PokerStars qualifier Tamas Lendvai came to Auckland all the way from Hungary. The 38-year-old businessman moonlights as a professional poker player and has been playing cards for about five years.
Lendvai’s tournament résumé is impressive by any standards. He’s won just under $500,000 USD in prize money traveling the circuit and has posted cashes on the EPT, APPT, NAPT, WSOP and most recently on the Italian Poker Tour (IPT), where he won the €2,000 buy-in IPT Venice Main Event, scoring a €235,000 payday. Lendvai also cashed in last year’s APPT Auckland Main Event, finishing in 31st place – good for an NZD $5,523 score.
Lendvai enters the final table with 472,000 in chips.
Allow me to introduce you to the final nine of the PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour Auckland Main Event. Will the title go to another Kiwi? Or our chip leader and "Godfather of New Zealand Hip-Hop" Brotha D? Or perhaps Tom Grigg or Leo Boxell can beat their recent APPT Sydney Final Table achievements?
Danny Silk opened to 27,000 from middle position only to have Leo Boxell three-bet to 57,000.
Once the blinds passed, and the action returned to Silk, the Australian moved all in for 220,000 and found an insta-call from Boxell for his remaining 196,000.
Silk:
Boxell:
With Boxell in great shape to double and cripple Silk, the flop was about the best Silk could have asked for without taking the lead.
Needing to fade nine spades and two of the remaining kings in the deck, Boxell's head would drop as the dealer peeled off the on the turn to see Silk take a commanding lead in the hand - one of which required Boxell to spike a one-outer on the river if he was to remain alive in the tournament.
Unfortunately for 'The Mechanic', the river landed the to see Boxell for shy of his maiden APPT victory as he was forced to exit the rail in 9th place for a $11,835 payday while Silk pushed to 445,000.
Boxell has a fairly strong following on the Australasian circuit due to his many years of experience and friendly attitude on and off the table. Consequently it is no surprise that many following along at home would be rather disappointed at his early exit, and therefore we thought we should share an interview that PokerNews' own Lynn Gilmartin conducted earlier in the week.
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and a continuation-bet of 23,000 from Soriano Ramos was enough to prompt a fold from Leaoasavaii.
to collect the pot and move over the 400,000-chip mark.
to relinquish the pot and see Lendvai claim his first pot of the final table.
flop was about the best Silk could have asked for without taking the lead.
on the turn to see Silk take a commanding lead in the hand - one of which required Boxell to spike a one-outer on the river if he was to remain alive in the tournament.
to see Boxell for shy of his maiden APPT victory as he was forced to exit the rail in 9th place for a $11,835 payday while Silk pushed to 445,000.