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High stakes exponent Stephen Chidwick has been crowned the inaugural Australian Poker Open after a fourth place finish in the $100,000 buy-in main event catapulted him past Hungary’s Andras Nemeth on the points leaderboard.

A partnership between The Star Gold Coast, World Poker Tour (WPT) and Poker Central, the Australian Poker Open is a series of seven high-roller tournaments featuring buy-ins ranging from $10,000 to $100,000. The title of Australian Poker Open champion and a $50,000 bonus prize is awarded to the player who accrues the most points across all seven events.

While Australia’s own Michael Addamo finished the series with the most money ($1,685,500) after winning the main event, it was Chidwick to topped the points tally with 650 points after reaching three final tables and taking down the $25,000 No Limit Hold’em. Chidwick picked up $999,000 for his efforts during the week, which includes his $50,000 prize as APO champion.

“It feels great,” Chidwick said afterwards. “Hopefully these style of events continue because I think it’s a bit more of an achievable accolade to win a multiple of or, over time, determine who the best player is rather than looking at a single tournament.

“Obviously there’s a lot of luck involved in this too, but over the course of seven, eight, or 10 events you’re going to see the better players win more often and it would be fun to see who can collect the most titles like this.”

Meanwhile, Addamo – fresh off winning his first Aussie Millions ring in Melbourne – continues to make his mark on the poker world with his live career earnings now already over $11 million.

Addamo is one of four players nominated for the upcoming Global Poker Awards in Las Vegas in March, Chidwick, Ali Imsirovic and fellow Australian Kahle Burns.

“That’s what you want to be as a poker player, the most feared player. I try to put people in tough spots,” he said of the nomination.

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In anticipation of the British Poker Open on PokerGO, enjoy this throwback podcast featuring Stephen Chidwick, the No. 1 player from the UK. This podcast was originally published in March of 2018.

One of the few players who proved himself to be one of the elite at this summer’s World Series of Poker was Stephen Chidwick. The man from Kent in England won his first-ever bracelet, confirming his reputation among many of the world’s best players that Britain’s most successful tournament player might just be one of the greatest live poker players in history.

BEHIND THE DOMINANT TABLE IMAGE

While it would be easy to analyze Stephen Chidwick and assume much of his greatness comes from his mastery of the live arena, much of the theory behind his phenomenal success has actually happened in the past four years.

As Chidwick explains to Remko Rinkema is this archive edition of ‘Heads Up with Remko’, the precursor to today’s now-on-screen Poker Central Podcast, he started studying GTO or Game Theory Optimal play, back in 2015.

“The introduction of PO solver was a game-changer,” says Chidwick. “I started working with it in 2015. Before that, it was Cardrunner EV which was time-consuming and hard to use. PO solver is a much more powerful piece of software than anything we’ve seen before.”

DEFINING STUDY AS SUCCESS

Some in the game will point to those who have enjoyed success without it, much as everyone knows an aged relative of a friend-of-a-friend who drinks three whiskeys a day and smokes like an industrial chimney. Chidwick is a confirmed fan of the software and sees how it has impacted his results as incredibly positive.

“I spend quite a bit of time studying the theory behind different spots. I see that the computer wants to check-raise or slow play certain hands a percentage of the time and from there you can use that as your baseline for some exploitative play. Without knowing where the line is in the first place it’s harder to know which side of line people are on.”

ARE SOLVERS CRUCIAL?

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While there will always be players who point out that Viktor Blom was an online boss without a HUD or that the Main Event champion of a certain year believes GTO to be an abbreviation for Game of Thrones, for the Deal-based super high roller, the value is simply too good to turn down at the level he plays at.

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“I think you’re doing yourself a disservice if you ignore them.” He says. “There are players who don’t use them and are good players. If you’re smart, you can pick up what players are doing and figure it out backward. You can get very good without using solvers.”

Chidwick was not happy with simply being ‘good’ at the game. In the 18 months since this was recorded, he’s banked over $19.5 million, more than half of his incredible $31 million haul for live tournament poker. GTO is working for one of the GOATs of this poker era.

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If you’re looking forward to the British Poker Open as much as Stephen Chidwick, the greatest tournament poker player in British history, or if you’re simply excited about watching the latest installment of the Super high roller bowl, check out the Live Events schedule for the festival on PokerGO right now.