In the early 1980s, when Pablo Escobar ruled Colombia, he bought a range of exotic animals to create a zoo. During the collapse of Escobar’s drug empire in the late 80s early 90s, most of the animals ended up in the red right hand of the local zoos.
All except four hippos.
Today, those four hippos have grown to a crash of 80, and zoologists are calling them an ‘invasive species’, as their poo is turning the lakes and rivers into an ecological disaster.
Another product of Colombia who is fast becoming an ‘ecological disaster’, and an ‘invasive species’, is Farid Jattin. The Global Poker Index (GPI) Latin American Player of the Year (PoY) and Colombian patriot, has just taken down Event #4: AUD 25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha (PLO) at the Australian Poker Open (APO) in The Star Gold Coast in Queensland.
Jattin’s ninth win of his career comes hot on the Nikes of winning the 169-entrant AUD 25,000 No-Limit Hold’em (NLHE) Challenge, and finishing 7/59 in the AUD 25,000 PLO, both at the Aussie Millions.
Poker Central scribe, Remko Rinkema called Jattin’s final table display a ‘clinic.’ Jattin eliminated all four players in the time it would have taken Carlos Valderama to win a football game. Jattin didn’t hide from Rinkema’s praise calling his performance ‘flawless.’
Let’s take a look at the flawless clinic.
The Nutshell Action
The event attracted 29-entrants, and Alex Foxen became the first person to make a profit when he exited in fifth place. The current GPI World #1 and the reigning PoY was on the foul end of a three-way all-in that saw George Wolff triple-up with aces. Jattin’s stack took a hit, holding kings, and Foxen, who finished runner-up to Kahle Burns in the AUD 100,000 NLHE Challenge at the Aussie Millions, couldn’t muster anything more than a raggedy ace-suited hand.
Foxen’s elimination guaranteed that Andras Nemeth would spend the night at the head of the APO leaderboard, but his AA66 failed to beat Jattin’s ace-jack-eight-six double suited, and the Hungarian had to settle for fourth place.
Third place went to Wolff when ten-ten-eight-six lost to Jattin’s king-nine-six-deuce, after flopping a pair of kings, leaving Joni Jouhkimainen to face Jattin, heads-up, with a 350k to 4m chip deficit. The final hand saw king-jack-six-three beat jack-seven-six-five when Jattin hit two pair on the river. Despite losing heads-up, Jouhkimainen’s finish puts himself in with a shot of the APO title. The Finn is in fine form finishing 4/59 in the AUD 25,000 PLO at the Aussie Millions, and finishing 43/820 in the Main Event. Jouhkimainen also finished 4/95 in the $10,300 NLHE High Roller in the partypoker MILLIONS UK a few weeks back.
Jattin won the event, but it’s Nemeth who leads the APO charge. The Hungarian has now cashed in three of the first four events, finishing sixth in the AUD 10,000 NLHE, and winning the AUD 10,000 PLO.
ITM Results
- Farid Jattin – AUD 290,000
- Joni Jouhkimainen – AUD 188,500
- George Wolff – AUD 116,000
- Andras Nemeth – AUD 72,500
- Alex Foxen – AUD $58,000
APO Leaderboard
- Andras Nemeth – 480 points
- Mike Watson – 450
- Joni Jouhkimainen – 330
- Timothy Adams – 300
- Farid Jattin – 300
Australian Poker Open Remaining Events
Event #5: $25,000 No-Limit Hold’em
Event #6: $50,000 No-Limit Hold’em
Event #7: $100,000 No-Limit Hold’em