After three days of play, the ANZPT Sydney Main Event have been reduced from a starting field of 458 to a last table of nine. Let's get to grasp our final table a bit better:
Seat 1: Peco Stojanovski (Sydney, New South Wales) - 1,167,000 chips
Peco Stojanovski is 39-year old local player who has nine years experience within the game. During that time, Peco has amassed some impressive results, mostly here at his home casino of The Star. His biggest result came back in 2010 when he placed fourth within the APPT Sydney for $121,380 in prize money. Peco also finished in 23rd place within the ANZPT Sydney event back in 2012.
Peco loves to call himself "The Magician" and thus far he's been in a position to work his magic beautifully, describing a "sick call, then a sick three-barrel bluff against Alex Lee" as his highlight of the tournament so far.
Peco loves Sydney and would really like nothing greater than to capture his home town title.
Seat 2: Nathan Sawyers (Sydney, New South Wales) - 1,318,000 chips
Nathan Sawyers is a 35-year old Car Dealership Owner from Sydney who was playing poker for ten years upon getting started within the pub poker ranks. Nathan has a lot of small cashes to his credit, mostly on the Star, but this may be his best poker result without reference to where he finishes at the final table.
Nathan's rise to the second one largest stack at the final table was an adventurous one. With just minutes left on day one, Nathan was all the way down to just 6,000 in chips. But he was in a position to double up several times before the tip of the day, and from there he never looked back.
Away from poker, Nathan enjoys golf, the gym and boating on Sydney harbour.
Seat 3: Josh Redhouse (Spring Farm, New South Wales) - 994,000 chips
Josh Redhouse is a 27-year old Sales Manager who claims on his bio sheet that that is his first time playing poker. Somehow we predict he may well be bluffing. It's certainly Josh's first major tournament result.
Josh rose to the chip lead late on Day 3 when he five-bet preflop with pocket fours and flopped a collection. From there, he was capable of hang directly to reach the general table.
Josh is a keen golfer and has enjoyed having the support of his mates and girlfriend at the rail inside the Main Event.
Seat 4: Milan Gurung (Melbourne, Victoria) - 283,000 chips
Arguably some of the more matured players in this final table, Milan Gurung is a 35-year old with almost $300,000 in live earnings to his credit. Despite hailing from Melbourne, Milan clearly has a liking for the harbour city together with his previous best two tournament results coming on the Sydney Poker Championships Main Event. In 2009, Milan took third place before improving to second place in 2010 for a $86,576 score. He'll be hoping to head one place better again here on the ANZPT Sydney.
Milan says his poker highlight was fiddling with Phil Ivey within the Aussie Millions Main Event. Hopefully he learnt a couple of tricks that he can use in this final table as he enters because the short stack of the field.
Seat 5: Jazz Mathers (Sydney, New South Wales) - 1,837,000 chips
The man with the best name in all of poker, Jazz Mathers was a dominant force on this event and he'll carry the chip lead into the general table. Jazz is a 26-year old "Advertising Boss" with a prior best results of 9th place on the APPT Melbourne for $16,650. He's already certain to better than prize here in Sydney.
That event was won by Billy Argyros, and the 2 reacquainted themselves here in Sydney. A key moment in Mathers' tournament was calling off most of his chips with ace-high to select off a large bluff from the Croc on day one.
Away from poker, Jazz enjoys sport, golf prop betting and partying, so expect some celebrations if he's victorious in this final table.
Seat 6: Yibo "Steven" Zhou (Beijing, China) - 1,117,000 chips
Steven Zhou is our lone international representative at this final table with the 26-year old hailing from Beijing in China. Steven have been playing poker for just a couple of years but has already amassed an outstanding poker resume that features a collection of small cashes here in Sydney and a pair of significant scores in Macau. Steven finished in 6th place within the 2013 ACOP Warm-up event for $46,167 and runner-up within the recent Macau Poker Cup Baby Dragon event for $29,660.
Steven says he first got into poker when his Probability Lecturer suggested that learning the percentages in Texas Holdem can be helpful for the course. Well, it is going to prove very helpful if Steven can turn that knowledge into $225,300 at this final table!
Away from the felt, Steven enjoys golf, travel and foods and says that he is most enjoyed applying the massage therapists in the course of the event.
Seat 7: Rory Young (Sydney, New South Wales) - 1,124,000 chips
The baby of the group, Rory Young is a young 18-year old who says he was introduced to poker just three months ago by Shivine Abdine. He already has a few small results to his credit on the Star and can be on the lookout for a large score to kick start his poker career here at the final table.
Rory has provided a number of friendly banter on the table, and should provide some entertaining moments with a pair other chatty players in this final table.
Seat 8: Oliver Gill (Magnetic Island, Queensland) - 536,000 chips
The effervescent Oliver Gill is a 28-year old professional poker player and our lone Queenslander at the final table. Oliver is healthier known for his excessive table talk but he also poses an excellent poker resume with almost $200,000 in live earnings and over $1.1 million in winnings on PokerStars, including victories within the Bigger 162 and Sunday Second Chance tournaments.
Oliver says that his biggest influences in poker has been Callum Ford, Josh Budin and Jordan Drummond, along with his personal highlight in poker coming on the WSOP where he was in a position to get a Russian opponent so angry that he scrunched up his cards and threw them on the dealer...twice.
Oliver just has that affect on people. Love him or hate him, he talks the talk, and now he's beginning to also walk the walk. Look out if he wins this today!
Seat 9: Brent Taunton (Moree, New South Wales) - 637,000 chips
Brent Taunton is a 31-year old Farmer with a fantastic ten years experience playing poker after you have started in home games.
Brent enjoys tournaments and has a couple of nice scores to his credit including a runner-up lead to the 2011 Gold Coast Poker Championships for $39,000.
The defining moment on this tournament for Brent was when he flopped a collection of jacks against Daniel Neilson's flopped flush. Brent was in a position to improve to a whole house at the river to take away a large threat and get himself right into contention for a run on the final table.
Heath "TassieDevil" Chick is a contract Contributor for the PokerStars Blog.
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