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On the heels of a deep run in
the Old School High Roller Freezeout that fell just
short, BJ McBrayer finished it off in the Main. A
third place and a first in the two biggest buy-ins
of the week further cements BJ's case as one of the
best players in the region.
After a heads of deal with John Song to even out the
payouts a little bit, BJ won almost 82k.
Song's second place finish paid him 65k. Aaron
Hernandez capped a solid week with a third place
score of 41k. Chuck Brady and Jerry Giroir, GCP
tournament staples, finished 4th and 5th winning 30k
and 23k respectively. Randall Davenport (6th
18k), Keith Canterbury (7th 13.7k), Chan Pelton (8th
10k), Rob Georgato (9th 8.5k) and last woman
standing Susan Murphey (10th 7k) filled out the top
ten.
950 players entered and created a 475k prizepool.
Here are the complete payouts:
1
BJ McBrayer
81671
51
Clifford Matthews
1520
2
John Song
65334
52
Denis Meisinger
1520
3
Aaron Hernandez
41322
53
Antonio Velasquez
1520
4
Charles Brady
30825
54
Robert Hankins
1520
5
Jerry Giroir
23275
55
Thoas Darwin
1425
6
Randall Davenport
18050
56
William Joyner
1425
7
Keith Canterbury
13725
57
Russell Boyette
1425
8
Chan Pelton
10950
58
Dustin Stewart
1425
9
Rob Georato
8550
59
David Moses
1425
10
Susan Murphey
7030
60
Nicholas Hobbs
1425
11
Marc Hampson
7030
61
Dustin Shears
1425
12
Vafa Kamali
7030
62
Stefan Cvetkonski
1425
13
Michael Campbell
5700
63
Donald Dove
1425
14
Ryan Leerun
5700
64
Schuyler Thornton
1330
15
Umut Meraler
5700
65
Bryan Tudor
1330
16
Eric Lefort
4418
66
Fredrick Mclam
1330
17
James Dowen
4418
67
Debra Irvine
1330
18
Shawn Trahan
4418
68
Derek Normand
1330
19
William Safera
3943
69
John Major
1330
20
Chad Carver
3943
70
Marvin Williams
1330
21
James Allen
3943
71
Ralph Robinson
1330
22
Samuel Bowles
3325
72
Brittany Rodriguez
1330
23
Jaime Tran
3325
73
Segdrick Collins
1235
24
Dan Lowery
3325
74
Chase Forshey
1235
25
Bonnie Weitzel
2850
75
Morton Davis
1235
26
Steven Strickland
2850
76
William Doty
1235
27
Scott Hirsch
2850
77
James McCauley
1235
28
Forrest Wofford
2470
78
Joe Hebert
1235
29
Wiliam Stanford
2470
79
Wyatt Boothe
1235
30
Jeremy Eyer
2470
80
Matt South
1235
31
Michael Horchoff
2138
81
Charles Dawson
1235
32
Devin Lochridge
2138
82
Eric Sutton
1140
33
Norman McKelon
2138
83
Jeffrey Hewitt
1140
34
Philip Holifield
1855
84
Alan Dornay
1140
35
Tom Franklin
1855
85
Chase Turner
1140
36
Eric Burns
1855
86
Andrew Moon
1140
37
Jeremy Guabert
1663
87
Jaymie Virtusio
1140
38
Dell Taylor
1663
88
Michael Sanders
1140
39
Dejuante Alexander
1663
89
Prissy Giroir
1140
40
David Marcoullier
1663
90
Michael Owens
1140
41
Nicholas Hawkins
1663
91
Tai Cao
1045
42
Saeed Niu
1663
92
Lenard Anderson
1045
43
Robert Heard
1663
93
John Van Arnam
1045
44
Harold Kizzire
1663
94
Christopher Lane
1045
45
Roy Henry
1663
95
Clifford Chisolm
522.5
46
Joshua Patrick
1520
96
Greg James
522.5
47
Jerry Stumbo
1520
48
Christopher Conrad
1520
49
Chris Davis
1520
50
Yousef Saleh
1520
PEARL RIVER SUMMER SERIES RESULTS:
HIGHLIGHTS:
BIG MONSTER STACK: A six way chop in
Event Two featured James "Mousey" Davis, David Huwe,
Lariena Garrett, Matt South, Derrick Cutler and Josh
Warner. Mousey got the biggest chunk winning almost
22k. David Huwe got more for second biggest stack
leaving with 18k.
CELEBRITY BOUNTY: Jeremy Moore
finished first winning over $7200 and Vernon
Langston made over $4400 for second. Greg Raymer
went the furthest of any of the celeb bounties
exiting in 6th place.
LAST LONGER: Jon Clement won almost
10k in Event 4 for first place. Leonard Lewandowski
over 6k for second. Matt South, James Davis, Stephen
Hastings and Josh Thibodaux all earned over 1k for
their finishes.
OLD SCHOOL FREEZEOUT: Charles
Dawson beat Jeremy Moore heads up in Event 5. Dawson
made just under 30k for first. BJ McBrayer finished
third. Jaime Kizer, Don Dove, Rob Georato, Dyanl
Lemery, Keith Gamble, Bradley Hicks and Elliot Howze
also cashed the prestigious event.
POP UP PLO: Daniel Holmes won this
popup tournament beating Sedgrick Collins heads up.
MONSTER STACK: Newcomer Dillon Sowa
won over 12k making his first real cash a first
place. Brandon Guillory finished second. Clyde Duet
took time from selling his book bo finish in the top
four of event 6.
SENIORS: Daniel Brock got 10k after
a three way deal with Ronald Duckworth and Sylvester
Galen.\
ROOKIES: Cosey Jackson beat Austin
Matthews heads up.
SURVIVOR: The final 9 players
included a lot of good players who jumped in after
busting the main. Over 1500 each was a nice little
sweetner for the end of the week.
Note: All results have been forwarded to
Hendon Mob.
Survivor
Old School
Freezeout
1
Brandon Guillory
1567
1
Charles Dawson
28480
2
Kyle Thornton
1567
2
Jeremy Moore
16465
3
Matt Higgins
1567
3
BJ McBrayer
11303
4
Brittany Rodriguez
1567
4
Jaime Kizer
85444
5
Jerry Monroe
1567
5
Keith Gamble
6319
6
Sam Washburn
1567
6
Bradley Hicks
4806
7
Robin Glaysher
1567
7
Elliot Howze
4005
8
Preston McEwen
1567
8
Donald Dove
3293
9
Justin Kellly
1567
9
Robert Georato
3293
10
Dylan Lemery
2492
Senoirs
1
Daniel Brock
10000
Last Longer
2
Ronald Duckworth
9114
1
Jon Clement
9374
3
Sylvester Galen
6000
2
Leonard
Lewandowski
6250
4
Alan Vaughn
4318
3
Matthew South
4258
5
James Allen
3084
4
James Dowen
3418
6
Robert Donald
2220
5
Patrick Waits
2441
7
Douglas Segers
1727
6
John Humpries
1758
8
Ralph Reid
1382
7
Stephen Hastings
1367
9
Charles Griffin
987
8
James Davis
1094
10
Daniel Doucet
864
9
Joshua Thibodaux
781
11
Michael Talley
864
10
Justin Gates
684
12
Billy Banks
864
11
Steven Nethery
684
13
Alan Downey
740
12
Christopher
McDaniel
684
14
Lance Cone
740
13
Calvin Louie
586
15
Thurmond Boothe
740
14
Joe Hebert
586
16
Timothy Medley
617
15
Scott Sanford
586
17
Robert Witt
617
16
Hector Puebla
488
18
Leatha Palculict
617
17
Joseph Brewer
488
19
Sam Washburn
493
18
David Hiett
488
20
Lonny Weitzel
493
19
Greg Raymer
391
21
Danny Miles
493
20
Adisorn Kloysuntia
391
22
Larry Cochran
395
21
Brett Echols
391
23
Herb Tapscott
395
22
Dale Trosclair
312
24
Thomas Bledsoe
395
25
Robert Stephens
395
Big Monster Stack
26
Aubrey Day
395
1
James Davis
21753
27
Robert Veazey
395
2
David Huwe
18021
3
Lariena Garrett
15521
Pop Up PLO
4
Matthew South
15521
1
Daniel Holmes
7082
5
Derrick Cutler
15521
2
Sedgrick Collins
4250
6
Joshua Warner
13021
3
Nina Giles
3051
7
Telly Lanier
5070
4
Ryan Taylor II
1962
8
Donald Davis Jr.
4089
5
Morton Davis
1526
9
Noah Morrison
2862
6
Thomas Franklin
1308
10
Quintin Elston
2535
7
Ray curran
1090
11
Devin Lochridge
2535
8
Johnny Shoemate
872
12
Christopher Frady
2535
9
Don Willis
654
13
Cody Suman
2045
14
Robert Georato
2045
Celebrity Bounty
15
Robert Lemke
2045
1
Jeremy Moore
7218
16
Preston McEwen
1554
2
Vernon Langston
4447
17
David Hendrix
1554
3
Michael Lech
3178
18
Patrick Horrigan
1554
4
Lonny Weitzel
2552
19
Randal Smith
1390
5
Levi Carden
1823
20
Scottie Smithey
1390
6
Greg Raymer
1312
21
Norma Dugal
1390
7
Stephen Hastings
1021
22
Thomas Darwin
1227
8
Michael Boykin
816
23
Justin Gates
1227
9
Curtis Picard
583
24
Arundel Simpson
1227
10
Bonnie Weitzel
510
25
Joshua Emory
1063
11
Christopher
McDaniel
510
26
Gavin Munroe
1063
12
John Van Arnam
510
27
Raymond Curran
1063
13
Donald Kelly
437
28
Jason Desha
949
14
William Crawford
437
29
Darnell Corbin
949
15
William Tinsley
437
30
Roger Henderson
949
16
Dell Taylor
365
31
Donovan Dean
867
17
Linda Boney
365
32
John Larose
867
18
Scott Weiss
365
33
Trace Henderson
867
19
DNR
292
34
Jeremy Coleman
752
20
Thurmond Boothe
292
35
Levi Carden
752
21
Michael Wright
292
36
Gregory James
752
22
Thomas Hudson
233
37
Timothy Benoit
687
23
Bobby Hunter
233
38
William Stanford
687
24
Jennifer Germany
233
39
Edwin Bockman
687
25
James Dowen
233
40
Derek Green
687
26
Ronald Palculict
233
41
Christina Read
687
27
Stanley Wiliams
233
42
Jose Flores
687
43
Charles Brady
687
Monster Stack
44
Dilsad Meraler
687
1
Dillon Sowa
12357
45
Michael Vernace
687
2
Brandon Gulillory
7613
46
Thomas Franklin
638
3
Donovan Dean
5441
47
Stanley Williams
638
4
Clyde Duet
4368
48
Carl Masters
638
5
Robert Donald
3120
49
Ricky Hazelwood
638
6
James Heath
2246
50
Craig Johnson
638
7
Thomas Crawford
1747
51
Michael McCullough
638
8
Greg James
1398
52
Philip Whittington
638
9
Tim McCaffrey
998
53
Andrew Irwin
638
10
Daniel Lowery
874
54
Christopher
McDaniel
638
11
Donna Heard
874
55
Clifford Chisolm
622
12
Daniel Moskowitz
874
56
Michael Tavis
622
13
Jerry Stumbo
749
57
James Allen
622
14
Ernest Williams
749
58
Raymond McCarty
622
15
Stephen Hastings
749
59
Tara Snow
622
16
David Champion
624
17
Ted Leahy
624
18
Lenard Anderson
624
Rookies
19
James Dowen
499
1
Cosey Jackson Jr.
3705
20
Jennifer Germany
499
2
Austin Matthews
2223
21
Russell Vaughn
499
3
Ronald Hagan
1596
22
Michael Wright
399
4
Andrew Haggard
1026
23
Thomas Dujmovich
399
5
Dillon Sowa
798
24
Casey Andus
399
6
Louis Flournoy Jr.
684
25
Sarah Smith
399
7
Yekaterin Lukina
570
26
Fredrick McLam
399
8
Mary Dantone
456
27
John Jacob
399
9
Ronald Duckworth
Jr.
342
PEARL RIVER SUMMER SERIES EARLY RESULTS: HIGGINS WINS
IT:
Matt Higgins earned a smidge over 60k after a five
chop. WSOP Main Event Champion Greg Raymer won
35001 for second place. Brandon Robins, Lonny
Weitzel, James Davis, and Lee Craft took over 25k
each.
Robert Henderson (not Robert "Spider" Henderson from
NOLA) won 11253 for seventh. Daniel Lewis (9184 8th)
and last woman standing Lariena Garrett ($7339 9th)
rounded out the final table.
Jeremy Gaubert, BJ McBrayer and Ray Curran each
earned just under 6k after barely missing the final
table.
202 players cashed. The final table in big events at
Pearl River has kind of become Matt Higgins' second
home, nice to see him win one again.
SIZZLER:
Vernon Langston (pictured with Matt) got the W in
the Sunday event after a two way chop with Brian
Maples. Walker Miskelly finished fourth and Prissy
Giroir (Last woman standing in 6th).
LADIES:
Regina Koeing (pictured below) took down the event
beating Lafayette's Shawn Trahan heads up. Joanne
Cain finished third. Lisa Davis, Lisa Baker and
Branda Rogers rounded out the money. Big thank you
to the WPA for their schwag bags to all 9 final
players.
Thank you also to celebrity bounty Bonnie Weitzel
for leading the effort to get a successful ladies
event here. Shout out to Linda Keenan of NOLA who
owns the store California Drawstrings. She's donated
some awesome bubble prizes including a beautiful bag
for the seventh place finisher.
Complete
Results:
Ladies
1
Regina Koeing
4342
2
Shawn Trahan
2673
3
Joanne Cain
1670
4
Lisa Davis
1114
5
Lisa Baker
780
6
Branda Rogers
557
Sizzler
1
Vernon Langston
12000
2
Brian Maples
10297
3
Walker Miskelly
6130
4
David Prevatt
4733
5
Telly Lanier
3421
6
Prissy Giroir
2566
7
Chris Lane
1996
8
James Striker
1568
9
Thomas Dujmovich
1140
10
Vernell Hoskins
998
11
Albert Booke
998
12
Stefan Cvetkovski
998
13
Dennis Self
855
14
Kenneth Harbaugh
855
15
Mickel Brien
855
16
Raymond Parks
713
17
Rodney Shows
713
18
Christina Read
713
19
Melissa Booth
570
20
Francis Eckert
570
21
David Lindahl
570
22
JW Carter
456
23
Alec Wilson
456
24
Christopher
Tantham
456
25
Jeremy Moore
428
26
James Conley
428
27
Calvin Long
428
28
John WIlliams
371
29
Gerald Beard
371
30
Matthew DeMarsh
371
Opener
1
Matt Higgins
60001
2
Greg Ryamer
35001
3
Brandon Robinson
25201
4
Lonny Weitzel
25201
5
James Davis
25201
6
Lee Craft
25201
7
Robert Henderson
11253
8
Daniel Lewis
9184
9
Lariena Garrett
7339
10
Jeremy Gaubert
5945
11
BJ McBrayer
5945
12
Ray Curran
5945
13
Chris Frady
4865
14
Brandon Lee
4865
15
Glenn Guathier
4865
16
Chris Savage
4010
17
Buddy Nix
4010
18
Chase Forshey
4010
19
David Crawford
3335
20
Ralph Reid
3335
21
Wyatt Boothe
3335
22
Hal Bryan
2795
23
Dustin Stewart
2795
24
Bryan Clark
2795
25
Dexter Burns
2389
26
Daniel Hernandez
2389
27
Mitch Duncan
2389
28
Timothy Swinford
2028
29
Ronald Tremblay
2028
30
Randall Franks
2028
31
Stephen Dodd
1758
32
Jimmy Bryan
1758
33
Christopher
McDanie
1758
34
Laurence Dilday
1534
35
Charles Westbrook
1534
36
John Sinnott
1534
37
Tongla Nanthalangy
1306
38
Micheal Hebert
1306
39
Thomas Franklin
1306
40
Stephen Bierman
1306
41
David Prevatt
1306
42
Clifford Billups
1306
43
Zachary Brock
1306
44
Bryant Gandy
1306
45
Thomas Norwood
1306
46
Regina Koeing
1170
47
Bryane Wilson
1170
48
Ralph Robins
1170
49
Timothy Freeze
1170
50
John Chandler
1170
51
Chase Turner
1170
52
Debra Irvine
1170
53
David Taylor
1170
54
Adrian Mableton
1081
55
Ryan Remele
1081
56
Tracy Allen
1081
57
Yousef Saleh
1081
58
Chester Dilday
1081
59
John Van Aman
1081
60
James Rhodes
1081
61
Micheal Williams
1081
62
Jonathan Greer
1081
63
Percy Domineck
1081
64
Angela Sayers
945
65
David Hendrix
945
66
Joshua Emory
945
67
Walker Miskelly
945
68
Anthony Gray
945
69
Philip Walsch
945
70
James Craft
945
71
William Davis
945
72
Stanley Weiss
945
73
Matt South
945
74
John Gilbert
856
75
Kenneth Jones
856
76
Jerry Monroe
856
77
Aaron Hernandez
856
78
Josie Campbell
856
79
David Wilkins
856
80
John Marino
856
81
Ramunas Medimans
856
82
Jay Frideman
856
83
Prestron Croft
766
84
Daniel Moskowitz
766
85
James Striker
766
86
Matthew Clarkson
766
87
Steven Henderson
766
88
William Truett
766
89
Jeffry Hearn
766
90
Bonnie Weitzel
766
91
Segdrick Collins
766
92
Cole Land
766
93
Greg Urbanski
766
94
Alec Wilson
766
95
Christopher
Cochran
766
96
Guy McKay
766
97
Will Anderson
766
98
Ron Hope
766
99
Stephen Greene
766
100
Frank Boswell
720
101
Jason Morris
720
102
Cody Cunningham
720
103
Jacob Perkins
720
104
David Moses
720
105
JW Carter
720
106
Daniel Bonet
720
107
Francis Eckert
720
108
Cody Suman
720
109
Shawn Trahan
720
110
Russell Boyette
720
111
Susan Murphy
720
112
Michael Weaver
720
113
Scott Weiss
720
114
Karl Chesser
720
115
Todd Skinner
720
116
James Shults
720
117
David Champion
720
118
Raymond Parks
676
119
John Humpphries
676
120
Robby Greene
676
121
Johnny Tang
676
122
Jeremy Letson
676
123
Terry Simpson
676
124
Philip Smith
676
125
Heip Doan
676
126
Nelson Solar
676
127
Damon Tucker
676
128
Joshua Blankenship
676
129
Preston McEwen
676
130
Thurmond Boothe
676
131
Stefan Cverkovski
676
132
Michael Lech
676
133
Bradley Travis
676
134
Christopher
Trantham
676
135
Jonathan Drouant
676
136
Ty C. Watson
676
137
Chris Read
676
138
Dale "Sonny"
Trosclair
676
139
Bill Flippen
676
140
Michael Teague
676
141
Joey Ringold
676
142
Justin Gates
676
143
Jeremy Smith
676
144
Rebekah Crosby
676
145
William Hinson
631
146
Michael MCCullough
631
147
Michael Benton
631
148
John Teague
631
149
Dennis Jones
631
150
Justin Wilson
631
151
Vafa Kamili
631
152
Justin Golding
631
153
Levi Carden
631
154
Jousha Warner
631
155
Prissy Giroir
631
156
Carl Masters
631
157
Stephen Fields
631
158
Robert Rawson
631
159
Cole Warrington
631
160
Jeffrey Drenner
631
161
Ronald Sellers
631
162
Clifford Matthews
631
163
Jerry Giroir
631
164
Randall Smith
631
165
Christopher Barger
631
166
Amber Douglas
631
167
Thuy Djedjos
631
168
Tara Snow
631
169
Kenneth Steele
631
170
Ryan Flynn
631
171
Faris Brooks
631
172
Jerry Van
Landingham
586
173
Samuel Folkins
586
174
Heath Branson
586
175
Trace Henderson
586
176
Arlen Dujmovich
586
177
Sammie Kirkwood
586
178
Robert Lemke
586
179
Bennett James
586
180
Steven Thornton
586
181
Dell Taylor
586
182
Stephen Becker
586
183
Robert Georato
586
184
Christopher
Lassinger
586
185
Dean Digerolamo
586
186
James Robertson
586
187
Andrew Simon
586
188
Melissa Booth
586
189
Gerald Rivett
586
190
Sean Garic
586
191
Jody Millsaps
586
192
Raymond Jimenez
586
193
Ronnie Scott
586
194
Jeremy Moore
586
195
Gerald Randal
586
196
Albert Booke
586
197
Jeremy Sharpe
586
198
Kris Kent
586
199
Gabriel Daspit
540
200
David McJenkin
540
201
John McNeil
540
202
Christopher Pool
540
EVENT
1 BAGGERS:
PRIZE POOL
GUARANTEE SMASHED:
Over 500k collected for the prize pool in event 1.
Double the guarantee and another record at Pearl
River Resorts with 2090 players. On Sunday,
restart is 1 pm. Also, a WPA Ladies event and
the Sunday Sizzler. Tomorrow 100k Guarantee on
a Monday! (Who does that?)
BRYAN CLARK
A POKER SUPER HERO
It's unusual for the biggest bag in Flight A to stay
that way with four flights remaining but Bryan Clark
faded 2089 players to come in with the most
impressive stack for day two. In an over half a
million prize pool, Clark was the sole player to bag
more than half a million chips.
Not like Bryan (pictured) was idle over the
remaining flights as he (and seven other players)
captured the elusive triple bag. After a second bag
players can chose between 1k cash or two $600 Main
Event Seats. The third bag just another flat 3k in
cash.
Christopher McDaniel solo bagged the second biggest
stack with 493k.
The rest of top five featured double baggers: Ray
Curran (413k), Lonny Weitzel (399k), and Josh Emory
(367k).
Rounding out the top ten some familiar names around
these parts: Walker Miskelly, Hiep Doan, BJ McBrayer
and James Craft.
Just outside the top ten Chris Read, Preston McEwen
(double), Chris Frady, Philip Walsh, Karl Chesser,
Chris Savage and Russell Boyette (triple... again).
The other triple baggers beside Clark and Boyette:
Brock Croft, Brandon Robinson, Debra Irvine, Prissy
Giroir, Lance Jones, and Susan Murphey. Shout out to
the ladies for scooping three of the 8 triple bags!
Reminder do not forget to head over to our
FACEBOOK page for
more up to the minute updates during this series.
PEARL RIVER
RESORTS SUMMER SERIES HAS LAUNCHED:
Please check out our
FACEBOOK page for our
updates. Don't forget we have a 3 SEATS added
satellite to start this event
The 250k Guarantee $300 BagWow! tournament series
starts tonight at 6 pm. Also, players (free)
buffet at 5:30. Believe pork loin and
chocolate cake are on the menu.
Glad everybody could make it.
CRUSHERS GOING
TO CRUSH:
Tai Cao has been busy in Houston, and said he will
be joining us soon up here. He finished third in the
High Roller at the Prime Social Club winning over
28k for third. Jared Ingles also found the
cashier winning $14,170 for fifth. Tai is currently
near the top of the points race. Also, in the
mix for that are Chris Conrad and Logan Hewett.
Hewett won an event for over 70k earlier this week.
MAJOR TOURNAMENT
NEWS:
HARRAHS NOLA:
Subject to State Gaming Approval we have the
permission to release official dates for our next
big event.
July 29 through August 8th will feature the return
of... Poker Gras.
Look for lots more details very soon in this space.
Huge thank you to Harrahs, NOLA; Jo-Ella, Robbie,
Jonathan, Chase, Mark and all the top notch staff in
Harrahs. Couldn't be more excited for this event.
OTHER
TOURNAMENTS IN THE REGION:
Our friends at the Horseshoe Tunica will be hosting
a RunGood Event July 6th through July 11th. Lots of
good stuff on the schedule with 100k Guarantee on
the Main.
Two other teasers: expect another regional 10 day
series in September before the WSOP kicks off and
maybe an event in August in Bossier.
Good to see poker back and thriving in the region.
GCP NEWS:
PLO
STRUCTURE:
Been asked about this quite a bit so here are all
the details:
GUESS THE
FLOP CONTEST:
We will post the final video for the guess the flop
social media contest and announce the winner this
weekend (perhaps as soon as today). Look for it this
evening on our Facebook page. A handful of ya'll are
in contention.
Good luck!
Also, our guess the chips contest will be revealed
early next week.
LOCAL
NEWS:
RIP TOMMY HUFNAGLE
WSOP Bracelet winner Tommy Hufnagle passed last week
at the age of 77. A player respected by peers like
Doyle Brunson and Chip Reese, Hufnagle maybe doesn't
get his full due from the early record books of the
WSOP. Once upon a time the best players didn't view
a legacy from a lens of stockpiling bracelets but
rather by consistently stacking chips. Hufnagle did
both.
His bracelet came in a $1500 Seven Card Stud Split
event in 1998. He earned just under 900k in live
tournaments per Hendon Mob. In recent years he made
his home on the Coast. Our condelences to his family
and friends.
VARIANCE
WITH SHORR
A recent
CardPlayer
story featured former GCP blogger Shannon Shorr's
thoughts on making it through downswings. Worth a
read for anybody running bad. Everybody goes
through it even the best players in the world.
PEARL RIVER
UPDATES:
We have several social media contests still going
where you can win your way to Pearl River's Summer
Series June 3 - June 13.
Go to our
FACEBOOK,
TWITTER
or
INSTAGRAM.
Like, follow, and comment for a chance to win a seat
in events including the $600 Main Event $250K
Guarantee!
We are just two weeks away from our BagWow! opener
also a 250k Guarantee. Hotel bookings are coming
fast and furious so we expect another big crowd. If
you haven't booked yet, do so soon to insure you get
a room on property.
Don't forget we've added 10 dealers, 10 tables and
another registration line so we are ready for the
crush of people.
CELEBRITY
BOUNTIES:
The remainder of our bounties have been selected
from your nominations. They are WPA Ambassodor
Bonnie Weitzel, PLON Ambassador Prissy Giroir, and
David "Atom Bomb" Hendrix. And we'll annouce
one of our social media contest winners right here:
Congrats to William Ken Anderson. His Twitter
response nominating a celebrity bounty was pulled up
by the Random Number Generator. His Event 1
entry is on the house!
DATES ON THE
CALENDER:
We aren't making any official announcements but
we've been busy reconnecting with old friends and
connecting with new ones. For those that like our
events you might want to pay attention to these date
ranges as we are in the process of exploring some
opportunities for the remainder of 2021.
-Late July/Early August
-Mid September
-Early December
-Early Middle December
Definitely more details to come, and we will do it
as soon as possible.
CELEBRITY POKER:
ANNA KHAIT
UPDATE:
Former poker pro, and Survivor contestant, Anna
Khait was recently mentioned
in a New York Times story about Project Veritas.
PokerNews subesquently did a story on the New
York Times
story.
Then the story became PokerNews taking down their
story about the story.
Why? Anna Khait tweeted the following...
(And for the record we've never called Anna a spy in
our story about the story about the story (?))
Poker News heard from my lawyer today. The next step is a lawsuit. I don’t take libel lightly. pic.twitter.com/3kIpg47Z1y
Here is the orginial
New York Times story. Headline:
Actitvists and Ex-Spy Said to Have Plotted to
Discredit Trump 'Enemies' in Government.
RUSSELL CROWE GAGA FOR POKER
FACE MOVIE ROLE:
He will be playing Lady Gaga in a
behind the scenes story retelling how online poker
site Bwin won the incredible pre Black Friday
bidding war to be the
table sponsorship in the video for her hugely
popular song: Poker Face.
Just kidding! (Don't sue us!) He won't be
playing Lady Gaga.
The plot of the movie Poker Face actually surrounds a home game thrown by a
Miami rich guy (Crowe) that is interrupted by a home
intruder known for murder and arson.
WHATS THE DEALIO?
Shannon Elisabeth of American Pie fame is involved
in a new poker platform. In the age of Zoom, Dealio
Webcam poker is attempt to recreate Live Poker
online. It mirrors what many did on their own during
the pandemic. We wonder if fills a need in the post
pandemic world free of lockdowns?
They make the case that Dealio could solve the
problem of AI bots and helper software as you can
see their opponents. Course you can't see what
else is on their screen(s)-- certainly,
seem like there could be workarounds even with this
format.
Haley Hintze of Cardschat.com has the details
here.
LONE
STAR POKER NEWS:
HEADED TO
MONDAY:
After the flights combined on Sunday, the field was
trimmed to just 17 players late last night.
Jared Hemmingway at 11.3m and Christopher Doan,
exactly 10m, lead the pack. Josh Thibodaux
(pictured) is in the middle with 4.5m and Teddy
Conner near the bottom with 1.825m.
Only 17 players remain and all are guaranteed at
least $17k. First place will be a little north of
$355k.
Chip Ervin busted late in the evening in 21st place
to win 12.4k. Drake Roetker also won over 10k for
31st.
Also busting later on Day 2: Trace Henderson (37th,
8.9k); Logan Hewett (43rd, 7.5k); Chan Pelton (50th
6.3k but his forfeited bag also netted him an
additional min-cash); Anthony Reynolds (52nd, 6.3k);
Gerald Stogner (71st, 4.5k); and Joe Hebert (84th,
3.45k).
In the money but outside the top 100: Justin
Brassieur, Walker Miskelly, Greg Raymer, Jared
Ingles, Jacob Corda, Chad Melerine, and Stephen
Baze.
DAY 1E:
The final flight on Saturday increased the day two
field to 218 entrants all in the money. Teddy Conner
(pictured) bagged the shortest stack but made it
through (AND AS MENTIONED IS STILL GRINDING!).
Joe Hebert bagged third biggest in the flight with
over 1 million in chips. Also, the players mentioned
above getting through on the last flight: Ervin,
Melerine, Baze, Corda, and Brassieur.
LONNY WEITZEL
WINS IN ARUBA:
Tournaments are popping off everywhere. Even
in paradise.
Got news Texan Lonny Weitzel won an early event in
an Aruba series. Houston sounds fun, but Aruba is...
Aruba. Lonny, pictured here with Dennis Jones,
is a Bossier City staple and can now add Aruba to
the locales he's won a tournament.
TOURNAMENT
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
HARRAHS NOLA MONDAY
NIGHT TOURNAMENTS RETURN:
Just heard from Jo-Ella McIntosh the $130 weekly
tournament returns May 10th.
-Registration opens at
5pm
-Tournament starts at 6pm.
-Registration closes at 7:10 pm
-Register early to guarantee a seat
-7,000 starting stack
-Must have a Caesars Rewards card to register.
Things are
getting back to normal...
PEARL RIVER
SATTY SUNDAY:
Hard to beat this one! 5 Seats ADDED.
Not guaranteed but ADDED! Take the prizepool
then add another 5 seats to it.
Starts at noon. Only a $50 buy-in.
Win a seat into the $250K Guarantee opener, (and)
BagWow!
That's right now is the time to stockpile bullets
for those of you who like to fire!
LONE STAR MILLION:
Results from Texas State $1 Million Guaranteed Main
Event. Couple of Gulf Coasters on the streams. Here's Joe Hebert from 1D. Link for Tai Cao
and Preston McEwen's stream below in 1C recap.
DAY 1A:
Jason Gooch and Chris Moneymaker put chips in a bag to be
two of the 16 to advance to day 2 out of 129
Entrants. Moneymaker's pocket Aces were cracked on
the bubble by Jame Duke's preflop shove with Queens
to halve his stack.
DAY 1B:
Dimitri Nobles bagged the biggest stack after day 1B
with 1.15 million. November Pearl River Re-Entry
winner Anthony "Stretch" Reynolds bagged third
biggest on the day with 719k. Gary Friedlander and
Chan Pelton also advanced.
DAY 1C:
Drake Roetker of Lafayette bagged the second biggest
stack with 1.13 million. Logan Hewett continues his
hot run in Houston with a 981k bag. Chan Pelton
fired again and found a bigger bag then his palrty
one from B and now has 860k. Familiar names Walker
Miskelly, Josh Thibodaux, Dan Lowery and Greg Raymer
also made it to Day Two.
We enjoyed watching friend of GCP Tai Cao play on
the featured table
here:
DAY 1D:
Only James Crowshaw bagged more than Trace Henderson
in the D flight. Trace will play with 1.14 million
on day 2. Also still alive: Jesse McVicker, Matt
Berkey, Dixon Cyder, Austin Peck and Lexy Gavin.
At this point only 143 players (minus double baggers
like Chan Pelton) will restart Sunday.
Only flight E remains and it should be gigantic. The
only question now is by how much do they smash the
guarantee.
LINKAGE:
DRAFT KINGS:
Maria Ho is bullish on sports gambling/daily fantasy
site.
CNBC did a stock draft, with bitcoin (not a
stock drafted first overall). Maria chose Amazon
with her first pick then went DraftKings in the two
slot.
COVID PROTEST
POKER NIGHT LEADS TO... COVID:
In Washington State, a dinner and
poker night to
protest Covid guidelines has led
to... 95 Covid cases so far. Multiple patients are
in critical condition. The group not
surprisingly has decided to curtail large gatherings
and is planning to help with a vaccination drive.
Stay safe everybody.
BONITA SPRINGS
POKER ROOM THRIVING:
Spreading 37 tables with simulcasting and a Brass
Tap restaurant--business is booming. They had their
third most profitable month in 50 years. Yes,
they've been open, mostly as a dogtrack for 50
years.
Naples News
has the details.
FLORIDA POKER:
WPT MAIN EVENT
HAS STARTED:
Another live poker event, another record turnout and
more GCPers stacking chips. The WPT Main Event at
Seminole Hard Rock has completed both flights of the
Main Event and heads into Day two with almost half
the field remaining. The 2481 players is a WPT Main
Event record.
Day 1A saw Gavin Munroe advance 389,500 chips
(pictured) good for fourth biggest stack in A, Cody
Stanford 232.5k (top 30), Kyle Cartwright 162.5k,
Warren Sheaves 151.5k, Jared Ingles 130.5k, Ismael
Cabrera 117.5k, Michael Lech 72k, and John Dolan
65k.
In Flight B: Joe Hebert bagged one of the bigger
stacks with 298k.
Also advancing: Shannon Shorr
202k, Brennan Benglis 147k, Trace Henderson 136.5k, Matt Higgins 115k,
TK Miles 101k, David
Weinstein 92.5k, Jonathan Poche 79.5k, Randy Gordon
58.5k, Corey Harrison 49.5k, Herb Montalbano 33k,
Richard Seymour 32.5k, Leif Force 30k, Tai Cao
29.5k, DJ Alexander 29.5k, Sam Blankenship 26k, Eric Salazar 24.5k, and
Mike Horchoff 19k (speaking of Mike...)
HORCHOFF DEEP
TWICE--WINS OVER 100k:
In prelim action Mike Horchoff ran hot. He finished
15th in event 15 for a $5,670 cash then played the
$2200 Event 17 that had an over 1 million dollar
prize pool with 531 entrants. With three players
remaining he shoved with Ace Queen got called by Ace
Four and couldn't recover when a Four found the
turn. Mike won over 98k for third. Mike Lech, Cody
Stanford, and Seth Fischer cashed the same event.
SPORTS BETTING
NOW FAVORED TO HAPPEN IN FLORIDA:
Governor Ron DeSantis personally got involved in
negotiations with the Seminole Tribe of Florida and
other smaller gambling facilities. This is as close
to a deal as Florida has ever made for sports
betting although they've come close before. Rumor
has it the Seminole tribe would also be allowed to
offer craps and roulette at their Hard Rock Casino.
It remains to be seen if that would also open the
door for a much rumored Miami casino.
POLITICO
MEANWHILE IN
TEXAS:
Derek Normand won the Lone Star Series Black Chip
Bounty tournament despite entering heads-up play
with a massive chip disadvantage. Nonetheless, he
came back to take the title with Charlie Nguyen
unlucky in second. Normand won $3885 (not counting
bounties--and we'll go out on a limb and guess he
won a lot of those).
GCPers WINNING!
GERALD STOGNER
WINS IN HOUSTON:
Was great to see a name familiar to us, Gerald
Stogner, win the LSPS Spring Series Kick Off for
over 23k. Even better to see him repping GCP in his
winner's photo. We've heard GCP hats run hot.
Congrats to Gerald, who hails from Kokomo, MS on
winning that sweet championship belt buckle to go
with his cash for the victory. Well done!
Kristen Deardorff, a former Gulf Coaster, got a
piece of the three way chop in the Nevada Ladies
Poker Championship Main Event. This Ladies
International Poker Series (LIPS) featured a ton of
the regions best female players who
made the trip to Vegas including Ruth Hall who also
made the final table. Chad Holloway has the write up
at
PokerNews.
Local coverage of the event in the review journal is
here.
PLUG: Don't forget we've added our ladies
tournament to our
SCHEDULE
June 6th in Pearl River. Thanks to Bonnie Weitzel,
Marsha Adams and others who collaborated on some
great ideas for the event and making it happen in
June.
GCP NEWS:
SATTY THIS
SUNDAY TO PEARL RIVER MAIN EVENT:
Here are the details. Hard to beat this deal if you
can make it to Philadelphia, MS this Sunday.
Two seats guaranteed and we think the first
satellite has had an overlay every time they've run
it.
MONKEY ON
THE PODCAST:
One of our first bloggers. Way back in the day
Monkey came aboard along with Shannon Shorr and
Jonathan Little. We discussed the old days, the
Monkey Minions, and a lot of stuff. Probably going
to have a part two very soon. Fun interview.
We got a new one that's active. Nominate who
you think should be a celebrity bounty in our June
Event. Two celebrities scheduled to appear so
far include WSOP Main Event Champions Greg Raymer
and Joe Hebert. We will select an additional
bounty from nominees and suggestions made to us and
Pearl River. Everybody that nominates (and
follows directions) on
INSTAGRAM
(gcpnet),
TWITTER
(@GCPNET) and
FACEBOOK will earn an
entry into a random draw to win a seat in the Event
1 $250k Guarantee. Good luck everybody.
LINKAGE AND
NEWSBITS:
HARRAHS NOLA KILLING IT:
Two Saturdays in on their new weekly tournament with
tweaked structures have produced player pools of 97
and 113. Expect this 11 am weekly to continue to
grow. Live tournament poker is BACK!
SLIDELL
CASINO WINS APPROVAL AMID CONTROVERSY:
The new casino for Slidell, LA has been approved...
but the deciding vote came from a legislator who is
married to a lobbyist for the casino (!!!).
Alledgedly... he said he didn't know she lobbied for
the casino. Hmmm, that never came up at dinner.
Those that opposed the casino are going to try to
appeal. They suggest there may be a
conflict of interest. Supposedly, the casino
would be on the former Diamond Jacks boat (used to
be in Bossier City) although the picture indicates a
land based casino.
POKER AN
(E)SPORT?
In what has fall under the category of good for
poker... the idea that poker will soom emerge as a
major E-Sport
is a great one.
CBS YOUR NEW
(OLD) HOME FOR THE WSOP:
I have a very hazy memory of watching a telecast
with the World Series of Poker when I was a very
little kid. Didn't have cable and according to this
press release CBS carried it way back. Well, they've
gotten the deal again. That includes Paramount+ so
expect to add another subscription service if you
want to watch everything. 50 total hours is a good
thing. CBSNY
has the details.
BITCOIN/POKER SCAM:
Cardschat
has the details on a scam involving a deal made at a
live poker table that went south.
VIDEO OF THE
WEEK:
Top 5 hands from Season 1 of High Stakes Poker.
Always a fun watch.
GCP UPDATE:
-HARRAHS NOLA SEVEN HANDED! FIRST
TOURNAMENT SATURDAY APRIL 10!
Looks like live tournament poker is back.
We'll see you Saturday morning at 11am.
Registration opens at 10.
-PEARL RIVER JUNE 3 -13th
More dealers, more tables, a ladies tournament, a
moved smoking area, free food buffets EVERY single
night, more $ in the guarantees (almost 3/4s of a
million) and MORE. We can't wait to get back
to Pearl River and neither should you. Room
blocks will be open soon.
-POKERNEWS WRAP-UP OF MARCH PEARL RIVER
POKER OPEN
Thanks to Chad Holloway for a great piece on David
Frazier and on Dan Lowery winning the Main Event.
Go
here
to read it. We also (finally) posted our
results below. Yes, they have been sent to
Hendon Mob too.
Want to win your way to the June Main Event?
Social Media contest has already started. Just
guess a three card flop. See rules on pinned
FACEBOOK post. Also
earn an entry on
TWITTER @GCPNet.
PEARL RIVER WRAP-UP 5; LOWERY SHIPS MAIN, ROOKIES
CHOP, SABATHIA WINS MONSTER:
LOWERY WINS MAIN
EVENT:
Dan "Duma" Lowery took down the Main
Event after reaching a deal with the unofficial King
of Pearl River Resorts Poker Mike Monaghan. Dan took
home $72,693 and Mike walked with $65,000. This
followed spirited three way action with Andy Moon.
Moon pocketed over $38k for third.
The remainder of the eight handed final table
included Robert Galbraith, Brian Glasscock, Eric
Salazar and Matt Higgins. With 872 total entrants
the prize pool finished north of $430k. Last Woman
Standing Chris Read (15th) won a Poker League Of
Nations (PLON) gift bag. Brandon Robinson just
missed his second Pearl River Main Event final table
and he and read were joined in the second eight by
Tim Sanderson, David Lee, Robert Dallas, Adam
Cotant, James Allen and David Marcoullier.
The rest of the field included a murderer's row of
some of the region's best players. 88 players cashed
just showing the top 24.
1 Dan Lowery 72693
2 Mike Monaghan 65000
3 Andrew Moon 38368
4 Robert Galbraith 28340
5 William Latta 21800
6 Brian Glasscock 16568
7 Eric Salazar 10900
8 Matt Higgins 7630
9 Robert Dallas 7630
10 Brandon Robinson 6017
11 David Marcoullier 6017
12 Tim Sanderson 6017
13 David Lee 5014
14 James Allen 5014
15 Chris Read 3924
16 Adam Cotant 3924
17 Jacob Perkins 3444
18 Shawn Calvit 3444
19 David Hayes 3444
20 Corey Hodgeman 3444
21 Chase Turner 3444
22 Greg James 3444
23 Tim Benoit 3444
24 Youssef Saleh 3444
DO WE STILL CALL
THEM ROOKIES?
The top six did a deal and all added to their Hendon
Mob results. We'll see if any went over the 25k
limit for eligibility in the tournament.
1 Nicholas Hawkins 2206
2 Katherine Keith 1606
3 John Buono 1606
4 Gover Faulkner 1606
5 Matt Duffy 1606
6 Dennis Hatcher 1606
7 Martin Horvath 540
8 Rodney Deselle 444
9 Dalton Booth 444
10 Tim Petit 336
SMITH MONSTER
WINNER:
Sabrathia Smith defeated a couple of stout
oppponents at the final table including Scott
Miller, Alec Wilson, Chad Bell and Matt Doyle.
Sean Small, Mike Sanders, Cody Pack, Paul
Strizhevsky, David Champion, Hebert Tapscott,
Stephen Hastings, Danny Doucet, and David Huwe all
cashed.
1 Sabrathia Smith 11334
2 Alec Wilson 6973
3 Scott Miller 5143
4 David Martin 3748
5 Calvin Swisher 2746
6 Gary Gulisano 2092
7 Chad Bell 1613
8 Matt Doyle 1090
9 Austin Paulin 1090
10 Cody Pack 959
11 Paul Strizhevsky 741
12 Mike Sanders 741
13 Helen McBrearty 610
14 David Champion 610
15 Hebert Tapscott 479
16 Michael Manco 479
17 Nicholas Hobbs 392
18 Stephen Hastings 392
19 Trevor Edmondson 392
20 Sean Small 392
21 Robert Donald 392
22 Danny Doucet 392
23 Edward Allen 392
24 David Huwe 392
PEARL RIVER WRAP-UP 3; NOLA REGS HIEP AND TEDDY WIN
SENIORS AND FREEZEOUT:
INSTAGRAM WORK
OUT GURU TEDDY CONNER WINS OLD SCHOOL FREEZEOUT:
One entry and a very limited registration time meant
the 84 players only had one 1k bullet to fire.
Teddy Conner had the fitness to come out on top
after a very late evening after chopping with Conner
Romedy. Brenda Eskridge, Gavin Munroe, Dustin
Stewart, JW Carter, Derrik Carter and Elliot Howze
made the final table. Timothey Maxwell and Brandon
Robinson also cashed.
One of GCP's favorites Hiep Doan won the seniors
falling just a hair short of 10k in winnings. Bonnie
Weitzel, Barry Schultz, JJ Liu and Marsha Adams also
made the final table.
1 Hiep Doan 9955
2 Charles Dawson 6135
3 Joseph Lamberta 4501
4 Bonnie Weitzel 3346
5 Barry Schultz 2470
6 Joanne Liu 1872
7 Marsha Adams 1434
8 Timothy Lenox 996
9 Ronnie Hope 996
10 Bryon Lowe 876
11 Randy Garber 677
12 Earl Merritt 677
13 Donald McArthur 518
14 Albert Brooke 518
15 Philip White 438
16 Stephen Hastings 438
17 Gabriel Daspit JR 359
18 Donald Davis JR 359
19 Tammy Talley 359
20 Susan Hamner 359
21 Joanne Cain 359
22 Ray Bressler II 359
23 Stephen Bierman 359
24 John Roberts 359
25 James Mackey 279
26 Michael Benton 279
27 Paul Price 279
PEARL RIVER WRAP-UP 2; BIG DADDY AND ATOM BOMB
PREVAIL:
ATOM BOMB DAVID
FRAZIER WINS IT!
After a fourway chop David Frazier earned the GCP
trophy. Gavin Munroe enjoyed the spoils of the last
longer side action and was credited for second.
David Champion who like Gavin seemed to cash
everything this series and Ruth Hall were in on the
chop.
The Queen of Pearl River Tara Snow, Chester Dilday,
Stephen Hastings, Michael Vernace, Joe Hebert,
Preston McEwen, Sonny Trosclair, Matt South and
David Gaffney all cahsed.
1 David Frazier 6150
2 Gavin Munroe 6149
3 David Champion 6149
4 Ruth Hall 6149
5 Chester Dilday 2537
6 Tara Snow 1923
7 Thomas Page 1473
8 Stephen Hastings 1023
9 Michael Vernace 1023
10 Charles Westbrook 900
11 Joe Hebert 696
12 Albert Booke 696
13 David Huwe 532
14 Bret Cranston 532
15 Preston McEwen 450
16 Raymond Puder 450
17 Carl Masters 368
18 Matthew Whitt 368
19 Joseph Carden 368
20 Sonny Trosclair 368
21 Cody Stanford 368
22 William Tinsley 368
23 Rebekah Crosby 368
24 Matthew South 368
25 Nicholas Bradford 286
26 David Gaffney 286
27 Timothy Maxwell 286
28 Curtis Picard 286
CELEBRITY
BOUNTY:
Wonder if "Big Daddy" Thomas Blankenship is aware
that if you win this event you then go on to win a
live WSOP Main Event final table as Joe Hebert did
last year. Joe incidentally probably cemented his
status as celebrity bounty for a long time.
Joe Carden just missed going three for three in
final tables finishing 10th.
Matt Johnson, Sonny Trosclair, Ron Gilliam, Wyatt
Boothe, Casye Robbins, Josh Stevens and Richard
Moats rounded out the final table.
1 Thomas Blankenship 7211
2 Matthew Johnson 4435
3 Sonny Trosclair 3271
4 Ron Gilliam 2384
5 Wyatt Boothe 1746
6 Casey Robbins 1331
7 Joshua Stevens 1026
8 Richard Moats 693
9 Sam Washburn 693
10 Joseph Carden 610
11 Curtis Picard 471
12 Stanley Wofford 471
13 Marsha Adams 388
14 Matthew Demarsh 388
15 Joseph Hebert 305
16 Francis Beaulieu 305
17 David Frazier 249
18 Edward Tumlin 249
19 William Anderson 249
20 Jo Caine 249
21 Bonnie Weitzel 249
22 Danny Griffin 249
23 Tara Snow 249
24 Chris Davis 249
PEARL RIVER WRAP-UP 1; BOYETTE AND BOWIE HEADLINE:
BOWIE BAG WOW
CHAMPION!
Kenard Bowie won the event after an ICM deal found
agreement. 210 players cashed but just showing the
top 24 below:
1 Kenard Bowie 41225
2 Preston Croft 28704
3 Nicholas Prejeant 28223
4 Joseph Carden 25884
5 Robert Zakaria 11258
6 Paul Leggett 7617
7 Preston McEwen 5090
8 Konstantin Suvorkin 4005
9 Marc Hampson 4005
10 Gilberto Mendoza 3282
11 Thomas Darwin 3282
12 Jimmy Millsaps 3282
13 Dell Taylor 2917
14 Chad Melerine 2917
15 Yousef Saleh 2536
16 Joe Hebert 2536
17 Matthew Clarkson 2170
18 Calvin Swisher 2170
19 Sean Garic 2170
20 Daniel Fagen 2170
21 Jerol Drane 2170
22 Bentley Purvis 2170
23 Jeremy Sharpe 2170
24 Dilsad Meraler 2170
BOYETTE WINS
DOUBLE MONSTER AND DOUBLES HIS GCP TROPHY
COLLECTION:
Congrats to Russell Boyette who had himself a week
in Pearl River. 56 players cashed but just showing
the top 24. Boyette won almost $30k and joined
Kenard as double trophy winners.
1 Russell Boyette 29267
2 Freddie Gladney Jr. 18834
3 Matt Higgins 12425
4 Matt Johnson 9155
5 Chuck Brady 7063
6 Dell Taylor 5232
7 Derrick Cutler 4054
8 Joe Carden 2747
9 Stephen Greene 1962
10 Christopher Shaw 1962
11 Derrick Gillian 1962
12 Robert Rose 1635
13 Brandon Creel 1635
14 Dustin Stewart 1243
15 Karl Chesser 1243
16 William Anderson 1243
17 Michael Tavis 1046
18 Thurmond Boothe 1046
19 Raymond McCarty 1046
20 James Stampley 1046
21 Joe Duvall 1046
22 Brett Cranston 1046
23 Kevin Grinder 1046
24 Forrest Raleigh 1046
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Some Highlights:
-David Hendrix (pictured), Thomas "Big Daddy"
Blankenship, Russell Boyette, and Kenard Bowie early
champions in the series.
-Ruth Hall and Tyler Nals penned greats reads about
the property. Go
here for the stories.
-Been smashing records all week. No wonder
we'll be back in June. Spoiler alert:
more dealers, more tables, another registration
line, and some other player friendly tweaks will be
coming with us.
TRACE HENDERSON MAKES THE FINAL TABLE OF WPT
VENETION IN VEGAS:
Local Gulf Coast Poker Player Trace Henderson is in
Vegas playing in the WPT event at the Venetian and
is at the Final Table sitting in 3rd place and is
already guaranteed a six figure payout of $155k. Up
top 1st place is $752k. The tough part is the
sizable chip leader is 2015 WSOP Main Event winner
Joe McKeehen. Joe is sitting right south of 11
million in chips which equates to about 87bb.
Another notable is Kou Vang who is a savage on the
felt and did well in the Mid States Poker Tour. Good
Luck Trace!!!
LOCAL POKER
PLAYER THAT IS A GULF COAST STAPLE DEEP AT WPT IN
VEGAS:
Local Gulf Coast Poker Player Trace Henderson is in
Vegas playing in the WPT event at the Venetian and
is sitting with a a nice pile of chips with just
north of 2.4 million. This would equate to 99 big
blinds with 32 runners remaining in the field.
1st place would be $752k...2nd place $491k...3rd
place $363k. Woukld be nice haul to bring back to
the Gulf Coast. Please cheer on Trace and give some
good vibes to run good. Would be nice to get his
name on that WPT trophy thats for sure.
PEARL RIVER
UPDATE:
CELEBRITY BOUNTIES... COMING SOON:
So... selections were based on
nominations on our Facebook page and some that were
previously selected. Just a spoilery heads up: they
will include a Chris, a Ruth, a Tyler, a Jo-Ella,
and a Stephen. Looking forward to the big
announcement with full names as soon as possible.
BAG WOW IS BACK:
-BagWow! is back.
Want a refresher on the BagWow? (Remember the
dates are a little off but you'll get the idea...)
The BagWow! format dominates the opening weekend.
This year it features a 100k Guarantee on a $250
buy-in. 5 Flights (Thursday 6 pm, Friday noon and
6pm, and Saturday 11am and 5pm).
Also, 1k bonus if you bag twice and a
3k bonus if you bag thrice... three times.
-A 5 seats ADDED (!!!) Mega Sunday 3/21 at 2pm to
get in the $600 Main Event the following weekend.
Probably the best live tournament poker deal in the
South.
-Multiple 20k+ Guarantees
-$600 100k Guarantee Main Event. Three flights:
Friday 4 pm, Saturday 11am and 5 pm.
NEWS, TWEETS AND LINKAGE:
-Lon McEachern tweeted out:
I would like to let our poker friends know that our colleague and pal @NormanChad is still recovering from some long-haul COVID-19 health issues thus preventing him from working on the upcoming @WSOP Main Event shows. We all wish him a full and healthy recovery.
Cardplayer did an interview with Lon recently
about becoming the voice of poker.
Most importantly, our thoughts like Lon's are with Norman.
Hope he gets on a path to
total wellness and we'll miss hearing him while we
cheer on Joe Hebert Sunday night on ESPN2.
If you are also a long hauler be on the look out for
some encouraging news that is circulating (a lot of
it anecdotal right now) about the first dose of the
vaccine helping to alleviate symptoms for a lot of
sufferers.
-NY Governor Andrew Cuomo accused of sexual
harrassment by a former member of his staff Lindsey
Boylan (pictured). She says she was the victim of
inappropriate touching, a kiss without consent, and
an offer to play strip poker. AP has the newshere.
-We missed this earlier but Chad Holloway at
PokerNews touts the poker documentary "Smile"
honoring the late Thor Hansen. Hansen is thought to
be the originator of one of poker's great quotes
after winning a big event.
An interviewer asked what's he was going to do with all the money.
Hansen: I'm going to pay off some people I owe.
Interviewer: What about the rest?
Hansen: Well... they are going to have to
wait.
NEWS:
SOCIAL MEDIA CONTEST:
Congrats to Tim Moore (pictured) for winning our
first contest and a seat into the $250 Opener. Tim
has run deep in the Main Event at Pearl River before
so we know he's got a chance to turn this freeroll
into a nice cash.
Currently, we are running our second contest where
the winner will be the player who guesses the player
that runs deepest in the Opener. If two (or more)
people select the same player a random drawing will
determine the winner. Look for the
picture of Peace Marvel on Twitter and Facebook to
enter a guess. The winner of that gets a seat into
the 50k Guarantee event.
Get your careful, calculated, educated pick on the
record... or take your best guess. Not many entries
so far, so you still got a great shot to win.
POKER
QUOTES:
TD Paul Dutsch--our podcast guest for February--has
been doing a daily post on his Facebook page of
poker quotes in the run up to Pearl River. There are
some good ones in there. He's got nuggets of
wisdoms and a lot of funny ones.
Here's some others gathered by
Calvin Ayre
focused on self-improvement.
ENTITLED?
A new study inidicates how you react to bad luck may
reveal how entitled you are. If every time you lose
you feel like it's bad luck? You might be entitled.
Do get angry and feel victimized? You might be
entitled.
Getting angry in response to bad luck usually only
happens to people that think they are entitled to
win. Interesting study highlight by Scientific
American. Go
here.
PEARL RIVER
MAIN EVENT EARLY SATTY:
Last time there was an overaly with two seats
guaranteed. You need to get there and get a
piece of that free money this Sunday. Not a bad idea
to start stockpiling seats--it is a reentry. Some of
you seem to use a lot of seats.
ALL THINGS
PEARL RIVER: SATTIES AND STRUCTURES COMING:
Be on the lookout for information on satellites
leading up to the twin 100k guarantees run in the
Poker Room of the Golden Moon Hotel at Pearl River
Resorts. We will post info when we have them.
Also, we will soon post structures for the Spring
Events in the link up top. Almost ready.
WIN YOUR WAY TO THE 100K:
We will be doing social media contests, as per
usual, in the lead up to this event on TWITTER
(@GCPNET), on Facebook and Instagram
(https://www.instagram.com/gcpnet/).
Our first contests ask for nominations for our
Celebrity Bounty event on Tuesday, March 23rd. Like,
follow, share and comment to earn an entry to a
random drawing for a seat in the 100k Guaranteed
Opener.
Look for the posts with this pic.
POKER LINKAGE:
-Hank Azaria is hosting a new home game TV show on
PokerStars.net's YouTube channel. Winnings go to
charities. Watch the first episode here:
-Bill Perkins, a hedge fund manager and poker player,
those guys aren't in the news right now, details meeting his best bud Dan (...Blizerian) through
poker over at the
Robb Report.
-Refugee from Afghanistan wins one of 2021 poker's
biggest tournaments. The
Miami Herald has the story
here about a player that not long ago was dealing
with loss of family in war torn Afghanistan,
immigration detention, and more hardships. Now
a poker champion.
-Chad Holloway's PokerNews piece on Mark Ellis
Cortez's win in the Lone Star Poker Series at
Champions Social in Houston, TX. Lots of familiar
names won secondary events including Logan Hewett in
the bounty event, Justin Brassieur who won TWO
events, and Schuyler Thornton. Go
here
.
Polk-Negreanu challenge almost wrapped up.
CalvinAyre.com
details where it stands and addresses some of the
controversies during the action.
PEARL RIVER POKER OPEN SPRING 2021 SCHEDULE *Pending
Choctaw Gaming Approval
PEARL RIVER
POKER OPEN
It's back. Live tournament poker a couple of hours
away from almost everywhere in the gulf south. With
more of everything.
More options: including a 1k Old School
Freezeout. Limited registration window and one
bullet per player. It won't be just the play making
you wonder if it's 1999 when you register this one.
Joe Saleh requested it and when the 2019 Gulf Coast
Poker Player of the Year Joe Saleh asks for a
tournament we have to listen.
More guarantees featuring the twin 100k Guarantees.
Opening weekend BagWow! format with bonuses for
bagging multiple flights. Second weekend the Main
Event.
More bounties in the Celebrity Bounty tournament? No
spoilers but the odds on favorite to be the 2020
Gulf Coast Player of the Year says he'll be there
and he'll be a bounty.
More in the prize pools: Monday's tournament bumped
up to a 50k Guarantee.
More dealers and more tables.
March 18 - 28. Full schedule to be released (very)
soon.
Watch this space and our social media for ways to
win your way into one of the events for free.
LOUISIANA,
THE BIRTHPLACE OF POKER, IS FOR POKER WINNERS:
JOE GEAUXS
AND DOES IT #FORLINDA
Joe Hebert of Metairie won the domestic 2020 WSOP
Main Event title and on January 3rd will fight the
Euro winner Damian Salas for the bracelet, the
banner, the glory and another 1 million dollars.
Pictures of Joe are by Jaime Thomson and courtesy of
PokerNews. Go
here for their terrific coverage of the
WSOP. And let's start with a big thank you to
Joe for wearing that patch on his wrist. So
glad a local supports a local business and vice
versa!
Joe earned over 1.5 million for his final table
victory. A table that played out as though there
were a guiding hand from beyond. There seemed to be
very little craziness, quite atypical for a WSOP
Main Event final table, and Joe won the heads up
battle in one hand.
Fitting for Joe he won with Ace-Queen. Joe dedicated
the tournament to his mom Linda who passed this
summer of a pulmonary embolism. The poker Ace
winning for his Queen #ForLinda. The
money went all in preflop. Joe started behind but we
had to know he was going to come back to win when we
saw the pocket queens of his opponent Ron Jenkins.
An Ace found the the board and left Jenkins with one
out that didn't come. Of course not, the
absent queen was behind Joe all along.
The final table started nearly as fast as heads up
play finished with Gershon Distenfeld falling to
Queens twice in the first six hands to get
eliminated. Yes, the championship dedicated
#ForLinda was bookended by Queens determining the
action. Eerie concidences maybe... or maybe if you
believe in that kind of thing an angel on Joe's
shoulder.
Jenkins won a little over a million for second.
Michael Cannon finished third. Ryan Hagerty finished
fourth. Tony Yuan fifth followed by maybe the most
active and aggressive player on the table Harrison
Dobin in sixth. A couple of tough spots had Shawn
Stroke bow out in seventh.
Prior to the final table Upeshka De Silva, suffered
the cruel fate of contracting Covid and per the
rules of the tournament had to forfeit his chips and
take 9th place money. Upeshka with ties to Houston,
TX was going for his fourth WSOP bracelet and
despite being 8th in chips was probably the one
player everybody was most concerned about.
Regarding the play, Joe made some conscious tactical
decisions on his plan for the final table that he
shared with us on the condition we not to write
about in our pre tournament
interview. Retrospectively, he did exactly
as he said he would and it worked out like he
thought it would. Many people thought as the
overwhelming chip leader he should come out pressing
and apply ICM pressure with the stiff payjumps.
Maybe on an ordinary final table but with these
opponents, many of them willfully ignoring ICM for
their own reasons, a slightly different strategy
that he applied worked. When it was time to flex his
stack--he did and it worked again.
We can't wait to see the ESPN broadcast as we
haven't discussed the hands with Joe yet. Maybe the
cards determined some of his play or maybe his play
determined much of the results. Will be a fun watch.
That will air in February, but more pressing matters
now. Joe plays Damian Salas on January 3rd and we'll
be clicking refresh on PokerNews like the poker
junkies we are during the heads up match. We know
ESPN hopes that heads up conflict takes more then
one hand. But if Joe wins it in the first hand
again, so be it--what will be will be!
VIRTUAL RAIL
AND RUNGOODGEAR:
If you want to join us on Joe's virtual rail we have
a thread on facebook where we are wishing him well
and we know he'll check it to see all his support
just before the Heads Up match. Please leave a
message or pic wishing him the best. Go to the
pinned post
here.
You'll notice the awesome shirts a lot of us are
wearing designed and made by
RunGoodGear.com.
Want to say thanks again to Tana Karn for allowing
GCP to be on the shoulder as we join them in
supporting our friend Joe in this epic run. Very
generous of RunGood as making fan shirts has become
their thing during the Main Event. Check out their
site there is some great poker gear on there.
CHRIS READ:
Another win for Louisiana as one of our own Chris
Read takes down the seniors event in a series at
private poker club in Georgia. Chris is now a
Georgia native but originally hails from Louisiana
and a devoted Saints fan. Believe she won a hunk of
silver for her play. We also think she has the best
looking mask in all of poker. She's pictured
with JJ Liu.
BERT FOS WINS:
Maybe it's just us but hard to open Facebook with
out seeing NOLA player Bert Fos and his giant check
greet us in an ad for an online site. Played
many times with Bert so happy to see it.
Well done for taking it down Bert. We always wonder
what happens to the giant checks? They go up in a
man cave?
Bert let us know...
JOE HEBERT
CHIP LEADER 2020 WSOP MAIN EVENT FINAL TABLE:
We've been sitting on an update for a little bit
until we had a chance to have an official interview
with Joe. The native of Metairie, LA went to Las
Vegas to play some of the online events this month
and won a satellite to the WSOP Main Event.
We didn't think there were too many locals playing
this year as they had to travel to Nevada or New
Jersey so it was a little off our radar.. When we
found out Hebert was 24 out of just 26 players left,
we immediately started sweating him on the PokerNews
twitch stream and he immediately started chipping up
(coincidence we think not).
What a run! So check out our
interview with Joe where we get deep into that
run and the special motivations he has in this crazy
year. He mentions several players from around the
region including Mike Lech of Arkansas, BJ McBrayer
of Alabama, Ben Thomas of Baton Rouge and all his
friends in NOLA and the Metairie bar scene.
Virtual rail will be wearing T-Shirts made by Tana
Karn and RunGoodGear to support Joe from afar.
As you can tell from the interview Joe is easy to
root for and we think it's about time somebody
brought the WSOP Main Event back to the birthplace
of poker. Many of us will be wearing these
sweet rail shirts made by Tana Karn and RunGoodGear.
Chipcounts from PokerNews:
Joseph "kolebear" Hebert 13,052,534
Shawn "shades927" Stroke 5,252,000
Ryan "Hagzzz021" Hagerty 5,071,572
Ye "YUAN365" Yuan 4,829,459
Michael "geNet1x_" Cannon 4,408,847
Gershon "jets613" Distenfeld 3,475,481
Ron "Samthedog76" Jenkins 2,476,746
Upeshka "gomezhamburg" De Silva 2,151,969
Harrison "Harrisond33" Dobin 1,581,392
Payouts for the U.S. final nine start at 98k and go
all the way up to 1.5 million. Second also will be a
millionaire. Sixth place on will earn more then
200k.
Texan Upeshka De Silva may only have 2.1 million in
chips but surely is the most accomplished player
left with three bracelets to his name. Joe did well
to bust some of the other elite pros including
Martin Zamani and Dan Zack just before the final
table.
The final table will play out December 28th. From
there the winner will then play the International
Bracket winner heads up for the bracelet and an
additional one million dollars. Argentinian Damian
Salas, who has another WSOP final table to his name,
already won the international tournament on GGPoker.
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