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4.1.19 - 2.11.19

WSOP-C CHEROKEE UPDATE:

HAWK SOARS FOR 12TH TIME:

Maurice Hawkins won his 12th Circuit ring in the $600 big blind ante event at Cherokee tying him with Valentin Vornicu for first all time. Hawkins closed out the 7th final table on this years circuit he made (out of only 11 events played). The West Palm Beach pro earned over 44k for first.

LaVann Williams (pictured) formerly of Birmingham, AL (now of Atlanta) won over 27k for second place. Matt Higgins of Chattanooga won over 4k for 9th place.

HIGGINS AGAIN:

On the very day that he won his first circuit ring, Matt Higgins won his second. Only 10 more ten more years at this rate to tie Maurice Hawkins. The Chattanooga pro won over 33k in the $600 Pot-Limit Omaha event. Damjan Radanov of Memphis won almost 5k for 7th place and Irene Carey of Nothr Carolina finished in 12th place (she cashed four times at Cherokee for almost 30k in winnings).

KIZZIRE OKAY IN SECOND:

Harold Kizzire of Birmingham, AL won 58k in the $400 No Limit Hold'em Monster Stack event. Zuheir Daniel of Bluffton (for real?) South Carolina won first place and 94k. Robbie Beck of Houston, TX won 25k for fifth place. Blake Whittington of Jacksonville, FL, Austin Reilly of Gulf Shores, AL, Simon Philip of Pensacola, FL, William Anderson of Chattanooga, TN, Leif Force of Tallahassee, Trace Henderson of Laurel, MS, Jeremy Eyer of Gulfport, MS, Nick Bowen of Pensacola, FL, Alex Jacob and David Sidler of Atlanta, GA all cashed.
HANDs OF THE WEEK:

 
PEARL RIVER RESULTS AND WRAP-UP:

Pictured is our Main Event Winner (and last woman standing Tara Snow).  You'll notice she is wearing our "In the Money Bling Beads" and custom LWS crown.  Complete results are posted on Hendon Mob here.

Also check out our dedicated blog which covered all the action and tons of photos of the event here.

We want to extend a giant thank you to Neal Atkinson, Denise Dahl and every one at Pearl River Resorts, including the staff and dealers at the Golden Moon and Silver Star.  Also, huge thank to all the traveling dealers, registration, and team of floors led by Paul Dutsch that allowed us to pull off a succcessful tournament series.  What a top tier crew and class act one and all.  Thank ya'll!

Year over year we did over 100% better than the same stop previously. We smashed records with 828 players in the Re-entry event and had more players in the Main for that price point then any other Main Event. We made every guarantee and received a ton of great feedback.  So, no surprise we are excited to get back there in October.

Simply our pleasure and joy to work with such great people, and most importantly we want to thank each and every one of you that put your hard earned money into our tournament series. So many of you made the trip, told your friends, and came down to compete on the felt.  Gulf Coast Poker and our partners are so grateful to you the players who come out and support us.  We hope it was as fun for you to play as it was for us to promote.

As mentioned we will be back again in October and hope for ever bigger fields, prize pools, and entertainment.

Sneak peak at the smoke free tournament room we are getting moved to...
GREAT READS:

-The story of the Million dollar poker game at Live on The Bike.  LA Times.

-Ten years ago, wow that was quick, this song was number one and poker was peaking. This video had it all, Beats headphones, bwin (a European Poker site) advertising on the felt, and beautiful people playing the game. It wasn't Lady Gaga's first hit but arguably a star was born (see what we did there) with this smash hit:



-Kevin Hart and Antonio Esfandiari's boxing match is getting closer. Some surprises... it's still undetermined if it will be filmed and if so ifthe film will be released (though a film crew will be there... huh?), Esfandiari is a 35 to 1 dog (wow!), that and more at Cardplayer.

-More on the sports bettor who had a shot to win 300k if Texas Tech won. BroBible.

HAND OF THE WEEK:
RAMPING UP TO WSOP CIRCUIT HARRAHS NOLA:

We begin our social media seat giveaways on April 9th.  Poker Room Manager Chase Haydel has been nice enough to reward the readers of this site and supporters of poker on the coast with the chance to win $400 WSOP Circuit seats. You will not want to miss the chance to win one simply for liking and sharing posts on our facebook account and @GCPNet on twitter.  Go ahead and start following now so you don't miss it.  Schedule here.

WIN FREE SEATS THURSDAY:

Do you like no rake? How about overlays? How about free seats? We  wanted to give everybody a heads up about an awesome opportunity every Thursday in the lead up to the event. No rake (!) single table satellites. And if you play the $170 (winner gets 1700 Main Event seat)… they throw in a completely free $400 circuit event seat to second place! Thanks once again to Chase Haydel for this promotion. They put the locals and the regs first at Harrahs.  See you there.

$40 buy in = $400 WSOP seat
$1,000 starting stack
10 minute levels

$80 buy in = (2) $400 WSOP seat
$1,500 starting stack
12 minute levels

$170 buy in = $1700 Main event seat and a $400 WSOP seat
$2,000 starting stack
15 minute levels 

PEARL RIVER FRESH UPDATES HERE AT LINK:

PEARL RIVER SPRING POKER CLASSIC BROUGHT TO YOU BY GULFCOASTPOKER.NET UPDATES HERE:

Come on down for a GREAT Event put on by Paul and Team...When you get to Philly, MS there are 2 things that are a must eat. Ask around about the "PowWow Burger"...and they also serve Williams Brother Bacon in the Casino. They hand cut it right in front of you. One of the oldest true General Store left...The fresh bacon is to die for!

 

 

John Holley bags the chip lead in Flight A with a hefty 250k...Peace Marvel zips 140k (pic)...Steve Bierman and Tara Snow also bag up.

 Other notable in the house... Don Dove,  JW Carter, "Mousey," Judge Leo Boothe, Captain Tom Franklin, Trent Anthony, Stephen Parnell, Wayne Solar and William Stanford. Also seen lurking around today; Allen Tate, Jerry Giroir, David Lee, and David Chocheles.

Also good to See "Trucker" Kenny Milam and Prissy sharing a table


 
VIDEO OF THE WEEK AND SPECIAL BONUS GIVEAWAY:

So sounds like a ton of you are coming this weekend for the re-entry. With the 1k Bonus for bagging multiple bags why wouldn't you? Rooms have been going quickly.  Book now if you haven't yet. 
Also we have some things up our sleeve if you make day two (hint... it's St. Patricks Day).

In appreciation of this huge response and in partnership with Tournament Director Paul Dutsch (not the guy in the awesome video below) we will be giving away one more bonus seat (we are still awaiting word back from last week's winner and will announce him when we have it).

This is for the 20k guarantee on the 20th. You can gain up to three entries for this contest with the winner to be drawn next week.  You can one entry in each of the following ways:

1. Like and share the video on our FACEBOOK page. You also must like our facebook page.  Please make sure your settings are set to Public so we can verify you shared it.

2. Like and retweet the video on TWITTER. You also must follow our @GCPNet account.

 
3. Like it and subscribe to us on our YouTube site.

If any of your handles on Twitter, Facebook or YouTube are not obviously you... send us a DM letting us know who you are.

Remember you must be 21 and able to play on the 20th. Prizes are not transferable and if you can't play we will pass it along to the second person we draw (incidentally Ephrium Shelton is on deck behind Timothy Moore).
MORE FOR MOORE:

Congrats to Timothy Moore who won our latest social media seat giveaway into GulfCoastPoker.NET's Pearl River Spring Poker Classic. If you'd like to join him and our other winners in the 100k Guarantee March 14th to kick off the series all you have to do is like our facebook page, like our social media post and share the post.

We will randomly draw a winner from all eligible entrants. Gain an additional entry by following @GCPNet on twitter, liking the social media giveaway tweet and retweeting. Lots of value this series including NINE (!) Seats to the Main Event added to March 21st tournament.

Timothy previously final tabled the Main Event here in 2017 and predicts great things this March.
EYSTER WINS RING:

The Lafayete, LA native won 40k and his fourth circuit ring. He went to the Bike to get it in a $1125 buy-in event. He wasn't the only bracelet winner or multi-ring winner in a toug field.

He's all but locked up a seat in this years global championship with his seventh cash and fourth final table of the season. This is his third final table in $1125 No Limit Hold'em events.

RUNGOOD TUNICA CHOPS IT UP:

Yousef Saleh took the victory and the Snowbound Pass. He earned 32k. Chris Brewington earned 40k for second place (interesting deal) with Slim Therrell (also 32k), Faris Brooks and Edward Allen ($19k each) also chopping.

Kyle Cartwright busted sixth just before the deal and made 9k. Also in the money Chad Justice, David Lee, Rose Cooney, Jared Henderson, and our man Mike Monaghan. Speaking of Kyle...

TWEET OF THE WEEK:
GLOSECLOSE CLOSES IN ON SEAT:

Paul Burke Gloseclose of Gulfport, MS is our lucky Social Media Contest winner for Week 3. He wins a seat into GCP's Pearl River Spring Poker Classic 100k Guarantee on the 14th.

Paul won by liking and sharing our post on Facebook. Debra Irvine's name was drawn as the runner-up in case Paul is not able to play the seat. 

If you'd like to win like Matt Doyle, Bonnie Tierce (see below) or Paul all you have to do is...

1. Be 21

2. Go to @GCPNet on TWITTER Follow the account, like and retweet the social media contest tweet for the week. Congrats you have an entry.

and/or

3. Go to our FACEBOOK page. Like the page. Like that week's social media contest post and share it. (Make your setting public when you share so we can see that you shared it).

4. Have the random number generator spit out your line number on our spreadsheet.

The posts will go up today. Good luck!

This week's contest is for the $250 Re-entry tournament. You MUST be able to play March 14th (!!!). Please don't enter if you can't play on that date.  The seat is not transferable. If you can't play it will go to our runner-up.
BATTLE FOR ATLANTA II:



BRADSHAW WINS:

The final table included some of Atlanta's best professional players who duked it out for the championship belt and bragging rights. Oh, they also were contending for a piece of the 35k prize pool.  When it was all said and done it came down to two Davids who are both Goliaths in poker. 

David Bradshaw pipped David Aker heads up. Bradshaw earned a touch over 10k and Aker pocketed over $7200. Lakisha Slaughter won 5k for third and Charles Johnson 4th for over 3.6k. We told you it was loaded final table.
WSOP-C RIO UPDATE:

--Kristen Deardorff (pictured) cashed Event #11 NLHE Monster stack along with Hank Sitton(... again), Ankush Mandavia (Kennessaw, GA), Russ Head, Ben Thomas, Brandon Owens (Gulf Shores, AL), Julio Novo, and Forrest Raleigh (Lawrenceville, GA).  You might remember Kristen from her in the money Main Event run as one of Monkey's Minions.  Speaking of which he has a fresh blog about just that...

-Andrew Kelsall (4th 8.3k) of Tampa and Michael Rack of Jackson, MS (6th 4.8k) final table the $250 Re-Entry tournament.

-Thomas Hudson of Mooringsport, LA finished 12th in the $400 NLHE Event #2. He won $1,450 in his first WSOP brand cash.

-John Thrasher (get used to this name) of Atlanta and Gerald Inman of Vestavia, AL both cashed the $600 NLHE Event #3.

-Ronald Timbes of Pensacola Beach finished 14th in the seniors event $250 NLHE Event #4.

-Event #6 featured three Georgians in the money: Christina Read of Sugar Hill ($5762 for 4th), John Thrasher of Atlanta, and Steven Disney of Duluth. Maxx Dansky of Nashville (5th $4302) also made a run and James Duke of Houston cashed.

-Hank Sitton cashing at the Vegas stop too. Another final table for Hammering Hank (5th $5548) in Event #8 $600 NLHE Bounty. Robert Hankins, Julio Novo (FL), John Thrasher (11th $1663) and John Galler (Lebanon, TN 8th $2575).
 
ROUNDERS RELATED "OF THE WEEKS":

HAND OF  THE WEEK:

In the comments section of a much discussed tweet we saw Doug Polk analyse a pivitol hand from the movie.

Always informative, even when dealing with a fictional hand.



Why a Rounders theme you might ask?  Well, they just relased the complete original screenplay...

TWEET OF THE WEEK:
LINKS AND NEWS:

WILLIE NELSON POKER SHARP:

Willie Nelson has a home poker game with odd rules and he generally crushes it. Jack Johnson who wrote a song "Willie Got Me Stoned and Took All My Money" elaborates on it here: 



Victims of Nelson including the acting Wilson brother, Matthew McCoughney, and Woody Harrelson, not to mention all the all time country greats Nelson pals around with.

POKER JEOPARDY CHAMP:

Alex Jacob former poker pro, and sort of a Jeopardy pro, is playing currently on the shows All Star Games which honors the 35 seasons of the show. Here's all the details about the format.

ADAMS SECOND IN US OPEN 8 GAME MIX:

One time Gulf Coaster Brandon Adams finished second in the 25k buy-in 8 Game Mix at the US Open. He won 150k and was pipped at the end by Nick Schulman. He finished with three cashes in the series for over 314k. That was good for fifth in the overall standings.

IVEY LOSES COURT CASES AND IVEY ROOM NAME:

The Aria, nine years after naming their room after Phil Ivey, has renamed it to Table 1. Players always called to ask if Table 1 had a game so it seemed fitting. The Aria denies that it had anything to do with Ivey's legal trouble from edge sorting in Baccaret.

MASSEY STIRS THE POT:

On our FACEBOOK page we are talking about Aaron Massey's twitter comments. Essentially "I don't want your congrats after busting a poker tournament."
TIERCE TAKES IT:

Bonnie Tierce of Decatur, AL is our lucky Social Media Contest winner for Week 2. She wins a seat into GCP's Pearl River Spring Poker Classic 20k Guarantee on the 20th.

The Decatur native won by liking and sharing our post on Facebook. Matt Bizub's name was drawn as the runner-up in case Bonnie is not able to play the seat.  Bad news Matt as she sounds like she will be there.  She didn't supply us a poker pic but did say her favorite hand is pocket aces even if they sure do get cracked a lot.

If you'd like to win like Matt Doyle (see below) or Bonnie all you have to do is...

1. Be 21

2. Go to @GCPNet on Twitter. Follow the account, like and retweet the social media contest tweet for the week. Congrats you have an entry.

and/or

3. Go to our Facebook page. Like the page. Like that week's social media contest post and share it. (Make your setting public when you share so we can see that you shared it).

Congrats you have another entry (or your first entry depending on #2 :)).

4. Have the random number generator spit out your line number on our spreadsheet.

The posts will go up today. Good luck!

This week's contest is for the $250 Re-entry tournament. You MUST be able to play March 14th (!!!). Please don't enter if you can't play on that date.  The seat is not transferable. If you can't play it will go to our runner-up.
HAND(s) OF THE WEEK:

 
We promised you a bonus hand...  Here's a pivitol hand for a tournament and for a career.  Not to mention some commentary from Jason Mercier.