Dejan Divkovic’s autumn trip through Australia has already proved profitable after his win in February’s Perth Poker Champs Main Event at Crown Perth.
The player from Bosnia-Herzogovina (pictured) is now poised to become the first player to win not only two ANZPT titles, but also successive ANZPT titles.
Day two of ANZPT Sydney at Star Poker ended with the field of 175 slashed down to just 21 survivors after 10 hours of play yesterday.
The eliminations came thick and fast from the outset with 50 players sent packing in the first two hours alone. The action slowed briefly as the money bubble loomed but once Sebastian Pagana busted in 55th place, chips were soon flying thick and fast again.
Among those to make the money, but fall short of a spot in the day three line-up, were Brendon Rubie, Dale Marsland, Martin Kozlov, Michael Kanaan and Sam Capra with Marsland’s exit particularly noteworthy.
One of the big stacks at the time, he entered into a pre-flop raising war with Dejan Divkovic which saw all the chips go in with Divkovic’s A-K crushing Marsland and his A-Q. No Q arrived to save the day and Marsland was eliminated soon after.
For Divkovic, however, the evening just kept getting better and he heads into day three as a clear chip leader on a whopping 1,434,000 – more than twice the chips as his nearest rival.
It won’t be easy though. Among those still in contention are Dan djk123 Kelly, Victor Teng, day 1A chip leader Gary Benson, winner of The Poker Star reality TV show Amanda De Cesare, inaugural ANZPT Sydney final table finisher Sam Khouiss and Michael Faderson.
Chad Awerbuch, who finished fourth in the Star Poker Summer Series Main Event last December, also remains in contention for successive major tournament final tables at The Star.
Join us again from 2pm as we crown the latest ANZPT Sydney champion and the $5000 No Limit Hold’em Challenge victor live at The Star.
ANZPT Sydney $2200 No Limit Hold’em Main Event (209 players; 95 players progress to day 2) start of day 3 chip count
Dejan Divkovic (Bosnia Herzegovina) 1,434,000
Donald Jones 689,000
Dominik Nitsche (Germany) 555,000
Iori Yogo 551,000
Dinesh Alt (Switzerland) 550,000
Dmitriy Tymoshenko 529,000
Michael Fadersen 500,000
Paul Wilcox 462,000
Ben Gilholme 448,000
Sam Khouiss 432,000
Aziz Youssef 348,000
David Campion 343,000
Daniel Kelly (USA) 308,000
Amanda De Cesare 299,000
Khac Tran 294,000
Gary Benson 254,000
Victor Teng 252,000
Luke Brabin 235,000
Chad Awerbuch 193,000
Rick Solomon 136,000
Benjamin Benoit (New Caledonia) 98,000
Fady Alam 94,000
Payouts
1 $226,320
2 $144,440
3 $80,040
4 $62,560
5 $48,300
6 $39,100
7 $29,900
8 $23,460
9 $17,480
10-12 $11,500
13-15 $9200
16-18 $7820
19-21 $6440
22-24 $5520
25 $5060
26 Rasmus Buer $5060
27 Guy Delahaye $5060
28 David Hirst $4600
29 Dale Marsland $4600
30 Haki Sejnovski $4600
31 Jason Feist $4600
32 Ryan Freeman $4600
33 Zeljko Pejasinovic $4600
34 Daryl Hussey $4600
35 Nicholas Heather $4600
36 Martin Kozlov $4600
37 Cathal Shine $4140
38 Martin Ward $4140
39 John Thomson $4140
40 Robert Lam $4140
41 Robert Crossman $4140
42 Sam Capra $4140
43 Joseph Alvaro $4140
44 Roy Vandersluis $4140
45 Joel Douaglin $4140
46 Ivan Zalac $3680
47 Luke Spano $3680
48 Nabil Edgtton $3680
49 Jean Pierre Besancon $3680
50 Ramin Mansour-Seperghan $3680
51 Michael Kanaan $3680
52 Geoff Mooney $3680
53 Colin Wilford $3680
54 Ashley Mason $3680
What’s coming up at ANZPT Sydney
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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