Level: 22
Blinds: 12,000/24,000
Ante: 4,000
2007 PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) - Sydney
$6300 APPT Sydney Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2007 PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) - Sydney
Buy-in
6,000 AUD
Prize Pool
3,366,000 AUD
Entries
561
Level
30
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
30,000
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The man who claimed the scalp of Team PokerStars Pro Joe Hachem midway through day 2 of the PokerStars.net APPT Grand Final is having a great time on his first visit to Sydney.
The married father of one has worked in the flooring business for 16 years and has run his own business for the past five years.
He’s been a serious poker player for about four years, and plays about 20-30 hours online. A huge NFL fan, he earned a seat to Sydney via an $11 rebuy event on PokerStars and said a top-three finish would make a big difference to life at his home in the northern US state of Wisconsin.
This 27-year-old, who runs a web-based business (he formerly taught computer science), has cashed in two World Series of Poker main events – 252nd in 2005 and 562nd in 2006. He also placed 25th in the $6000 No Limit Hold’em event at the Caribbean Poker Classic in St Kitts last month.
A poker player for the past four years, he’s planning to spend the next six months travelling around Australia, and has earmarked surf lessons in Byron Bay as his first stop.
He qualified via Steps tournaments on PokerStars.
What a dream debut for this business owner from Sydney’s south, who set up his own importing company seven years ago. The father of four (who first started watching poker on TV two years ago) is playing in his first poker tournament and will be one of the three Australian players hoping to become the first to win a $1 million tournament poker prize on home soil.
Kemp is assured plenty of support from his family, especially his 11-year-old son who is a massive poker fan and can’t get enough of the pics being sent from the Star City poker room via dad’s mobile phone.
A former risk manager in the finance industry, this 45-year-old qualified for the PokerStars.net APPT Grand Final just last week. He flew in directly from the Doyle Brunson Five-Diamond Classic where he’d picked up a 10th in the $2000 No Limit Hold’em event.
His tournament record also includes a sixth in the $500 No Limit Hold’em tournament at the 2007 Borgata Poker Open, and he cashed (268th) in the 2007 WSOP main event.
One of the more polished players at the final table, this 44-year-old will be representing Asia at the final table of the PokerStars.net APPT Grand Final.
The sales manager for a software company from the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpar has cashed in some of the world’s biggest tournaments. He was 22nd in the 2007 PokerStars EPT European Poker Championships in London and cashed in five events (including three final tables) at the 2006 Festa Al Lago V at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. He also final-tabled in the $1000 No Limit Hold’em event at the 2006 WSOP.
He may not have made much of a splash on the live scene (he placed 482nd in the 2005 WSOP main event), but he’s an emerging star online with more than $600,000 in winnings to his name. The 25-year-old has been playing professionally for two years (and five years in total) and is ranked in the world’s top 35 online players by PocketFives. His online CV includes victory in the 25k Guaranteed event on PokerStars.
This roof contractor qualified for his once-in-a-lifetime APPT Grand Final trip via a $22 direct qualifying satellite on PokerStars. He initially had little interest in poker until a friend (who happened to be a professional poker player) moved in with 36-year-old and shared the secrets of the gamed with him. Work does not allow him much time to play, but he keeps a toe in the water playing small and medium buy-in tournaments online.
A teacher from Sydney’s outer-west (Penrith), this 28-year-old father of two became a teacher after graduating with a Bachelor of Heath Science and a Diploma of Education (some of his students have been keenly following his progress through the tournament on the PokerStars Blog). He’s also coached rugby league at state schoolboys level.
He burst onto the poker scene earlier this year when he finished third at the PokerNews Cup in Melbourne, outlasting a field of 428 players to finish third (winning $131,800).