Jonathan ‘xMONSTERxDONGx’ Karamalikis has ensured that the APPT Grand Final title will remain in Australia for at least another 12 months, while solidifying his reputation as one of the best young talents in the game after taking down the win in the final event of the 2010 PokerStars APPT.
The Sydney event was a fitting end to the fourth season overall, with arguably the most star-studded final table in tour history. Karamalikis had to fight off the challenge of some well accomplished players at the final table including chip leader coming into the final table Roland de Wolfe, Tom Rafferty, Antoine Amourette, Eddy Sabat, and probably the highest profile of all the players on the final table Daniel Negreanu.
Negreanu came into the final table with the shortest stack and was going to need to make some moves to get back into the tournament. He came unstuck against Roland de Wolfe. Antoine Amourette and de Wolfe limped up to Negreanu’s big blind and they all took a 
flop. Negreanu was the first player to act and after thinking about his move, he decided to ship in the remainder of his stack totalling another 245,000 in chips. Amourette got out of the way and de Wolfe made a quick call to table 
for bottom set. Negreanu had top pair and things were looking pretty bleak for him. His situation improved a little with a turn 
, but the river 
did not make his hand sending him home with $36,415 in his pocket as the first player eliminated from the final table.
You could have got long odds on Roland de Wolfe, who started the day as the chip leader, being the second player eliminated from the final table. But that is exactly how things went down, with de Wolfe losing a monster pot holding 
early in the day to bring him crashing back to the field, before a chipped up Jonathan Karamalikis finished off the job.
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