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1.18.19 - 12.12.18
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BEAU UPDATES: TAG TEAM BACK AGAIN:  Only the captains listed here for Event 11. Of course, in the case of Tom Franklin that's a little redundant. People On Break can tell us the teammates not listed and we'll correct in the future. 1st: Trace Henderson $3,413 2nd: Tom Franklin $1,896 3rd: Charles White $1,138 4th: Stanley Williams $758 5th: Jerry Giroir $379 NO LIMIT W/ BOUNTIES: Sandra Brown wins $8,706 for first in Event 10. Adam Day second for $4601; Craig Flood third $2,860, Scott Sanford fourth $1,990. 5th through 9th: Justin Sharpe, Rickey Mosher, Pierce Webster, Bradley Carlson, and Billit Bourton. J.W. Carter, Edwin Fields and Debbie Charpentier also made the money. |
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BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS: THINKING FAST AND SLOW and BLINK: We heard several people discussing Thinking Fast and Slow as a recommendation for poker reading at the tables during the Heater. While not a Poker Book per se it's applications for the game are fairly obvious. Many high stakes players are deep into the content and have been discussing the ideas of late. Sounds somewhat similiar but different to another book we've enjoyed: Blink by Malcom Gladwell. Again, a book with little to do about poker it at the same time everything to do with it. here's an article that may require a second reading after digesting those books and concepts from PokerNews: First Instincts vs. Second Thoughts: A Heads-Up Battle. |
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BLOGGER PODCASTS: Shannon Shorr was one of our first bloggers, and while he's fallen off on keeping us updated with his poker life (always a great read) now he's a great listen on CardPlayer. Go here to hear the latest. Ben Saxton is one our newest bloggers. This Thinking Poker podcast updates us on the book he is writing. Even if as a friend of his, listening to his immersion in the NOLA poker scene, feels a bit like a gorilla comprehending a Jane Goodall discussion with her colleagues :), it's still a lively listen. Looking forward to reading the final product. He's certainly already catalogued a list of colorful personalities. Go here to listen. |
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BEAU UPDATES: DEEP STACK: Dennis Hicks won $36k and the title of Deep Stack champion (Event 9) over a talented group of day two players. He bested bracelet holder Anderson Ireland heads up (19.5k to Ireland). Lou Campos finished third for 11k and Mack Ham fourth for 9k. Some familiar names slotted in 5th through 7th: David Chocheles (5th, 7.8k), Larry White (6th, 6.4k) and Tim Burt (7th, 5k). Ray Curran finished 9th for 2.2k and Nesrin Can, Barron Whipple, and Doug Young won just under 2k for 10 through 12th. Also making the money and final three tables: Terry Moore, Peter Feriozzi, Tim Repp, Matt Silva, Luther Tran Mike Monaghan, Prissy Giroir, and Martin Zentner. PLO: Keith Ray prevailed in Event 8 winning a touch over 10k for first. Dorian Grant 6k for second and Kevin Cronin 4k for third. The final nine cashed and also included (in order of 4th - 9th): Paul Chung, Eric Kent, Michael Casey, Rickey Bennett, Mack Ham, and Le Yi Chi. |
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HAND OF THE WEEK: Sometimes the only person you need the "Hollywood" to work on is your opponent... |
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BEAU UPDATES: SENIORS GOES TO TEMPLE: Charles Temple triumped in Event 7, winning 23k for first in the seniors event. Complete results below but a couple of shouts out for good runs by friends of GCP; Janice Randall for making the final table (8th) and Bill Flippen in the money. Complete Results: 1st Charles Temple $23,681 2nd John Davis $12,627 3rd Han Kim $7,103 4th Richard Long $5,524 5th Grant Hart $4,735 6th Suzanne Miller $3,946 7th On Kim $3,157 8th Janice Randall $2,368 9th Patricia Darby $1,578 10th Herman Stewart $1,105 11th James McFall $1,105 12th Sandra Brown $1,105 13th George Elias $947 14th Thomas Booker $947 15th Mike Kingham $947 16th Lane Leblanc $789 17th Paul Price $789 18th Anthony Vercher $789 19th Douglas Young $631 20th Judge Leo Boothe $631 21th William Flippen $631 22nd Louis Lee $631 23rd Richard Palter $631 24th Kelly Bennett $631 25th Robert Olinda $631 26th Henry Gill $631 27th Bill Eggerton $63 MCCAY MORE THAN OKAY IN LIMIT OMAHA: Robert McCay bested Robert Rourke to win the Limit Omaha Event 6th and earned 5.6k to go with the bragging rights. Rourke won 3.3k for second. The final nine cahed in the 75 entran 17k prize pool. 3rd through 9th in order: Maury Barrett, Rebecca Montague, Chris Stevens, Dean Rutledge, Dennie Lindsay, Cynthia Allen, and Brent Siebenkittel. |
PLATINUM PASS WINNER
PREVAILS IN BAHAMAS: The 25k PokerStars Player Championship, with all their satellite winners and freebie winners, arguably slotted itself into contention just behind the Main Event and maybe the WPT 5 Diamond as one of the ephremal poker "majors." A huge groundswell of hype, a huge prize pool, and a ton of elite players certainly elevated it this year to a new level of prestige. Ramon Colillas of Spain won a 30k valued Platinum Pass and turned that into $5.1 million dollars. He was one of 320 (out of over 1,000 total players) to get a free roll. The final table started with a cooler as day one chip leader Talal Shakerchi got it in with Aces v. AsQs. By the turn any Jack or spade would win it for his opponent Julien Martini. A spade came. As you can scroll down and see for yourself in an earlier hand of the week AA v. AQ may well have been the hand matchup of that tournament Martini rode that winall the way to heads up action and a 2:1 chip lead over Colillas. He got bad beat/coolered himself to give the lead away. His flopped a flush couldn't fade a backdoored full house that started with a measley pair of queens on the flop for Colillas. Martini had to settle for just under 3 million. We are sure he'll be fine. |
TWEET OF THE WEEK:
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BEAU UPDATES: DUPUY MAKES IT LOOK EASY:  Defending heads up champion Jeremy Eyer (if winning the Fall Event qualifies as defending and why not since it's the only recent previous heads up event in the South) had a shot to go back to back. Eyer (pictured) played Dupuy in the semi-finals in the fall but instead of doubling his victories, Dupuy evened the scoreline winning a title of his own. Dupuy earned over 6k for first. The final four included GCP's Wild Bill Phillips and Justin Donato. Complete results: 1st Chris Dupuy $6,242 2nd Jeremy Eyer $3,425 3rd Bill Phillips $2,015 4th Justin Donato $2,015 5th Alcides Gomez $806 6th Hamid Izadi $806 7th Brandon Marks $806 8th Christopher Smith $806 9th Matthew Silva $403 10th Daniel Doucet $403 11th John Dolan $403 12th Walter Chambers $403 13th Charles Doumitt $403 14th Remedios Patalinghug $403 15th Jeromy Bynum $403 16th John Magnetta $403 CAMPOS CHAMP-OS: Charles Campos took the $300 No Limit Event 5 title by beating Michael Casey two handed. Campos won almost 12k while Casey pocket 6.5k. The top 18 cashed in the 152 Entrant and $36k prize pool. Several familiar names in the money including Lane LeBlanc, Blake Whittington and John Cressend. Complete results below: 1st Charles Campos $11,892 2nd Michael Casey $6,556 3rd Adel Jo $3,602 4th Brian James $2,882 5th Walter Mitchell $2,161 6th Scotter Clark $1,801 7th Daniel Pinney $1,441 8th Blake Whittington $1,081 9th Lane Leblanc $720 10th Holly Meliet $504 11th Keith Mullen $504 12th Donna Cain $504 13th Marvin Crawford $432 14th Sherman Westmoreland $432 15th Mohamed Serry $432 16th John Cressend $360 17th Jay McDonald $360 18th Russ Gould $360 |
MILLION DOLLAR HEATER
EVENTS 1 THRU 3: Event #1 $600k guaranteed. 2763 runners. 1st Place was William Stanford for north of $92k...Jon Hemingway next in 2nd scoring $54k...Tara Snow 5th for over $33k...behind her Hiep Doan (pic) who scoped over $25k. Other notables: Barth Melius
got 16th for $6700...Dustin Stewart 20th for over
$5500... "King of Poker Gras" Mihail Karasoulis and the guy
that came in 2nd to Mihail, David "Diesel" Nicholson,
came in 23rd/24th and both took home $5500. |
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HAND OF THE WEEK: Let's set the stage a bit... getting close to the bubble in the 25k buy-in PokerStars championship. The girl in the hand won a free seat to this tournament. Would you, could you, press the fold button? |
NEW BLOGGAGE HERE: Ben Saxton, now a permenant New Orleans native (we think), writes in-depth profiles of poker players and industry figures on both a national and local scale. We've long linked to many of these and have been meaning to add him to our blog roll for some time. Here's where he archives the stories he writes for 2 + 2 with a lot of features on folks from our neck of the woods. You'll find him slotted in on the right side of the site.  Chris Sirras writes an NFL handicapping blog, Inside Water, which is equal parts funny and informative. Again, we intended to add him to our roll much earlier, and since it's the end of the NFL season why not now? Yeah, our timing is terrible. Just the playoffs to go. That said, if we put him here now, no way we miss him next year. You will find him on the left side of the site. |
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MORE HOLIDAY READING: BOOK SUGGESTION: Wharton's website gives a very deep synopsis about a book that features a fictional poker playing Wharton graduate written by a real life Wharton graduate and Hedge Fund Pioneer Jerrold Fine. This looks like a great read and can you beat the title Make Me Even and I'll Never Gamble Again? This is heavy on the poker and shows a direct line between the financial markets and the game we play. The article also features a podcast interview with the author. Go here for more. And click the photo to buy if you appreciate our rec. We might make a few pennies lol. EXHAUSTIVE YEAR IN REVIEW: We had planned to do a little write up (still might) about the biggest stories in poker (with a slant toward the coast) but ESPN and Bernard Lee did an excellent job wrapping up 18 news items that featured prominently in 2018 so check that out first. Go here . ANOTHER LIST: Lee Davy on CalvinAryre.com wrote up his five favorite poker victories of the year. Not surprisingly this one is a little heavy on "the industry" of poker. Go here. TEACHING STOICISM: Roger Federer apparently sought help to learn how to keep a poker face. The idea being his opponent would have less information to do battle with. Anybody else or any other pro athletes looking for a coach on keeping it in? We will be happy to help contact us. Article here. RED DEAD POKER BOTS: This guy can't stop playing poker on a video game against the artifical players. Maybe there is still hope for online poker in the A.I. Age (at least for the site providers)? Go here. |
MILLION DOLLAR HEATER
THIS WEEKEND! In honor of the MDH starting this weekend (SCHEDULE) we've compiled Hendon Mob's top ten lists for the venue. The top ten cashers is loaded with familir local names but you'll notice the all time money winner's list has a different complection altogether. That's because the Beau used to host a 10k buy-in WPT event which generated giant prize pools and skewed that list entirely. Don't see your name well click the links below to see the complete lists: 1st Tom Franklin 34 2nd Billy McBrayer 27 3rd Mohammad Moeini 24 4th Timothy Burt 22 5th Hiep Doan 17 5th Jeremy Eyer 17 5th Jerry Ard 17 8th Nesrin Can 16 8th Seville Hale 16 8th William Souther 16 8th Mark Wilds 16 More cashers here. 1st Allen Carter $ 1,218,471 2nd William Edler $ 754,890 3rd Hoyt Corkins $ 732,854 4th Alexander Kuzmin $ 601,606 5th Robert Suer $ 501,082 6th Tyler Smith $ 476,528 7th Jonathan Kantor $ 436,391 8th John Dolan $ 430,308 9th David Robbins Jr $ 415,417 10th Mark Rose $ 377,873 More money winners here. |
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HOLIDAY (POKER)
HEADLINES: First off Merry Christmas and Hapy Holidays from GCP to you and your family. Some links to read... STATE OF KENTUCKY LOSES SHADY MONEY GRAB: The state of Kentucky sued Pokerstars for the money its residents lost when the site was illegally operating prior to Black Friday. So kind of the bluegrass legislators to redistribute the losses to their aggrieved citizens? Well... not exactly. Kentucky wanted solely to drain Poker stars of the funds to add to their own coffers and not to make their citizens whole at all. On appeal the court agreed with PokerStars that Kentucky which was using a loophole (of sorts) in its own law solely to basically profit off its citizen's gambling losses. Pretty much the exact opposite of the point of the law. Go here for all the details.  PRO SOCCER PLAYER ALMOST MATCHES YEARLY SALARY IN WPT EVENT: Brent Kallman of the Minnesota United makes 85k as an MLS soccer player. He won 62k over four days at The WPT's Seminole Rock 'N Roll Open. He has no plans to change professions but definitely has a pretty good side hustle. WPT RESTRUCTURES TO PIVOT TO ESPORTS: The new company is looking to hold live eSports events, develop an online sSports platform, trade under Nasdaq symbol AESE and to expand its player base by a factor of almost 10. Maybe some will join in on the poker? Also interesting that Bwin sold the WPT for around 30 million in just 2015 and this transaction was reported to be 150 million. Gulp! Go here for more details. AUTHOR USES POKER SKILLS: Caroline Hulse has written a book, The Adults, about two new couples, half of each are an ex couple, spending a holiday together. She says that she modeled a lot of the inevitably painful interactions based on players in high stress poker situations. "There's lots of times in poker where you what the sensible thing is to do, but you don't actually want to do it. And I think there's lots situations like that in life as well." Go here. POKER SURGE: The laws seems to be changing, Michigan recently joined the online poker should be legal states, and those reading the tea leaves believe more dominoes will tumble any day now. So is a poker boom coming? Ed Miller suggests a surge is around the corner: Go to Cardplayer. WSOP 50TH ANNIVERSARY TO FEATURE RAKE FREE EVENT: $500 Buy-in will be rake free and feature a $5 Million guaranteed prize pool to kick off the half century honoring event. The massive amount of rebuys will not be rake free so it's possible the WSOP will still make more than first place money for this years version of the Collosus. However, like almost every event they are featuring more chips and this looks to have a lot more play than last years coin-flipping contest. Got WSOP.com for more details on the new schedule. |
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IP WSOP-C WRAP UP: MEMPHIS' KEVIN JOHNSON WINS MAIN AND BEN THOMAS CASINO CHAMP: Kevin Johnson beat Luke Graham heads up to win 127k in the IP Main Event. Graham earned 78k. Ben Thomas of Baton Rouge made it all the way to fourth place in the Main Event and locked up a seat in the Global Championship as Casino Champion. Not only that but he also pocket 42.6k for his finish. Matt Higgins finished third for 57k. Johnny Landreth (6th 24k) and BJ McBrayer (9th 12k) also made the final table. IN THE MONEY: Wayner Solar of Baton Rouge (16th 6.6k), Peace Marvel of Pearl River, LA (17th 6.6k), Michael Lech (Alma Ark, 18th 6.6k), Jared Ingles (20th 5.5k), Randy Gordon, Rebeca Campbell, Sley Sanchez and Jeffrey Bromberger all cashed. MATTHEWS DOUBLES: Robbie Matthews of Baton Rouge didn't have a ring a week earlier, now he has two. He swept the senior events after winning over 7k for first place in Seniors Event #2. Mickel Brien of New Orleans followed up his winning of a Bad Beat jackpot at the Gold Nugget for 25k with a fourth place finish. Hank Sitton Kenny Milam, and Ron Held also cashed. So too, Thu Nguyen and Charles Windham of Slidell. |
IP BILOXI WSOP-C MAIN
EVENT CHIP COUNTS: Circuit Grinder Mike Lech sits atop the leaderboard with 551k after Flights A and B coalesce today. Rebecca Campbell (pictured 304k), Jared Ingles (274k), and BJ McBrayer (236k) bagged top 20 stacks. Randy Gordon 210k, Peace Marvel 195k, Jeff Bromberger 182k, Matt Higgins 182k, Ben Thomas 148k, Sley Sanchez 12k, Wayne Solar (118k), Chris Savage (112k), Judge Leo Boothe (95K), and Tim Burt (75k) all return to action today. Good Luck to everybody still in it. |
IP BILOXI WSOP-C
RESULTS MUNROE THE TRUE MONSTER: Gavin Munroe of Gautier, MS prevailed in the Monster Stack tournament after amassing a monster stack in the money and runing over the field. Munroe's first ring came with $26,278 too. Not bad for the local dealer. Five Georgia players made the final table: Regina Ham 2nd (16k), Dell Taylor 4th (8.8k), James Bankston (5th 6.6k), Mack Ham (7th 3.9k) and Ismal Cabrera (8th 3.1k). The final table also featured Donald Crabtree of TN finished third for 11k, Austin Reilly of Gulf Shores 6th for 5k and Brent Siebenkittle of D'Iberville for 9th 2.4k. With 362 players 45 were paid. Those earning over 1k included Ben Thomas, Martin Zentner, Homer Borque (Port Barre, LA), and "Cigar" Joey Wideman. Also in the money: Simon Philip (Pensacola), Danny Doucet, JW Carter, "Wild" Bill Phillips, Ben Mintz, Andrew Dykeman (Jacksonville), Prissy Giroir, Brandon Semmes (Monroe, LA), David Nicholson, and Steve Bierman.  BREWSTER'S THOUSANDS: Scott Brewster of Covington, LA pipped Luther Tran of Bayou La Batre heads up won win 21k. Tran earned 12k for second. Trace Henderson won 9k for third. Bob Beck of Santa Rosa Beach won 7k for fourth. Rober Elliott (AL), Terry Moore (AL), Charles Holler (TX), Dylan Ziglar (Holden, LA), and Corey Harrison also final tabled the $600 Big Blind Ante event. "Cigar" Joey Wideman and Joe "The Pro" Hebert also made the money. |
IP BILOXI WSOP-C
RESULTS SLEY SANCHEZ WINS: New Orleans player Sley Sanchez topped Event 5, winning the $400 6 Handed No Limit Hold'em tournament. He overcame a massive chip disadvantage to Hamid Izadi to earn more than 13k for first. Izadi made $8,488 for second. Trace Henderson won a little over 6k for third. Terry Moore (4.4k for fourth), Nolan Burton (3.2k for fifth) and Sean Small (2.3k for sixth) rounded out the final table. Tim Burt, Ray Curran, Michael Monaghan, Captain Tom Franklin, Ronald Hines, Tony Higgins, Judy Leblanc, and Philip Braswell all made the money too. SILVA KO's PLO FIELD: Charlotte, NC native Matt Silva won 8.4k for first in Event 6. He beat resident PLO expert Matt Lansdon heads up for the ring. Landson earned 5.2k for second. Circuit regs Kennii Nguyen, Warren Sheaves, and Scott Cooper all made the final table. Luis "El Chopo" Tablas of Metairie also cashed. HEBERT ALMOST THERE: Joe "The Pro" Hebert (pictured) came up just short in the $400 one day Event 7. He  finished
second for 8.3k to Russell Sullivan of South Carolina. Joe's
travel buddy and recent ring winner Ben Thomas
finished third for 6k (putting him in contention for Casino
Champion). Eric Salazar of Greensboro North Carolina won
4.4k for fourth.A few of our local favorites also made the final table. Chirs Canan earned 3.2k for fifth, Michael Monaghan 2.4k for sixth, and Peace Marvel 1.9k for seventh. Braden Robinson and Sheila Boyne both of Louisiana rounded out the final table. JW Carter of Jackson, Michael Lins of Bay Minette, FL, and Tomas Teran of Welsh, LA all made the money. |
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RED STICK SUNDAY AT
THE IP: Baton Rouge invaded Biloxi and left with all the spoils on a glorious Sunday. Three champs crowned and all three ring winners came from Red Stick. What a day for the Red Stick grinders.  DEVINE IRVINE: Sometimes you play a tournament and you just feel a player is fated to win. Devine intervention or just a good run of cards and an ability to rake big pots. Debra Irvine wasn't falling for bluffs and steadily got max value for her hands so no wonder she took her first ring in the re-entry event. She earned 44k for first (her second final table of the series) and left Biloxi's own Greg Whitworth to settle for 27k and second place. Two other accomplished players took third (Corey Harrison 20k) and fourth (Mike Monaghan 15k). Rory O'Brien of Prairieville, LA won 11k for fifth. Donald Davis of Braxton, MS (7th touch under 7k), and JW Carter of Jackson, MS (9th 4.4k) also made the final table. Other locals in the final three tables included Andrew Moon (12th 3.6k), Sley Shanchez (13th 3k), Ken Christopher (15th 3k), Judge Leo Boothe (16th 2.5k), Steve Bierman (19th), Eric Lefort the day 1 chipleader (20th), Derek Normand (23rd), Wild Bill Phillips (25th) and Luther Tran (29th). Also cashing on Day 2: Tim Burt, Morty Davis, Trace Henderson, Ronald Inman, Saeed Nia, Dale Trosclair, Chester Baughan, Robert henderson, Renee Skinner, Brandon Semmes and Thuy Djedjos. Lafarrah Weeks was one of a couple of players to cash twice in the same event. |
RED STICK SUNDAY AT
THE IP PT. 2: MATTHEWS MASHES: Robbie Matthews picked up his first ring in the seniors event and just like all seniors events he plays seemed like he started with a big stack and just kept adding to it. Robbie won 9.6k for first and Baton Rouge's second ring on the day. Bill Dehart of Metairie won just under 6k for second. Bill Flippen of Kenner took fifth, with Kenny Milam adding another final table to his resume. Also cashing JL Cutrer, Davon Hayes and Mark Holmes.  THOMAS TAKES IT: Ben Thomas can no longer be considered one of the better players on the Coast without a ring. FIrst place in the $400 one day event ended that distinction. The Baton Rouge rounder won 12.6k and bested Paul Sokoloff heads up (Sokoloff was in search of his second ring of the series). Matt Davis (also of Baton Rouge), Luiz Sa, and Lafarrah Weeks also cashed. |
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IP COMMETH: Today the first event will be spread at the IP's WSOP-C event. This is a stop that has returned to the coast, albeit in a different calendar slot. Lots of history there for players in our footprint. They get us started with a $250 ring event. If you are interesting in adding to the history we have the all time cashers and winners at the IP to know what you gotta do to crack those top tens... We just mentioned this guy recently for winning a ton more money, but did you know he's first place all time in earnings at the IP?  1st Kyle Cartwright $ 249,352 2nd Timothy Miles $ 194,911 3rd Mohammad Moeini $ 169,871 4th Jerry Monroe $ 144,756 5th Caufman Talley III $ 136,768 6th Chris Savage $ 129,023 7th Martin Zentner $ 114,400 8th Tom Franklin $ 112,808 9th Travis Lutes $ 95,253 10th William Phillips $ 86,381 In terms of number of cashes it's another familiar name sitting way above everybody else: 1st William Souther 30 2nd Tom Franklin 22 3rd Timothy Burt 15 4th Gregory Whitworth 13 4th William Phillips 13 6th Bertel Ladner 12 6th Barron Whipple 12 8th William Jeter Brock 11 8th Danny Doucet 11 8th David Nicholson 11 8th Robert Harwell 11 |
$22k...Bill Joyner 2nd for $12k...Mo Serry 3rd for
$6700...Jerry Monroe 20th and min cash.