A long and at times exhausting day’s play ended in triumph for Switzerland’s Dinesh Alt (pictured above) after he survived a marathon final table to be crowned 2013 ANZPT Sydney Main Event champion.
Alt outlasted a mammoth field of 460 players over the course of three gruelling days to claim his first ANZPT title and the handsome $226,320 first prize.
“I can’t believe I was able to make it through today. So many good players it feels very surreal to have outlasted them all,” he said.
But Alt didn’t have it all his own way given the roller-coaster nature of the final table. With repeated all-in confrontations going the way of the short stack, chips flew back and forth across the table with Alt, Dejan Divkovic and Dominik Nitsche all enjoying time as dominant chip leader at various stages before Alt rode a late surge to steal the title.
Initially, it looked like it might be a quick night when the 22 survivors from Day 2 were whittled down to a final nine in just a touch over three hours.
But when Rick Solomon departed soon after, the brakes were applied with more than two hours passing before Dan Kelly followed and another hour before Gary Benson went in seventh.
Still, those following from the rail watched some impressive poker with Divkovic and Alt in particular engaging in some fierce battles and later Divkovic and Nitsche once Alt had become short-stacked as play went three-handed.
Alt looked certain to exit in third when he twice shoved over the top and was twice called by better hands, but on both occasions he secured vital doubles before flopping a set of 6s in a huge hand against Nitsche that saw Nitsche eliminated and Alt go into heads-up play as a clear chip leader.
In the hand that decided the winner, Alt put Divkovic all-in holding 9-8 on a J-10-6-6-7 board with the latter eventually calling and mucking having previously announced that he held a 6. He was eliminated moments later.
Divkovic’s effort was quite remarkable given that he won ANZPT Perth just a month ago and went within a whisker of being not only the first person to ever go back-to-back, but also the first to claim two ANZPT titles.
ANZPT Sydney $2200 No Limit Hold’em Main Event (460 players; 54 players paid; total prizepool $920,000) results
1 Dinesh Alt $226,320
2 Dejan Divkovic $144,440
3 Dominik Nitsche $80,040
4 David Campion $62,560
5 Michael Fadersen $48,300
6 Donald Jones $39,100
7 Gary Benson $29,900
8 Daniel Kelly $23,460
9 Rick Solomon $17,480
10 Ben Gilholme $11,500
11 Iora Yoga $11,500
12 Sam Khouiss $11,500
13 Paul Wilcox $9200
14 Aziz Youssef $9200
15 Amanda DeCesare $9200
16 Fred Alam $7820
17 Luke Brabin $7820
18 Dimitriy Tymoshenko $7820
19 Chad Awerbuch $6440
20 Victor Teng $6440
21 Benjamin Benoit $6440
22 Khac-Trung Tran $5520
23 Adam Carlton $5520
24 Desai Yesha $5520
25 Brendan Rubie $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
ANZPT Sydney Event 8: $330 Pot Limit Omaha/No Limit Hold’em (73 players; eight players paid; total prizepool $21,900) results
1 Fabrice Ho $7117
2 Dean Yuen $4599
3 Cameron Bisset $3285
4 Dion Slabber $2190
5 Stanislav Chataline $1643
6 Kaveh Ghezelbash $1205
7 Tsuyoshi Murai $985
8 Mart Tammoja $876
ANZPT Sydney Event 9: $5000 No Limit Hold’em Challenge (13 players; three players paid; total prizepool $61,750) results
1 Tam Troung $30,875
2 Antonis Kambouroglou $18,525
3 Luke Edwards $12,350
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