Heads-Up Play Begins

Photo:  Sheng Ye

The final two players are back at the table and ready to play down to a winner. Here are the official chip counts, followed by the final table payouts.

Reminder:  In heads-up play, the button has the small blind and acts first before the flop.

Sheng Ye  –  18,875,000  (63 bb)
Ben Richardson  –  17,900,000  (60 bb)

1st:  AUD $374,953*  (~US $253,843*)
2nd:  AUD $238,978  (~US $161,788)

3rd:  Mo Haidary  –  AUD $176,753  (~US $119,662)
4th:  Josh Foster  –  AUD $132,048  (~US $89,396)
5th:  Anita Savage  –  AUD $99,654  (~US $67,466)
6th:  Gary Lin  –  AUD $75,981  (~US $51,439)
7th:  Slav Rypinski  –  AUD $58,534  (~US $39,628)
8th:  Andreas Vasiliou  –  AUD $45,564  (~US $30,847)
9th:  Noman Mirza  –  AUD $35,847  (~US $24,268)

* The first-prize amount includes the winner’s AUD $16,500 package to play in the season-ending WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas.

NOTE: For worldwide consistency across all WPT events, the amounts on the Payouts page are in U.S. dollars. For this event, payouts have been converted using a rate of AUD $1.00 = US $0.6770.

Photo:  Ben Richardson