Italian poker player Mustapha Kanit created Aussie Millions history when he won two gold rings within 3 days winning Event 1 and Event 4 at the Crown Poker Room in Melbourne. Riding high on his 4th place finish in the 2014 PCA High Rollers Event, Kanit first won the opening event and cashing $196,000 and then winning the $1,100 NLHE Six Max Event for $104,000.
While Kanit had defeated a huge field of 1302 poker players in the opening event to claim his first Aussie Millions Gold Ring, he overcame a tough final table in the Six Max Event 4 to grab the top prize. Kanit was second in chip lead behind Daniel Neilson at a FT that also included 2013 Aussie Millions $2,500 Six Max Event champ Grayson Ramage and tournament reg Tam Truong. Early action saw two players tumble with Tanya Phu(6th) and Paul Altis(5th) going iff involving Kanit in a big pot resulting in him getting lead.
Entering 4-way action in lead, Kanit felt considerable competition from Truong who stole the lead several times. Truong eliminated Ramage in 4th place and then Kanit built his stack back with the exit of Neilson. Heads up action between the two saw Truong starting with 2,760,000 chips while Kanit held 2,180,000 chips. But Kanit started chipping away at Truong and slowly the latter was at a huge disadvanatge. He finally got eliminated when he went all in on the turn of a hand where he held while Kanit called with . Kanit hit his straight on the board and Truong had to be satisfied with second best.
Below we mention the 2014 Aussie Millions Event results so far.
Event 1$1,100 NLHE:
1st: Mustapha Kanit – $196,000*
2nd: David Lim – $190,000*
3rd: Daryl Hussey – $125,000
4th: Orjan Skommo – $100,000
5th: Lukas Byrns – $80,000
6th: Otto Pickermann – $63,000
7th: Suraj Dutt -$48,000
8th: Christopher Zeng – $35,000
9th: Slade Fisher – $23,000
10th: Steven Tabb – $14,500
Event 2: $1,100 NLHE/PLO
1st: Lorenzo Sabato – $34,200
2nd: Oliver Gill – $24,450
3rd: Vadim Pinsky- $16,300
4th: Dean Francis – $13,850
5th: Mel Judah – $12,220
6th: Rene Kodlin – $10,600
7th: Jim Collopy – $8,970
8th: Edmund Lee – $7,340
9th: Frank Pezzaniti – $5,700
Event 3: $1,100 NLHE Shootout
1st Mauro Sassano – $30,497.50*
2nd Elizabeth Montizanti – $28,497.50*
3rd Tyron Krost – $18,810
4th Steven Swalling – $13,680
5th Casey Kastle – $11,970
6th Sam Vakili – $10,260
7th Brent Nichols – $8,550
8th Andrew Starr – $6,840
9th Marvin Rettenmaier – $5,985
10th Leon Silver – $5,130
Event 4: $1,100 NLHE Six Max
1st: Mustapha Kanit – $104,000
2nd: Tam Truong – $68,880
3rd: Daniel Neilson – $51,040
4th: Grayson Ramage – $40,620
5th: Paul Altis – $30,250
6th: Tanya Phu – $19,870
Event 5: $1,100 PLO
1st: Sam Higgs – $47,500
2nd: Slade Fisher – $34,050
3rd: Adam Monaghan – $26,630
4th: Ali Khouiss – $20,240
5th: Jarred Graham – $15,980
6th: Timo Pfutzenreuter – $12,780
7th: Anthony Hachem – $9,590
8th: Gary Benson – $6,930
9th: Elizabeth Montizanti – $5,330