This Sunday, January 31, is day one of the 2010 Auckland Aniversary Poker Champs Main Event held at the Skycity Casino in Auckland. Tournament entry is $1100 with a $50,000 guaranteed prizepool.
Satellites for this tournament are happening all week, as well as other cash tournaments all the long weekend.
Last years champion was local Skycity poker player, Matt Cheer, who took home over $35,000 for first place
2009 APPT Auckland Poker List of Winners and Payouts
1 Simon Watt (New Zealand) NZD $209,085
2 Gerome Guitteau (France) NZD $142,020
3 Jason Brown (New Zealand) NZD $82,845
4 Ke Sijia (China) NZD $55,230
5 Richard Lancaster (New Zealand) NZD $42,606
6 Jens Walther (Germany) NZD $31,560
7 Assadour Assadourian (Australia) NZD $23,670
8 Lance Climo (New Zealand) NZD $18,936
9 Michael Shinzaki (USA) NZD $14,202
10 Shilton Smith (New Zealand) NZD $11,046
11 Ben Butcher (Australia) NZD $11,046
12 Oleg Epp (Germany) NZD $11,046
13 Sam Hill (New Zealand) NZD $8679
14 Charlie Swan (USA) NZD $8679
15 Mike King (New Zealand) NZD $8679
16 Ray Cook (Australia) NZD $8679
17 Rob Toleafoa (New Zealand) NZD $7101
18 Kani Edwards (New Zealand) NZD $7101
19 Eric Assadourian (Australia) NZD $7101
20 Chris Tau (New Zealand) NZD $7101
21 Ronny Wijaya (New Zealand) NZD $7101
22 Jason Mui (USA) NZD $7101
23 Sal Fazzino (Australia) NZD $7101
24 Robert Browning (Philippines) NZD $7101
25 George Moussa NZD $5523
26 Anibal Lee (New Zealand) NZD $5523
27 Joe Quinton (United Kingdom) NZD $5523
28 Luke Edwards (Australia) NZD $5523
29 Daniel Craker (New Zealand) NZD $5523
30 Arnaud Bulle (France) NZD $5523
31 Tamas Lendvai (Hungary) NZD $5523
32 Mathieu Louisy-Gabriel (France) NZD $5523
Local boy Simon Watt wins APPT Auckland Event and collects $209,085
Simon Watt, who qualified for this tournament on a sattelite on Pokerstars, was able to keep New Zealand's richest poker title in the hands of kiwis, when he was able to outlast other local players (such as Rick, Richard Lancaster and Jason Brown) and go face up with frenchman Gerome Guitteau.
For first place Simon collected a nice win of $209,085.
2009 APPT Auckland - Final Table Decided
With Shilton Smith getting knocked out in tenth place, when his pocket kings got flushed on the river, the final table of the 2009 APPT Auckland main event has now been decided.
The chip leader is Frenchman Gerome Guitteau on 1.2 million ahead of Jason Brown (710,000), American Michael Shinzaki (620,000), Simon Watt (580,000), Richard Lancaster (570,000), Lance Climo (350,000), German Jens Walther (335,000), Australian-based Chinese player Ke Sijia (295,000) and Eric Assadourian's father Assadour(230,000).
Some players of note, who fell today, were last years champion Daniel Cracker in 29th place, Cris Tau in 20th, Eric Assadourian 19th and Mike King 15th.
The decider to see who is crowned Auckland Skycity's Festival of Poker champion will be held at the casino tomorrow.
The chip leader is Frenchman Gerome Guitteau on 1.2 million ahead of Jason Brown (710,000), American Michael Shinzaki (620,000), Simon Watt (580,000), Richard Lancaster (570,000), Lance Climo (350,000), German Jens Walther (335,000), Australian-based Chinese player Ke Sijia (295,000) and Eric Assadourian's father Assadour(230,000).
Some players of note, who fell today, were last years champion Daniel Cracker in 29th place, Cris Tau in 20th, Eric Assadourian 19th and Mike King 15th.
The decider to see who is crowned Auckland Skycity's Festival of Poker champion will be held at the casino tomorrow.
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