This week’s tournament series at Crown Poker marks the end of an era with the iconic Melbourne Poker Champs rebranded as part of the Australia New Zealand Poker Tour.
With respect to the Crown Poker website, the first edition of the Melbourne Poker Champs were actually held way back in 2002 – not 2005 – where a modest field of 66 players took their seats in the $300 buy-in No Limit Hold’em Main Event. David Szetho collected the modest first prize of $6930.
Fast-forward a decade to 2012 when the Melbourne Champs Main Event would attract more than 430 players who generated a prizepool of $433,000. In a first for Aussie poker, Jackie Glazier became the second female player to capture a major title when she captured the first prize worth almost $100,000. Back in 2004, Stella Coe won the Melbourne Champs title.
Several events have already been run and won (results below), while the first ANZPT Melbourne Repechage event is scheduled to kick-off on Thursday night. A prizepool of $750,000 has been guaranteed for this $1100 buy-in tournament.
Results
Event 1: $200 Turbo No Limit Hold’em (118 players, 10 players paid, prizepool $20,060)
1 Bashkim Muke $5215
2 Brian Payne $3610
3 Maryann Farrugia $2610
4 Michael Chrisanthopoulos $2010
5 Joseph Riesz $1600
6 Bill Liapis $1405
7 Anthony Legg $1205
8 Daniel Cameron $1005
9 Stephen Goldwater $800
10 Marie Scarfo $600
Event 2: $300 7 Game Mixed Event (39 players, six players paid, prizepool $10,140 – payouts not provided)
1 Nam Le
2 Rob Campbell
3 Gregory Cook
4 Jarrett Bullock
5 Danny Mountt
6 Peter Aristidou
Event 3: $300 Pot Limit Omaha Terminator (55 players, seven players paid, prizepool $14,300)
1 Cameron Bisset $3080
2 Clinton Young $2024
3 Melanie Wohlers $1144
4 Anders Gregers $880
5 Ben Benoit $704
6 Viet Nguyen $528
7 Khac-Trung Tran $440
Event 4: $200 No Limit Hold’em Accumulator (488 buy-ins, 40 players paid, prizepool $100,000)
1 Liwei Han $25,000
2 Timothy Bredl $15,000
3 Petar Vujic $10,000
4 Johnny Saffaro $8000
5 Peter Aristidou $6000
6 David Gorr $4000
7 Daniel Levy $3000
8 Stephen Boyd $2100
9 (Name not supplied) $1600
10 David Munday $1300
11 Khac-Trung Tran $1000
12 Evan Cole $1000
13 Dean Stevenson $1000
14 Dale Marsland $1000
15 Jim Gandring (Sweden) $1000
16 Iori Yogo (Japan) $1000
17 Cameron Angus $1000
18 Dale West $1000
19 Barry Long $1000
20 Simon Moshi $1000
21 Andy Chong $800
22 Michael Tchong $800
23 Vinh Tran $800
24 Tristan Carter $800
25 Len McCash $800
26 Danny Mountt $800
27 Les Vasiliadis $800
28 Byron Silvers $800
29 Chris Rowell $800
30 Lee Thorns $800
31 Peter Linney $600
32 Peter Cortez (USA) $600
33 Michael Zarb $600
34 Jun Wang $600
35 Michael Mackinnon $600
36 Mark Bourke $600
37 Alex Krepapas $600
38 Ram Sanatifaravash $600
39 Camil Debsia $600
40 Justin Ayoub $600
Event 5: $200 No Limit Hold’em Turbo Teams Event (54 teams, eight teams paid, prizepool $9180)
1 Peter Mordaunt/Margaret Mordaunt $2934
2 Errolyn Strang/Patrick Healy $2020
3 Jason Chahine/Simon Chahine $1285
4 Kim Au/Phillip Lim $920
5 Pat Dillon/Rebecca Catterwell $736
6 Sean Tate/Mark Tate $550
7 Keanu Vanags/Michael Tyquin-Readron $415
8 Nick Saraceno/Danny Rae $320
ANZPT Melbourne schedule (events to come)
May 28
12.10pm $50 Midday Madness Turbo No Limit Hold’em
2.10pm Event 7: $400 No Limit Hold’em “Hot Potato” Bounty
4.10pm $65 ANZPT Melbourne Step 1
7.10pm $250 ANZPT Melbourne Step 2
9.10pm $65 ANZPT Melbourne Step 1
May 29
12.10pm $50 Midday Madness Turbo No Limit Hold’em
2.10pm Event 8: $550 No Limit Hold’em Six-Max
4.10pm $250 ANZPT Melbourne Step 2
6.10pm $250 ANZPT Melbourne Step 2
9.10pm $250 ANZPT Melbourne Step 2
May 30
12.10pm Event 9: $400 No Limit Hold’em Turbo Terminator ($200 per KO)
2.10pm $250 ANZPT Melbourne Step 2
4.10pm $250 ANZPT Melbourne Step 2
6.10pm Event 10: $1100 ANZPT Melbourne No Limit Hold’em Repechage Main Event day 1, flight 1 ($750k prizepool guaranteed)
9.10pm $250 ANZPT Melbourne Step 2
May 31
12.10pm $250 ANZPT Melbourne Step 2
2.10pm Event 10: $1100 ANZPT Melbourne No Limit Hold’em Repechage Main Event day 1, flight 2 ($750k prizepool guaranteed)
4.10pm $250 ANZPT Melbourne Step 2
7.10pm $250 ANZPT Melbourne Step 2
9.10pm $250 ANZPT Melbourne Step 2
June 1
12.10pm Event 10: $1100 ANZPT Melbourne No Limit Hold’em Repechage Main Event day 1, flight 3 ($750k prizepool guaranteed)
2.10pm $250 Event 11 Qualifier
4.10pm $250 Event 11 Qualifier
6.10pm $250 Event 11 Qualifier
9.10pm $250 Event 11 Qualifier
June 2
12.10pm $250 Event 11 Qualifier
12.30pm Event 10: $1100 ANZPT Melbourne No Limit Hold’em Repechage Main Event day 2
2.10pm $250 Event 11 Qualifier
4.10pm Event 11: $1100 No Limit Hold’em Turbo Six-Max
June 3
12.10pm: $200 ‘The Rail’ No Limit Hold’em Turbo
12.30pm Event 10: $1100 ANZPT Melbourne No Limit Hold’em Repechage Main Event final table
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