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The GDAM final table players are currently in their seats as the filming crew are just preparing for the live stream.
Should be under way within the next ten minutes.
2013 GuangDong Ltd. Asia Millions
Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2013 GuangDong Ltd. Asia Millions
Buy-in
1,000,000 HKD
Prize Pool
119,375,000 HKD
Entries
71
Level
17
Blinds
1,000,000 / 2,000,000
Ante
300,000
Eight players woke up this morning with one thing on their mind: Winning the GuangDong Ltd Asia Millions (GDAM) and the HK$34,600,000 (US$4,464,516) that goes along with the title. The players have already guaranteed themselves HK$6,000,000 (US$774,193).
It is Sorel Mizzi who leads the way with 28,300,000 in chips, but with the blinds relatively high compared to the chip stacks, the GDAM could be won by any of the eight fierce competitors still in contention.
Along with Mizzi, some of the more experienced players at the GDAM final table include PokerStars Team Online Isaac Haxton, Jeff Rossiter, Niklas Heinecker, Pratyush Buddiga and Igor Kurganov, while Anson Tsang and Zheng Tang have proven themselves worthy competitors here in Macau.
The blinds will be kicking back off at 500,000-1,000,000 (ante 100,000) and so as you can see with the final table draw below, there aren’t too many big blinds in play. In fact, the chip leader only has 28 big blinds, while the average stack (15,625,000) is only 15 big blinds. In addition, the current level is more than halfway finished and the blinds will be going up to 700,000-1,400,000 (ante 200,000) in less than half an hour. The following level will be 1,000,000-2,000,000 (ante 200,000) and we wouldn't be surprised if the event finished up as early as then, but of course only time will tell.
GDAM Main Event Final Table Lineup
| Seat | Player | Chips |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Igor Kurganov | 18,400,000 |
| 2 | Pratyush Buddiga | 13,075,000 |
| 3 | Jeff Rossiter | 12,825,000 |
| 4 | Anson Tsang | 5,750,000 |
| 5 | Sorel Mizzi | 28,300,000 |
| 6 | Niklas Heinecker | 15,275,000 |
| 7 | Isaac Haxton | 7,075,000 |
| 8 | Zheng Tang | 24,300,000 |
All the action is set to commence at 3.00 p.m. local time (12.00 a.m. PDT) and we will conce again be on the floor all day long bringing you the live updates. We won’t have full access the feature table, but you can watch a live stream of the GDAM final table, along with following along with our live reporting blog here at PokerNews.
Over the past couple of years, Igor Kurganov has become one of the most familiar faces on the European Poker Tour and beyond, usually going deep in the high roller events that have become his speciality. He recorded the biggest win of his career to date by beating Daniel Negreanu heads up in the €25,000 event at the EPT Grand Final in April 2012, a result worth more than a million euros. He had previously finished second to his friend Philipp Gruissem in a High Roller event in London and was the stand-out player at the Aussie Millions in Melbourne at the beginning of this year, finishing fourth, second and first in the A$250,000, A$100,000 and A$25,000 buy in tournaments respectively, for a combined US $1.5M week. He has joint Russian and German citizenship but currently lives in London, UK.
Bio courtesy of the PokerStarsBlog
Pratyush Buddiga is the former Spelling Bee champion turned rising poker star, who has built on a sensational introduction to this game last year to find himself on the final table of one of the biggest events in the world. After winning the prestigious Scripps National Spelling Bee contest in 2002, two years before his younger brother took down the same title, he made four World Series cashes in 2011 before starting to appear on the EPT during season eight. He made the final table in Berlin then had two deep runs in Monaco, either side of another successful trip to the World Series. Buddiga turned poker pro a year after graduating from Duke University where he studied economics. He also used to receive coaching from Mike McDonald, who was eliminated on day two of this tournament.
Bio courtesy of the PokerStarsBlog
Jeff Rossiter burst onto the live tournament scene in 2011 with a third place finish at the Aussie Millions Main Event, winning A$700,000). Since then, the 23-year-old pro has been traveling the global tournament circuit, building an impressive resume that boasts more than US $1.69 million in lifetime tournament winnings. The young Australian is no stranger to the Asian poker scene; in between tour stops, Jeff spends a lot of his time in Macau, playing in some of the biggest cash games around. Notably, Rossiter had a monstrous week in Macau in November 2012, winning the Asia Championship of Poker (ACOP) Warm-Up Event (HK $1,777,000) and finishing runner-up to Jonathan Karamalikis in the ACOP High Roller Event (HK $2,224,000).
Bio courtesy of the PokerStarsBlog
Having learned the game only five years ago, Anson Tsang is now a professional poker player. With an amazingly quick learning curve Tsang has become a regular in the Macau high stakes cash games. Even if he is first eliminated from the final table today, the HK $6 million would already represent his biggest tournament result to date. Tsang said that his defining moment in the tournament so far was when his pocket threes held up against Ike Hatxon's overcards in an all-in coin flip during the money bubble.
Bio courtesy of the PokerStarsBlog
Sorel Mizzi has amassed an enormous number of huge tournament successes over the past seven years, both on the online tables and in the live environment. He has made final tables on the World Poker Tour, the European Poker Tour, the World Series and the Aussie Millions and has also won two FTOPS events on Full Tilt and a SCOOP bracelet on PokerStars. He has won close to US $6m in live tournaments alone, including the biggest result of his career to date last month in Monaco, when he finished third in the €100,000 Super High Roller at the EPT Grand Final for €680,000.
Bio courtesy of the PokerStarsBlog
Niklas Heinecker has been playing poker for seven years, quickly becoming one of the most respected cash game players both online and off. He is best known by his screen name "ragen70", but also came to prominence during the huge cash game in Monaco last month at the EPT Grand Final. His largest single tournament score came when he finished 80th in the 2007 WSOP Main Event, for which he collected US $106,382. Heinecker also finished fourth for a US $89,734 score in the A$25,000 Challenge at the recent WSOP APAC. Regardless of where Heinecker finishes here in the GDAM Main Event, this will be his largest tournament result.
Bio courtesy of the PokerStarsBlog
You'd be hard-pressed to find a player in world poker hotter than Team Online's Isaac Haxton. "Ike" finished runner-up to Nick Wong earlier this week in the GDAM Warm-Up event, earning more than US $330,000. In May, Haxton dominated the enormous cash game at the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final, winning more than €1,000,000 in a single night. Showing no signs of slowing down, a victory for the Ivy League grad at today's final table would more than double his career live tournament earnings.
Bio courtesy of the PokerStarsBlog
Zheng Tang learned how to play poker only four years ago after a friend in Europe taught him. That friend would surely be proud of the 46-year old real estate businessman who now plays in Macau's biggest cash games. Tang finished in fourth place in GuangDong's event last year and will be looking to improve on that result today when he returns with the second largest chip stack.
Bio courtesy of the PokerStarsBlog