Oliver Speidel Wins Aussie Millions Main Event - $1.6 Million PayDay
After almost a week of poker action, Melbourne local Oliver Speidel has won the most prestigious poker tournament in the Southern Hemisphere, the 2012 $10,600 Buy-In Aussie Millions Main Event.
Speidel has had an incredible Aussie Millions series and yesterday's win is the icing on the cake that all poker players dream of. Last year was the first time the event was won by a local player, and Speidel will certainly be partying over the coming days in celebration of his monumental victory.
This year's Aussie MIllions saw 659 players stump up the $10,600 buy-in needed to take your seat creating a massive $6,590,000 prize pool, the largest for any sporting event in the country.
As if winning the Aussie Millions wasn't cool enough, Speidel did it in the ultimate fashion when his final winning hand was nothing other than two black aces, A♣ A♠.
Oliver even managed to fulfil the wish of the i2i Poker TV Director(Rob Huxley), when he won he dove onto the table and washed himself in cold hard cash, the finish was certainly worthy of a monumental victory and a special moment for the young local player.
|
Place |
Prizemoney |
Name |
Country |
|
1st |
$1,600,000 |
Oliver Speidel |
Australia |
|
2nd |
$1,000,000 |
Kenneth Hin Yung Wong |
China |
|
3rd |
$610,000 |
Mile Krstanoski |
Australia |
|
4th |
$405,000 |
Mohamad Ali Kowssarie |
Sweden |
|
5th |
$300,000 |
Patrick Healy |
Australia |
|
6th |
$230,000 |
Yin N Li |
China |
|
7th |
$170,000 |
Yann Dion |
Canada |
|
8th |
$125,000 |
Daniel P Idema |
Canada |
|
9th |
$125,000 |
J Lee-Nelson |
New Zealand |
|
10th |
$100,000 |
Janis M Lesinskis |
Australia |
|
11th |
$100,000 |
Karim Jomeen |
U.K. |
|
12th |
$100,000 |
Phillip D Ivey |
U.S.A. |
|
13th |
$75,000 |
Daniel Chevalier |
Australia |
|
14th |
$75,000 |
Matthew P Turk |
U.K. |
|
15th |
$75,000 |
Grant M Levy |
Australia |
|
16th |
$60,000 |
Minh Hau Nguyen |
Australia |
|
17th |
$60,000 |
Joey C Lawrence |
Australia |
|
18th |
$60,000 |
Slade R Fisher |
New Zealand |
|
19th |
$45,000 |
Borge Dypvik |
Norway |
|
20th |
$45,000 |
Joshua C Barrett |
Australia |
|
21st |
$45,000 |
Elton K Tsang |
China |
|
22nd |
$45,000 |
Timothy J Oshea |
Australia |
|
23rd |
$45,000 |
Louie Elias Srour |
Australia |
|
24th |
$45,000 |
Andrew O Mellado |
Australia |
|
25th |
$35,000 |
Ioannis J Makris |
Australia |
|
26th |
$35,000 |
David P Steicke |
China |
|
27th |
$35,000 |
Jason A Koon |
U.S.A. |
|
28th |
$35,000 |
Octavian C Voegele |
Australia |
|
29th |
$35,000 |
Age F Ravn |
Norway |
|
30th |
$35,000 |
Stanley Wu |
Australia |
|
31st |
$30,000 |
Dennis J Huntly |
Australia |
|
32nd |
$30,000 |
Andrew C Hinrichsen |
Australia |
|
33rd |
$30,000 |
Stephen C Hansen |
Australia |
|
34th |
$30,000 |
Michael Stewart Pedley |
Australia |
|
35th |
$30,000 |
Patrick J Dillon |
Ireland |
|
36th |
$30,000 |
Sean D Oreilly |
Australia |
|
37th |
$25,000 |
Michael I Russell |
Australia |
|
38th |
$25,000 |
Alexander J Antonios |
Australia |
|
39th |
$25,000 |
Robert Lam |
Australia |
|
40th |
$25,000 |
Robert B Sova |
New Zealand |
|
41st |
$20,000 |
Robert W Angood |
U.K. |
|
42nd |
$20,000 |
Alexander Rouelioti |
Sweden |
|
43rd |
$20,000 |
Benjamin S Jenkins |
U.K. |
|
44th |
$20,000 |
Paul A Sing |
Australia |
|
45th |
$20,000 |
Benjamin J Savage |
Australia |
|
46th |
$20,000 |
Michael Tureniec |
Sweden |
|
47th |
$20,000 |
Dominykas Karmazinas |
Lithuania |
|
48th |
$20,000 |
Brett A Watson |
Australia |
|
49th |
$20,000 |
Robert K Raymond |
Australia |
|
50th |
$20,000 |
Wissam Boumadi |
Australia |
|
51st |
$20,000 |
Vasilios Argyros |
Australia |
|
52nd |
$20,000 |
Mladen Ivin |
Australia |
|
53rd |
$20,000 |
Ali Ghezelbash |
Australia |
|
54th |
$20,000 |
Emad Moaref |
Australia |
|
55th |
$20,000 |
Jeremy L Simon |
Australia |
|
56th |
$20,000 |
Diego Zeiter |
Switzerland |
|
57th |
$15,000 |
Kenna James |
U.S.A. |
|
58th |
$15,000 |
Daniel Botta |
Australia |
|
59th |
$15,000 |
Zakria Zahid |
Australia |
|
60th |
$15,000 |
Armin Zoike |
Germany |
|
61st |
$15,000 |
Louis Savva |
Australia |
|
62nd |
$15,000 |
Stuart R Kerr |
Australia |
|
63rd |
$15,000 |
Thomas S Grigg |
Australia |
|
64th |
$15,000 |
Amanda J Decesare |
Australia |
|
65th |
$15,000 |
Khiem Nguyen |
Germany |
|
66th |
$15,000 |
Oscar B Kemps |
Belgium |
|
67th |
$15,000 |
Matthew J Wakeman |
Australia |
|
68th |
$15,000 |
Michael J Langdon |
Australia |
|
69th |
$15,000 |
Anthony Marenko |
Australia |
|
70th |
$15,000 |
Lik T Lui |
Australia |
|
71st |
$15,000 |
Lorinda Johnson |
Australia |
|
72nd |
$15,000 |
Paul J Wilde |
Australia |
