Another Big Tournament Win for David Peters
Written by
Teemu - Monday, November 14, 2016,
Live poker
Picture courtesy: PokerStars
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.