Stanley Choi Wins Macau High Stakes Challenge and $6.5 Million

Stanley Choi has won the Macau High Stakes Challenge along with $6.5 million in cash.

This was Asia’s biggest tournament ever and indeed the biggest cash tournament outside of the World Series of Poker, ranking number 10 of all live tournaments to date.  The buy-in was $1 million and featured 73 high rollers.

Interestingly enough, Great Britain’s Sam Trickett came close to winning after finishing in second place at this summer’s All In For One Drop, where he walked away with $10,112,001.  Trickett cashed out at just shy of $1 million in the Macau event adding to his $16,613,853 live tournament winnings. 

Here are the final results for the Macau High Stakes Challenge.

1. Stanley Choi – HK$50,149,000 ($6,466,011)
2. Zhu Guan Fai – HK$33,737,000 ($4,349,913)
3. Nicholas Wong – HK$25,530,000 ($3,291,736)
4. Tang Zheng – HK$17,324,000 ($2,233,687)
5. John Juanda – HK$12,765,000 ($1,645,868)
6. Lap Key Chan – HK$9,574,000 ($1,234,433)
7. Sam Trickett – HK$7,750,000 ($999,254)
8. Phil Ivey – HK$6,383,000 ($822,999)
9. Alan Sass – HK$5,471,000 ($705,409)
10. Philipp Gruissem – HK$4,559,000 ($587,819)
11. Di Van Hoang Dang – HK$4,559,000 ($587,819)
12. J.P. Kelly – HK$4,559,000 ($587,819)

- Patrick Flanagan, Gambling911.com