Manny Rodriguez Outplays Big Field In Event #5

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 8♦6♠ held of Taylor’s J♠5♣ on a 6♦J♥5♥6♣7♥ 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

Final Table Decided For Terminator Event 3

The final table has been decided for Event 3, $340 NL Holdem Terminator; with New Zeleand poker player, Paul Taylor holding a commanding lead.

Paul, who won the 2006 Aussie Millions $560 NL Holdem Event 1 for a $62,250 collect; used his experince to run roit over the other players at the “final table bubble” and picked up nice collects knocking out Peter Raditsas and Brian Hull for 11th and 12th place finishes respectively.

The Terminator tournament is unique in that each player will receives a “Terminator” button at the start of the tournament. Once a player is eliminated they pass their original terminator button to the player who eliminates them, keeping any that they have accumulated during the tournament.

The “Terminator” buttons are redeemed for $100 each from the prizepool at the completion of the tournament.

The player to watch at the final table will be Peter Aristidou who is a Melbourne local and Crown Poker regular. He is currently sitting second in the Crown Poker Player Of The Year Standings and his best finsih so far this year was taking down the Event 4 at the Joe Hachem Deepstack Series in the $500 HORSE tournament for a $10,650 prize.

The final table play gets under way at 4:00pm Thursday 7th August.

Event 3 $340 NL Holdem Terminator Final Table

• Seat 1: Stiven Strmecki 67,000 (5 “Terminators”)
• Seat 2: Peter Aristidou 124,000 (7 “Terminators”)
• Seat 3: Tim Clarke 36,000 (3 “Terminators”)
• Seat 4: Paul Triandafillou 156,000 (5 “Terminators”)
• Seat 5: Paul Pedersen 55,000 (3 “Terminators”)
• Seat 6: Marlon Goonawardana 77,500 (9 “Terminators”)
• Seat 7: Paul Taylor 286,000 (5 “Terminators”)
• Seat 8: Damien Elsing 242,000 (8 “Terminators”)
• Seat 9: Michael Obrien 160,500 (6 “Terminators”)
• Seat 10: Simon Cleal 180,000 (6 “Terminators”)