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Top 100 New Zealand Poker players according to “The Hendon Mob”
Posted on 05 August 2010
For those new to poker The Hendon Mob are a poker crew who’ve also carved out a niche for them selves as one of the key sources for poker rankings. Below is a list of The Hendon Mobs all time New Zealand money earners in major live tournaments. It’s in US dollars and of course it does not include tournaments that many kiwis would consider major, Nationals, The Open, The Lee Nelson Deep stack. Our goal here at PokerNZ.com will be to update this but it is intersesting to see Jamil in number 2 ahead of Simon Watt. Two time NZ Champs winner Soren Erikson is of course missing, this does not mean that Auckland Dj Sam Hill {89th!} is a better poker player than him by any means! This list should also serve as a lesson for all the young upstarts who talk smack on Lee Nelson. That’s $3,061,697.20 in NZD hot pants!
1st Lee Nelson $ 2,245,755
2nd Jamil Dia $ 827,661
3rd Simon Watt $ 818,655
4th Graeme Putt $ 353,127
5th Josh Egan $ 348,534
6th Robert Wang $ 206,139
7th Daniel J. Francis $ 191,175
8th Richard Grace $ 180,675
9th Cole Swannack $ 174,879
10th Daniel Craker $ 174,072
11th James Honeybone $ 150,014
12th Constantin Harach $ 127,422
13th Phillip Willcocks $ 124,438
14th Kevin Clark $ 120,136
15th Martin Cardno $ 111,856
16th Damon Lum $ 77,387
17th Jason Brown $ 71,085
18th Wang-Che Jung $ 64,626
19th David Bradford $ 59,941
20th Daniel Sing $ 54,740
21st John Wylie $ 47,964
22nd Michael King $ 46,675
23rd John Pye $ 44,760
24th Mike King $ 44,105
25th Richard Lancaster $ 44,090
26th Chris Tau $ 42,186
27th Greg Howard $ 34,357
28th Andrew Dimock $ 34,088
29th Simon Bismark $ 32,521
30th Luke Chezick $ 32,306
31st Jackson Zheng $ 30,627
32nd Luke Stanford $ 30,600
33rd Rhys Jones $ 29,937
34th Greg Thomas $ 29,861
35th Joseph Allis $ 29,475
36th Peter Field $ 29,431
37th Glen Maiden $ 24,489
38th Angie Fitzgerald $ 23,064
39th Steve Smith $ 21,845
40th Bill Potts $ 19,877
41st Scott Hamilton-Hill $ 19,641
42nd Mike Rodieck $ 18,815
43rd Dimitiri Merentitis $ 18,565
44th Nick Wright $ 18,556
45th Kanniga Morgan $ 18,117
46th Jeff Putt $ 17,544
47th Mark Walker $ 17,479
48th Lance Climo $ 17,315
49th Neville Hart $ 16,182
50th Dan Lai $ 16,027
51st Graham Freeman $ 15,743
52nd Matthew Davidow $ 15,105
53rd Xibingyan Zhu $ 15,000
54th Shilton Smith $ 14,870
55th Tony Bainbridge $ 14,351
56th Nicholas Webb $ 14,000
57th Wayne Lo $ 14,000
58th Jordan Bryant $ 14,000
59th Emerson Rewi $ 13,463
60th Paul Pedersen $ 13,051
61st Hayden Hape $ 12,188
62nd Glenn Matheson $ 12,016
63rd David Thomas $ 11,769
64th Geoff Smith $ 11,465
65th Srdjan Mitrovic $ 11,451
66th Steven Lukey $ 10,894
67th Matt Lawry $ 10,600
68th Kwang Son $ 10,309
69th Roy Gourley $ 10,252
70th Ray McCarthy $ 9,807
71st Shane Breckon $ 9,786
72nd John Guthrie $ 9,711
73rd Mark Ericson $ 9,630
74th Shane Ogier $ 9,335
75th Shane Beckham $ 9,196
76th Xidong Du $ 9,166
77th Glenn Gibbs $ 8,995
78th Andrew Loizou $ 7,843
79th Robin Isaac $ 7,661
80th Danny Tavita $ 7,639
81st Darren Rowley $ 7,517
82nd Helen Jurgens $ 7,351
83rd Choon Won $ 7,351
84th Dan Chung $ 7,267
85th Edward Holdcraft $ 6,800
86th Steve Gang $ 6,645
87th Theo Ilko $ 6,584
88th Joey Zhou $ 6,530
89th Sam Hill $ 6,400
90th Guobing Yu $ 6,368
91st Ernest Guthrie $ 6,178
92nd Koray Turker $ 6,172
93rd Nilesh Naidu $ 6,157
94th Ivar Rivanaes $ 5,881
95th Michael Baltazar $ 5,881
96th Matthew Mitchell $ 5,807
97th Joe Chiu $ 5,447
98th David Bonham $ 5,431
99th Stephen Smith $ 5,275
100th Tim Macbeth $ 5,263
Title Photo thanks to “The Poker Star” a show we hope to see here in New Zealand soon.
Facebook comments:
The above results do reflect the tournaments we consider to be major, like the Queens birthday Deepstack (Jackson Zhang’s results), Lee Nelson Deepstack (Angie Fitzgerald’s results) and certainly the Nationals. The reason Soren is not featured in New Zealands top 100 is because Soren is Danish and is therefore on the Danish top 100 list at number 71.
So to put Soren in the mix would have him on $140,221 and place him at number 12 on the NZ list.
I’m guessing Soren’s not on there because Nationals isn’t part of of the rankings. He’s been living in NZ for a while so it’s weird that he’s not on here? Is he really on the Danish list? Is Soren Erikson like John Smith is Denmark? Good to see you up there though Richie! If you add the money you’ve taken off me at the home game you’d be 3rd…
http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=87536
Here’s Soren, click his results and you will see his 2 nationals titles right there in the results. See the flag above his picture, thats the danish flag
Haha I’m now semi retired thanks to your home game contributions
Have you been playing under an alias hotpants?
k, so nationals are included. but I’m pretty sure he’s a kiwi now.
As Kiwi as Lee anyway…
Yep have to agree with that
Dj Sam Hill better than Ivey IMO
Really? Never heard Ivey on the decks though…
An average winnings per year comparison/column would be interesting i.e. take a person’s first official cash year, take their accumulated winnings since, divide by the elapsed years.. bingo! e.g. first cash in 2008 and they’ve accumulated $150K since, then their average earnings to date would be $50K pa…? you get the drift…
Particularly interesting would be Lee, Putt, Simon, oh and of course, the DanSingQueen and Mr Hill