Another Big Tournament Win for David Peters

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David Peters can add another big cash and tournament title to his ever-growing list of poker accomplishments after taking down the PokerStars ACOP High Roller for HK$4,885,200.

Just last month, Peters won the Sunday Million tournament on PokerStars for over $143,000 and now, after travelling to Macau for the 2016 PokerStars Asia Championship of Poker, he added another ~US$630,000 to his live tournament earnings. That takes his total 2016 live tournament earnings over the $6 million mark.

In the heads-up play Peters outlasted British businessman Paul Newey. In the last hand of the tournament, Newey was a short stack when he called all-in with K♦6♠ and couldn't beat Peters' A♣8♦.

"I feel amazing. This was a very nice tournament to win and it went very smoothly. Usually it's a little rougher but things went my way and I felt I played great the whole tournament. I felt like I was in the zone the whole time. The turning point for me was the high roller result in Malta. I finally got that big win and things have been going my way since then. I've been playing great and working really hard things have fallen into place." , a triumphant Peters said after his victory.

ACOP High Roller (Prizes in HKD, 1 HKD = 0.128903 USD)
   
Date: November 11-13, 2016
Buy-in: $250,000 (240,000+10,000)
Players: 71
Prize pool: $16,699,200

1    David Peters    United States    $4,885,200
2    Paul Newey    United Kingdom    $3,507,000
3    Daniel Dvoress    Canada    $2,279,000
4    Artem Metalidi    Ukraine    $1,720,000
5    Leo Cheng    Canada    $1,336,000
6    Yaxi Zhu    China    $1,035,000
7    Roman Korenev    Russia    $818,000
8    Shunu Zang    China    $635,000
9    Yaqi Sun    China    $484,000

See PokerStars Blog for a full recap.