An All-Aussie showdown was the culmination of a stacked final table down under at the Aussie Millions NLH 1K Rebuy event.
Michael Pedley and xMONSTERxDONGx Jonathan Karamalikis gave the local crowd what they wanted - two Aussies fighting for the Championship. In the end, the man that won a Aussie prelim back in 2008 was the winner as Pedley collected over 122K AUD with the victory. Karamalikis, obvisouly, was second.
djk123 Dan Kelly's third place finish was his second big showing this week at the Aussie - Kelly won the PLO event earlier this week - certainly a good start to the year for djk123.
Sad to see Marvin Rettenmaier and Michael Benvenuti go so early. Both players were game for a go at the title but, neither was able to get things going early - Benvenuti's struggles earned him zero PTPR Points for the effort while Rettenmaier, who was the chip leader coming into final table play, managed to earn 5 PTPR Points.
EVENT PAYOUTS (in AUD): 1st Michael Pedley $122,670 2nd Jonathan Karamalikis $88,830 3rd Dan Kelly $57,105 4th Tyron Krost $40,185 5th Mike Watson $29,610 6th Jim Collopy $25,380 7th Tony Sama $21,150 8th Marvin Rettenmaier $16,920 9th Andrew Scarfe $12,690 10th Michael Benvenuti $8,460 LIVE UPDATES >> POKERNEWS.com PLAYER TWEETS >> #aussiemillions RELATED POSTS >> MIDDLETON DEFEATS DODDS >> MAD MARVIN LEADS FT CHARGE >> RUBIE WINS AUSSIE OPENER >> GOING INTO OVERTIME DOWN UNDER >> BLOOD, GUTS AND GORR!!! (2011) | PTPR SIDE EVENT Aussie Millions NLH 1K Rebuy Event January 20-21, 2012 Crown Casino | Melbourne Buy-in: $1,150 | Prizepool: $443,135 Entries: 423 FINAL RESULTS MICHAEL PEDLEY 75 JONATHAN KARAMALIKIS 40 DAN KELLY "djk123" 25 TYRON KROST 15 MIKE WATSON "SirWatts" 10 JIM COLLOPY 8 TONY SAMA 5 MARVIN RETTENMAIER 5 ANDREW SCARFE 5 |
