APT PHILIPPINES: SPEIDEL SCORES BUT MISSES ANOTHER GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY

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It's hard to complain if you're Oliver Speidel. The man won the Aussie Millions in January, picking up 1.6M AUD is surely nothing to take for granted.

But, a case can be made the Speidel has left a lot of money, and QJ/PTPR Points, on the table ... for the second time this season, Speidel has missed a golden opportunity, heading into a final table with a ton of chips yet, not being able to deliver the goods.

Speidel was the overnight chip leader as the APT Philippines Main Event was setting up for final table play.

Sadly, Speidel could not get it done and could only muster fourth place points.

Still, Speidel (2012 QJ/PTPR RANK: T-6th) does collect 8 valuable points and manages to move up a few spots on the 2012 QuadJacks Poker Player of the Year Leaderboard, powered by PTPRpoker.

Divan Le Roux was the eventual winner, defeating Conrad Coetzer heads up. Le Roux picks up 197K USD for the victory.

David Steicke was ninth in the event, Toto Leonidas 12th and McLean Karr 15th.

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FT PAYOUTS (USD) 1st: Divan Le Roux $197,000 2nd: Conrad Coetzer $104,000 3rd: Ryan Hong $49,000 4th: Oliver Speidel $37,000 5th: Han Wook Kim $30,800 6th: Nicandro Filart $24,600 7th: Franklin Acfalle $18,500 8th: Antonio Martins $12,300 9th: David Steicke $11,700 10th: Adam Monaghan $10,450 NEXT TOUR STOP APT Asian Series Goa Panjim, Goa, India May 21-27, 2012

PTPR CHALLENGER EVENT Asian Poker Tour Philippines APT Philippines NLH Main Event April 21-25, 2012 Resorts World Manila | Philippines Buy-in: $2,700 | Prizepool: $635,000 Entries: 254 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION DIVAN LE ROUX 35 CONRAD COETZER 18 RYAN HONG 10 OLIVIER SPEIDEL 8 HAN WOOK KIM 5

ANZPT SYDNEY: HUNTLEY WINS BIG DOWN UNDER, SPEIDEL MISSES OPPORTUNITY

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Gordon Huntley is the latest Champion on the Australian New Zealand Poker Tour.

Huntley (2012 PTPR Rank: 137th) wasn't the man who most had selected as the favourite heading into final day play but he refused to go away, eventually picking up his first tournament win on the circuit.

The man who Huntley defeated heads up, Liam O'Rourke, carried a monster chip lead as final table play began but eventually had to settle for second.


The one who most had selected as the one to watch on Sunday wasn't able to live up to his name. Oliver Speidel was second in chips as Sunday play started and most believed that Speidel would eventually take the title.

Sadly, Speidel (2012 PTPR Rank: 7th) - the reigning Aussie Millions champion - wasn't able to do better than 7th, and wasn't able to add to his PTPR Points total for 2012. A win and Speidel would have move to #3 on the 2012 QuadJacks Poker Player of the Year race.

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FT PAYOUTS (AUD) Gordon Huntly 226,812 Liam O'Rourke 144,754 Anthony Aston 80,214 Stewart Ballard 62,696 Jason O'Brien 48,405 Oliver Speidel 39,185 Craig Blight 29,965 Bradley Lancken 23,511 Martin Rowe 17,518 RELATED POSTS >> SPEIDEL LOOKS FOR AUS x2 >> 2011 ANZPT MELBOURNE >> SPEIDEL WINS AUS MILLIONS EVENT COVERAGE >> POKERSTARS BLOG DEFENDING CHAMPION Michael Kanaan 2012 Rank: NR

PTPR CHALLENGER EVENT Australia New Zealand Poker Tour Sydney ANZPT Sydney NLH Main Event March 22-25, 2012 The Star Casino | Sydney Buy-in: $2,300 | Prizepool: $964,410 Entries: 461 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION GORDON HUNTLEY 35 LIAM O'ROURKE 18 ANTHONY ASTON 10 STEWART BALLARD 8 JASON O'BRIEN 5 NEXT LIVE EVENT ANZPT Queenstown Snowfest SKYCITY Queenstown July 24-29, 2012 2011: Marcel Schreiner

ANZPT SYDNEY: AUSSIE MILLIONS CHAMP SPEIDEL LOOKING FOR AUS DOUBLE

First Melbourne and now Sydney. Defending Aussie Millions Champion Oliver Speidel is looking to continue his success in Australia, sitting second in chips as we head to final day play at ANZPT Sydney at the Star City Casino.


Speidel (2012 PTPR Rank: 7th) also enjoyed a side event score at Aussie Millions to go with his Main Event victory back in January.

Speidel's stack is still a few hundred thousand short of chip leader Nicholas Heather. Heather (2012 PTPR Rank: NR) enters final day play with 953K chips to Speidel's 797K stack.

Jim Collopy - who, like Speidel, earned a score at a Aussie Millions side event in Janaury - has the third biggest chip stack. Collopy (2012 PTPR Rank: 499th) finished sixth in the 1K NLH rebuy event at the Aussie.

We're playing down to a champion on Sunday.

TOP 10 CHIP STACKS
Nicholas Heather 953,500
Oliver Speidel 797,000
Jim Collopy 638,500
Alec Smith 572,000
Liam O'rourke 495,000
Sam Capra 440,000
Mishel Anunu 434,500
Jason Pritchard 381,000
Gordon Huntly 380,500
Laurence Hall 358,000

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TOP 10 PAYOUTS (AUD) 1st 226,812 2nd 144,754 3rd 80,214 4th 62,696 5th 48,405 6th 39,185 7th 29,965 8th 23,511 9th 17,518 10th 11,525 RELATED POSTS >> 2011 ANZPT MELBOURNE >> SPEIDEL WINS AUS MILLIONS EVENT COVERAGE >> POKERSTARS BLOG DEFENDING CHAMPION Michael Kanaan 2012 Rank: NR

PTPR CHALLENGER EVENT Australia New Zealand Poker Tour Sydney ANZPT Sydney NLH Main Event March 22-25, 2012 The Star Casino | Sydney Buy-in: $2,300 | Prizepool: $964,410 Entries: 461 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION 1st position 35 2nd position 18 3rd position 10 4th position 8 5th position 5 NEXT LIVE EVENT ANZPT Queenstown Snowfest SKYCITY Queenstown July 24-29, 2012 2011: Marcel Schreiner

2012 AUSSIE: DOUBLE UP DOWN UNDER - SPEIDEL SCORES AGAIN AT AUSSIE

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For Oliver Speidel, winning at the Aussie Millions has become a yearly affair. Last year, Speidel earned the victory in the 1K NLH Rebuy event but this year, Speidel had his eyes set on the big one.

Speidel has captured gold down under, winning the Aussie Millions Main Event and earning a cool, crips 1.6M AUD payout.

Speidel (2011 PTPR Rank: 346th) collects his second PTPR Score of this early season - he earned points in the same Bounty event that he won last year. Speidel's win places him third on the 2012 PTPR Tournament Poker Player of the Year Leaderboard.

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FINAL TABLE PAYOUTS (in AUD): 1- Oliver Speidel 1,600,000 2- Kenneth Wong 1,000,000 3- Mile Krstanoski 610,000 4- Mohamad Kowssarie 405,000 5- Patrick Healy 300,000 6- Bjorn Li 230,000 7- Yann Dion 170,000 RELATED POSTS >> AUSSIE FINAL TABLE SET >> DION LEADS FINAL 12 >> O'SHEA, IVEY IN TOP 26 >>O'SHEA LEADS DAY 2 >> IVEY'S ROOM OPENS AT CROWN >> SMITH COLLECTS 1M >> IRISHMAN PARKHILL WINS BOUNTY >> WEISNER LEADS FINAL 32 >> PEDLEY OUTLASTS KARAMALIKIS >> MIDDLETON DEFEATS DODDS >> MAD MARVIN LEADS FT CHARGE >> RUBIE WINS AUSSIE OPENER >> GOING INTO OVERTIME DOWN UNDER >> BLOOD, GUTS AND GORR!!! (2011)

PTPR PREMIER EVENT Aussie Millions NLH Main Event January 22-28, 2012 Crown Casino | Melbourne Buy-in: $10,465 | Prizepool: $6,896,435 Entries: 659 DEFENDING CHAMPION David Gorr (2011 PTPR Rank: 127th) PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION OLIVER SPEIDEL 131 KENNETH WONG 81 MILE KRSTANOSKI 51 MOHAMED KOWSSARIE 41 PATRICK HEALY 36 BJORN LI 31 YANN DION 31 DANIEL IDEMA 16 LEE NELSON 16 JANIS LESINSKIS 16 KARIM JOMEEN 16 PHIL IVEY 14 DANNY CHEVALIER 14 MATT TURK 14 GRANT LEVY 14 MINH NGUYEN 11 JOEY LAWRENCE 11 SLADE FISHER 11

2012 AUSSIE: FINAL TABLE SET - NELSON, IVEY, IDEMA TO MAKE OTHER PLANS FOR SUNDAY

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We have our final table down under! Bjorn Li leads the final group of seven to the felt in order to find out who will be Aussie Millions Main Event Champion for 2012.

Li (2011 PTPR Rank: NR) had a great end to the day on Saturday. He took a big pot from Oliver Speidel and ended Daniel Idema's Aussie Millions journey in about an hour, securing the chip lead from those two big moments.

It's not all bad for Speidel (2011 PTPR Rank: 346th). The 2011 Aussie Millions NLH w/Rebuys winner still bagged the second most chips - still, he's 1.3M behind our leader.

Chip leader heading into Saturday play Yann Dion had some tough times during the day. Dion wasn't able to hold onto the pole position, he's going into Sunday's action with the fifth top stack, sadly for Dion (2011 PTPR Rank: NR), he's got less chips in hand than he did when he was declared the chip leader when we reached Final 12 play.

It wasn't all roses in Melbourne on Saturday. Three players that were favourites to make it to the final table were unable to do so.

The previously mentioned Idema (2011 PTPR Rank: 145th) was unable to keep this summer's WSOP bracelet winning momentum going, he was the last to leave today.

Former Aussie Millions Champion Lee Nelson (pictured) was looking for a repeat. Sadly for Nelson (2011 PTPR Rank: 835th) - the defending ANZPT Melbourne Champion - it was lights out early during Saturday play.

The one everyone was looking for on Saturday - and throughout the tournament - was Phil Ivey. After dominating for most of the week, Ivey (2011 PTPR Rank: NR) had a steep mountain to climb during Final 12 play. Ivey was last in chips coming in and needed to push early in order to get back into contention. Unfortunately for Ivey, he was unable to shake off Dion's Ace-King and was the first man out - not all bad news for Ivey, he was out in time to register for the monster 250K buy-in Super High Roller event - event that's still ongoing now. UPDATE: as of press time, we are down to the Final Four in the 250K event - Ivey is (surprise, surprise) first in chips, followed by Daniel Negreanu, Patrik Antonius and Gus Hansen.

FINAL TABLE SEAT ASSIGNMENTS/CHIP COUNTS
Seat 1 Mile Krstanoski 2,295,000
Seat 2 Yann Dion 2,325,000
Seat 3 Patrick Healy 2,995,000
Seat 4 Bjorn Li 4,775,000
Seat 5 Kenneth Wong 2,330,000
Seat 6 Oliver Speidel 3,415,000
Seat 7 Mohamad Kowssarie 1,750,000

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FINAL TABLE PAYOUTS (in AUD): 1st $1,600,000 2nd $1,000,000 3rd $610,000 4th $405,000 5th $300,000 6th $230,000 7th $170,000 RELATED POSTS >> DION LEADS FINAL 12 >> O'SHEA, IVEY IN TOP 26 >>O'SHEA LEADS DAY 2 >> IVEY'S ROOM OPENS AT CROWN >> SMITH COLLECTS 1M >> IRISHMAN PARKHILL WINS BOUNTY >> WEISNER LEADS FINAL 32 >> PEDLEY OUTLASTS KARAMALIKIS >> MIDDLETON DEFEATS DODDS >> MAD MARVIN LEADS FT CHARGE >> RUBIE WINS AUSSIE OPENER >> GOING INTO OVERTIME DOWN UNDER >> BLOOD, GUTS AND GORR!!! (2011)

PTPR PREMIER EVENT Aussie Millions NLH Main Event January 22-28, 2012 Crown Casino | Melbourne Buy-in: $10,465 | Prizepool: $6,896,435 Entries: 659 DEFENDING CHAMPION David Gorr (2011 PTPR Rank: 127th) PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION 1st place 131 2nd place 81 3rd place 51 4th place 41 5th place 36 6-7th place 31 DANIEL IDEMA 16 LEE NELSON 16 JANIS LESINSKIS 16 KARIM JOMEEN 16 PHIL IVEY 14 DANNY CHEVALIER 14 MATT TURK 14 GRANT LEVY 14 MINH NGUYEN 11 JOEY LAWRENCE 11 SLADE FISHER 11

2012 AUSSIE: '11 PRELIM WINNER O'SHEA LEADS, IVEY STANDS RIGHT BEHIND HIM

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Day 2 play is complete and it looks like Phil Ivey is in it to win it.

With 74 players remaining - only two away from the money bubble - Ivey (2011 PTPR Rank: NR) is second in chips 778K. Ivey must be scaring the living hell out of the remaining field.

Ivey trails only Tim O'Shea in the Main Event. O'Shea (2011 PTPR Rank: 346th)
won the NLH 6-Max event here at the Aussie Millions last season.

Another Aussie Millions prelim winner from 2011, Oliver Speidel, is fifth in chips. Speidel (2011 PTPR Rank: 346th, tied with O'Shea) currently has 540K in chips for the tournament.

2006 Aussie Millions Main Event Champion Lee Nelson also has a healthy chip stack. Nelson (2011 PTPR Rank: 836th) - who won the ANZPT Melbourne Main Event in 2011 - will look to collect more chips on Day 3 as the money bubble draws near.

Aage Ravn (2011 PTPR Rank: NR), Jason Koon (2011 PTPR Rank: NR) and Yann Dion (2011 PTPR Rank: NR) are other top stacks to keep an eye on Day 3.

NOTABLE CHIP STACKS (over 200K in chips)
Tim O'Shea 921,000
Phil Ivey 778,500
Aage Ravn 708,500
Jason Koon 667,500
Oliver Speidel 540,000
Yann Dion 495,000
David Steicke 453,000
Lee Nelson 432,500 (2006 Champion)
Daniel Idema 350,000
Michael Pedley 331,500 (Prelim Event Winner)
Brett Watson 291,000 (Day 1 Chip Leader)
Michael Tureniec 289,000
Minh Nguyen 238,000

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TOP 24 PAYOUTS (in AUD): 1st $1,600,000 2nd $1,000,000 3rd $610,000 4th $405,000 5th $300,000 6th $230,000 7th $170,000 8-9th $125,000 10-12th $100,000 13-15th $75,000 16-18th $60,000 19-24th $45,000 RELATED POSTS >> IVEY'S ROOM OPENS AT CROWN >> SMITH COLLECTS 1M >> IRISHMAN PARKHILL WINS BOUNTY >> WEISNER LEADS FINAL 32 >> PEDLEY OUTLASTS KARAMALIKIS >> MIDDLETON DEFEATS DODDS >> MAD MARVIN LEADS FT CHARGE >> RUBIE WINS AUSSIE OPENER >> GOING INTO OVERTIME DOWN UNDER >> BLOOD, GUTS AND GORR!!! (2011)

PTPR PREMIER EVENT Aussie Millions NLH Main Event January 22-28, 2012 Crown Casino | Melbourne Buy-in: $10,465 | Prizepool: $6,896,435 Entries: 659 DEFENDING CHAMPION David Gorr (2011 PTPR Rank: 127th) PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION 1st place 131 2nd place 81 3rd place 51 4th place 41 5th place 36 6-7th place 31 8-11th place 16 12-15th place 14 16-18th place 11

PTPR RECAP: SPEIDEL WINS AUSSIE EVENT 7

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Oliver Speidel outlasted Day 1 chip leader Randy Dortman heads up in order to win Event 7 - No Limit Hold'em with Rebuys - at the Aussie Millions.

Speidel, WSOP and WSOPE bracelet winner JP Kelly, Eoghan O'Dea, Albert Munnullin, Alex Debus and Andrew Scarf, who all posted PTPRP Points in 2010, earned their first PTPR Points of 2011.


PTPR PRELIM EVENT
2011 Aussie Millions
Event 7 - NLH w/Rebuys
January 21-22, 2011

Crown Casino
Melbourne, Australia

Buy-in: $1,150
Prizepool: $341,000
Entries: 86

FINAL RESULTS
SPEIDEL OLIVER 75
DORTMAN RANDY 40
O'DEA EOGHAN 25
MINNULLIN ALBERT 15
KELLY J.P. 10
LOVELADY JOEY 8
DEBUS ALEXANDER 5
ZINDO JOHN 5
SCARF ANDREW 5