The 2013 GuangDong Ltd. Asia Millions warm-up one day event was won by Nick Wong after he eliminated Isaac Haxton. Held at the PokerStars LIVE at the City of Dreams, Macau, this one day poker tournament will be followed by HK $ 1 Million buy-in Asia Millions Main Event today.
45 poker players started this warm up event creating a prize pool of HK $10,743,750. The top 5 players finished in the money with Nick Wong winning the top honours of HK $4,298,000. Local Businessman, Wong defeated Team PokerStars Online Pro Haxton who grabbed the second prize of HK $2,579,000.
Notable poker player Philipp Gruissem was third and won HK $1,719,000 while Bertrand Grospelier won HK $ 1,289,000 for a fourth place finish. Erik Seidel won around HK $ 800,000 for coming in fifth.
The Asia Millions Main Event will start today and poker players like Gus Hansen, Erik Seidel, Aaron Lim and Isaac Haxton are among the 100 players expected to play the event. Keep watching this space for the updates on the Asia Millions.