In a tense and exciting final, Durham"s David "FTMLS" Bennett took the APAT Irish Open title, Gold Medal and over $1,000 last Saturday evening. Duke 3016 from Cheshire took Silver while Belfast"s Tools On Tour took Bronze.
The final was particularly noteworthy for featuring four past APAT Champions, each trying to become the first APAT-er to win a second title. Their quest was in vein however, as Wizza (Russian Open) finished 8th, CRAIC (Irish Amateur Champion) 7th, assocuori (Australian Open) 6th and finally smacl02 (South American Open). who finished just oustide the medals in 4th.
Final table finishers were as follows:-
173 players
Total Prize Pool: $3460.00
Tournament started - 2007/07/21 - 15:00:00 (ET)
Tournament finished - 2007/07/21 - 19:34:37 (ET)
1: FTMLS (Mad Mackem), $1038.00 (30%), 9 ranking points
2: duke3016 (Chezger), $692.00 (20%), 8 ranking points
3: TOOL ON TOUR (belfast), $411.74 (11.90%), 7 ranking points
4: smacl02 (Witney), $276.80 (8%), 6 ranking points
5: sdrac666 (whittier), $224.90 (6.50%), 5 ranking points
6: assocuori (Bergamo), $173.00 (5%), 4 ranking points
7: CRAIC (Galway), $121.10 (3.50%), 3 ranking points
8: wizza (hayle), $89.96 (2.60%), 2 ranking points
9: Hammerite (Romford), $58.82 (1.70%), 1 ranking point
The next event online is the five tournament APAT World Championship Of Amateur Poker, which start on August 4th.
