Archive for March 2006
BoDog's Calvin Ayre Wild Card Event
March 06, 2006
I do quite a bit of work for Fox Sports Net and this show will definitely be different. I Can't get into a lot of the details of what happened in the competition but I can say this is the much more than I worked in Costa Rica in years past. This event was billed as a reality show and consisted of parties, poker, and police and no one throws a party like Calvin Ayre. Players were listed under three categories Pros, Celebrities and Internet Players. Some of the pros in attendance were Erick Lingren, David Williams, Evelyn Ng, Phil Laak, Jennifer Tilly, Michael Mizrachi and his girlfriend Lily, and Josh Arieh. Celebrities on hand were Cheryl Hines, Willie Garson, Willa Ford, Chuck Lidell, Rob Mariano, Kelly Wu, John Kelley, and others. A total of 40 players in all competed for a freeroll that totaled $750,000. We were also shaken down by the Costa Rican police department the last day for what appeared to be disturbing the peace but the party rolled on back at the Hotel Intercontinental that night. That was not the way I expected to make the cover of the Costa Rican newspaper the following morning as we headed out of town. Make sure you check this one out as the table talk and events surrounding the event was quite lively.
In LA and catching up
March 04, 2006
After a major event like Bay 101 Shooting Star I usually need a day or two to recouperate but I ws not allowed to this year as I hac to catch a 7am flight to Los Angeles for the FSN show at Hollywood Park. I spent most of that afternoon catching up on unanswered email and getting ready to travel to Costa Rica.
Bay 101 Bounties and who busted them
March 03, 2006
Bounties are worth $5,000
# Shooting Star Eliminated By Round
1 Kathy Liebert Sean Dempsey 1st
2 David Pham William Cuison 2nd
3 Robert Williamson Raul Raez 2nd
4 Scott Fishman Shane Schleger 2nd
5 Phil Ivey Scott Levy 2nd
6 Mike Mizrachi Kevin O'Donnell 3rd
7 Antonio Esfandiari Samir Nassar 4th
8 Amir Vahedi David Harrison 4th
9 J C Tran Alan Cummins 5th
10 Chau Giang Ralph Macri 5th
11 Daniel Negreanu Ron Ware 5th
12 Eric Seidel David Harrison 5th
13 Scotty Nguyen Jason Stern 5th
14 Todd Brunson Josh Munford 6th
15 Danny Nguyen Stewart Fahmy 7th
16 Men Nguyen David Williams 7th
17 Phil Hellmuth Chip Reese 7th
18 Mike Gracz Kirk Morrison 8th
19 Tom McEvoy Jason Norris 8th
20 Cindy Violette Allen Kessler 10th
21 Shannon Elizabeth Kyle Wilson 2nd
22 Mimi Tran Anahit Galajian 2nd
23 Hasan Habib David Plastik 3rd
24 Kenna James Jeff Kimber 3rd
25 Mike Matusow David Cassio 4th
26 Eric Lindgren James English 4th
27 Tuan Le Joe Sebok 5th
28 Gavin Smith Ed Moncada 5th
29 James Woods Webber Kang 5th
30 Paul Darden Ken Moss 5th
31 Toto Leonidas Eric Strickland 5th
32 T.J. Cloutier Dick Corpuz 6th
33 Josh Arieh John Gale 6th
34 Barry Greenstein Tom Henning 6th
35 John Juanda Andy Miller 6th
36 John Pham Freddie Deeb 7th
37 Phil Laak Ravi Udayakumar 8th
38 Freddy Deeb Richard Hirroch 9th
39 Chip Jett John Gale 10th
40 Doyle Brunson Todd Arnold 11th
41 J. J. Liu Chip Reese 11th
42 Gus Hansen Bob Slezak 11th
43 Jennifer Tilly Gabriel Taylor 12th
44 John Cernuto Al Chen 12th
45 Allen Cunningham David Williams 12th
46 Carlos Mortensen David Williams 12th
47 Layne Flack Brad Booth 14th
48 Dan Harrington Jeff Kimber 17th
49 Salim Batshon Nam Le 20th
50 David Williams Nam Le Final Table
Bay 101 Shooting Star Final Results
CASINO Bay 101 Casino
EVENT No Limit Hold'em
DATE February 27th-March 3rd
Buy-in $9600 + 400
Players 518
$250,000 in Bounties
PRIZE $4,972,800 Name Hometown
1 $1,172,800 + 25,500 WPT Seat Nam Le Huntington Beach, CA
2 $629,500 Ravi Udayakumar San Jose, CA
3 $340,000 Danny Smith Folsom, CA
4 $280,000 David Williams Las Vegas, NV
5 $240,000 Fabrice Soulier Paris, France
6 $200,000 Chad Brown Los Angeles, CA
7 $160,000 Tony "T.S." Sin
8 $130,000 Bruce Feldman
9 $100,000 Jeff Kimber
10 $80,000 William Gustafik
11 $80,000 Brian "J.C." Hua
12 $80,000 Randy Gil
13 $65,000 Salim Batshon
14 $65,000 Robert Mizrachi
15 $65,000 Farzad Bonyadi
16 $65,000 Harry Thomas Jr.
17 $65,000 David Stamm
18 $65,000 An-Nan "Al" Chen
19 $50,000 Stuart Fahmy
20 $50,000 Bob Slezak
21 $50,000 Larry Elliott
22 $50,000 Dan Harrington
23 $50,000 Mickey Seagle
24 $50,000 Kyle Tapp
25 $35,000 Kent Lin
26 $35,000 Chip Reese
27 $35,000 Stephan Ovepyan
28 $35,000 Steve Kwak
29 $35,000 Bill Derego
30 $35,000 Brad Booth
31 $25,000 Amnon Filipi
32 $25,000 Joe Sebok
33 $25,000 Ben Sarnoff
34 $25,000 Ralph Macri
35 $25,000 Alan Kessler
36 $20,000 Chris Grigorian
37 $20,000 Kirk Morrison
38 $15,000 Gabe Thaler
39 $15,000 Jeff Stone
40 $15,000 Christian Kruel
41 $15,000 Tony Nguyen
42 $15,000 Geoffrey Wright
43 $15,000 Vineet Sharma
44 $15,000 Kelly Zoudo
45 $15,000 Luong Trinh
$10,000 for Chip Leaders of Day 1 & 2