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Martin Rowe Crowned APPT Sydney Grand Final Posted by : DM101 on Monday, December 08, 2008 permalink
The last stop of Asia Pacific Poker Tour Grand Final took place at the Star City Casino in Sydney where the final nine players battled on the felt to determine the champion and new millionaire yesterday. The final table included a retired engineer, a student, several poker pros and a racehorse owner from Canada. When the last pot was pushed, it 34-year-old local player Martin Rowe, a Star City regular who bested fearsome pro Jason Gray heads up to claim the trophy and the AU$1,000,000 first prize.
The final result for this main event: 1 1,000,000 AUD Martin Rowe 2 476,000 AUD Jason Gray 3 266,000 AUD Tony Basile 4 182,000 AUD Antonio Fazzolari 5 140,000 AUD Timothy English 6 100,800 AUD Frank Saffioti 7 72,800 AUD Daniel Kowalski 8 53,200 AUD Hai Bo Chu 9 39,200 AUD Tom Rafferty 10 28,000 AUD Michael 'TheBigSiCkO' Guzzardi 11 28,000 AUD Lisa Delellis 12 28,000 AUD Brendan Edmonds 13 19,600 AUD George Kassis 14 19,600 AUD Ray Lapitan 15 19,600 AUD Scott Smith 16 19,600 AUD Daniel Hameiri 17 15,400 AUD Ray Sukkar 18 15,400 AUD Michael Fraser 19 15,400 AUD Marlon Goonawardana 20 15,400 AUD Eric Assadourian 21 15,400 AUD Phil Willcocks 22 15,400 AUD Jamie Pickering 23 15,400 AUD Jason Pritchard 24 15,400 AUD Bassam Habib 25 12,600 AUD Valerie Gigliotti 26 12,600 AUD Travers Nicholas 27 12,600 AUD Christopher Lee 28 12,600 AUD Mamouni Smain 29 12,600 AUD Shane Dye 30 12,600 AUD Mark Deutsch 31 12,600 AUD Wang Che Jung 32 11,200 AUD Anthony Rafter 33 11,200 AUD Roel Pijpers 34 9,800 AUD Sam Capra 35 9,800 AUD Michael Harringtom 36 9,800 AUD Thomas McLaughlin 37 9,800 AUD Stewart Davidson 38 9,800 AUD Frank Bianco 39 9,333 AUD George Lind 40 9,333 AUD Graeme Putt 41 9,333 AUD David Gorr 42 8,400 AUD Minh Nguyen 43 8,400 AUD John Mendel 44 8,400 AUD Zhi Hong Ma 45 8,400 AUD David Kim 46 8,400 AUD Robert Bechara 47 8,400 AUD David Lee 48 8,400 AUD Jimmy Wong |