The biggest edition of the Star Poker Summer Series (SPSS) is underway at The Star in Sydney. For the first time in the seven-year history of the series, the Main Event is being played under the auspices of the National Poker League and Asian Poker Tour.
Combining the NPL500 and The Star Poker Summer Series into one blockbuster poker festival, this premier event is expected to have a prize pool of between AUD $1-$1.5 million. This $2000 buy-in Main Event will be played from December 5-8.
Also added to the SPSS schedule for the first time is the ever-popular State of Origin series. This invitation-only event, which features many of the nation’s leading players, is being played at The Star on Wednesday, December 4.
Like all major series at The Star, the schedule kicked-off with the $330 buy-in No Limit Hold’em Event, which drew a field of 819 players and generated a prizepool just shy of $250,000. After three days of play, Michel Bouskila added another notch to an amazing year when he emerged victorious to claim the first prize of more than $55,000.
Bouskila has cashed in Opening Events on major Star schedules four times since 2010 but broke the duck in impressive fashion by defeating Mario Boast heads-up. Already in 2013, Bouskila had won the $1100 buy-in Six-handed event at the Aussie Millions and final-tabled the Seniors Event at the 2013 WSOP. Both results paid more than USD $115,000 in prizemoney.
2013 Sydney Champs $330 No Limit Hold’em Opening Event w/ repechage
(819 players, 80 players paid, prizepool $245,700) results
1 Michel Bouskila $55,773
2 Mario Boast $37,346
3 Ricky Lim $18,673
4 Nicholas Williams $14,742
5 Jim Pizanias $12,040
6 Kevin Makita $9090
7 Matthew Wakeman $6388
8 Tamer Ozer $4176
9 Kevin Khouiss $3194
10 Alicia Wilkinson $2334
11 Christopher Duong $2334
12 Despina Yiannakoulias $2334
13 Christopher Bantoy $2088
14 Camil Debsia $2088
15 Paul Tartak $2088
16 Tony Kondevski $1843
17 Kheng Wong $1843
18 Garry George $1843
19 Ryan Smith $1720
20 Daniel Braun $1720
21 Baptiste Danguad $1720
22 Nabil Edgtton $1597
23 Joseph Selwyn $1597
24 Rick Solomon $1597
25 Joseph Phillips $1475
26 Nurlan Boobekov $1475
27 Andrew Miller $1475
28 Lisa Smit $1475
29 George Petty $1475
30 Nicholas Roth $1475
31 Michael Doering $1351
32 Patrick Crivell $1351
33 Victor Teng $1351
34 Josh Cunningham $1351
35 Nathan Tuckey $1351
36 Alan Casas $1351
37 David Unasa $1228
38 Brian Brannigan $1228
39 Matt Rolfe $1228
40 Ryan Rogers $1228
41 Robert Bechara $1228
42 Luke Spano $1228
43 Erik Likoudis $1105
44 Karam Bahi $1105
45 Justin Gendle $1105
46 Luke Downes $1105
47 Ciaran Sharpe $1105
48 Tony Kambouroglou $1105
49 Antoine Haussetete $983
50 Shivan Abdine $983
51 Teresa Napoli $983
52 Aaron Barton $983
53 Andrew Scarf $983
54 Eric Wu $983
55 George Bustani $860
56 Michael Russell $860
57 Michael O’Grady $860
58 Peco Stojanovski $860
59 Martyn Poytress $860
60 Jazz Mathers $860
61 Shaun Conroy $737
62 Milad Elazzi $737
63 Daniel Neilson $737
64 Raymond Ruiz $737
65 Philip Grow $737
66 Nicholas Dralie $737
67 Murray Roach $737
68 Michael Sieman $737
69 Kinhua Jianues $737
70 Sheng Jin $737
71 Roman Zaidman $615
72 Jackson Sargeant $615
73 Giuseppe Scaravilli $615
74 Patrick Fletcher $615
75 Darren Lyttle $615
76 Matthew Gooley $615
77 Anthony Goetz $615
78 Adrian Lyons $615
79 Errolyn Strang $615
80 Guangyan Yli $615
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