Unensaikhan Bolovson has finished atop a field of 810 entries in the Opening Event NLH repechage ($330) of the 2014 Star Poker Summer Series. Play began with great expectation on the first day of the Series with a near capacity field. Day 1 flights 2 and 3 were almost as strong, breaking through the 800-entry mark for the event and generating a prize pool of nearly $250,000.
Experienced player Matt Rolfe had come through strongly from his Day 1 effort to join Bolovson and the likes of WSOP APAC bracelet winner Rory Young, and Star Poker regulars Karam Bahi and Donald Jones at the final table. The pressure of overcoming Young as the form player would rest on the other final table players though, as he was primed for another triumph after his recent WSOP APAC, Sydney Championships and APPT performances.
Unfortunately for Young he was not able to continue his winning ways as he busted in fourth place. It was then left to Nicholas Russo, David Neumann and Bolovson to battle it out. Eventually Bolovson would outlast Russo who finished in third place for an $18,470 payday and Neumann, the runner-up for almost $37,000. Bolovson would make history by joining the likes of Tom Bilby, Michel Bouskila and Jason Quarmby as past Opening Event winners, walking away with the trophy and $55,160.
Opening Event results (810 entries; $243,000 prize pool):
| 1st | Unensaikhan | Bolovson | $55,160 |
| 2nd | David | Neumann | $36,930 |
| 3rd | Nicholas | Russo | $18,470 |
| 4th | Rory | Young | $14,580 |
| 5th | Donald | Jones | $11,900 |
| 6th | Kane | Brough | $8,990 |
| 7th | Mathew | Rolfe | $6,320 |
| 8th | Osamoa | Dannoun | $4,130 |
| 9th | Karam | Bahi | $3,160 |
| 10th | Christopher | Ringrose | $2,310 |
| 11th | Nicholae | Predescu | $2,310 |
| 12th | Despina | Yiannakoulia | $2,310 |
| 13th | Justin | van Nguyen | $2,060 |
| 14th | Eric | Yang | $2,060 |
| 15th | Tae | Park | $2,060 |
| 16th | Frank | Fuller | $1,820 |
| 17th | Ismail | Ismail | $1,820 |
| 18th | Dean | Yuen | $1,820 |
| 19th | Bruce | Rossi | $1,700 |
| 20th | Edgar | Montenegro | $1,700 |
| 21st | Guang Yan | Yu | $1,700 |
| 22nd | Chin | Wang | $1,580 |
| 23rd | Hratch | Boyadjian | $1,580 |
| 24th | David | Goldberg | $1,580 |
| 25th | Kevin | Makita | $1,460 |
| 26th | Henry (hong Yi) | Sun | $1,460 |
| 27th | Michael | Werner | $1,460 |
| 28th | Loughran | Stephen | $1,460 |
| 29th | Peter | Binstead | $1,460 |
| 30th | Thiago | Silva | $1,460 |
| 31st | Charles | Sharpe | $1,335 |
| 32nd | Yi | Wang | $1,335 |
| 33rd | Alastair | Boast | $1,335 |
| 34th | Lasse C | Pedersen | $1,335 |
| 35th | Peter | Mccarthy | $1,335 |
| 36th | Martyn | Poytress | $1,335 |
| 37th | Ahmed | Abdellatif | $1,215 |
| 38th | Adam | Schmidt | $1,215 |
| 39th | Michael | Doering | $1,215 |
| 40th | Robert | Bechara | $1,215 |
| 41st | Milad | Elazzi | $1,215 |
| 42nd | Ana | Cosma | $1,215 |
| 43rd | Peter | Tran | $1,095 |
| 44th | Darryl | Mutch | $1,095 |
| 45th | Llija | Kerezovic | $1,095 |
| 46th | Kristina | Griffiths | $1,095 |
| 47th | Pan | Yu | $1,095 |
| 48th | Ashleigh (thuy) | Quach | $1,095 |
| 49th | Jordan | Kilner | $970 |
| 50th | Ervin | Diamante | $970 |
| 51st | Hauman | Darbani | $970 |
| 52nd | Suzy | Khoueis | $970 |
| 53rd | Andrea | Tambe | $970 |
| 54th | Anthony | Kim | $970 |
| 55th | Brooke | Eisenhuth | $850 |
| 56th | David | Maclean | $850 |
| 57th | Ramin | Mansour-seperghan | $850 |
| 58th | Maurice | Yee | $850 |
| 59th | Anthony | Koutsikos | $850 |
| 60th | Gregg | Russell | $850 |
| 61st | Tobias | Giles | $730 |
| 62nd | Fred | Madon | $730 |
| 63rd | Chris | Nikolaou | $730 |
| 64th | Nathan | Sawyers | $730 |
| 65th | David | Sanis | $730 |
| 66th | Ashley | Parkhill | $730 |
| 67th | Teresa | Natoli | $730 |
| 68th | Mohammed | Daghostani | $730 |
| 69th | Xin | Zhang | $730 |
| 70th | Samir | Khouiss | $730 |
| 71st | Noman | Shill | $610 |
| 72nd | Daniel | Simons | $610 |
| 73rd | Leon | Benivento | $610 |
| 74th | Scott | Flannery | $610 |
| 75th | Haoran | Zhang | $610 |
| 76th | Saad | Abood | $610 |
| 77th | Eric | Wu | $610 |
| 78th | Minh | Tran | $610 |
| 79th | Alexander | Deportere | $610 |
| 80th | John | Bockos | $610 |
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