Monday, Feb 2, 2009 Tournament News - Arce and Suntsov Winners
The APT Manila and the RPT St Petersburg was decided over the weekend.
Neil Arce won the Asian Poker Tour Manial Main Event. The renowned Filipino rounder defeated 261 opponents, including Liz Lieu on the final table, and took home the $185,000 first prize.
Final table results from APT Manila:
1 Neil Arce $185,000
2 Steven Yea $100,000
3 Casey Kastle $70,000
4 Didier Cicurel $46,000
5 Susumu Toge $36,000
6 Ron Kluber $30,000
7 Liz Lieu $22,000
8 Vesa Leikos $16,000
9 Kim Tae Hyung $12,000
In St Petersburg, Oleg Suntsov won the first ever tournament on the Russian Poker Tour (RPT). Suntsov started the final table with the smallest stack, but managed to turn things around and win the tournament and approximately $300,000 (10,616,000 Russian Rubles.)
Final table results from RPT St Petersburg:
1 Oleg Suntsov $300,000
2 Vadim Markushevsky n/a
3 Alexander Pantukhin n/a
4 Sergey Solntsev n/a
5 Bulat Bikmetov n/a
6 Sergey Popuk n/a
7 Anatoly Ozhenilok n/a
8 Dimitru Gaina n/a
9 Evgeny Zaytsev n/a
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