Congratulations to David Lim, Winner of the ANZPT Auckland Main Event (NZ$110,760)!
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The first stop on Season 6 of the Australia New Zealand Poker Tour has drawn to a dramatic conclusion as Australia's David Lim dominated the final table to be crowned the ANZPT Auckland champion!
Lim came into the day with the second largest chip stack and managed to maneuver that stack all the way to a victory. Lim, from Perth, only recently started playing tournaments after previously playing mostly Omaha cash games. We expect Lim will start playing more tournaments now that he has an ANZPT title on his resume.
The day started off action-packed as Jason Cook was quickly eliminated in 12th and Raybon Kan in 11th as 10 players remained in the ANZPT Auckland Main Event. Then the last lady standing Angela Brewster was eliminated in tenth place when her 
couldn’t improve against the 
of Nathan Gubieski and the final table was set.
Considering he started the day with such a massive stack, it’s not surprising that Amant Nauhria started the final table with the chip lead. David Lim still wasn’t far behind, while Gubieski and La Rimamaki were the biggest improvers prior to the final table.
It took only a few hands to see the first player eliminated at the final table and unfortunately for Aussie Dean Stevenson, it was he who would find the rail in 9th place for a NZ$10,650 collect.
Next to go was the affable Kiwi Ia Rimamaki as he was eliminated in 8th place. When seven-handed action began, four of the remaining players had less than 20 big blinds in their stack. One of those players was Brad Stafford and it didn’t take long for him to be on the rail in 7th place.
Stanislav Chataline had been nursing a short stack for much of the previous few levels eventually fell in 6th place. Oger was then eliminated in 5th place in dramatic fashion.
Following the elimination of Oger, Lim had almost 2 million in chips and was a big chip leader, having almost half of all the chips in play alone. Nathan Gubieski had worked his way into second in chips, while start-of-day chip leader Amant Nauhria had dwindled down to under 1 million.
Nauhria continued to lose chips to almost every player at the table, but he would hang onto his tournament life as Paul Gahan hit the rail in 4th place.
Compared to his opponents, Nauhria was extremely short stacked at the beginning of three-handed play and wouldn’t be able to re-build. His last chips went to David Lim and he was sent home in a disappointing 3rd place.
At the beginning of heads-up Lim had just over a 2-1 chip lead over Gubieski and it would take only 15 minutes for Gubieseki to be sent home as the runner-up and Lim be crowned the ANZPT Auckland Main Event champion!
ANZPT Auckland Final Table Payouts
| Place | Player | Prize (NZD) |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | David Lim | $110,760 |
| 2nd | Nathan Gubieski | $70,290 |
| 3rd | Amant Nauhria | $39,618 |
| 4th | Paul Gahan | $31,950 |
| 5th | Nicolas Oger | $26,625 |
| 6th | Stanislav Chataline | $22,365 |
| 7th | Brad Stafford | $18,105 |
| 8th | Ia Rimamaki | $13,845 |
| 9th | Dean Stevenson | $10,650 |
We must congratulate all the final table players on their effort and of course, our latest ANZPT champion, David Lim!
Big thanks to all the great staff here at the SKYCITY Auckland Casino and to the team at PokerStars for running yet another world class event. The next PokerStars event in this region will be the upcoming Aussie Millions, which for the first time will be run in partnership with the APPT.
Until then, good night from Auckland!