Daniel Cates Wins All-Star Showdown For $550,000Isaac Haxton’s Team PokerStars Pro Debut Ends In Semi-Final Defeat |
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Daniel “w00ki3z” Cates – the poker player formerly known as “Jungleman” – has won the inaugural PokerStars All-Star Showdown heads-up event for a tidy $550,000 return on his $100,000 investment.
Cates beat Ben “Sauce123” Sulsky in 3,178 online hands which took around 11 hours to complete. Sulsky had previously beaten Haxton – whose move to Team PokerStars Online pre-empted the Showdown series – in an epic 19 hour semi-final and picked up $250,000 for his second place finish.
Other vanquished participants in the eighthanded affair which saw four quarter finalists proceed to semi-final before two finalists were decided included Tobias Kuder, Alex Millar, Alexander Roumeliotis, Phil Galfond, and Ben Tollerene.
Elsewhere in Team PokerStars news Irish pro Jude “jthaddeus13” Ainsworth has confirmed on Twitter he is no longer part of team pro. He tweeted:
I’m no longer a team pro, would like to wish the team @ Pokerstars all the best in the future.
— Jude Ainsworth (@jthaddeus13) November 4, 2012
Ainsworth, who has won a Sunday Million, Irish Poker Championship, European Poker Tour side event and Sunday Second Chance, joined the team in 2009.
Most recently he took down the Super Tuesday event for $84,000.
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