Poker Winners 2017
Posted : admin On 4/12/2022The call was put out – Auckland is yours for the taking. Many answered the call to play for a chance of winning a share of a prize pool worth hundreds of thousands of dollars along with the title of Auckland’s Poker Champion for 2017. What wasn’t expected was that the 2017 winner of Aussie Millions Shurane Vijayaram would put his hand up and compete for the title, wanting to expand his dominance from Australia to New Zealand.
With satellites and side events running from 20 May in the build up to the Main Event of the 2017 Auckland Poker Championships, just under1,000 people participated in the tournaments. 100 people would take the field for the Main Event starting on 2 July featuring fantastic local talent such as Sarah Saifi and Jamie Sadlier alongside international players including Shurane. Throughout the course of the Main Event, players busted out until only 10 were left on the final day and a chance to be crowned winner becoming more than just a wild hope. Shurane would be eventually knocked out in 4th place and with a Kiwi victory secured, the final 3 cut a deal to split the $128,000 prize pool for the top 3 before playing for the title of winner. Jamie Sadlier would go on to knock out Jamie Mulligan and then Jeffrey Bucher to secure the title.
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Read on for the full list of placements for the Main Event and all side tournaments:
2017 AUCKLAND POKER CHAMPIONSHIPS MAIN EVENT:
1 Jamie Sadlier $44,200.00* & trophy
2 Jeffrey Bucher $42,000.00*
3 Jamie Mulligan $42,000.00*
4 Shurane Vijayaram $20,000.00
5 Robbie Robin $15,400.00
6 Wending Dai $10,000.00
7 Sarah Saifi $8,000.00
8 Rajko Gojkovic $7,000.00
9 Zhen Giang Lin $6,000.00
10 Tom Brittenden $5,400.00
*Denotes deal made
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Deep Stack tournament
1 Tiger Aspell $13,260.00
2 Thomas Brittenden $8,560.00
3 Melanie Healy $5,610.00
4 Anthony Inns $4,280.00
5 Paul Money $3,300.00
6 Gregory Barkla $2,140.00
7 Jiantao (Jerry) Li $1,710.00
8 Norman Herewini $ 1,500.00
9 Richard Morrison $1,280.00
10 Brett Unkovich $1,160.00
Pot Limit Omaha
1st James Wilson $4,140 & trophy*
2nd Silva Warnape $4,130*
3rd Justine Hayes $4,130*
4th Hamish Crawshaw $1,680
5th Manu Luke $1,220
*denotes deal made
Red Hot Wednesday Event
1 Richard Pearce $2,100.00
2 Tom Brittenden $1,380.00
3 Ernie Coetzer $840.00
4 Aaron Lai $660.00
5 Christopher Padilla $480.00
6 David Hagar $300.00
7 Ruzzman Hussan $240.00
Ladies Event
1 Rachel Bellard $4,160.00 (including $2,200 sponsorship to Main Event)
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2 Jackie Mira $1,230.00
3 Natalia Rozova $780.00
4 Carol Rewega $540.00
5 Rutheenya Peters $390.00
LAS VEGAS -- Scott Blumstein closed out a dominant three-day performance by winning the 2017 World Series of Poker main event early Sunday, taking home $8.15 million and the WSOP bracelet in the process.
Other than a brief spell on the first day of final-table action Thursday, the 25-year-old from Brigantine, New Jersey, held onto the chip lead from beginning to end.
'I'm really happy with how I played tonight,' Blumstein said. 'Really happy with the result, really happy with the deuce, because I was playing good, but I'm pretty tired of poker at this point, honestly. To have to go back and battle pretty deep-[stacked] again, I wasn't looking forward to it.'
The dynamic of Blumstein's considerable lead and a pair of short stacks in Dan Ott and Benjamin Pollak led to one of the most action-packed final days in WSOP main event history, including a three-way all-in that could have led to a historic double-knockout to end the tournament.
Blumstein's hand, which was best at the start, didn't hold up in that three-way spot -- Ott eliminated Pollak in third place -- but after a 66-hand heads-up match with Ott, Blumstein sealed the victory by grinding Ott down to nothing.
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It looked as though Ott might make a comeback, as he doubled up with king-nine against pocket sixes. Shortly afterward he was all-in again and had Blumstein dominated with an ace-eight to Blumstein's ace-deuce. But as had been the case for most of the tournament, dramatics ensued, and a deuce on the river gave Blumstein a pair and the title.
'Is there a better way to win the main event than by hitting a three-outer on the river?' said Blumstein. 'A normally inconsequential [card] -- the deuce -- changes my life.'
Blumstein had to fight through a field of 7,221 players over two weeks in the 48th edition of poker's most famous tournament. This WSOP main event drew the third-largest field in history, behind only the fields in 2006 (8,773 players) and 2010 (7,319). The total accumulated prize pool for the event was $67,877,400, awarded in escalating amounts to 1,084 players.
Ott said he was satisfied with how he performed and the result.
'At the end, the chips didn't go my way,' Ott told PokerNews.com. 'The cards didn't go my way. But I got second place in the third-largest main event ever. I can't complain about that.'
Blumstein's sizable lead made for a chaotic few hours, with five all-in-and-call hands playing out before Pollak's elimination in third place. It was also cyclical, as Ott doubled through Pollak twice, only for Pollak to win a pair of all-ins against Blumstein each time he became the short stack.
After Ott won the three-way all-in, Blumstein held an advantage of less than 2-1, paltry in comparison to the lead he had held for much of the past three days. They traded blows, but Blumstein never dropped below 200 million chips.
It was the conclusion of a three-day run for the ages for Blumstein. On the first night of the final table Thursday, he doubled through chip leader John Hesp to take a lead he would never relinquish. On Friday, Blumstein wielded that stack and accumulated even more chips as the final seven played down to three.
2017 WSOP main event final table results
Scott Blumstein: $8.15 million
Dan Ott: $4.7 million
Benjamin Pollak: $3.5 million
John Hesp: $2.6 million
Antoine Saout: $2 million
Bryan Piccioli: $1.675 million
Damian Salas: $1.425 million
Jack Sinclair: $1.2 million
Ben Lamb: $1 million
The Associated Press contributed to this report.