Dateline Vienna, 30th May,2001 , from Bill Marczak
The opening event of the Austrian Masters at the Concord Card Casino,the 100,000 ATS Limit Hold'em with 100,000 ATS added prizemoney,has just concluded.A large number of local & overseas players turned up for this opening event,with the ATS 100,000 added prizemoney proving to be a major
attraction.
A large contingent from Australia turned up on the heels of their earlier jaunt to Nova Gorica in Slovenia,where Aussie professional Graeme Putt took out 1st prize of about USD 10,000.
Here in Vienna there were 148 entries, with 296 rebuys & add-ons.Total prizemoney was ATS 544,000
Final table results & prizemoney- Austrian Schillings ATS 16 = USD 1.
1st- Sigfried Rath,Austria- ATS 184,780
2nd - Gary Bush,UK - ATS 89,700
3rd - Lori Robertson,USA - ATS 58,040
4th - Mario Fahimirad,Iran - ATS 42,210
5th - Buenyamin Demir,Turkey -ATS 31,660
6th - Harry Casagrande,Austria - ATS 26,380
7th - Martin Pollak, Austria - ATS 21,100
8th - Gunter Miedler,Austria - ATS 15,830
9th - Luzhe Zhang,China - ATS 10,550
Prizemoney was paid to 18 places,& 10th to 18th were:
10th - Bahram Vhaddati,Iran
11th - Sigi Stockinger,Austria
12th - Alfred Pichler,Austria
13th - Ulrike Csallner,Austria
14th - Hans Waldhauser,Austria
15th - Giuseppe Carianni,Italy
16th -Marcel Luske,Holland
17th - Gerhard Bardolf,Austria
18th - Phil Cannon,Australia
Lori Robertson went to the final table as chipleader with 400,000. Gary Bush made early inroads,betting & raising at every opportunity. He took a huge pot of 360,000 against Mario Fahimirad who passed pocket Jacks in the face of a huge bet from Bush,who showed pocket 8,s. The 88,s held up for Fahimirad in a later hand against Casagrande's
KQ,scooping a 500,000 pot.
In the later stages Rath started winning hand after hand,& ran out the eventual winner in a strong display of power poker.
Bill Marczak in Vienna
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