2011 WSOP Main Event November Nine

For those that missed the Live coverage on ESPN or Live reporting on the web the 2011 WSOP Main Event November Nine was finalised last Wednesday 20th July.

This is the Big Daddy or Mother of all poker tournaments anywhere ...  Period. With a buy-in cost of $10,000USD  and 6,865 entrants making a total prize pool of $64.5 Million. First place will get over $8.7 Million (8th place gets over 1 Million) it’s the field of dreams boys and girls.

Here’s a pic of the Final Table which the WSOP call “The November Nine”.




The players shown from left to right are:  Badih “Bob” Bou-Nahra (Belize City, Belize), Phil Collins (Las Vegas, NV), Matt Giannetti (Las Vegas, NV), Pius Heinz (Cologne, Germany), Sam Holden (Sussex, UK), Ben Lamb (Tulsa, OK), Anton Makiievskyi (Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine), Eoghan O’Dea (Dublin, Ireland) and Martin Staszko (Trinec, Czech Republic).

The highest placed Aussies were Andrew Hinrichsen (23rd for $302,005) and Tony Hachem (37th for $196,174).

For more info here’s a link to the official WSOP website and relevant page.

APPT Melbourne Update

Event #1 : $50 NLHE, $50 Add-on, re-entry, Repecharge Accumulator $50k Guarentee. Four players from our Poker crew took to the Poker felt at Crown on Day 1 Flight, Thursday 14 July. 

Adam Brown fresh from his trip to Vegas, Arnold Bathan, Mark Bini (who at this moment sits atop our Syndicate’s Points table) and Allan Bathan.

With an initial start bank of 5k Mark Bini had a huge chip stack of 40k at around Level 6, so much so he decided to not even take the 10k add-on for $50. Unfortunately Mark and Allan didn’t survive this time round and busted late Thursday evening. Both Arnold and Adam managed to hold-on and grow their stacks to survive Day 1 Flight 1 and carry-over to Day 2.

Congratulations to Adam for placing 40^th and a cash of over $400 on Sunday.

Click on the comments link for this post for any further results our crew had in the APPT Melb Poker Championships.

Asia Pacific Poker Tour comes to Melbourne !

The APPT is one of our region’s most prestigious poker tournaments and is only really eclipsed by the Aussie Millions. Check-out the Crown link.

With a AUD$5,000 'Main Event' buy-in and over 500 entrants expected, players can anticipate a high calibre of poker talent from all over the globe all vying for a slice of the AUD$2 million plus prize pool, along with the title of APPT Champion.

Check out the APPT Schedule here. (PDF is 2.7 MB file)

Note there are smaller buy-in events in the schedule, such as Event 1 ($50) and Event 8 ($125) along with a Teams event ($200).

This a great opportunity for those with limited Live Buy-In Tournament experience in our group to gain good practice for next year’s Aussie Millions. Who knows you could even come away with an APPT title to add to your Poker resume.

Here's a short video of the Season 3 APPT Final Table in Sydney.