Orleans Open Event #15 Limit Hold'em
MikePaulle
EVENT # 15
July 25, 1998
Limit Hold’em, $230 Buy-in
DEALING IN DOLLARS
By Mike Paulle
The winner today is also a tournament dealer. It showed. Oblivious to
pressure, they might have been playing at their kitchen table for pennies
rather than at the final table for thousands of dollars.
There were 348 players today down from last year’s 379. The total prize pool
was $69,600.
Nerves are on edge, time is running out to get unstuck. Craig, in a blue
running suit, ran past me so I wouldn’t get his last name. When Craig called
Yves Lanvin all-in with J 9, he should have had the best of it. But Lanvin’s 9
4 hit a 4 on the river. There were now 29 remaining players all of whom were in
the money.
To set up the final table, Manny Silva tried to buy a pot with A K. This
time it was the winner who didn’t want to give a name. The anonymous player had
A 9 with a 9 on the flop. Vanndy Yem with $2,600 and Cissy Bottoms with $2,100
in chips appreciated Manny’s silver.
The Final Table
Seat 1 Diego Cordovez, Palo Alto, CA $25,000
Seat 2 Cissy Bottoms, Atlantic City, NJ $ 2,100
Seat 3 Blaine Claypool, Las Vegas, NV $ 7,500
Seat 4 Anonymous, Unknown, $15,000
Seat 5 Daniel Negreanu, Willowdale, ONT
$41,600
Seat 6 Ray Beader, Las Vegas, NV $22,300
Seat 7 Keith Bastien, Las Vegas, NV
$16,900
Seat 8 Yves Lanvin, Cannes, France $33,200
Seat 9 Frank Schend, Great Falls, MT $ 4,700
Seat 10 Vanndy Yem, Salem, OR $ 2,600
Frank Schend got it all-in with an overpair to the flop. Frankly, Schend’s
Jacks were an underpair to Ray Beader’s Kings. No Jack, not much jack for
Schend in 10th.
Kings were running and Cissy Bottoms ran up against another pair held by
Daniel Negreanu. Bottoms was no Cissy and left with a smile on her face in 9th.
Keith Bastien couldn’t believe his eyes when Ray Beader turned over a pair
of 6’s. Keith had been betting throughout. There were four overcards and a four
part flush on board. None of this phased Beader. Somehow, Ray had a bead on
Keith’s hand. The pair of 6’s stood up. Crippled, Bastien went all-in with the
first Ace he saw and was outkicked by Daniel Negreanu. Thinking he must be the
last Bastien of sanity, Keith departed in 8th.
Vanndy Yem went all-in when a deuce hit the flop. Diego Cordorez called with
A Q. An Ace came on the river to dunk Vanndy in 7th.
Yves Lanvin was the recipient of another strange beat. When a 10 and two
rags flopped, Yves bet out with K Q. Diego Cordorez must have had a tell,
because he called with A J. Then a Queen turned. Yves bet again. Amazingly,
Diego called again. Lanvin didn’t need the King that came on the river. He was
already there. Betting the river, Lanvin couldn’t smell the rat as Cordorez
raised. Yves had to call, he had top two pair. Diego had made a straight on
perfect perfect. With few chips left, Lanvin went all-in with K 7. Daniel
Negreanu called with A Q and caught a Queen to evaporate Lanvin in 6th. What
was my sin, Lanvin must have thought?
Anonymous took a hit when Daniel Negreanu rivered a gut shot straight with 5
6 in the big blind. All-in on the next hand, it was Ray Beader who caught a gut
shot 5 on the turn to straighten his 2 4. Unknown got 5th place money.
Diego Cordorez finally ran low on chips and went all-in with A 10. Daniel
Negreanu, always happy to oblige, called with 10 9 and caught a nine to
cauterize Diego.
While all these players were being eliminated, Blaine Claypool was
collecting chips primarily at the expense of Daniel Negreanu. One of the
hottest players in the game, Daniel finally found someone he couldn’t beat in
Claypool. Blaine was torturing the young bracelet winner. In a big hand,
Negreanu paid Claypool off on quad 7’s because Daniel couldn’t get off his
pocket 10’s. All-in with Q 4, Negreanu found Claypool with Aces. The white-hot
streak of Daniel Negreanu was over. The “enfant terrible” of poker, who’d had
the chip lead only minutes before, left talking to himself in 3rd.
Heads up, Claypool turned down a deal with a 2-1 disadvantage in chips to
Ray Beader. Soon thereafter Beader, a tournament dealer who never showed a
second of emotion, showed Blaine he had feet of clay. Claypool went all-in with
an Ace with Kings and Eights on board. Beader turned over the King to take a
well deserved title.
Official Prize Money
1st Ray Beader, $26,887
2nd Blaine Claypool, $13,145
3rd Daniel Negreanu, $ 6,572
4th Diego Cordorez, $ 3,286
5th Anonymous, $ 2.390
6th Yvan Lanvin, $ 2,091
7th Vanndy Yem, $ 1,792
8th Keith Bastien, $ 1,494
9th Cissy Bottoms, $ 1,195
10th Frank Schend, $ 896
11th-20th received $522
Manny Silva, Don Lesh, Craig DiSalvo, Pat Fleming, Ernest Martin,
Harold Smith, Gary Haubelt, Sed Day, TJ Cruz and Barry Bindelglass.
21st -29th received $348
An Tran, Bill Cristy, David C, Glean Uchibori, Tom Stinson,
Debbie Burkhead, Tom Sparks, Parusz Dardashty and Ernie Romano.
In the last evening tournament of this year’s Orleans Open, there were 186
entries and 123 rebuys in Limit Hold’em for a total prize pool of $30,900.
Victor Logan had a 2-1 chip lead but he wanted the TOC entry so he took less
cash in a deal with Tony Ryan. Earlier there was an unbelievable 16-way save
prior to the final table that’s too complicated to go into here. But it meant
that all 16 players got at least $1,000.
Official Prize Money
1st Victor Logan, Alvin, TX $10,400
2nd Antony Ryan, Las Vegas, NV $ 5,200
3rd Jarrett Peter, Arvada, CO $ 2,600
4th Rocky DiPomazio, Gallup, NM $ 1,950
5th Gene James, Leesburg, VA $ 1,300
6th David Rabbi, Las Vegas, NV $ 1,170
7th Harris Hansen, Las Vegas, NV $ 1,040
8th Oscar Abdoulah, Henderson, NV $ 910
9th Bill Johnson, Klamath Falls, OR $ 780
10th Lou Macciaverna, Las Vegas, NV $ 650
11th-20th received $340
Ken Heydon (Canada), Vern Stordahl (MN), Don Naifeh (AZ), Manfred Prill
(Germany), Michael Dermer (LV), Joe Dohanes (OH), Ken Bornstein (CA), Geno
Davis (CA), Dave Herbst (LV) and Mike Miller (TX)
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>THE ORLEANS OPEN
>EVENT # 15
>July 25, 1998
>Limit Hold’em, $230 Buy-in
>
>11th-20th received $522
>
>Manny Silva, Don Lesh, Craig DiSalvo, Pat Fleming, Ernest Martin,
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Isn't this Jup?! Congrats!
-Rob Vega