A massive congratulations to Newcastle’s Nicholas Lamprianidis who has taken out the 2014 edition of The Star Showdown. A valiant Lerrina Heinrich fought hard to get to the final table and finished a deserving runner up.
Let’s rewind to Wednesday 9 October, when the first Day 1 flight hit the felt with 134 runners – 49 survived. Day 1B took place Thursday evening with 169 players taking to the tables, 73 dodging the cull. The final Day 1 flight stormed The Star Poker Room Friday afternoon with 169 runners. 69 players survived, seeing 191 hopefuls return for Day 2.
Our Day 2 players did not expect the field to drop as fast as it did! We halved the field in the first 2.5 hours of play. Shortly after, the Rock Lily bar begun to fill with poker players from around the state converging on The Star for the $5000 Freeroll and the National Chip Stacking competition. Congratulations to Daryl Bennett from South Australia who pocketed $200.00 and the National Chip Stacking Championship trophy.
At about 5pm – play ceased for Day 2 as we had reached the final 48 players… THE CASH! All 48 players were paid out $1200.00 as their minimum payout to enjoy the fantastic facilities that The Star had to offer. Not long after, registration began for the $5000.00 FREEROLL – 472 players converged on the Poker Room to get registered. The unexpected attendance saw us seat approximately 200 reserves into the event in which our eventual winner, Nima Zarei scored a $2000 Star Summer Series Main Event seat.
48 contenders returned for Day 3 at 12pm with the satisfaction that they had hit the cash and were guaranteed a piece of the prizepool.
10th $4600 - David Maclean
11th $3200 - Gary DiPaola
12th $2500 - James Wheelahan
13th $2500 - Josh Cunningham
14th $2500 - Dirk Neirinckx
15th $2500 - Brad Willson
16th $2100 - Rino Gazzera
17th $2100 - Mativy Bilenky
18th $2100 - Joshua Clinton
19th $2100 - Shane Slack
20th $1800 - Haki Sejnovski
21st $1800 - Thavisith Sithisakd
22nd $1800 - Nathan Hamer
23rd $1800 - Pennie Nguyen
24th $1800 - Anastazia McShane
25th $1800 - Salvator Parisi
26th $1800 - Kevin Woodward
27th $1800 - Graeme Finn
28th $1800 - Jie Li
29th $1800 - Paul Butler
30th $1500 - Glen Williams
31st $1500 - Ray Moulang
32nd $1500 - Kwun Wong
33rd $1500 - Cary Cowling
34th $1500 - Renay Murray
35th $1500 - Manooj Kapoor
36th $1500 - Tom Rusnak
37th $1500 - Maggie Gorman
38th $1500 - Christopher Vella
39th $1200 - Jo Taylor
40th $1200 - Carmelo Marchese
41st $1200 - Kurt Simpson
42ndp$1200 - Joe Josepovic
43rd $1200 - Thomas Smith
44th $1200 - Julie Bickley
45th $1200 - John Gray
46th $1200 - Suliman Momand
47th $1200 - Kristy Hepburn
48th $1200 - Ian Kerry
Congratulations to our final table finishers:
1st $50,000 - Nicholas Lamprianidis
2nd $30,100 - Lerrina Heindrick
3rd $22,200 - Marcolina Jesus
4th $17,200 - Majed Haddad
5th $14,300 - Nadarajah Velupillay
6th $11,200 - Andrew Ryland
7th $8800 - Adam Mujic
8th $6600 - Emmanuel Petris
9th $5600 - Mike Yang
Thank you to everyone who played a part in the organisation of this event. A massive thank you to Stephen Ibrahim, The Poker Manager, supervisors, dealers and staff. Thanks also to the Full House Group Management, Licensees and staff who played a vital role in the organisation and lead up of the event. Thanks also to the Star Showdown players who participated in the event, without your continued support these events would not be possible.
Finally, thank you to everyone following our updates over the event, without you all, these events would not be as successful or as exciting as they are!
Thanks again from the APL/888PL Team! |
