The World Poker Tour amazed everyone with its record-breaking WPTDeepStacks festival. The event took place at the Star Sydney and broke the records for both the participants and the prizemoney.

The $1500 buy-in WPT DeepStacks Sydney main Event proved to be one of the biggest events in history as it attracted 2,023 entries with a prize pool of $2,013,312. Mark Fester, a casual Australian poker player, won the top prize of $309,025 for his first position, while Nicholas Wright earned $206,022 for his second place.

 

WPTDeepStacks Sydney, Main Event Results

RANK PLAYER COUNTRY PRIZE (IN USD)
1 Mark Fester Australia $309,025
2 Nicholas Wright Australia $206,022
3 Anthony Cierco France $152,851
4 Luke McCredie Australia $114,416
5 Benedikt Eberle Austria $86,431
6 Lirui Zhang China $65,916
7 Darius Bucinskas Australia $50,736
8 Spencer Davies Australia $39,401
9 Marco Perri Australia $30,884

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Final Table

The elimination started with Marco Perri when his ace-ten was turned down by a small margin, ace-jack of Nicholas Wright. Next in the elimination line was Spencer Davies. His ace-three was not enough for the Benedikt Eberle’s ace-five. Darius Bucinskas from Australia and China’s Lirui Zhang were not lucky enough to continue their journey and got eliminated. The Austrian Player, Benedikt Eberle lost to the ace-queen of Mark Fester and returned home with $11,507 for his fifth position. Luke McCredie lost to Fester and earned $114,416 for fourth place.

The French Player Anthony Cierco was unfortunate enough to continue and lost his game to Nicholas Wright. Cierco received $152,851 for third place.

 

The Heads up

Fester had a chip lead in the heads up but Wright followed him closely. On the final hand, Nicholas Wright came up with a call to raise 2,000,000 from Fester. Wright responded with a check-call on the flop of K (hearts) 5 (spades) Q (Diamonds). Wright put money in the pot when Mark Fester checked to him with a J (Hearts) on the turn.

With an 8 (Hearts) on the river, Fester checked again and then decided to move all in, in a response to a bet from Wright.

Fester had an A (Diamonds), 10(Spades) for a turned Broadway straight and Wright’s K(Clubs), K(Spades) for a flopped set were not enough for the victory.

Mark Fester is an Australian player who loves playing poker casually however, he managed to secure a six-figure score. This is by far the career best for Fester. His previous best was $18,892 for his second place at the Sydney Championship in a $1,500 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha event.

After becoming the champion, Fester told Media that he feels like a dream come true. Fester also said that he has been playing poker casually for many years and got involved with poker at the time when WSOP and WPT were becoming trends and were considered big names. The WPTDeepstacks champion loves to watch many tournaments and likes to follow his favorite players. Fester says that to him, becoming a champion was an unachievable dream, but finally, he achieved it.

 

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