SKYCITY Auckland Table Games Manager, Radha Vellanki, says she is looking forward to hosting players from across Australasia at the highly-anticipated tournament. “The SKYCITY Festival of Poker always delivers an exciting showcase of some of the best New Zealand poker being played and the atmosphere is electric at the main event. On offer to Poker are weekly tournaments with buy-ins ranging from $75 to $175. They also offer a Deep Stack Main Event tournament at the end of every month. There are five types of poker at Skycity Casino Auckland, these are Classic game of Poker, Three card poker, Ultimate Texas Hold’em, Caribbean stud poker and Lunar poker.

The call was put out – Auckland is yours for the taking. Many answered the call to play for a chance of winning a share of a prize pool worth hundreds of thousands of dollars along with the title of Auckland’s Poker Champion for 2017. What wasn’t expected was that the 2017 winner of Aussie Millions Shurane Vijayaram would put his hand up and compete for the title, wanting to expand his dominance from Australia to New Zealand.

With satellites and side events running from 20 May in the build up to the Main Event of the 2017 Auckland Poker Championships, just under1,000 people participated in the tournaments. 100 people would take the field for the Main Event starting on 2 July featuring fantastic local talent such as Sarah Saifi and Jamie Sadlier alongside international players including Shurane. Throughout the course of the Main Event, players busted out until only 10 were left on the final day and a chance to be crowned winner becoming more than just a wild hope. Shurane would be eventually knocked out in 4^th place and with a Kiwi victory secured, the final 3 cut a deal to split the $128,000 prize pool for the top 3 before playing for the title of winner. Jamie Sadlier would go on to knock out Jamie Mulligan and then Jeffrey Bucher to secure the title.

Read on for the full list of placements for the Main Event and all side tournaments:

2017 AUCKLAND POKER CHAMPIONSHIPS MAIN EVENT:

1 Jamie Sadlier $44,200.00* & trophy

2 Jeffrey Bucher $42,000.00*

3 Jamie Mulligan $42,000.00*

4 Shurane Vijayaram $20,000.00

5 Robbie Robin $15,400.00

6 Wending Dai $10,000.00

7 Sarah Saifi $8,000.00

8 Rajko Gojkovic $7,000.00

9 Zhen Giang Lin $6,000.00

10 Tom Brittenden $5,400.00

*Denotes deal made

Deep Stack tournament

1 Tiger Aspell $13,260.00

2 Thomas Brittenden $8,560.00

3 Melanie Healy $5,610.00

4 Anthony Inns $4,280.00

5 Paul Money $3,300.00

6 Gregory Barkla $2,140.00

7 Jiantao (Jerry) Li $1,710.00

8 Norman Herewini $ 1,500.00

9 Richard Morrison $1,280.00

10 Brett Unkovich $1,160.00

Pot Limit Omaha

1st James Wilson $4,140 & trophy*

2nd Silva Warnape $4,130*

3rd Justine Hayes $4,130*

4th Hamish Crawshaw $1,680 Casino london ontario.

5th Manu Luke $1,220

*denotes deal made

Red Hot Wednesday Event

1 Richard Pearce $2,100.00

2 Tom Brittenden $1,380.00

3 Ernie Coetzer $840.00

4 Aaron Lai $660.00

5 Christopher Padilla $480.00

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6 David Hagar $300.00

7 Ruzzman Hussan $240.00 Glen summit clubhouse casino.

Ladies Event

1 Rachel Bellard $4,160.00 (including $2,200 sponsorship to Main Event)

2 Jackie Mira $1,230.00

3 Natalia Rozova $780.00

4 Carol Rewega $540.00

5 Rutheenya Peters $390.00

After three days of solid play, the Main Event ended in an arranged three way chop of the prize pool winnings with Kiwi poker players Te Rangi Matenga, Shane Tamihana and Darren Lukas each pocketing $55,490. All three players went all in to decide the final placings and who would take home the trophy with 23 year-old Te Rangi coming out on top as the 2015 SkyCity Festival of Poker champion with his Ace and King.

Final placings and winners:

1st. Te Rangi Matenga $55,490
2nd. Shane Tamihana $55,490
3rd. Darren Lukas $55,490
4th. Zack Lowrie $26,110
5th. Jason Cook $20,670
6th. Kuru Whiston $13,330
7th. Glen Young $10,880
8th. Maddy Yates $9,620
9th. Eric Chang $7,890
10th. Joe Allis $7,070
11th. Tatjana Zizic $5,440
12th. Michael Stubbs $4,620

Skycity Auckland Poker Room

Thanks to all involved - players, staff, friends, fans and media - for an incredible tournament of exhilarating action inside the SkyCity Auckland Poker Room. We hope you enjoyed being a part of the action as much as we enjoyed hosting the tournament.

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