Topakas and Graham Capture Titles at Joe Hachem Deep Stack Series!

 

It was Event #9: $1,100 No Limit Holdem 6-Handed and 96 players jumped into the short-handed action to create a nice $96,000 prize pool. The top 12 players would cash with first place to collect $24,000. The players enjoyed a 15,000-chip start bank and generous 30 minute levels, however the pace was frantic in the early goings as most tables started ultra-short as players were late in taking their seats by the scheduled 12:10pm start time. Most were two or three handed, with Andrew “Adgee” Jeffreys overheard to be all in on the very first hand – clearly a blind-steal attempt as he was the only live player seated at his table!

 

Slowly the players found their way to their seats, with many big names arriving in town for their first event of the series. Grant Levy and Jarrad Graham were amongst the starters, which also included the likes of Michael Guzzardi, Tino Lechich, Billy Argyros, Andrew Demetriou, Billy Seri, Jimmy Siu, Nobbi Tanaka, Emad Tahtouh, Vincent Wan, Sam Youssef and Joe Hachem who was a very early casualty.

 

It the end it was a battle of Toothpick Master versus Toothpick Student as Antonis Kambouroglou and Jarred Graham went heads up for the title. In the end it was Graham who captured another live title when he ace-king held up against Kambouroglou’s ace-queen.

 

 

 

Meanwhile the evening shift saw players partake in another mixed game, the time it was Event #10: $340 Pot Limit Hold’em/Omaha. Players started with 10,000 in chips and would rotate between Omaha and Hold’em during each of the 25-minute levels. The event didn’t wrap up until the early hours of the morning, with Crown local Steve Topakas cementing his place towards the top of the PokerNetwork Australasian Rankings for 2009 with victory in this event.

 

 

Day 10 of the Joe Hachem Deep Stack Series will offer players another two events. The $1,100 Pot Limit Omaha with optional rebuy event kicks off at 12:10pm with plenty of fun expected for the $550 Teams Event at 7:10pm.

 

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