American Poker Championship @ Turning Stone - Day 1 Results
Michael OMalley
TURNING STONE CASINO
July 12, 2004 - Day 1 Results
No-Limit Hold'em
Buy-in: $10,000
Number of Entries: 112
Prize Pool: $1,064,000
The first major poker tournament to hit upstate New York can only be described
as a "smash hit". 112 poker players paid $10,000 to compete for a 1st place
prize of $500,000. In the mix were many of pokers top professionals, including
Phil Ivey, Phil Hellmuth Jr., Barry Greenstein and many more. The world's best
came to compete against a strong field of locals who call Turning Stone Casino,
host of the American Poker Championship, home. The locals and pros were
cheered on by a crowd of spectators that outnumbered the players all day long.
At the end of Day 1 Van Nguyen from Toronto holds the chip lead with poker pros
Paul Wolfe, Phil Ivey, John Juanda, Paul Darden and Phil Hellmuth Jr. all
nipping at his heels. Day Two of this unique format will start with all six
handed tables. These 36 players will play down to six, when those six players
lucky enough to make the final table will play for all the money Live on Fox
Sports Net. This is the first live broadcast of a poker tournament, and with
the crowds expected to be lined up to watch, this tournament will be one for
the record books.
Reported by Michael O'Malley - Tournament Coordinator
Name Hometown Chip Count Name Hometown Chip Count
Van Nguyen Toronto, Canada $74,600 Billy Gazes Las
Vegas, NV $30,525
Paul Wolfe Apollo Beach, FL $64,750 Paul Phillips Las
Vegas, NV $30,350
Phil Ivey Las Vegas, NV $63,600 Herb Maltabano New Orleans, LA
$28,700
John Juanda Marina Del Rey, CA $62,600 Paul Matties
Saratoga, NY $26,775
Paul Darden Hamden, CT $59,350 Robert Williamson III Dallas,
TX $23,400
Phil Hellmuth Jr. Palo Alto, CA $49,425 Shawn Rice
Lubbock, TX $19,375
Rich Chazin New Hartford $48,750 Ray Faltinsky Wilton, CT
$16,100
Randy Jensen Fort Collins, CO $48,350 Clonie Gowin Dallas,
TX $15,250
Jim Keller Fayatteville, NY $47,275 Stan Walkanowski
Saratoga Springs, NY $11,875
Young Phan Irvine, CA $44,375 Vito Masi Melrose, NY
$11,775
Amir Vahedi Sherman Oaks, CA $44,325 John Myung Vienna,
VA $10,750
Erik Seidel Las Vegas, NV $39,900 Tim Annesi Norwich, NY
$8,500
Barry Greenstein Rancho Palos Verdes, CA $39,850 John
Rooney Framingham, MA $8,250
Phil Laak San Jose, CA $35,100 Canio Sabia Rome, NY
$7,575
Guy Cicconi Chadds Ford, PA $33,325 Gavin Smith Guelph,
Canada $6,725
John D'Agostino Seymour, CT $31,800 Brian Haveson
Newtown, PA $5,575
Tony Laughing Jr. Hogansburg, NY $30,750 Al Krux
Syracuse, NY $5,400
Mike Bogdal Syracuse, NY $30,550 Richard Brodie Seattle, WA
$5,275
Name Finished Name Finished
Martin Feijo 37 Howard Goldfarb 75
Freddy Deeb 38 Dewey Tomko 76
Eric Haber 39 Jay Mortensen 77
Vincent Napolitano 40 Joe Cutrone 78
Howard Lederer 41 Leon Gublo 79
Alan Brodsky 42 Dean Coirin 80
Joe Desanto 43 Bobby Thompson 81
Jon Phan 44 Scotty Nguyen 82
Josh Arieh 45 Hoyt Corkins 83
Allen Kessler 46 Pete Giordano 84
Peter Lagoda 47 Greg Raymer 85
Cliff Josephy 48 Dave Stevens 86
Grant Lang 49 Tony Fiorini 87
Chip Jett 50 Andy Bloch 88
Erick Lindgren 51 Michael Parness 89
Brian Strahl 52 Louie Barkoutsis 90
David Plastick 53 Chris Ferguson 91
Tony Laughing Sr. 54 Mimi Tran 92
Steve Crockett 55 Ronnie Ebanks 93
Cyndy Violette 56 Victor Ramdin 94
Butch Wade 57 Tom Franklin 95
Tim Forbes 58 Lou Lazanaro 96
Nick Bouyea 59 Jason Kufs 97
Amnon Filippi 60 Charbel Hage 98
Ralph Albertson 61 Abraham Mosseri 99
Daniel Negreanu 62 Joe Julian 100
Layne Flack 63 Bill Abraham 101
Tony O'Hagan 64 Tommy Wang 102
Hasan Habib 65 David Singer 103
Mark Dickstein 66 Chris Savage 104
Mickey Appleman 67 Kathy Liebert 105
Kristy Gazes 68 Red Heollrich 106
Chris Tsipirillas 69 Ted Forrest 107
Stan Goldstein 70 Antonio Esfandiari 108
Chris Molica 71 Steven Braverman 109
Haralabos Voulgaris 72 Dan Alspach 110
Steve Cass 73 Josh Spiegelman 111
Davin Anderson 74 Frank Flowers 112
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"Dave L" <dli...@cox.rr.com> wrote in message
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beanie
On Jul 13 2004 12:42AM, Dave L wrote:
> Out of curiosity, was Paul Wolfe wearing any Full Tilt apparel?
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like he did with PokerStars?
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Tony Shek
more named pros than amateurs/locals in the event. Never would I guess that
Turning Stone could draw this much action and a tournament this big. The
Pros were very cordial signing autographs for all. New celeb Shawn Rice via
his ESPN showing was the first to drop by on Friday that I could see.
Scotty Nguyen was playing at the 1/3 tables for fun. Ivey drew a crowd
playing craps on Sat, then saw him again playing Blackjack for 1k hands pre
tourney start. I'm sure others will correct me if I'm a bit wrong on the
specifics below in semi chronological order. Play started at just after
noon.
The interesting starting tables drawing large interest:
Laak, Forrest, Jett, Vahedi, Deeb, Paul Phillips, and Antonio E. Antonio E
was the first bigger name to go and flashed the double bird for the cameras.
Deeb took out Forrest shortly after for those who care.
Stan Greenstein, Clonie, Young Phan, Scotty Nguyen, and Phil Hellmuth. Phan
put Hellmuth on mini tilt dance 3 hours in. He promptly left/blinded out
for 40 minutes. He sensed it was a good time to go back to his hotel and
grab his WPT jacket. It'll be interesting whether that gets blurred out. As
anyone who's played at Turning Stone, they know that it's really freakin
cold, which Mimi Tran shouted. When Phil came back, he ended up to Ivey's
right.
Ivey took out Liebert and a couple others before the first break, so he had
the chip lead most of the afternoon.
Shawn Rice was doing decently, but found the unenviable early spot of
Lederer on his right, then minutes later Laak to his left, followed by
Phillips to the left of that. And none of the 4 moved out till Howard lost
in 41st 7 hours later.
Chris Ferguson didn't have cards during the day and lost K6 spades to 108
spades when 8 flopped. Greg Raymer was also at this table busted out. Then
Scotty Nguyen filled Chris's seat for 10 minutes when his AA lost to local
Jim Keller's KK with K on the river. 3 ex-champs out in 20 minutes from the
same table. Plenty of applause for each. Raymer went to the poker room and
found a crowd watching as he laid out 20k in bills while opening a new table
for no limit action.
Ariah shot to the top of the leaderboard when his 3 takedown count added 2
more with JJ vs QQ vs AK when a J came on the river. He wasn't able to
finish off Clonie and from then on he slowly lost the rest of his stack over
the next 6 hours, including when Josh's KK didn't beat Clonie's AK after the
board made an inside straight for split pot.
Young Phan was leader for a bit winning AK vs AK all suits when his K made a
flush. I believe he also won a QQ vs QQ hand when his side flushed as well.
4:30
Special thanks to Danny Negreanu for superscarfing down his sandwich to sign
an autograph for me. I did say I'd wait for him to finish as Lindgren was
also signing for me.
Here was the Presto period for those interested, between 3:30 and 6. It
went undefeated on all ins. It beat AK, with a K and 5 flopping. Held
twice vs AQ. Beat A5 when A and 5 flopped. Darden went to top of
leaderboard when his AK beat KK with Aces on the turn and river. Then on
the very next hand his 55 vs 66 won with a 5 on the river.
With 67 left, Clonie suddenly wasn't the only female there as Cindy Violette
joined in 6 hours late after weather had her plane stuck in Philly.
Phil Ivey was highly dismayed when in a 20 minute span lost to Brian Strahl,
Erick Lindgren, and Barry Greenstein all ins.
Hellmuth joined near top when his KK held vs 1010 vs JQ. Action was fierce
at the table as Randy Jensen took chip leadership after taking Layne Flach's
chips and Deeb took Danny N's chips on 44 vs AQ, 4 flopped. All on nearly
successive hands. Phil had a superb meltdown on Randy at 7:15. I'm not
sure what the hand was (think Randy had QJ off), but Phil will probably say
later and it'll be on TV. Randy needling him incessantly until Phil
couldn't take it anymore and left 15 minutes before the dinner break after
the hand. Phil saying: "You had a feeling?" Randy simply replying with "I
had a feeling!" Add repetition from both, volume, and a couple more
exclamation points until Phil is 30 feet away.
After the dinner break, Cindy V was next to go out AK to Randy AQ when Q
flopped. Phil seemed highly determined making up ground taking down 4
successive pots to grab chip lead, much of it Randy's. The last of which
was Q10o vs short stack AJ and flopped J89 straight. See, Phil is allowed
to play Q 10 offsuit, however Randy's QJ off wasn't.
Simultaneously, Ivey was able to snag back most of what he lost from Strahl
and Lindgren at the same time. The 2 Phils were in very good spirits
joshing across tables. Revenge and money does that.
Too bad the table broke up. Hellmuth joined the money table with Vahedi and
Darden.
John Juanda recovered from some early beating to be near chip lead around
10, facing off against local Jim Keller and Paul Wolfe. Wolfe could have
been the favorite for day 2 taking down a large stack from John. Paul had
A2 vs John's A5, the flop came AQ2. However successive 4's could only leave
Paul exclaiming "You Are So Lucky!" after seeing John's hand.
Randy was already in the pot when Paul Mattias short stack was allin with
AK. Van midstack raised, Jensen reraised, Van reraised over the top all in.
Jensen showed 97 suited and Van had QQ. K 10 8 flopped, rag turn, and Q
rivered, so actually none of the 3 exited the tourney, while Van made out
big.
Not much of note till with 37 left (36 would make day 2) when Clonie went
all in with Q8 vs Q7. Flop came J 10 7, turn 4. The loudest crowd cheer of
the day happened when a 9 rivered a straight. Clonie was impressive as she
had between 5k and 12k. Her 15k end total might have been the most in chips
she had the entire day.
From talking with the pros, it seems to be that they're are all using this
as a tuneup for Paris next week. West coasters must like the mini vacation
plus cutting down 4-6 hours flying time.
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"Michael OMalley" <rzi...@aol.comrzitup> wrote in message
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Tony Shek
for more heh. I wish I could give more, but work got in the way.
"Tony Shek" <tony...@rochester.rr.com> wrote in message
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Jacob Johannsen
> These 36 players will play down to six, when those six players
> lucky enough to make the final table will play for all the money Live on Fox
> Sports Net. This is the first live broadcast of a poker tournament, and with
> the crowds expected to be lined up to watch, this tournament will be one for
> the record books.
Just out of curiosity: What measures are taken to make sure that the
players won't somehow use the live broadcast to cheat?
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Jacob Johannsen <c...@daimi.au.dk> wrote:
> rzi...@aol.comrzitup (Michael OMalley) writes:
>
> > These 36 players will play down to six, when those six players
> > lucky enough to make the final table will play for all the money Live on
> > Fox
> > Sports Net. This is the first live broadcast of a poker tournament, and
> > with
> > the crowds expected to be lined up to watch, this tournament will be one
> > for
> > the record books.
>
> Just out of curiosity: What measures are taken to make sure that the
> players won't somehow use the live broadcast to cheat?
There is a 5-minute digital delay in use. So, it's nominally live, but
it reality, it's 5 minutes late.
I believe this would fall under the term that NBC coined during the 1996
Atlanta Summer Olympics, "plausibly live".
Dave
Jacob Johannsen
[snip]
>
> Randy was already in the pot when Paul Mattias short stack was allin with
> AK. Van midstack raised, Jensen reraised, Van reraised over the top all in.
> Jensen showed 97 suited and Van had QQ. K 10 8 flopped, rag turn, and Q
> rivered, so actually none of the 3 exited the tourney, while Van made out
> big.
>
Paul Mattias would exit here, if I read you correctly.
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mjostar
guys never stop to take a breath! Makes you appreciate Mike Sexton on the
WPT. Also, those "scanners" on the table don't work nearly as well as the
WPT table cameras.
Irish Mike
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RMITCHCOLL
>guys never stop to take a breath! Makes you appreciate Mike Sexton on the
>WPT. Also, those "scanners" on the table don't work nearly as well as the
>WPT table cameras.
>
>Irish Mike
wow...i 100% disagree with you. i have watched every poker show on tv for the
last few years...imho this is the best bar none. Howard is great, Konik is very
good. And Tompkins is a classic play by play guy. the live (almost) action has
more excitement then the fake, scripted broadcasts like wpt and wsop.
I hope it goes on all nite
Randy Collack
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I'm with Randy here. Lederer is excellent, Tompkins is nearly as good, and
the commentary is paced well, even if a little fast. Good show.
John Harkness
wrote:
>My question is, who are these "motor mouth" announcers. Jesus wept, these
>guys never stop to take a breath! Makes you appreciate Mike Sexton on the
>WPT. Also, those "scanners" on the table don't work nearly as well as the
>WPT table cameras.
>
>Irish Mike
>
Mike, I was watching some season one WPT last night, and tell me
something.
When do Mike and Vince ever STFU?
And when do they ever see a hand that isn't a great hand?
And when do they stop the relentless self-promotion for the show.
We're already watching the thing, so you don't have to tell us how
wonderful the WPT is.
These guys see genius poker plays more often than John Madden sees
blitzes, and he sees about four for every one that actually happens.
I can't watch WPT with the sound on.
John Harkness
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Linda K Sherman
I agree with Randy. There were some rough patches, especially in the
early going, but give the guys a break--they're doing this ***LIVE***
for the ***FIRST TIME****.
Howard wasn't just great--he was greater than great. He was better than
95% of the color guys in professional sports. He did a fantastic job
explaining the nuances of the game and the thought processes the players
might be going through. Mike Sexton sees everything in terms of how
Mike would play, and he's just not in Howard's class.
Lin
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action understandable to the novice and at the same time made it
interesting to those of us who play regularly. Thank you Howard for
leading the charge in taking poker into mainstream America.