GuangDong Asia Millions

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The GuangDong Asia Millions was a series of poker tournaments held in Macau in June 2013 . At the two super high roller events, prize money of over 16 million US dollars was awarded.

structure

The tournament series was hosted by PokerStars . The two events were played in the No Limit Hold'em variant . The buy-in and profit distribution was in Hong Kong dollars . For tournament time corresponded to 100,000 HK dollars almost 13,000 US dollars .

Tournaments

Isaac Haxton was the only player to make the money in both events

Warm up

The first event was played on June 4, 2013. 43 players paid the buy-in of 250,000 Hong Kong dollars, which generated a prize pool of just under 1.5 million US dollars. There were five paid places for the participants:

space origin player Prize money
in HK dollars in US dollars
1 Hong KongHong Kong Nick Wong 4,298,000 553,633
2 United StatesUnited States Isaac Haxton 2,579,000 332.205
3 GermanyGermany Philipp Gruissem 1,719,000 221,427
4th FranceFrance Bertrand Grospellier 1,289,000 166.038
5 NorwayNorway Tore Lukashaugen 0.858.750 110,617

Main Event

The main event was played from June 5-7, 2013. It cost HK $ 1 million and attracted 71 attendees. In addition, there were 54 rebuys, which resulted in a prize pool equivalent to more than 15 million US dollars. Eight places were paid for:

space origin player Prize money
in HK dollars in US dollars
1 GermanyGermany Niklas Heinecker 34,600,000 4,456,885
2 AustraliaAustralia Jeff Rossiter 24,500,000 3,155,887
3 CanadaCanada Sorel Mizzi 16,100,000 2,073,868
4th China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Zheng Tang 12,525,000 1,613,367
5 United StatesUnited States Isaac Haxton 10,200,000 1,313,879
6th RussiaRussia Igor Kurganov 08,300,000 1,069,137
7th Hong KongHong Kong Anson Tsang 07,150,000 0.921.004
8th United StatesUnited States Pratyush Buddiga 06,000,000 0.772.870

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pokerstars starts Asia Millions - one of the biggest tournaments in the world expected on hochgepokert.com on May 3, 2013, accessed on January 15, 2018.
  2. ↑ HK $ 250,000 No Limit Hold'em - Warm Up in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed January 15, 2018.
  3. ↑ HK $ 1,000,000 No Limt Hold'em - Main Event in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed January 15, 2018.