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 |
