06/25/2010

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Melbourne Championship Down Under


 

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Though understandably, much of the online gambling community’s
attention is focused on the city of Las Vegas as the World Series of
Poker unfolds inside of the Rio Casino and Resort, there is still
plenty of players around to make yet another well recognized poker
tourney a success as the Melbourne Championship finds it’s conclusion
down under. The competition gave little care to the World Series’
progress on the other side of the globe, concentrating on capturing
the title of the tournament in Melbourne, Australia, and working hard
to earn their share of the A$ 590,000 prize pool.

A solid 590 players managed to ante up the buy-in in of A$ 1,100 to
participate in the Melbourne Championship’s Main Event, which took
place in the Crown Casino. Three challenging days later, one victor
emerged from the crown, as a very young Brendon Rubie managed to waslk
with the grand prize of A$ 118,000. The 20-year old did so after
finally completing a difficult heads up with fellow player Ming Nguyen
as the internet casino community held their breath for a winner.

The final table was lacking in names well recognized by most in the
internet casino world, primarily because the biggest headliners are
taking their place at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, USA. The
final table for the Melbourne Championship sat ten players: Brendon
Rubie, Minh Nguyen, Mark Iskander, Michael Spilkin, Amanda De Cesare,
Sam Vakili, Brian Boyle, Rob Salter, Andrew Scarf and Jarred Graham.
The cash prizes extended to the last of them, Graham, who was
eliminated first and went home with a consolation prize of A$ 8,850,
an excellent profit for his ante. Runner-up Nguyen had to console
himself with A$ 83,780.

 

 

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