Sydney Champs Main Event 2010 Won By Andrew Capelin

Andrew Capelin has just won the Sydney Poker Championships Main Event 2010, after defeating a field of 363 players over four days to take down the title, and the $136,942 first place prize.
The increasing popularity of poker in Australia saw the $1,650 buy-in tournament exceed the prize pool collected at last year’s event. It also helped attract some of Australia’s finest players to Sydney, including Peter Aristidou, Tony Hachem, Aaron Benton, Grant Levy, Brendon Rubie, Billy Argyros, Sam Khouiss, and John Caridad.
After two Day 1 flights ended, Day 2 saw 118 players returning to the action hoping to secure a piece of the $544,500 prize pool for themselves. Later on in the day Alec Smith with pocket Q’s eliminated Tommy Yi with As-Ks from the competition, thus guaranteeing the remaining thirty-seven players at least $2,995 each.
The final table was eventually reached after just nine players were left in the competition, and so the remaining hopefuls took a break until the next day.
The 24 year-old Honglin Jianghip was the chip leader for most of the day, and took his advantage to the final table hoping to capture his second tournament within a week, after his success at the Sydney Championships $1100 6-max event.
The action was fast from the start and within the first level, three players had been eliminated and eventually Jianghip was sent to the rail and Milan Gurung and Andrew Capelin went heads-up for the title.
Despite just 20 big blinds between them, four hands later Capelin soared to a 6 to 1 advantage over his opponent after hitting a Broadway straight on the river to Gurung’s lower straight on the turn.
A few hands later Capelin hit two pair on the flop with his A-7 to eliminate Gurung in 2nd spot for an $86,576 pay-day.
In the meantime, $136,942 and the Sydney Poker Championships Main Event 2010 title went to deserving winner Andrew Capelin.