Poker Tournament Results

International Poker Festival 2000

Place	Name	Prize
1	Australia	$6,000
2	Ron Germany AKA "The Germ" (COVINGTON, GA, USA)
3	Australia

Tournament Report

The $10,000 International Teams Event was contested and won by a Crown/PokerNetwork team representing Australia. The Teams Event format was an excellent idea with each member of a four member team nominated to play Pot Limit Hold 'em, Pot Limit Omaha, Limit Omaha Hi/Lo & Limit 7-Card Stud. There were thirteen teams entered so the thirteen players nominated to play Hold 'em would start at 2 tables of 13 and play down to the last player as per a normal tournament with points allocated as follows:  Place   Points  1st 18 2nd 15 3rd 12 4th 10 5th 9 6th 8 7th 7 8th 6 9th 5 10th 4 11th 3 12th 2 13th 1 Winning PokerNetwork team from Australia. Pictured with prize presenter Mike Comer. From left to right is Phil Cannon, Dave Parlor, Keith 'Bendigo' Sloan and John Harrak. This format applied to all four games and points were accumulated for the four team members. The winning team received $6,000 and the individual winner of each game played wins $1,000 for their team. Surprisingly, the winning team of Keith Bendigo Sloan, John Harrak, Phil Cannon & David Parlor, all of them affiliated with running the Crown Casino Poker Room Melbourne Australia and PokerNetwork. They triumphed over a formidable German team represented by Lothar Landauer, Alexander Dietrich, Michael Keiner, Christoff Haller in second place and the very well credentialed Mel Judah, Jeff Lisandro, Mike Comer & Marsha Waggoner taking third place.