Heads-Up Play: Shuffle Up & Deal!

Photo:  Naj Ajez (foreground, left) and Yang Lei (right)

The final two players have returned from break to begin heads-up play with 35:43 remaining in Level 30, with blinds at 100,000-200,000 with a 200,000 ante. All future levels will be 30 minutes long.

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

Here are their official chip counts, followed by the final table payouts:

Yang Lei  –  22,575,000  (113 bb)
Naj Ajez  –  4,500,000  (23 bb)

1st:  AUD $216,763*  (~US $152,710*)
2nd:  AUD $134,508  (~US $94,761)

3rd:  Tony Jun Lu  –  AUD $99,229  (~US $69,907)
4th:  Mark Staples  –  AUD $74,002  (~US $52,134)
5th:  Justin Bernstein  –  AUD $55,798  (~US $39,310)
6th:  Mark Zhu  –  AUD $42,541  (~US $29,970)
7th:  Win Meng Tan  –  AUD $32,800  (~US $23,108)
8th:  Jerry Wang  –  AUD $25,578  (~US $18,020)
9th:  Fendy Fendy  –  AUD $20,176  (~US $14,214)

* First-prize amount includes the winner’s US $10,400 entry into 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 $0.7045.