Friday, August 31, 2012

STANLEY CHOI WINS MACAU HIGH STAKES CHALLENGE

PHOTO: POKERACE.com

The Star World Hotel and Casino hosted the inaugural 2M HKD buy-in (250K USD) Macau High Stakes Challenge on Friday. The event drew a total of 94 entries (73 players registered, 21 of them re-bought).

While many of the top / well-known high stakes poker players in the world entered the event, it's those that aren't in the poker world spotlight that stole the headlines on Friday as Stanley Choi (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-162nd) won the event, picking up over 50M HKD (almost 6.5M) for the victory.

John Juanda (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 250th), Sam Trickett (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-214th) and Phil Ivey (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 11th) all final tabled the event while Nicholas Wong, Tang Zheng, Philipp Gruissem and J.P. Kelly cashed in the event that carried a monster 23M USD prizepool.



EVENT PAYOUTS (HKD)
Stanley Choi HK$50,149,000
Zhu Guan Fai HK$33,737,000
Nicholas Wong HK$25,530,000
Tang Zheng HK$17,324,000
John Juanda HK$12,765,000
Lap Key Chan HK$9,574,000
Sam Trickett HK$7,750,000
Phil Ivey HK$6,383,000
Alan Sass HK$5,471,000
Philipp Gruissem HK$4,559,000
Di Van Hoang Dang HK$4,559,000
JP Kelly HK$4,559,000


PTPR TIER 3 EVENT
MACAU HIGH STAKES CHALLENGE
NLH Super High Rollers
August 31, 2012

Star World Hotel | Macau
Buy-in: $237,875 | Prizepool: $23,512,950
Entries: 94

PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION
STANLEY CHOI 100
ZHU GUAN FAI 60
NICHOLAS WONG 35
TANG ZHENG 25
JOHN JUANDA 18
LAP KEY CHAN 10
SAM TRICKETT 8
PHIL IVEY 5
ALAN SASS 5


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