$25,000 High Roller
Day 3 Started
2014 World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific
$25,000 High Roller
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2014 World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific
Buy-in
25,000 AUD
Prize Pool
1,632,000 AUD
Entries
68
Level
24
Blinds
25,000 / 50,000
Ante
5,000
Who Will Win the WSOP APAC AU$25,000 High Roller Bracelet?
Today the World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific Event #10: AU$25,000 High Roller, a tournament that attracted 68 players and created a prize pool of AU$1,632,000, will award one lucky player a gold bracelet and a AU$600,000 first-place prize. Just six players remain in contention of the penultimate bracelet of the series with Mike Leah and his stack of 2,576,000 leading the way.
With more than half the chips in play, Leah is the clear favorite to capture the title, but it won't be easy as the other five players at the table, all of whom are guaranteed a minimum payday of AU$85,027, are accomplished pros in their own right. David “MissOracle” Yan, who begins second in chips with less than half that of Leah, finished sixth at the 2013 Aussie Millions right here at the Crown Casino, so one could say he has home-field advantage — or at least experience — on his side.
Others returning today are 2012 WSOP Main Event runner-up Jesse Sylvia; 2 Months, 2 Million star Brian Roberts; 2010 WSOP Main Event winner Jonathan Duhamel; and local favorite Sam Khouiss. Both Duhamel and Khouiss are making their third final table of the WSOP Asia-Pacific.
Here's how the final table stacks up:
The High Roller Final Table
| Seat | Player | Chips |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mike Leah | 2,576,000 |
| 2 | Brian Roberts | 207,000 |
| 3 | Jesse Sylvia | 580,000 |
| 4 | Sam Khouiss | 106,000 |
| 5 | Jonathan Duhamel | 358,000 |
| 6 | [Removed:17] | 1,278,000 |
The final six players will return at 3:30 p.m. local time and play until a winner is crowned. Every hand of the final table will air on a 30-minute delay on ESPN2 beginning at 4 p.m. local time — 10 p.m. Vegas time Thursday night / 1 a.m. ET on Friday morning — so if you're near a TV tune in. If not, or if you're looking for complimentary coverage, then keep it tuned in right here as we bring you hand-for-hand coverage until a winner is determined.
Seat 6: [Removed:17] -- 1,278,000
New Zealand's [Removed:17] may not be a regular face at big, televised final tables, but those of you in the poker community should recognize his voice as a regular commentating guest on EPT Live. Yan will be looking to apply all of that built up poker knowledge here as he enters Day 3 second in chips with 1,278,000.
Yan boasts $749,454 in live tournament earnings, and he also has $670,737 in online tournament winnings from PokerStars where he plays under the screen name "MissOracle." This run marks the second World Series of Poker cash for Yan and his first final table. His previous two WSOP results were a ninth-place finish in the 2013 WSOP Asia-Pacific AU$5,000 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em for AU$19,940 and a 40th-place finish in the 2013 WSOP Europe Main Event for €20,250.
His largest live cash is a sixth-place finish from right here at Crown Melbourne in 2013 when he placed sixth in the Aussie Millions Main Event for AU$220,000.
Yan is just 21 years old and the youngest player remaining by far. He's a professional poker player and will deem winning this event as his greatest poker accomplishment if he's able to earn the title.
Seat 5: Jonathan Duhamel -- 358,000
Arriving to Day 3 with 358,000 in chips is another Canadian poker player by the name of Jonathan Duhamel. You may remember Duhamel from a certain World Series of Poker final table that he reached in 2010 — you know, the Main Event that he won for a massive $8,944,310. That was clearly Duhamel's big breakout onto the poker scene, but over the years he's proven to be no one-hit wonder.
Duhamel has earned $12,485,554 in his live tournament career, including 17 WSOP cashes since his big Main Event victory and a total of nine other six-figure scores.
Shortly after winning the 2010 WSOP Main Event, Duhamel took down the European Poker Tour Deauville €10,300 High Roller for €200,000. He also finished fourth in the NBC National Heads-Up Championship for $125,000 that same year. Then in 2010, Duhamel had a ridiculous January. He took fourth in the $100,000 Super High Roller for $313,600, fifth in the $5,200 No-Limit Hold'em 8-Max Turbo for $17,990, won the $5,250 No-Limit Hold'em 8-Max for $239,830, and then placed second in the $25,500 High Roller for $634,550 all at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure.
As for WSOP events, Duhamel cashed twice in the $50,000 Poker Players' Championship — he finished eighth in 2013 for $207,630, and 13th in 2014 for $99,388. Here in Melbourne, Australia, last year, Duhamel took fourth in the AU$1,100 No-Limit Hold'em Accumulator for AU$71,870.
Seat 4: Sam Khouiss -- 106,000
Bringing up the rear at this final table will be Australian Sam Khouiss with 106,000 in chips. You may remember this 52-year-old poker player from a couple earlier results here at the 2014 World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific where he reached the final table in both.
In the first, the AU$1,650 8-Game Dealer's Choice, Khouiss finished second to Rory Young for AU$26,402. He then made the final table in the AU$5,000 8-Game Mixed and took sixth for AU$13,310. Last year, Khouiss took seventh in the WSOP's AU$2,200 Mixed for AU$7,200.
All told, Khouiss now boasts $125,478 in live tournament earnings, and this result is already the largest of his career by a good margin.
The always-colorful man is married with seven kids and was born in Lebanon. He now resides in Sydney, Australia, and is a poker player by trade looking for his first gold bracelet. Khouiss will enter Day 3 with under five big blinds, so he'll certainly have his work cut out for him.
Seat 3: Jesse Sylvia -- 580,000
Entering Day 2 of this event, Jesse Sylvia was second to last in chips with 38,400. He quickly ran that up to 300,000 before finishing the day with 580,000 — good enough for third place overall.
This final table marks the second World Series of Poker final table of Sylvia's career, and the first one was the biggest of them all as he reached the WSOP Main Event final table in 2012. It was there that the Massachusetts native entered with the chip lead before finishing second to Greg Merson for $5,295,149.
Prior to that life-changing result, Sylvia had just two WSOP cashes and a total of $58,478 in lifetime tournament earnings. Since then, he's earned at least another $165,000 and cashed in nine WSOP events. Being guaranteed no less than AU$85,027 in this one and sitting with a decent chip position, Sylvia has a good shot at winning a lot more.
Seat 2: Brian Roberts -- 207,000
Brian Roberts is most known for two things in the poker world. In 2009, he was one of the cast members for the reality TV show 2 Months $2 Million alongside Dani "Ansky" Stern, Jay "KRANTZ" Rosenkrantz, and Emil "whitelime" Patel. The goal of the show was to follow the quest of these four as they lived together in Las Vegas and collectively tried to earn $2,000,000. The show aired for 10 episodes, but the group fell short of their goal with $676,700 in winnings.
The second thing Roberts is most known for in poker would be his fourth-place finish in the 2011 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event in Cannes. For that result, Roberts scored €400,000, and that remains his largest live tournament payday to date. This summer, Roberts finished 26th in the WSOP Main Event in Las Vegas for $286,900. Those remain his only six-figure cashes from live tournament poker.
Roberts is 31 years old and making his 11th WSOP cash.
Seat 1: Mike Leah -- 2,576,000
Mike Leah enters Day 3 in charge of the final six with over 50% of the chips in play and a dominating lead on the rest of the competitors.
The 40-year-old Canadian professional poker player brings $3,338,247 in live tournament earnings and $2,532,359 in online tournament earnings to the final table, but one thing that has eluded Leah over his career is a World Series of Poker gold bracelet.
Leah has made four WSOP final tables throughout his career, and his best result was a third-place finish in the 2013 $5,000 Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo event for $108,412. Leah certainly hopes he can secure his first gold bracelet in this event, stating on his bio sheet that he hopes for this event to prove his greatest poker accomplishment.
As it sits right now, Leah's best poker result came not too long ago, when in August he finished second to Daniel Colman in the 2014 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Main Event for a very impressive $1,047,638. In the virtual world of our game, Leah finished third in the 2011 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker Main Event to the tune of $663,816.
Leah lists fantasy sports as his hobby.
Level: 21
Blinds: 12,000/24,000
Ante: 4,000
Shuffle Up and Deal!
Level 21
: 12,000/24,000, 4,000 ante
The cards are in the air for Day 3 of the AU$25,000 High Roller.