Victor Teng wins National Poker League 500

Victor Teng has won the NPL 500, after defeating a field of 259 players over two days to lift the title, and collect the $102,000 first place prize. In addition, the New Zealander walked away with a new Audi A4, as well as a $3,000 ticket to the NPLWT Manila for his hard fought efforts.
Many top players took part in the competition, including Bryan Huang, Brendon Rubie, Grant Levy, Daniel Neilson, Jesse McKenzie, Aaron Benton  and Dave Allan. However, the vast majority of the field consisted of National Poker League qualifiers who had won their way through to a shot at the $500k prize pool.
By the time the final table had been reached, Victor Teng was lying in 6th place out of the remaining 10 competitors First to leave the arena was Ray Ruiz who shoved from the small blind with 8-5 not realising Errolyn Strang with A-K had shoved before him. He paid dearly for his error and exited in 10th for $7,500,
Victor Teng then scored his first elimination after pushing with Q-J and being called by Laurence Hall with pocket jacks. Fortunately for Teng a Q fell on the river to dispatch Hall in 7th place for $12,000.
With 5 players remaining Victor Teng had moved into 2nd spot before picking up K-Q and consigning Saul Kari (K-J) to the rail in 5th ($17,000). Errolyn Strang  then eliminated the next two players to take her 3.5m to 1.9m chip lead against Teng into the heads-up phase of the tournament.
However, Strang open-shipped with J-9 into the A-K of Teng to alter the balance before getting her remaining chips in on a J-4-6 flop holding 7-9 against Teng’s 8-6. A 2 and an 8 arrived on the turn and the river to seal Victor Teng’s impressive victory, while Errolyn Strang walked away the runner-up for $77,000 plus a $3,000 NPLWT Manila ticket.