It’s fair to think that the 43 players remaining in the battle for the first Star Poker Summer Series Main Event title to be offered in conjunction with the National Poker League (NPL) and Asian Poker Tour (APT) had a solid night’s sleep. A staggering line-up of 357 players took their seats in the Star Poker tournament area for day two and it took 12 hours to slash that tally to the final 43. The bubble burst shortly before midnight confirming the 63 players who would earn a slice of the $1.17 million prizepool.
Leading the way is little-known Amir Minagar who went on a late heater to finish with a monster stack of 1,318,000. The top five stacks belong to Minagar (1,318,000), Michael Malki (1,086,000), Alex Antonios (1,022,000), Tristan Bain (902,000) and Tony Kambouroglou (829,000). The key hand for Minagar came with about 90 minutes remaining when he got it all-in with A-K against an opponent’s K-K and watched not one but two Aces land on the board. Minagar’s previous best cash was for 20th in the 2010 Aussie Millions Main Event but he’s positioned for a lot more here.
Minagar is one of three players sitting above a million along with Malki and Antonios who are also well placed for a run at the final table today (Sunday) and a shot at the first prize of $281,685. Although a lot of big names fell by the wayside on day two, a number of notables remain including 2009 APPT Sydney champion Jonathan Karamalikis, Jim Collopy, Tristan Bain, Tony Kambouroglou, Errolyn Strang, Sheldon Mayer and Sam Capra. Play will resume at 2pm as we look to play down to the final table.
2013 Star Poker Summer Series $2000 No Limit Hold’em Main Event
(648 players, 63 players paid, 43 players remain) end of day 2 chip counts
Amir Minagar 1,318,000
Mourad Malki 1,086,000
Alexander Antonios 1,022,000
Tristan Bain 902,000
Antonis Kambouroglou 829,000
Brenton Nichols 821,000
James Collopy 811,000
Jonathan Karamalikis 648,000
Errolyn Strang 634,000
Ivan Ong 606,000
Tony Sama 605,000
Daryl Hussey 600,000
Jianguo Ruan 535,000
Ricky Lim 530,000
Glenn McConnell 492,000
Ron Faul 469,000
Andrew Scarf 465,000
Edward Isaac 450,000
Ronnie Shabtay 437,000
Sasha Davidovic 433,000
Michael Webb 426,000
Phillip Dong 366,000
Nicholas Lee 343,000
Toan Nguyen 332,000
Hao Li 328,000
Sam Vakili 319,000
Nicholae Predescu 305,000
Sam Capra 301,000
Sheldon Mayer 299,000
Bassam Habib 298,000
Kahle Burns 291,000
John Thomson 275,000
Graeme Putt 274,000
Todor Kondevski 221,000
Trevor Saunders 188,000
Minh Hau Nguyen 188,000
Russell Smith 185,000
Henry Tran 168,000
Luca Borreggine 139,000
Ling Liu 136,000
Zeljko Pejasinovic 132,000
Andrew Li 130,000
Paul Tartak 122,000
Payouts
1 $281,685
2 $176,127
3 $95,645
4 $72,900
5 $59,486
6 $47,823
7 $36,160
8 $25,660
9 $18,080
10-12 $13,997
13-15 $11,664
16-18 $9915
19-21 $8748
22-24 $7582
25-32 $6415
33-39 $5832
40-43 $5249
44 Alan Wilson $5249
45 David Dong Ming Yan $5249
46 Royce Lui $5249
47 Kyra Hutchison $4665
48 Joseph Russo $4665
49 Kamyar Ekrami $4665
50 David Allan $4665
51 Brendan Dunstan $4665
52 Sean Todd $4665
53 Andrew Lock $4665
54 Thomas Yam $4082
55 Martin Kozlov $4082
56 Mel Judah $4082
57 Teresa-Ann Natoli $4082
58 Adam Picker $4082
59 Laurence Hall $4082
60 Colin McCamley $4082
61 Stewart Scott $3500
62 Peter Simpson $3500
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