Well known Melbourne cash game regular, Manny Rodriguez has taken down his biggest live MTT win with an outstanding effort to oulast 609 other hopefuls in the Vic Poker Champs Event #5, $550 NL Holdem tournament.
Manny Rodriguez ended up heads up with Paul Taylor, who had already made the final table of Event #3, The Terminator for a 4th place finish; but Rodriguez was victorious when his [cards]8d 6s[/cards] held of Taylor's [cards]Js 5c[/cards] on a [cards]6d Jh 5h 6c 7h[/cards] board.
Rodriguez picked up over $65,000 for the win.
Vic Champs '08 - Event #5 - $550 No Limit Holdem
- 1st $65,575 Manny Rodrigues Melbourne Australia
- 2nd $44,225 Paul Taylor Melbourne Australia
- 3rd $30,500 Colin Peckover Sunshine Coast Australia
- 4th $24,400 Garth Kay Melbourne Australia
- 5th $19,825 David Lovell Sydney Australia
- 6th $15,250 Marlon Goonawardana Melbourne Australia
- 7th $12,200 Bao-Tu Hoang Melbourne Australia
- 8th $9,150 Ismail Ismail Sydney Australia
- 9th $6,100 Scott Peel Melbourne Australia