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Jonathan
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IN THE CROWD
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SAXTON is writing a poker book based on
the Gulf Coast scene. Here is an
archive of interviews and features of
poker players from all over but with a
spotlight mostly on our locals.
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POKER GRAS III
Coming NOVEMBER
2020
Below are results and
news from I and II
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NEWS |
DOUBLE NEWS:
DOUBLE WINNER:
There is still a Gulf Coast Poker Awards/Poker Gras
article to come but just in case anybody missed the big
results on any of our platforms... Congrats to Joe Saleh who
paired his Gulf Coast Poker Player of the Year Award with
the title of King of Poker Gras for winning our Main Event.
What an accomplishment!
Jaron Bailey closed out the
tournament by winning the Sunday turbo. Shout out to Mobile
as two members of All-In Entertainment Thao Le and Duane
Nelson made the final table and the money too.
JACKSON'S SECOND HOME AND SECOND TITLE:
David Jackson, another GCP Award nominee out
ofJacksonville, might want to think about moving to Atlantic
City and just grind Borgata events. Yesterday at the Borgata
Fall Open he won 211k, got credit for the W and the trophy
in the $2700 Championship. Guess Joe has company in
the next player of the year category.
Does this story
seem a little familiar? That's probably because you remember
Jackson in April winning the Borgata Spring Poker Open
Championship (304K). Oh and a couple of weeks ago he won a
prelim event for 32k. He's starting a collection of Borgata
trophies.
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POKER GRAS
Ok Folks....we are there. We
blew through the 100k guarantee midway through Flight C. We are
almost right at 200 players running hot. Come on out as
Flight D kicks off at 4pm sharp.Poker Gras Main Event
Updates on the GCP Facebook page here:
https://www.facebook.com/Gulf-Coast-PokerNET-491654645370/
Gulf Coast Poker Awards also bought to kickoff...and dont
forget to visit the Makers Mark Bust-out lounge
Flight D Chip Counts
Joe Mince 203000
Mike Drezanick 137000
Jon Wiseby 203000
Nakota Foster 135000
Tim Sanderson 90000
Aldi Zughayer 242000
Flight C Chip Counts
Mike Monaghan 426000
Charles Bartlett 205000
BJ McBrayer 82000
Todd Skinner 265000 (pic with Charlie)
Ben Saxton 284000 (pic)
Pat McNamara 317000
Jason
Bailey 107000
Mark Holmes 75000
Gui Zheng 155000
Mike Vernace
254000
Umut Utku 78000
Ryan Taylor 57000
Faith Giordano 247000
Flight A Chip Counts
Curtis Picard 18600
Lance Williams 213500
Adam Swales 232000
Ali
Monteferrante 229000
Dustin Stewart 147500
Victor
Holcomb 218000
Flight B Chip Counts
Richard
Kaplan 183000
Stanley Seelig 90500
Steve Bierman
152000
John Cressend 401500
Walter Miskelly 323000
Shane Lewis 153000
Randy Gordon 130500 (pic)
Tim Repp
138000
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POKER GRAS
POKER GRAS ANNOUNCEMENTS:
SOCIAL MEDIA CONTEST WINNERS:
Today in the Bag the Schwag Flight Hugo Deinken, Tyler
Berry, Janice Randall, and Victor Holcombe will play their
hard earned seats. Thanks to everybody who liked, shared,
tweeted and retweeted. We had to pull a couple of names for
one because some of ya'll didn't quite follow ALL the
instructions or couldn't play today. In the future if the
tweet says follow, like and share... Don't forget to FOLLOW!
:)
BAG THE SCHWAG FLIGHT COMMENCES:
11am the Bag the Schwag Flight, including the lucky
winners of free seats, will give you a chance to bag chips
for Day Two on Sunday AND maybe win some Schwag. If you are
chosen as a bounty and take GCP patch to the the Bag and
you'll get the schwag. If you bust a bounty and hold on to
the patch until the next break. You get the schwag.
Prizes include gifts donated by Maker's Mark, Tee to the
Green Magazine, Mr. Apple and Gulf Coast Poker.
Later
today very reasonable Single Table Satellites to the Main
Event. $130 Buy-in awards two players $600 seats
to the Main. Also $150 Bounty tournament tonight. |
POKER GRAS
Quick note to Harrahs huge thank you for indulging us
with all our quirky formats and events. Yesterday with
a tag team, a heads up and a working man's event was
extremely labor intensive. Thank you Robbie Gertsner
and Bruce Barret for all the hustling you guys did to make
these run as smoothly as they could even with all our
experimantal hurdles. Thanks Chase Haydel, Jo Ella
McIntosh and the rest of the floors and dealers for getting
it done!
POKER GRAS EVENT #5
WORKING MAN'S
102 entries played for a
prize pool of $16,830.
1st Dr. Juan Fukuda $5049
2nd Justin Osborne $3029
3rd Prissy Giroir $2019
4th
Stephen Gutierrez $1683
5th Zack Kinsley $1346
6th
Dale Trosclair $1009
7th Charlie Bartlett $831
8th.
Stanley Seelig $660
9th Jeff Densen $504
10th Stephen
Bierman $350
11th John Gibbons $350
Cory Harrison
and Sley Sancez were the last two players to bust before the
money.
Another note about Prissy Giroir she and her husband
Jerry won the tag team event during this event. We'll
have those results up later today. They got the better
end of a heads up chop with Charlie Gelvin and Kenny Milam.
While Jerry had to play most of that event, Prissy's
domination this week still would win her Poker Gras Player
of the Year at this point (if we had that award). Consider
the fact all she's done is final table almost everything
it's hard to deny her that recognition.
POKER GRAS EVENT #4
HEADS
UP
Chris Dupuy might be THE heads up specialist on
the Gulf Coast (move over Jeremy Eyer?) winning a second
heads up crown on the Coast in a little less than a year. He
confirmed a title he won at the Beau Rivage with another win
here. He's also had another deep run or two recently.
This time he pipped Jaron Bailey to win the title of
Poker Gras Heads Up King and $2400. Jaron earned $1400 for
second. Jerry Giroir and Phil Treaudo both made $500 for
losing in the semi finals. |
POKER GRAS
POKER GRAS
ANNOUCEMENTS:
Today:
2 PM Tag Team
$400 per team.
Restarts:
11 AM Heads Up
4 PM Working
Man's.
Tomorrow:
11 AM FLIGHT A Main Event Bag
the Schwag Flight. 100k Guarantee.
If you play this
flight you will be eligible to win some bonus prizes in the
tournament. Stuff like those awesome Maker's Mark bottles.
Also, thanks to Tee to the Green Magazine for their surprise
schwag donation.
At 7pm there is a $150 No Limit
Hold'em Bounty tournament. And we are working to get some
single table satties to main in the afternoon.
Go
here for the
schedule
AND scroll all the way down for the Main Event structure
button.
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POKER GRAS
RESULTS
POKER GRAS EVENT #5
WORKING MAN'S MULTI-DAY
A total of 102 entries to
blow by the $10,000 guarantee. Seven players bagged
tonight and will play on Wednesday at 4pm with the six
players from Monday Night's flight for $16,830 in prize
money.
13 return with 11 paid. First place over 5k.
Chips for A + B:
Justin Osborne 346,000 (b)
Stanley Seelig 301,000
(a)
Steve Gutierrez 136,000 (a)
Jeffery Densen 130,000
(b)
Sley Sanchez 96,000 (b)
Steve
Bierman 94,000 (a)
Corey Harrison 87,000 (b)
Zach
Kinsley 81,000 (b)
Juan Fumoa 71,000 (b)
Charlie Bartlett 63,000
(a)
Prissy Giroir 55,000 (b)
Dale
Trosclair 52,000 (a)
John Gibbons 16,000 (a)
POKER GRAS EVENT #4
HEADS
UP
Joel Doney, Jerry Giroir, Scott G, and Jaron
Bailey made it through the Flight B side of the bracket.
Joel advanced by beating Robert "Spider" Henderson and then
Gleen N. Jerry took out Bill Phillips in a marathon three
hour match and then bested Steve Meyers in a shorter
contest. Scott G beat Bruce Little and then Prissy Giroir.
Jaron Baily beat Judy Leblanc after dispatching Steve
Bierman.
Today at 11am it's Joel v. Jerry and Scott
v. Jaron with the winners colliding to see who will face the
other side of the bracket. Over, there it's Chris Dupuy vs.
Easton Oreman and Phil Treaudo v. Chris Canan. The
final four get paid. Good luck all! |
POKER GRAS
POKER GRAS
EVENT #3 BOUNTY:
Devin Shrake beat Big
Phil Treaudo heads up to win the plaque after agreeing to a
three way chop. Micheal Vernace got the third share.
Congrats also to Anthony Dixon and Ross Leitz who cashed in
fourth and fifth respectively.
POKER GRAS
EVENT #5 WORKING MAN'S:
$200 buy in
with reentries
FLIGHT A:
6 players bagged. They
will be close to the money on day two.
Chip Counts
Stanley Seelig $301,000
Steve Gutierrez $136,000
Steve
Bierman $94,000
Charlie Bartlett $63,000
Dale
Trosclair $52,000
John Gibbons $16,000
Flight 5B
starts on Tuesday at 4pm with registration open until the
start of level 9 which will be approximately 8:20pm.
POKER GRAS EVENT #4 HEADS UP:
Four players advanced to Wednesday. Still time to join
them.
Chris Canan beat Joe Meteye and then Steve
Meyers to make day two. Canan will play Big Phil Treaudo who
beat Lee Thibodaux and then Jerry Giroir. Easton Oreman beat
PJ Horrigan after getting by Steve Bierman. Easton will play
Chris Dupuy who took out Bill Phillips and earlier Scott G.
Today at 11am the other half of the bracket will play
out. You might want to call ahead to lock up your seat.
Final eight players (four from A and four from B) will
join up and play it out tomorrow with the final four getting
paid.
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POKER GRAS
Main event starts
Thursday at 11am with a $600 buyin Flight A. Flight B
starts at 11am on Friday...then we slide into Saturday where
we have 2 flights ...Flight C at 11am and Flight D at 4pm
Saturday.$100k Guarantee and we had almost 250 players
last yeat ...we are anticipating coming in North of 300
runners this year. Plan your days accordingly.
RESULTS:
 EVENT
1 REENTRY:
1. Ronald Lane $11250
2. Prissy Giroir
$6750
3. Jaron Bailey $4050
4. Desmon
Holmes $3600
5. David Chocheles $3150
6.
Corey Harrison $2700
7. Stephen Bierman $2250
8.
Peace Marvel $1800
9. Bruce Little $1350
10.
Hugo Deinken $1350
11. John Ducote $1350
12.
Easton Oreman $1350
13. Ronnie Hope $900
14.
Ryan Taylor $900
15. Derek Ridley $900
16.
Daniel Herrinton $450
17. Charles Bartlett $450
18.
Bruce Little $450
EVENT 2 GAME OF THE CENTURY:
1.
Jason Regas $2145 2. Derek Ridley $1287 3. David
Fry $858 |
POKER GRAS EVENT ONE CONTINUES TODAY!
Event 1 features a BagWow! format. It's a best bag forward
three flight event. Meaning you start Day 2 with the
biggest bag you advance. But wait... there's more. Bag
Twice... win a Poker Gras Main Event seat (added to the
Prize Pool). Hold up don't stop reading, there's even
more... Bag Thrice (nobody says thrice)... win a Poker Gras
Main Event seat AND $900 cash (paid out on day 2). First
flight featured 8 baggers. Two flights today!
POKER
GRAS HOTEL ROOMS:
Due to two
large coventions in town, rooms at partner hotels and those
near Harrahs are at a premium this year. Unfortunately, not
just the poker world realizes what a fun city New Orleans is
to visit.
However, if you dodge rush hour there are a
lot of comparitively cheaper options, in Metaire and outside
the city, within 10 to 15 minutes. Here's a search we
found on
Trivago
for Metairie including (at the time we searched) options for
~$82 a night.
MAKERS MARK BUST-OUT LOUNGE?
Bad beat, coolered, bluffed it off?
Come get a complimentry Maker's Mark cocktail to take off
the edge. Details
here.
UPDATES
AND LIVE FEEDS CAN BE FOUND ON THE BLOG OR FACEBOOK...
We will be blogging some Poker Gras final tables, and
some of the events here and there. For sure most
of the Main Event. Check in these places for more
coverage. Or if you'd just like to review the action
from the just completed Pearl River Poker Open.
TOURNAMENT
BLOG
and
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POKER GRAS MAIN
EVENT RESULTS
ALL
HAIL KING MIHAIL!
Mihail Karasoulis battled
heads up with David Nicholson for the title of King of Poker
Gras in the first edition of the $580 Big Blind Ante Main
Event. They were the final two of 279 entrants.
The heads up action didn't last long as DNich overcame a
chip disadvantage to even the stacks. A chop was decided on,
and a high card decided the champ. Fittingly Mihail
drew a King of Hearts and earned the crown and the title.
Each player earned over 27k.
The final table also
featured Dustin Moore (3rd, 15k), Huey Hulin (4th, 11k), and
Shawn Calvit (5th, over 8k). Our live action and photo
threads on Sunday on our
Facebook page chronicled much of the
bust-outs and some of the action. Many of the big hands
centered on Steve Bierman of New Orleans who finished 6th
for over 6k.
David Pote earned almost 5k for 7th.
Always great to see WSOP bracelet winner Corey Harrison
final table anything as the 8th place finisher's infectious
laugh usually keeps the mood humming. Harrison earned almost
4k. Longtime friend of GCP Todd Skiner of Youngsville, LA
rounded out the final nine earning a little over 3k.
The second nine included Charles Miller and James Nolan
(10th, 11th for $2487), Stan Barre of New Orleans (12th
2487), Kwong Ip (13th $2044), Dale Trosclair (14th $2044)
and Jason Reisenberg (15th $2044). Also, making it to the
final two table and all earning $1700: Danny Doucet, two
from Baton Rouge; Frank Alpandinar and Luiz Sa.
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A QUICK THANK YOU!
The feedback on our first ever event has been great with
many citing the structure and the starting chip stack as
highlights. We are grateful to everybody that entered a
tournament and chose our event this weekend. It's a
crowded marketplace and we want to provide the best possible
player friendly events we can. We implore you please
give us as much feedback as possible on the things that
worked and those things that didn't. Email
here.
Huge thanks to those of you like David Rabalais, Danny
Doucette, and Freddie Ardoin, who traveled from far or
changed plans to join us. And we also understand so many of
you wanted to come but couldn't (we'll see you next time).
We at GCP (Gene Dudek and Bill Phillips) are
tremendously grateful for everbody who turned out or
shared/promoted our event. The non stop hard work by
the Harrahs floor staff Robbie Gertsner, Joella Macintosh,
Mel Emnon, Timmie Louie and of course Chase Haydel inspired
us. Also, a great job local dealers and traveling
dealers. Not to mention the spirit of the players in
general. We got some tweaks ahead of us, but from the
Short Deck Tournament to the Big Blind Ante Main to the
Closer we are really happy with the final product.
Now back to the reporting... |
KUDOS TO QUEEN
KATIE:
Katie Pansano (pictured above
with Mihail) hung on to a short stack to finish as the first
Queen of Poker Gras for being the last woman standing. She
outlasted Amee Dave and Rebecca "Smiley" Campbell to earn
the title, then survived the bubble and laddered up to 19th.
Great job Katie!
Others that cashed in the top 30
included, Andrew Bulliard, Matt Sirchia, Shep Simmons,
Thomas Barlow, Kris Kent, Randy Gordon, Jonathan Wiseby,
Jason Anderson, Wayne Neyland and Jerry Giroir. |
CLOSER RESULTS:
Tim Repp
(pictued with Chase Haydel) of Baton Rouge won first
place late on Sunday night and over 7k for triumphing in the
130 person touranment. He bested Jerry "Crusher" Giroir
heads up (2nd $4501). Steve Meyers placed third for $3247.
Christian Boedding won over $2300 for fourth with Big Phil
Treaudo taking home $1784 for 5th. Cody Yawn, Charles
Miller, Judy LeBlanc, and Mark Bowman rounded out the final
table. Yen Vo of NOLA, Trent Marcell, Mark Barlow, Diana
Timphony, Brian Woodbury and Renee Skinner rounded out the
15 in the money finishers.
OFER ON
THE OVERLAY:
Three times we've sounded the
clarion call to the poker masses of an OVER-LAY and three
times folks came out of the woodwork to surpass the
guarantee. One year a Main Event at Pearl River looked a
sure thing to be short after a cancelled day one flight, and
day two jumped with players. A week ago, on Halloween a
misprint guaranteed 20k on a Wednesday and again, Pearl
River overflowed with last second arrivals. That one was all
but guaranteed to be an overlay and smashed it.
Sunday, our own Closer (a $250 turbo tournament with 30k SS)
also seem fated to fall short of a guarantee and Harrahs New
Orleans ended up being filled to the gills with players.
So... we are self-imposing a moratorium on the word
overlay for at least a year. Although we won't "guarantee"
that either.
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CHOP-CHOP-CHOP IT UP!
The second nightly chopped up
the money 11 (?) ways. This played like a Saints fan home
game (fittingly enough). Dominic Carallo, Charles Gelvin,
Luiz Sa and Larry Douglas were in on the deal. They played
it out for the three $580 seats and Prissy Giroir, Wayne
Neyland, and Piyush Mittal took them.
COMMANDANT CRUSHER GIROIR WINS AGAIN:
We thought we award Jerry
Giroir a nickname as he's been white hot for well over a
year now. We dubbed him Crusher and one of his friends
suggested Commandant Crusher. Either works for us. He is a
Commandant in poker for sure.
In the first nightly,
no chop as Jerry earned over $1700 for first, Aaron Lipskar
over $1100 for second, Ray Laugha of Chalmete over $500 for
third, and David Chocheles cashed in fourth. |
SHORT DECK:
Anthony Kolesa
(pictued with TD Robbie Gertsner) seemed to know a little
more than the rest of us in this first time on the Gulf
Coast event. He earned almost 4k and the title of Short Deck
Champ. Chard Tardiff of Slidell finished second for almost
$2500, Corey Harrison third for $1600, and Queen Katie
fourth for $1113. Also, in the money Nathan Lidsay and
Willie Jefferson of New Orleans.
Everybody that
played enjoyed the event and most said they'd play the
format again. Like the Big Blind Ante we have to admit
it's addictive. You get a taste of it you are going to
want more. |
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