Satellite to $5K No Limit Hold’em Challenge Mega Satellite
March 24
12.30pm Event 8: $330 Mixed Pot Limit Omaha/No Limit Hold’em
2pm Event 7: $2200 ANZPT No Limit Hold’em Main Event day 3/final table
4pm Event 9: $5000 No Limit Hold’em Challenge
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