ONLINE GRIND REWIND: John Dolan went deep in another Full Tilt Texas Holdem poker event this past Sunday… and it’s become a weekly thing for him to cash in an online poker tournament. Meanwhile, Bazeman chopped the Sunday Second Chance over on Pokerstars for 35k. He beat 1326 entrants to make it to a three way first place chop. Congrats to both players.
ACADIANA SERIES OF POKER IS ALMOST HERE: January 28th, the Cajun Dome in Lafayette, LA becomes the poker dome. Come out and play for a good cause, the United Way, and try to take down one of those huge cardboard checks. First place in years past has been 10k. Click here for more details and to register right now.
LUCKY IN KENTUCKY: Just a shout-out to site in Kentucky with similar goals as ours. They are a local site dedicated to service their group of players. If you are headed to Kentucky, one stop place to find out where you can get lucky. That didn’t come out right but you know what we mean. Everything Poker in Kentucky in one place right here.
IMAGEMASTERS AND TOURNAMENT MASTERS: Just another shout-out to the stellar photography of Eric Harkins over at ImageMasters. He took all the great winners shots we got from the Beau. He and Brian Heptinstall, along with all the Beau staff, have been working thankless hours and doing a terrific job. Really have been enjoying the twitter updates that Brian puts up and appear in our right hand column (with a little scrolling down) very easy to sweat final tables. The pictures are always first rate.
The tournament staff as usual are also logging the extra long hours so kudos to Johnny Grooms, Eric Comer, Shaun (Four Aces) Johnston, Kurt and everybody at the Beau Rivage (including the dealers and cocktail servers) for pulling off a great event. Nice structures too!
EVENT 17: GOOD GOLLY MISS HOLLY. Holly Raba of Fort Lauderdale Florida took down one of the more interesting Ladies final tables we’ve seen in a while. Raba won 7k for first place. Our facebook buddy Kerri Dorsey of Gautier, MS was there and finished third for 2.44k. Good job Kerri! (Speaking of facebook, are you our facebook buddy too? You should be. Click “like” on one of our facebook widgets on this page and make us feel better about our selves).
Congrats also to Julie Dawson of Daphne, AL (2nd for 3.8k) and Theresa Gex of Baton Rouge who finished 4th for 1.6k. Janet Clark of Gulf Breeze 5th for 1.4k. Congrats to another buddy in the business, Gretchen Holzhauser of New Orleans who proved not only does she know the game but she can play it by finishing 6th for 1.22k. In 7th place Rita Little of Pensacola, FL. Wonder if she’s any relation to our blogger over there in the left hand column. Maybe it’s time we sign Rita up to do some blogging of her own.
EVENT 18: TERRY LAKE GARNER IS OLD? The guy doesn’t look like a senior citizen in person (or in that picture or in that suit), but the Hattiesburg, MS native took down the Seniors event. He made another 23k to spend on senior items like a car with a big bumper.
EVENT 13: WILEY WILDS WINS AGAIN: Mark WIlds, of Biloxi, MS played seven hours of heads up poker, a contest one of the owners of GCP got to watch a bit of after completing the seven pm tournament. Fred Sigur of Chalmette, LA was the unlucky second place finisher who made almost 30k on the day.
Bob Harrison of Gulf Shores, AL finished 8th for 4.8k and Danny Doucet of Lafayette, LA 3.2k for 9th. Captain Tom Franklin and Bruce Little also cashed in the 1k Event.
–And also congrats to Charles Chan of Panama City for his 4th place finish for 3.1k in the Limit Omaha 8 or better tournament.
EVENT 10, BRAWL WON BY BRAWLY IN $340 LIMIT HOLD’EM: You should recognize the face if you play on the Coast and take in some cash games at the Beau. One of the better dealers now can say he is one of the better players too and use a large trophy as a chip-protector should he want to. Michael Brawley, originally of Missouri, and a big fan of Duke Basketball, did just what his beloved Blue Devils did last year. He took it down. Brawley won 6.39k by winning more hands than opponents like Larry Welker of Praireville, LA (6th, 1k), Carol Farley of Ocean Springs, MS (8th $710) and Justin Carey of Metairie, LA ($533).
EVENT 9, LIPPERT WINS 28k: Adam Lippert of Brooklyn, NY won the $230 No Limit Hold’em with Re-entry tournament, beating 199 other players. At the final table Lippert outlasted a couple of big local names, Mark Rose (a recent Main Event champion at the Beau), and Eskimo Clark.
Eskimo Clark has been making his presence felt and tearing up this series of tournaments seeming to cashing in every other event. Brian Bass of Pensacola, FL took down 5th for 5.2k. Rose bagged 3,5k for 7th, and Eskimo Clark 1.7k for 9th. BJ McBrayer also added another cash to his resume.
KAI LANDRY WINS EVENT 8 AND AUTOMATIC MEMBERSHIP TO AARP: Feeling like he had aged 20 years in a previous tournament when the dealers were forced to “wash” the deck almost every hand, and probably wondering why some players weren’t forced to wash between levels, Landry played with his aged peers and took down the Seven Card Stud 8/ob tournament.
Landry made a deal with local notable Baron Whipple, the second place finisher, who he had a sizable chip lead on because Landry had an early-bird special to catch. The once (and future?) GCP blogger also dispatched Captain Tom Franklin (4th 1.7k), Sal Mortillaro (Metairie, LA 7th $989),and Johnny Livingston of Selma, AL (8th $792) enroute to the title.
BEUCHE-WHACKED: Legendary local cash game grinder, Joe Beuche, came up just short of his first title. The Houma, LA native, who also sublets in the Harrahs parking garage, pocketed 7.2k for third place in Event 7 $340 No Limit Hold’em. The illusive Beuche is rarely pictured but we nabbed this shot of him a couple of years back (two other GCP bloggers(?) also in the shot, your guess who Joe B is).
Sean Williams of Dallas won $24k for first place. John Alredge of Guatier, MS finished 6th for 4k. Michael Husar of Metairie, LA clawed his way to the final table finishing 9th to win 1.6k. Carwash king Michael Schneider and motel magnate Mohammed Moeini also cashed in the tournament.
MERLE BOURGEOIS CHOPS HARRAHS WEEKLY WEDNESDAY TOURNAMENT: Bourgeois and one of the co-owners of GCP joined several others in an even chop. Bourgeois is adjusting to a new schedule of 14 days on a rig and 7 days off and struggling to make time for poker. Lucky for him, he found time this week. Congrats Merle!
While at Harrahs we learned there is also chatter of a weekly Saturday tournament, a $10,000 freeroll for the players that log the most time on the felt, and other promotions. As they come to us, we will pass them on.
ACADIANA SERIES OF POKER IS COMING: January 28th, Lafayette, LA in the CajunDome to benefit the United Way. Click the banner on the right column to take you directly to the site registry. If you haven’t received our emails about the tournament sign up for our email list right now. Email this guy.
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