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Minnesota’s #1
Poker Source
december 2009
INSIDE
Tournament Results | 12
Statewide Tournament
Schedule | 28
Bar League
Standings | 30
PLUS
FALL POKER
CLASSIC
COVEAGE
DRESCH
DOMINATES
HPT
MN 2010
PLAYER OF
THE YEAR
MAKING HISTORY:
BRAD BERMAN
Captures 2nd FPC MAIN EVENT TITLE
MINNESOTA
STATE
POKER TOUR
LAUNCH,
DEC.
9–14
MINNESOTA
STATE
POKER
TOUR
LAUNCH,
DEC. 9–14
Minnesota Poker Magazine
page 4
december 2009
From the Publisher
ARE YOU THE BEST PLAYER IN MINNESOTA?
N
ow is your
chance to
prove it!
Beginning January
1, 2010, Minnesota
Poker Magazine
will implement the
Minnesota Player of
the Year race.
As most of
you know, I spend a ton of time in card
rooms and at poker tournaments here in
Minnesota. I’ve gotten to know several
hundred poker players across this great
state on a first name (or nickname) basis.
Everywhere I go, the great debate
remains—and players love to discuss the
topic—who is the best? We have a ton of
world-class players who play here, there’s
no doubt about that. Some players play an
occasional tournament, run hot, take one
down and disappear. But to me that doesn’t
prove anything. I don’t believe I’d get much
of an argument when I say that to be the
best in poker you need to be consistent over
a longer period of time with a legitimate
sample size.
I also get emails regularly from out-state
players letting me know that there are
great players in their card rooms and these
players don’t get enough recognition. And
that’s probably true.
So the goal here in creating a Minnesota
Player of the Year competition was to 1.)
make sure there was a large enough sample
size and 2.) make sure all players statewide
have the opportunity to participate and win.
We have worked with several Poker Room
and Casino personnel to determine a list
of events statewide that will be eligible
for POY points (see page 5 for a complete
listing). We have over 500 tournaments
currently point-eligible. Several locations
will be hosting a weekly event, so there
should be no issue finding opportunities
to accumulate points. Please note that this
list is subject to change at Minnesota Poker
Magazine’s discretion throughout the year.
It is also the host casino’s responsibility to
submit results for those player’s points to be
awarded.
We also interviewed several players
across the state to get a feel for what players
are looking for in a fair scoring system.
Obviously it is important that the larger
events, in terms of both buy-in and number
of players, count for more points. At the
same time, our intent is not to have a player
win one large event and win the Player of
the Year off one performance.
So here’s what we’ve come up with for
year 1, 2010:
First, players will be awarded points
based on where they finish in a specific
tournament and based on the total number
of players who cash in that tournament. For
example, if 9 players are awarded a cash,
then 1st place receives 9 points, 2nd place
8 points, etc. If the total number of entrants
in a tournament are small enough that only
5 players cash, then 1st place is 5 points,
2nd is 4 points, etc. This allows us to take
into consideration the size of the field when
awarding points. We will not award points
to more than 15% of the total field. This way
a tournament of 30 entrants can’t award 10
players points, the cap would be 5 places.
Second, we will utilize a multiplier based
on the buy-in level. The multiplier chart is
shown on page 5. For example, the majority
of the weekly tournaments are under $199
buy-in. In this instance they would be pointfor-point with a 1x multiplier. But let’s say
you were to take 3rd place in a $1,000 buy-in
Minnesota State Poker Tour event. Let’s also
assume the number of entrants in that event
allows for 18 places to be paid. For your
3rd place finish you would receive 16 points
multiplied by 2.5x ($1,000 buy-in) for a total
of 40 POY points.
We will list updated standings in
each issue of Minnesota Poker Magazine
beginning March, 2010. We will also post
updated standings on MNPokerMag.com.
Hope all of you enjoy! Let’s see who is the
best once and for all!
Good Luck!
Vol. 1/No. 7
President and Publisher
Bryan Mileski
bryan@mnpokermag.com
Editor and Publisher
Phil Mackey
phil@mnpokermag.com
Art Director
Carolyn Borgen
carolyn@mnpokermag.com
Contributing Writers
Brandon Mileski
Jacob Westlin
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Our Mission
Minnesota Poker Magazine is a
monthly publication dedicated to
serving poker players and gaming
facilities through industry news,
statewide tournament schedules,
player profiles and professional tips.
Coupled with our website, www.
MNPokerMag.com, we are “Minnesota’s #1 Poker Source.”
Lakeville, MN
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– Bryan Mileski
MNPOKERMAG.COM page 6
december 2009
Player Profile
Meyers Winning Money
‘oncommand’
By phil mackey
B
PM: As it stands, you are essentially one of the best online
poker players in the world right now. Certainly top 200 or 100,
maybe better. Hard to quantify. Does that sound odd or surreal to
you at all? Or is it expected?
BM: I think a little of both, although at this point I expect
it more because I have been working really hard lately.
PM: In September you took 6th in a World Championship of
Online Poker event for $41k, and a few days earlier you took 2nd
in a PokerStars $250k Guaranteed Sunday tourney for $68k,
outlasting Jovial Gent (Yevgeniy Timoshenko). What was that
week like for you?
BM: That week was incredible. The whole month of September was great. I wish September never ended. Looking
back at those two tournaments, following busting out from
each of them, I was pretty disappointed, because I mean
you want to finish first and it wasn't until the following day
you realize that the money is nice. Timoshenko is obviously
an incredibly talented poker player with plenty of big wins
under his belt, so he is going to be confident deep in tournaments. He’s never someone you like seeing at your table, but
I just tried to accumulate chips from weaker spots and not
get involved with him too much.
PM: How many hours are you putting in online each week?
And how many tournaments do you play in a day?
BM: I'm putting in around 50 hours a week and about 25-30
tournaments a day.
randon Meyers, known online as “NoraJean”
and “oncommand” is among the best online
multi-table tournament players in the world.
PocketFives.com currently ranks him as the best
online player in Minnesota, and 53rd in the entire world.
OfficialPokerRankings.com ranks him 59th in the world.
I met Meyers at the Fall Poker Classic Main Event in late
October, where he spent the majority of day one wearing
a purple, hooded sweatshirt, sitting behind a fat stack of
chips. He eventually made it to day two before busting out in
13th place.
Meyers is young, confident, and he’s never held a traditional day job. He moved to Las Vegas at the age of 21 and
grinded professionally at casinos until age 25. One year
later, after moving back to Minnesota, Meyers has had ridiculous success playing online multi-table tournaments.
Meyers sat down with Minnesota Poker Magazine to talk
about his success on the cyberfelt.
Phil Mackey (PM): You’ve netted roughly $200k in multi-table
tourneys in 2009. How long have you been crushing like this, and
did you ever think you’d be making this much money playing
poker?
Brandon Meyers (BM): My online tournament success basically just started at the conclusion of the 2009 WSOP. That’s
when I started grinding high stakes multi-table tourneys.
I expected to make this much money from poker, but for a
long time I thought it would come out of the traditional casino setting and not from online poker tournaments.
december 2009
PM: What about cash games?
BM: I play $5/10 no-limit and $10/20 no-limit in Vegas and
LA here and there.
PM: You obviously went deep in the FPC Main Event at Canterbury. Do you play many live tourneys? Do you plan to play
more?
BM: I play live tournaments from time to time. I plan to
go to some of the major live events such as the PokerStars
Caribbean Adventure, LA Poker Classic and WSOP.
Brandon Meyers Profile
Screen Names: NoraJean and oncommand
Age: 26
Resides: Crystal, MN
Family: Married with 11-month-old son
Turned Pro: Age 21
College: One year at Methodist College and one year
at UNLV
Past Day Jobs: None
2009 Gross Tournament Winnings: $566,000
MNPOKERMAG.COM PM: What is your overall gameplan in online tournaments?
Tight early, aggressive late? Are you three-betting often and putting pressure on others? Explain.
BM: Tight, aggro early, far more aggressive when antes
kick in is my general theory. I like trying to find someone at
my table early that I can really exploit and try to play pots
with them while the stacks are deep relative to the blinds.
Then when the antes kick in I try to steal the blinds as often
as my table will allow. I would say I three-bet quite often
compared to most, because I feel like people don't adjust
properly to getting three-bet frequently. This creates many
profitable situations for me. The vast majority of my threebetting is happening once there are antes.
PM: Do you have friends and/or fellow players that you bounce
information off of? Or training sites/forums? Or are you more
self-taught?
BM: I have talked a lot of poker over the years with my
brother in law, the 2006 WPT Champion, Joe Bartholdi.
When I first started playing no-limit cash games at the Bellagio he kind of took me under his wing, and that obviously
has had a tremendously positive impact on my poker game.
Also, more recently I have been talking a lot of poker with
Ken Liu, who is one of the best limit hold-em players in the
world. He has done a good job of playing devils advocate
when discussing situations and challenging me to think
about them at a higher level.
page 7
Crushing In 2009
Date
Tournament
Place
Cash
9.13.09
PokerStars $250K
2
$67,910
9.17.09
PokerStars WCOOP 36
6
$41,280
10.3.09
PokerStars $60K
1
$24,609
9.8.09
Full Tilt $50K
1
$22,858
7.13.09
PokerStars $60K
1
$19,352
8.5.09
Full Tilt $50K
1
$18,075
7.22.09
Full Tilt $75K
2
$17,877
9.8.09
PokerStars $40K
1
$15,750
10.26.09
PokerStars $35K
1
$13,013
9.18.09
Full Tilt $50K
3
$10,918
9.29.09
Full Tilt $33K rebuy
1
$10,860
10.13.09
Full Tilt $40K
2
$10,234
11.6.09
Full Tilt $75K
3
$9,466
8.13.09
Full Tilt $75K
3
$9,348
8.28.09
PokerStars $40K
2
$8,019
I am a Cardrunners member, although I have watched very
few of their tournament videos. I also spend a lot of time on
my own thinking about poker and what adjustments I might
need to make to get me to the next level.
PM: What are your thoughts on banks complying with the
Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) on
December 1st? Does it make you nervous about being able to
transfer funds?
BM: Yeah, I mean I'm not to thrilled about this. I haven't
really thought too much about what’s going to happen, but
I hope it doesn't have too huge of a negative affect on the
game. Poker has gotten tough enough over the past four
years, and I don't think this will help promote or get new
people playing.
PM: What are your poker ambitions? Are you eventually looking for more exposure? Or are you content with how things are
right now?
BM: I want to dominate high stakes multi-table tourneys,
both live and online, and if more exposure comes along with
that, great. And if not, I guess I will just be rich instead of
rich and famous.
MNPOKERMAG.COM Minnesota Poker Magazine
page 8
local
december 2009
1. Black Bear Casino
Carlton, MN
www.blackbearcasinoresort.com
card rooms
2.Canterbury Park
Shakopee, MN
www.canterburypark.com
3.Diamond Jo Casino
Northwood, IA
www.diamondjoworth.com
4. Fortune Bay Casino
Tower, MN
www.fortunebay.com
4
11
• Bemidji
• Moorhead
8
6.Grand Casino—Mille Lacs
Onamia, MN
www.grandcasinomn.com
14
• Duluth
94
1
5
94
12
10
Mpls/St. Paul
2
1. Shooting Star Casino
1
Mahnomen, MN
www.starcasino.com
13
• Mankato
35
90
90
3
9. Prairie's Edge Casinio
Granite Falls, MN
www.prairiesedgecasino.com
0. Running Aces Harness Park
1
Columbus, MN
www.runningacesharness.com
94
9
7. Jackpot Junction Casino
Morton, MN
www.jackpotjunction.com
8. Northern Lights Casino
Walker, MN
www.northernlightscasino.com
35
6
7
5. Grand Casino—Hinckley
Hinckley, MN
www.grandcasinomn.com
2. St. Croix Casino
1
Turtle Lake, WI
www.stcroixcasino.com
3. Treasure Island Casino
1
Welch, MN
www.treasureislandcasino.com
4. White Oak Casino
1
Deer River, MN
www.whiteoakcasino.com
december 2009
Tournament Scene
Dresch Wins Back-to-Back
HPT Events
Jeremy Dresch makes local poker history with HPT wins at Shooting Star and Meskwaki
By Minnesota Poker Magazine Staff
Jeremy Dresch, a 35-year-old gas station owner from Fridley, MN, is taking the Midwest poker scene by storm. After
grinding his way to a 5th-place finish in the Fall Poker Classic Main Event at the end of October, Dresch pulled off the
impossible by winning back-to-back Heartland Poker Tour
events in November at Shooting Star Casino in Mahnomen,
MN and Meskwaki Casino in Tama, IA.
Dresch is the only player in HPT history to win multiple
events. Including his FPC final table, Dresch’s total winnings
after this incredible run exceed $140,000.
Minnesota Poker Magazine (MPM): Have you put this in
perspective at all yet? As far as local poker goes, this is unprecedented.
Jeremy Dresch (JD): It’s a sick, sick, sick run for sure. I
mean, obviously I had to get lucky to do what I did three consecutive tournaments. But I played pretty good too.
I always expected that at some point I would get a win in a
tournament. I went deep in a lot of tournaments and cashed
for $10k, $9k, $20k. I always expected that I would win a tournament. I never, ever in a million years would suspect that
three consecutive weeks I would go as deep as I have and
win back-to-back weeks. You don’t think something like that
could ever happen.
MPM: Do you play online too? And if so, how often?
JD: I do. Depends how I’m running. If I’m running good
I’ll play 100 hours a week. If not, 20. My favorite games are
Omaha or Omaha 8. Usually when I play online those are the
cash games I play. I pretty much only play cash online, just
Omaha games.
MPM: The HPT extended their Shooting Star and Meskwaki
Main Events to two days. The FPC Main Event is also two days.
How do those longer-structured tournaments help your game?
JD: Both HPT tournaments I was short-stacked. I was able
to just grind away. When other people get short and they
see an ace, they push. I was able to wait for more premium
hands, even though I didn’t get them all day at Meskwaki.
But just the fact that I didn’t absolutely have to get my money in bad, I was able to wait and wait and wait and then get
december 2009
MPM: Talk about the Fall Poker Classic final table. You ran
pocket tens into pocket queens to bust fifth and seemed pretty
frustrated, obviously.
JD: There was some really good players. Obviously (Mike)
Pickett and (Brad) Berman are two of the best. I don’t think
I’m as good as either of those two players, but I definitely
thought if I could get a chip stack I could have done some
damage. I just never got any cards. I was stealing, stealing,
and I thought I caught a hand, and when I did catch a hand I
run into queens.
MPM: Did you have plans to play in both HPT events all
along?
JD: No. Actually, I didn’t even plan on playing the Main
Event at Canterbury, but the day before, me and my friend
were playing the horses and hit a Pick Six for like $2,500. I
decided, OK, I’m going to play the Canterbury tournament.
Then I did well at Canterbury, so I wanted to go up and play
the HPT tournament (at Shooting Star). A sick, sick run of
luck. One thing led to another.
MPM: Were there any scenarios where you needed a miracle
to stay alive in any of these tournaments? Or was it smooth sailing?
JD: The Iowa tournament, I don’t think I got my money in
bad once. But the Shooting Star tournament, we were down
to three players. There was about exactly $3 million in chips
and all three of us had $1 million each. I was in the small
blind, it folded to me, and I had pocket fives. I think the
blinds at that time were $20/40k. I made it $100k, and the big
blind made it $300k. I put him all in, and he had to call with
10,10. I hit the miracle 5, 2, 2 flop. That was a $40,000 suckout.
MPM: What’s your plan heading forward? Are you going to
use this as momentum to play in bigger events?
Jeremy Dresch, Shooting Star HPT Champion
a sick run of cards when you get down to 30 people. That’s
what you need to do to win tournaments. Two tournaments in
a row my cards were running real good when we got down to
30 people.
MPM: A lot of people are going to read about your accomplishment and say, “How in the world did this guy do what he did?”
JD: When I got a big chip stack I definitely ran over the
tables. I think you’ll see, when they show it on TV, but the
Shooting Star event I raised like 16 of the first 20 hands. At
the Iowa tournament, when it got down to six players, I think
I had three-bet seven times at the final table. Only one other
guy did it once and he had aces. I was running over the table
for sure, but if I don’t have a big chip stack I’m just the opposite. I’m super tight, just trying to survive, waiting for that
card run.
Dresch, Meskwaki Casino HPT Champion
JD: Playing the bigger $10,000 buy-in tournaments just so
much tougher. Every table you run into you’re going to run
into three, four, five pros minimum. So I don’t think that’s
in my plans. I’ll probably go play the WSOP Main Event this
year for sure, I’ve never played the Main Event before. So
that’s something next year that I’ll do. Otherwise I’ll just
stick to the $1,000 buy-ins with the weaker fields. I have a
better chance.
Results: Shooting Star Casino,
Mahnomen, MN
Results: Meskwaki Casino,
Tama, IA
Oct. 31–Nov. 1, 2009
Buy-in: $1,100; Main Event: 198
Nov. 7 - Nov. 8, 2009
Buy-in: $1,100; Main Event: 253
Finish
Name
Location
1
Jeremy Dresch
Fridley, MN
2
Dan Zogman
3
Cash
Finish
Name
Location
$55,490
1
Jeremy Dresch
Fridley, MN
$71,705
McHenry, IL
$27,745
2
Arkie Utsinger
Canton, IL
$35,852
Jason Sanderson
Bemidji, MN
$16,647
3
Dennis Hasley
North English, IA
$21,511
4
Brian Johnson
Grand Forks, ND
$12,998
4
Brandon Steen
Waterloo, IA
$16,731
5
Ray Bendijo
Ramsey, MN
$11,098
5
Roger Coates
Mineral Point, WI
$14,341
6
Lorne Persons
Altoona, WI
$9,248
6
Dave Carey
Marion, IA
$11,951
MNPOKERMAG.COM Cash
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december 2009
Tournament Results
Canterbury Park
Date: Oct 2
Buy-in:
Type: NL
Entrants:
Rank
Name
City
1 Suprena Kretchman
2 Shaun Warburton
3 Mark Schubbe
$30
125
Amount
$ 1,085
713
525
Canterbury Park
Date: Oct 28
Buy-in:
Type: NL
Entrants:
Rank
Name
City
1 Tim Votava
2 "Fish"Gardner
3 Pat "The Referee"
$150
52
Amount
$ 2,275
1,500
1,120
Date: Oct 30
Type: NL
Rank
Name
1 "Fish" Gardner
2 Scott Sell
3 Bogie Man
$30
66
Amount
$
575
376
277
Canterbury Park
Date: Oct 31
Buy-in:
Type: NL
Entrants:
Rank
Name
City
1 Kevin Anderson
2 "Magic" Leshovsky
3 Damian Scaccia
$150
50
Amount
$ 2,625
1,575
1,200
Canterbury Park
Date: Oct 7
Buy-in:
Type: NL
Entrants:
Rank
Name
City
1 "Fish" Gardner
2 Suprena Kretchman
3 Brice Campbell
$30
79
Amount
$
687
450
332
Grand Casino - Mille Lacs
Date: Oct 6
Buy-in:
Type: NL
Entrants:
Rank
Name
City
1 Larry Christensen
Brainerd
2 Carol Nelson
Osakis
3 Dwayne Ratfield
Mille Lacs
$50
65
Amount
$ 1,200
715
455
Canterbury Park
Date: Oct 24
Buy-in:
Type: NL
Entrants:
Rank
Name
City
1 Tom Marsland
2 Jay Durant
3 Darren Mathweg
$150
42
Amount
$ 2,835
1,575
945
Date: Oct 10
Buy-in:
Type: NL
Entrants:
Rank
Name
City
1 Dave Sutton
Royalton
2 Phil Berger
St. Cloud
3 Tom Jones
Foley
$330
17
Amount
$ 1,940
1,280
870
$30
135
Amount
$ 1,172
770
567
Date: Oct 13
Buy-in:
Type: NL
Entrants:
Rank
Name
City
1 Dan Smith
2 Adam Krantz
3 Raymond Johanson
$50
60
Amount
$ 1,110
660
420
Date: Oct 3
Type: NL
Rank
Name
1 Matt Neutz
2 Jim Fisher
3 Brice Campbell
Date: Oct 5
Type: NL
Rank
Name
1 "Fish" Gardner
2 Art Wiss
3 Daniel Henkel
Date: Oct 25
Type: NL
Rank
Name
1 Barb Graham
2 Nate Patterson
3 Steve Wentzel
Canterbury Park
Buy-in:
Entrants:
City
Canterbury Park
Buy-in:
Entrants:
City
Canterbury Park
Buy-in:
Entrants:
City
Canterbury Park
Date: Oct 25
Buy-in:
Type: NL
Entrants:
Rank
Name
City
1 Ming
2 Robert Simmons
3 Mark Hollenberger
$80
26
Amount
$
700
460
350
Canterbury Park
Date: Oct 26
Buy-in:
Type: NL
Entrants:
Rank
Name
City
1 "Fish" Gardner
2 Darren Schachenmeyer
3 Matt Kulczcki
$30
54
Amount
$
469
308
227
Date: Oct 28
Type: NL
Rank
Name
1 Todd Doornink
2 Tom Marsland
3 Jeff Schultz
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Canterbury Park
Buy-in:
Entrants:
City
$200
46
Amount
$ 2,740
1,795
1,350
$30
83
Amount
$
721
473
349
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Buy-in:
Entrants:
City
$30
74
Amount
$
643
422
311
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december 2009
Tournament Results
$140
17
Amount
$
840
555
375
Date: Oct 1
Type: B.A.R
Rank
Name
1 Matthew Harris
2 Rochne Tibbetts
3 Jim Balk
Date: Oct 29
Buy-in:
Type: NL
Entrants:
Rank
Name
City
1 Corey Feld
St. Joseph
2 Chris Nieters
St. Cloud
3 Bob Haehn
Royalton
$60
45
Amount
$
775
460
295
Treasure Island
Date: Oct 4
Buy-in:
Type: NL
Entrants:
Rank
Name
City
1 Thomas Miller
Hastings
2 Leon Lussier
Minneapolis
3 Joseph Labrosse
Inver Grove Heights
$50
24
Amount
$
461
230
154
Date: Oct 30
Buy-in:
Type: NL
Entrants:
Rank
Name
City
1 Jason Bichler
Clearwater
2 Frank Gentile
Alexandria
3 Jim Fleming
Cushing
$140
18
Amount
$
890
585
400
Treasure Island
Date: Oct 7
Buy-in:
Type: NL
Entrants:
Rank
Name
City
1 Adam Feldman
Wyomissing, PA
2 Harry Mathison
Hastings
3 Daniel Sandberg
Rochester
$60
54
Amount
$ 1,148
689
459
Date: Oct 31
Buy-in:
Type: NL
Entrants:
Rank
Name
City
1 Jim Fleming
Cushing
2 Frank Gentile
Alexandria
3 Larry Lindroth
Onamia
$110
16
Amount
$
720
480
240
Date: Oct 12
Type: NL
Rank
Name
1 Bryan Young
2 Fran Kenow
3 Bill Parker
Running Aces
Date: Oct 17
Buy-in:
Type: NL
Entrants:
Rank
Name
City
1 Burk Veazui
2 Dutch Brown
3 Daryl Windingstad
$340
23
Amount
$ 2,605
1,675
1,335
Treasure Island
Date: Oct 19
Buy-in:
Type: NL
Entrants:
Rank
Name
City
1 Jeremiah Devries
Eagan
2 Al Ficker
Hastings
3 Michael Delis
Sandy, UT
$180
30
Amount
$ 1,745
1,105
755
Date: Oct 26
Type: NL
Rank
Name
1 Jason Windsor
2 Stan Lokken
3 Dan Dow
Date: Oct 20
Type: NL
Rank
Name
1 Nick Campbell
2 Tim Marcantonio
3 Tony Swanson
Date: Oct 24
Type: NL
Rank
Name
1 Robbie Wazwaz
2 Tom Melander
3 Steve Croggy
Date: Oct 27
Type: NL
Rank
Name
1 Steve Rouse
2 Pete Bigelow
3 Bob Bettle
Running Aces
Buy-in:
Entrants:
City
Running Aces
Buy-in:
Entrants:
City
Running Aces
Buy-in:
Entrants:
City
Running Aces
Date: Oct 31
Buy-in:
Type: NL
Entrants:
Rank
Name
City
1 Bob Poznanovich
2 Steve Croggy
3 Burk Veazui
Treasure Island
Buy-in:
Entrants:
Date: Oct 23
Buy-in:
Type: NL
Entrants:
Rank
Name
City
1 Ron Imgrund
Brainerd
2 Theresa White
Minneapolis
3 Leo Fussy
St. Cloud
$340
25
Amount
$ 2,750
1,770
1,440
$180
61
Amount
$ 2,500
1,680
1,250
$340
33
Amount
$ 3,300
1,900
1,440
MNPOKERMAG.COM City
Savage
Coon Rapids
Red Wing
Treasure Island
Buy-in:
Entrants:
City
Cottage Grove
Prescott, WI
West St. Paul
Treasure Island
Buy-in:
Entrants:
City
Rochester
Strum, WI
Red Wing
$30
18
Amount
$
400
220
100
$110
10
Amount
$
500
300
200
$110
18
Amount
$
900
600
300
$110
21
Amount
$ 1,000
785
200
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Event
#1
Event
#3
Event
#5
NLHE ♣
Buy-In: $300
Sat., Oct. 10 ♣ 281 Entrants
Event
#2
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Canterbury Park
LHE ♣ Buy-In: $300
Sun., Oct. 11 ♣ 70 Entrants
Event
#7
NLHE ♣
Buy-In: $300
Fri., Oct. 16 ♣ 233 Entrants
Event
#8
NLHE ♣
Buy-In: $500
Sat., Oct. 17 ♣ 169 Entrants
1
David Dorau
$26,981
1
Phil Hernke
$7,130
1
Chad Lashinski
$22,376
1
Scott Maylin
$27,045
2
John Ykema
$13,492
2
George Shabatura
$4,074
2
Tom Marsland
$11,527
2
Steve Krogness
$13,934
3
Kent Allen
$7,768
3
Ryan Lungstrom
$2,546
3
Dustin Drexel
$8,136
3
Jay Duran
$9,836
4
Larry Barbetta
$6,133
4
Alex Rivera
$2,037
4
Steve Wold
$6,102
4
David Marlow
$7,377
5
Robert Rulton
$4,906
5
Thao "Scratch" Thiem $1,528
5
Matt Alexander
$4,068
5
Dustin Drexel
$4,918
6
Eric Hite
$4,089
6
Derek McMaster
$1,120
6
David Keena
$3,390
6
Adam Jefferson
$4,098
7
John Nguyen
$3,271
7
Jack Armstrong
$815
7
Daniel Holthaus
$2,712
7
Darren Hendrickson
$3,279
8
Jeff Henkel
$2,453
8
Tom Rowan
$611
8
Harry Cohn
$2,034
8
Brian Wiczek
$2,459
9
Sam Rubin
$1,635
9
Bulut Ozturk
$509
9
Jay Slonske
$1,356
9
Thao "Scratch" Thiem
$1,639
10
Robbie Reagel
10
Robbie Reagel
$395
10
Robbie Reagel
$395
NLHE ♣
Buy-In: $300
Mon., Oct. 12 ♣ 330 Entrants
Event
#4
NHLE Battle of the Generations ♣ Buy-In: $150
Generation 'Y' – Born 1980-1991 ♣ 35 Entrants
LHE ♣
Buy-In: $200
Tue., Oct. 13 ♣ 93 Entrants
1
Judd Greenagel
$21,129
1
Leo Dillenburg
$6,176
2
Nathan Laughran
$10,563
2
"Guido" Dan Reichow
$3,508
3
Michael Reinke
$6,082
3
Larry Dick
$2,255
4
Paul Kelly
$4,802
4
3-Putts
$1,804
5
Corey Beness
$3,841
5
Bill Starr
$1,353
6
Andy Schectman
$3,201
6
Ed Chihak
$992
7
John Dragich
$2,561
7
Miles Dalke
$722
8
Ryan Schmitt
$1,921
8
Matt Christensen
$541
9
Mark Dunbar
$1,280
9
Bob Galinson
$451
10
Robbie Reagel
10
Robbie Reagel
$395
$395
Omaha Hi/Lo 8 ♣
Buy-In: $200
Wed., Oct. 14 ♣ 163 Entrants
Event
#6
1
2
3
Chaz Giammona
Daniel Yi
Erik Schultz
Buy-In: $200
Thu., Oct. 15 ♣ 314 Entrants
10 Robbie Reagel
$1,146
$687
4
Frederick Goodrie
$458
5
Johnny Florentine
$229
$395
Generation 'X' – Born 1964-1979 ♣ 114 Entrants
$2,063
Baby Boomers – Born 1963 & Prior ♣ 142 Entrants
NLHE ♣
1
Judd Greenagel
$5,225
2
Clayton Findley
$2,986
3
Mario Hudson
$1,866
4
Referee
$1,493
5
Peter Spoden
$1,120
6
Bruce Vang
$821
7
Jeff Gorton
$597
8
Nathan Hernke
$448
9
Aaron Aurzada
$373
NHLE Battle of the Generations ♣ 9 Entrants
Generations Finale - Top 3 From Each Generation
1
Bill Criego
$6,135
1
Anatoliy Gonikman
2
Anatoliy Gonikman
$3,161
2
Mario Hudson
$821
3
David Bloom
$2,231
3
Erik Schultz
$513
$4,569
4
Dawn Halverson
$1,674
4
Daniel Yi
$411
$3,655
5
James Stark
$1,116
5
Chaz Giammona
$308
6
Kenneth Fields
$930
6
Bill Criego
$226
7
Greg Yohn
$744
7
David Bloom
$164
$1,218
8
Howard Halladay
$558
8
Judd Greenagel
$123
$395
9
Larry Krohn
$372
9
Clayton Findley
$103
1
Frank Hough
$10,437
1
Jeff Viergutz
$20,100
2
Chris Tryba
$5,376
2
Andrew Johnson
$10,051
3
Rick Danz
$3,795
3
Jeff Munn
$5,787
4
Jeff Havenor
$2,846
4
Joe Brodsky
5
Steven Rinker
$1,897
5
Elizabeth Austad
6
Donna Ditto
$1,581
6
Daniel Roach
$3,046
7
Gregory Pratt
$1,265
7
Carl Browder
$2,437
8
Jamys Williams
$949
8
John Schmitz
$1,827
9
Daniel Gilbert
$632
9
Wade Vrieze
10
Robbie Reagel
$395
10
Robbie Reagel
MNPOKERMAG.COM $395
MNPOKERMAG.COM $1,437
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Event
#9
Event
#11
Ladies NLHE ♣
Buy-In: $100
Canterbury Park
Stud ♣ Buy-In: $200
1
Jessica Krejce
$3,700
1
Fred McCabe
2
Duyen Pham
$2,115
2
Daniel "Guido" Reichow $2,483
3
Linda Cichanowski
$1,322
3
William Shalhoob
$1,614
4
Linda Garbett
$1,057
4
Tony Hartmann
$1,366
5
Claudia Bearman
$793
5
Carlos Requena
$993
6
Jacelyn Palmer
$582
6
Ernie Lessard
$683
7
Vickie Olson
$423
7
Matthew Wright
$559
8
Armandi Arroyo
$317
8
Robert Hewitt
$372
9
Michele Murphy
$264
9
Pete Bigelow
$595
10
Robbie Reagel
$395
10 Robbie Reagel
NLHE ♣ Buy-In: $200
Mon., Oct. 19 ♣ 256 Entrants
Event
#12
$4,346
$395
NLHE ♣ Buy-In: $300
Tue., Oct. 20 ♣ 185 Entrants
1
Rich Alsup
$16,388
1
Ryan Schmitt
2
Stephen Beining
$8,195
2
Doug Fink
$9,152
3
Brian Ward
$4,718
3
Alec Anderson
$6,460
4
Nicolas Restrepo
$3,725
4
Graham Harrower
$4,845
5
Michael Abraham
$2,980
5
Johnny Florentine
$3,230
6
Michelle Schell
$2,483
6
John Olson
$2,692
7
Ronald Pepper
$1,987
7
Roger Britton
$2,153
8
Adam Rubinger
$1,490
8
Steve Mohs
$1,615
9
Peum Khamlathanom
$993
9
Jeff Mowery
$1,077
$395
10
Robbie Reagel
10 Robbie Reagel
Event
#13
Event
#10
NLHE ♣
Buy-In: $500
Wed., Oct. 21 ♣ 142 Entrants
Event
#15
$17,769
$395
NLHE ♣
Buy-In: $200
Fri., Oct. 23 ♣ 186 Entrants
1
Tony Lazar
$22,725
1
Scott Axtell
2
Naser Alkhatib
$11,708
2
Peun Khamlathanom
$6,134
3
James Lohmer
$8,264
3
Dale Franke
$4,330
4
Quon Tran
$6,198
4
Nicolas Restrepo
$3,248
5
Jon Ashton
$4,132
5
Chris Norbeck
$2,165
6
Dan Favreau
$3,444
6
Toan Pham
$1,804
7
Ryan Gatrel
$2,755
7
Tom Burandt
$1,443
8
James Erickson
$2,066
8
Eloise Mulholland
$1,083
9
Jason Haire
$1,377
9
Londan Hermunson
$722
10
Robbie Reagel
10
Robbie Reagel
$395
$395
$11,906
Berman Wins Second Career
Fall Poker Classic Title
Brad Berman etches place in Minnesota poker history by becoming first player to win two
FPC Main Event titles
By Bryan Mileski and Phil Mackey
B
rad Berman pulled off a task that no other player
in Minnesota has ever accomplished, winning his
second career Fall Poker Classic Main Event title.
If he wasn’t already regarded as one of the best
tournament players in the state, this feat certainly vaults
him to the top of that list.
Berman, who first won the FPC Main Event in 2006 for
$116,977, earned $74,901 this time around, outlasting a
234-player field that included many of the best players Minnesota has to offer. Berman is the son of World Poker Tour
Chairman of the Board Lyle Berman, and he has pocketed
nearly $1 million in his live tournament career, including a
2004 WPT TV final table.
“I would say the two Fall Poker Classics (are more special) because winning is everything,” Berman said. “Fourth,
even though it was more money, it’s different when you win.”
The path to glory wasn’t always smooth. Berman sat at a final table that included chip leader Mike Pickett, who won a
WSOP Circuit Event in 2008, Jeremy Dresch, who eventually
went on to win back-to-back Heartland Poker Tour events
in November, and Don Eagen, who is a professional player
from Fargo, ND.
Berman’s strategy at the final table, and throughout the
entire tournament, was simple; he stole blinds and re-stole
chips from open-raisers by playing perfect push/fold poker.
Berman Cripples Eagen Early
Eventual runner-up Don Eagen came into the final table
as one of the short stacks, but he did a masterful job of
accumulating chips without any showdowns. Berman was
fairly healthy heading into the final table, at least relative to
the other stacks, but he played patiently and essentially only
opened pots with all-in shoves preflop.
With six players left, after buying the blinds a few times
without showing his cards, Berman’s all-in shove was finally
called by the K8 of Kevin Reichel. Berman showed A6 and it
held, sending Reichel to the rail.
More importantly, however, the suspicion of the other five
remaining players was confirmed; Berman had a tendency to
Brad Berman, 2-time Champion
Main
Event
NLHE ♣ Buy-In: $1,000 + $100
Thu., Oct. 22 ♣ 234 Entrants
1
Brad Berman
$74,901
2
Don Eagen
$38,587
3
David Bashel
$27,238
4
Mike Pickett
$20,428
5
Jeremy Dresch
$13,619
6
Kevin Reichel
$11,349
7
Lane Skinner
$9,079
8
Steve Hammerschmidt
$6,809
9
Darren Childs
$4,540
10
Mark Dunbar
$2,270
11
John Dragich
$2,270
12
John Alexander
$2,270
13
Brandon Meyers
$2,270
14
Mark Sandness
$2,270
15
Jay Durant
$2,270
16
Tim Olson
$2,270
17
David Abranowicz
$2,270
18
John Ryan
$2,270
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range. It turned out it wasn’t.”
The board brought no help, and Eagen found himself with
under $200k. After David Bashel’s QQ busted the 10-10 of
Jeremy Dresch, the chip stacks looked like this:
Mike Pickett – $1.4 mil
David Bashel – $1.2 mil
Brad Berman – $660k
Don Eagen – $160k
Blinds – $15/30k
Eagen Comes Back From The Dead
Things looked pretty bleak for Eagen after losing to Berman’s jacks, but he refused to throw in the towel. He waited
for a playable hand before shoving all in with Q♦9♦ against
Berman’s A♠8♥, and after turning a straight, Eagen was back
up over $300k.
Two hands later, Eagen picked up AA and doubled
through Bashel’s AQ to move back over $600k.
“I never really had a thought that I wouldn’t have a chance
to take it down, until I’m signing a piece of paper some place
else,” Eagen said. “If I’ve got chips, I’ve got a chance. When I
lost versus Brad and I was crippled, it was basically, ‘aright,
let’s come back, get my money in, and see what happens.’”
Meanwhile, Berman, who dropped down below $550k after
doubling up Eagen, went back to work. He worked his stack
up to $900k without showing down, and despite his relatively
loose image, the other three players were reluctant to call
Berman’s all-in bets.
Pickett is a star on the rise
Mike Pickett, 25, from Little Canada, MN, held a chip
lead for the majority of the Fall Poker Classic Main
Event, but eventually exited in 4th place, earning
$20,428.
During his young career, Pickett has won more than
$300,000 in live tournaments, including an FPC
preliminary event win in 2006, and a WSOP Circuit
Event title in February, 2008 against a final table that
included Gavin Smith and Lee Watkinson.
The Fall of Pickett
Pickett has six career FPC cashes as well as two World
Series of Poker cashes
shove all in preflop with a wide range of hands. But Berman,
being an experienced poker veteran, knew this as well, and
he was able to capitalize on his loose image a short while
later.
As he had done numerous times previously, Berman
shoved all in on the button for $330k with blinds at 15/30k.
Eagan, who had Berman slightly covered, went into the tank
in the big blind before eventually calling with A7 off-suit.
Berman turned over JJ.
“That’s a marginal call at best,” Eagen said. “But it was
just the perfect opportunity for him to get his money in
anyways with any two paint, whatever he looks down at. Any
pair. So A7 I thought was at least coinflipping against his
Pickett built a massive chip stack during the middle stages
of the first day of this two-day main event, and he stayed at
the top of the leaderboard even as play reached 4-handed.
Things seemed to be rolling along extremely smoothly for
the young gun. He stole blinds effortlessly and had full control over the final table all evening.
In what turned out to be one of the key hands of the entire
tournament, Pickett made a standard button raise with the
blinds at $20/40k only to have Bashel move all in from the
big blind for $700k. Pickett, who had $1.4 million before the
hand, thought about his decision for several moments before
making the call.
Bashel hung his head and conceded he was behind, flipping up KQ. Pickett turned over AJ—a good call, but Bashel
still had two live cards. One of those live cards, a K, fell on
the river, much to the dismay of Pickett’s cheering section
that included notable local pro Cody Slaubaugh.
David Bashel – $1.5 mil
Brad Berman – $1 mil
Mike Pickett – $650k
Canterbury Park
Don Eagen – $420k
Blinds – $20/40k
On the very next hand, Pickett moved all in with A10,
but Bashel woke up with AK in the small blind. The board
brought no help, and Pickett was eliminated in 4th place.
The Final Flurry
Bashel’s large chip lead didn’t last long. After losing a
massive coin flip with JJ to Berman’s AQ, Bashel lost another coinflip to Eagen’s 10-10, this time with AJ. This dropped
Bashel back to $600k, with Berman ballooning to nearly $2
million.
Eagen, who seemingly had remained on life support since
losing that big pot to Berman with five players left, made yet
another short-stacked button shove with K6. He was called
by the A10 of Berman, but when a King spiked on the river,
Eagen put his hands to his head in disbelief.
Eagen’s A7 would bust Bashel’s K9 a few minutes later,
leaving only two men standing:
Eagen – $1.8 mil
Berman – $1.6 mil
Blinds – $20/40k
The two men wasted no time building an enormous, tournament-deciding pot. On a flop of 8♦A♦J♣, Eagen bet $160k
into a $300k pot. Berman raised all in for more than $1.4 million and Eagen made the call. Berman turned over Q♦3♦ for
a flush draw, and Eagen turned over A♣10♠ for top pair. The
9♥ fell on the turn, leaving Eagen one card away from the
FPC title, but the J♦ on the river gave Berman a flush.
“My main thought was that we were going to end up gambling and sticking it in, and one of us was going to win and
one of us was going to lose,” Berman said. “He played very
well and I got lucky to hit a flush on him. But he hit a King on
me earlier, so all’s fair in love and war.”
Berman would finish the job moments later when his JJ
held up over Eagen’s J7, becoming the first man to win two
Fall Poker Classic Main Event titles.
Greenagel wins two FPC events
Judd Greenagel rode the momentum of a final table
appearance at the Midwest Poker Classic Main Event
and turned it into two victories at the Fall Poker
Classic—event #3 and Battle of the Generations event
#1 (Generation X). Not a bad month for the co-owner of
Chippy Poker.
“I’m feeling pretty good when I sit down at the table
right now,” Greenagel said. “I haven’t been playing
too much poker lately and that has enabled me to be
a bit more focused when I do play. If I play too many
tournaments, I personally feel like I am not as sharp
as if I only play once in a while. It’s funny though, you
can usually ask me before a tournament starts how I
am going to do, and if I am just not mentally focused
on being there all day I will tell you, “It looks like a
short day today” or I might tell you, “I’ll be here a while
today” and more often than not I am right.”
Interestingly enough, Greenagel, who won the first ever
Heartland Poker Tour event in 2005, said he didn’t even
feel like playing in the Generation X tournament, but
bought in anyways.
“I know it sounds ridiculous, but I was kind of going
through the motions early on,” he said. “The problem
was I kept acquiring more chips. When we were down
to about 40 players I thought to myself that I should
get serious now, as I had about 1/4 of the chips in play.
From there, I ran hot and took advantage of having a
big stack. Just one of those times it all worked out.”
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When Ranking the
Best, Don’t
Forget
Ungar
by Jacob Westlin
Don Eagan, second place, Fall Poker Classic
David Bashel, third place, Fall Poker Classic
Mike Pickett, fourth place, Fall Poker Classic
Jeremy Dresch, fifth place, Fall Poker Classic
MNPOKERMAG.COM The celebrity status of professional poker players has
reached heights once unimaginable in the 1970’s and 80’s.
During the pre-media saturated era of these years, poker
players like Billy Baxter, Chip Reese, Jack Straus and Amarillo Slim were unglamorously grinding out livings in dimly
lit and half-empty poker rooms. As America’s fascination
with poker began to heat up, however, and national television coverage became universally accessible, a wave of “new
school” card-playing celebrities have become the face of
this old and storied tradition. If asked, “Who is the greatest
poker player of all time?” your average enthusiast would
have a short, predictable list of names, including Doyle
Brunson, Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu and Phil Hellmuth, and
with justifiable reason.
The real tragedy of the poker media explosion over the
last decade, however, is not who we, as poker players, have
chosen to include in our GOAT lists, but rather who we have
excluded. Ask poker professional, ambassador, and commentator Mike Sexton who the greatest no-limit holdem
player of all time is, and he doesn’t hesitate: “Stu Ungar.”
Stu Ungar, a man relatively unknown to today’s tech-savvy
twenty-something poker generation, was not only perhaps
the greatest poker player of all time, but also led one of the
most fascinating and cautionary lives conceivable.
Born in New York City in 1953, Stuart Errol Ungar spent
a majority of his childhood years in his father’s lower east
side social club, acclimating himself to the dangerous but
enticing life of boozing and gambling. His father, Ido Ungar,
as many bar patrons of his time did, ran a bookie operation
out of his establishment. An uneducated man himself, Ido allowed his number-savvy son Stuey to keep the books.
It became clear early in Stu’s life that he not only had affection for gambling, but also had a truly remarkable mind
for manipulating his own success. Although Ido himself did
not gamble, his mother did, and Stu would often find himself
rapidly than most adults, he began criticizing his mother’s
play. He would tell her to raise, and when she would reply,
“But Stu, I don’t have anything,” his answer would be
simple, yet indicative of his own future brilliance on the felt:
“Yeah, but they don’t know that!”
Before this would come to pass, however, Ungar would absolutely master the game of gin rummy. Through his father’s
social club, Ungar made lifetime connections to New York
City mobsters, and after his father’s passing in 1966, these
connections, mainly with crime boss and card-shark Victor
Romano, would help keep him safe in the dangerous underground gambling circles. The sharp-minded Romano, apparently having read the entire English dictionary from front
to back while in prison, would make side bets with skeptics
claiming he could not spell and define a difficult word of his
choosing. He would always win. Romano, a true father figure
in Ungar’s life, would help set up high stakes gin rummy
games with locals certain they could beat the kid.
Legend has it, even in his early teenage years Ungar could
tell exactly what his opponent held in a gin rummy game after only a handful of discards. Like a studious poker player,
he would commit to memory not simply the cards his opponent would pick up, but where in his hand he would place
these cards. In addition to being an observational player,
however, Ungar had an unrivaled photographic memory. In
fact, several years later in Las Vegas, Ungar was offered a
bet: after watching a dealer turn face up, with rapid-speed,
every card but one in a six-deck shoe, Ungar would have
to figure out the remaining face-down card in the dealer’s
sitting behind his mother in a game of stud, as early as ten or
eleven years old. Stu not only understood the game far more
Photo courtesy of Stu-Ungar.com
Ungar (right) sits with Jack Binion after winning the 1997 WSOP
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hand, simply by committing the other 311
cards to memory. “I
think it’s the ten of
diamonds.” It was the
ten of diamonds.
Ungar’s domination
at gin rummy stemmed
from a combination
of superior skill and
opponent abstinence.
The players he would
face off against night
after night, old men,
proud of their lifetime
of distinguished card
Courtesy photo
skill, could not accept
that this kid was beating them. “Beating them,” really, was an understatement.
He would destroy and humiliate them. As a result, Ungar
was becoming rich in his early teenage years, and continually had opponents willing to tango, as their pride generally
overshadowed their wisdom.
There is, however, a dubious yet still existent distinction between a card player and a gambler. And nobody who
knew Stu Ungar would ever say he was anything less than
a full-fledged, admittedly talented, but altogether reckless
gambler. Most of Ungar’s gin rummy winnings would be
spent and gone within days of his victory, generally lost at
the racetrack, or at a back-room blackjack table.
Because of this, a peculiar relationship developed between he and his mentor Victor Romano. Romano, seeing
Ungar’s total disregard for money, would have liked to cut
off his funding, teach the kid a lesson. But he also recognized Ungar’s brilliance, and could not disregard both his
good nature, and his ability to make Romano large amounts
of money, as he would be Ungar’s chief gin-rummy financier.
This difficult and strained relationship would become a
trend, and continue throughout Ungar’s life with anybody
who got close to him.
Romano’s solution to Ungar’s wild tendencies was, of
course, to put Ungar in as many gin rummy games as he
could; however, over the now multiple-year run of Ungar’s
domination, it was becoming nearly impossible to find an
opponent. He had to begin looking for players outside the
New York area, and eventually found a willing participant:
“Yonkie” Stein, a player known in most gin rummy circles
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as possibly the best player alive. The game and stakes were
agreed upon, and Stein was flown to New York City for the
match. Simply put, Stein never stood a chance. Ungar won,
eighty-six games to zero. Stein, a broken man, returned
home, and was said to have never played another professional gin rummy game.
That was it. Ungar officially could no longer find a gin
rummy opponent. Many friends have suggested that if Ungar
could’ve learned the art of the hustle, losing an occasionally
match for the long-run financial benefit, he could’ve made
a fortune. This was never an option for Ungar, however,
because he just couldn’t have somebody out there, walking
around, boasting that they’d beaten the best player in the
world. It wasn’t about money for Stuey; it was about opponent humiliation.
Romano decided that it would be best to move the operation to Las Vegas. This would prove initially successful, as
Ungar would dominate local gin rummy tournaments, but
soon, the original problem resurfaced. He was told that he
could no longer participate in these tournaments, as casinos
could not get other players to sign-up when they got wind of
Ungar’s involvement. As a natural progression, then, Ungar
turned to poker.
Ungar signed up for the 1980 World Series of Poker Main
Event, and began the tournament having only played nolimit holdem once before in his entire life. Doyle Brunson
would say later
of Ungar’s play,
“I’ve never seen
somebody actually improve as
the tournament
went along.”
Sure enough,
the two got
heads-up for
the championship, and when Ungar’s straight held off Brunson’s two-pair,
he had his first Main Event bracelet, and $365,000. (In fact,
Ungar could not collect on his winnings until he went to the
government office to get his social security card. He never
had one before, just as he never did get a driver’s license, or
a bank account).
Although Ungar was justifiably proud of his victory, he
heard rumblings in the poker community that his win was
nothing more than a fluke. He was eager to establish himself
as one of the best, and went to work defending his title in
MNPOKERMAG.COM 1981. He did exactly that, winning the Main Event for the
second consecutive year, and another $375,000 for his victory, cementing his legacy as one of the premier players in
the game.
One of the most notable and incredible hands ever recorded as evidence of Ungar’s uncanny poker skill came in
a $50,000 heads-up match against fellow Main Event winner
Mansour Matloubi. Ungar opened the pot on the button for a
raise with 9-10. Matloubi called. The flop came 3-3-7, Matloubi checked, Ungar bet, and Matloubi called. The turn was
a K, and the action went check-check. The river was a Q, and
this time, Matloubi led out a large amount. Ungar thought for
a moment, and eventually said, “You have 4-5, or 5-6, I’m going to call you with this,” as he tables his ten-high. Matloubi,
stunned and disgusted, was forced to table his hand. 4-5.
Intertwined with his poker success, however, were Ungar’s
pricey sports, blackjack and racetrack betting. He continued to dump most of his earnings into long-shot bets, losing
most of his wealth in the process. The years pressed on, and
after Romano’s death in the early 1980’s, one of Ungar’s only
stabilizing forces through his up and down gambling was his
daughter, Stefanie. And unfortunately, due to the difficult
relationship between Ungar and Stefanie’s mother, she was
not around as much as he would’ve liked. As a result of this,
and because of his daily stress and the abundant availability
of drugs, Ungar began snorting cocaine.
He continued to play poker, with marginal success
throughout the late 80’s and early 90’s, as he slipped in and
out of drug-induced uselessness. He would miss several
World Series of Poker Main Events during this time, as he
continued to gamble on everything else. It should be stated,
however, that his total recklessness with money was as
admirable as it was foolish. While walking through a casino
with Doyle Brunson, a stranger asked Stuey for money, and
he responded by giving him a $100 bill. “Who was that guy?”
Brunson asked, to which Ungar replied, “Had I known his
name, I would’ve given him $200.”
His drug riddled haze persisted through the 1990’s, and
come the 1997 World Series of Poker, Ungar was completely
broke and deeply in debt. In need of money, and as focused
as always on proving his doubters wrong, he went in search
of somebody to buy him into the Main Event. Billy Baxter,
friend and fellow poker player, was initially hesitant, seeing the state Ungar was in, but eventually gave in. Ungar
manipulated the field brilliantly, and although he wore large
framed glasses to cover up his cocaine-induced collapsed
nose, he managed to become the first player to ever win
three Main Event tournaments. (Johnny Moss has three Main
Event bracelets, though one was earned by vote).
By 1998, all of the $1 million prize money Ungar had
earned a year ago was gone, and he had begun smoking
crack. Baxter, having already paid Ungar’s buy-in to the
’98 Main Event, called up to his Binion’s hotel room to ask
where he was, only to find out Ungar was too ashamed in his
present physical state to participate. Later that year, Ungar
was found dead in a hotel room from a heart attack, most
likely brought on from years of drug abuse. Simply from
poker, Ungar’s estimated lifetime earnings exceed $30 million. Upon his death, he had less than $800 cash to his name.
The misfortune of Ungar’s death, in addition to the obvious
early earthly departure for one of the world’s truly gifted
men, is that his superior skill was never given an opportunity to shine in today’s modern media age.
Jacob Westlin of Minneapolis is a semi-professional poker
player specializing in limit Hold ‘em. Read his blogs at www.
Jaymind.com and www.mnpokermag.com.
If listening
to the WSOP
on the radio
is dorky,
consider me
Steve Urkel
by Phil Mackey
When it comes to following coverage of the World Series of
Poker final table, there are generally three types of people
in the world:
1.) Those who avoid spoilers and live updates so they can
watch the condensed version on ESPN without knowing who
wins.
2.) Those who are oblivious to the fact that the final
table is not aired live and actually takes nearly 20 hours to
complete. These are the same people who have no idea how
incredible it is for Phil Ivey to have made the final table.
3.) Those who fully intend to forego sleep for those 20
hours so they can listen to live radio coverage and follow a primitive online graphic without knowing anyone’s
hole cards.
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Lump me in with group 3. And although I will say it disappoints me that ESPN decided to discontinue its live pay-perview broadcast of the marathon final table two years ago, the
commentators for Bluff Radio generally did an awesome job
describing the action, thanks to a combination of Phil Hellmuth, Joe Sebok, David “The Maven” Chicotsky, Annie Duke,
Justin Bonomo, and others.
Still, whether ESPN realizes it or not, there are actually
two target audiences for WSOP Main Event coverage; diehard poker players who would rather watch the entire final
table in its entirety without seeing hole cards (the minority),
and the more casual followers who would rather watch paint
dry than sit through a poker telecast without hole cards.
ESPN previously charged around $20 when it used to
show the marathon coverage back in the Jamie Gold and
Jerry Yang days. Hellmuth said on the radio broadcast of
this year’s coverage that ESPN drew 30,000 PPV buys for the
Yang final table. If that number is accurate, does it generate
enough of a profit to justify production costs? Who knows.
But it was awesome to watch.
As for the actual final table, it would have been nice to
see Ivey take it down. He played patient, tight poker, and
when he finally shipped his money in with AK against
Darvin Moon’s AQ, the logger spiked a Q. That was par for
the course, as both Moon and eventual World Champion Joe
Cada put their money in behind several times only to suck
out and stack more chips.
Even though Moon, who reportedly had never played poker in a live casino nor flown on a plane before July, is a feel
good story, I’m happy to see Cada become poker’s newest
ambassador. Moon may have enticed more “common men” to
try their luck at poker, but he also made no secret about his
distaste for media sessions and public attention. Not to mention, Moon spent five months avoiding signing a sponsorship
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deal because he didn’t want to be told where to go and what
to do. This is incomprehensible to most poker players, who
spend their lives grinding low limits in hopes for one shot at
the “big time”.
Cada, 21, has said he’ll have no qualms about stepping into
the spotlight. He’s the youngest WSOP Main Event winner in
history, breaking Peter Eastgate’s record from 2008, and he
needed more than one miracle at the final table to accomplish this feat. But overall, having a wide-eyed kid as World
Champion who is willing to make appearances and play in
big tournaments is better for poker than having a champion
who shies away from the limelight.
Phil Mackey, publisher and editor of MNPokerMag, is a radio
personality at 1130 KFAN in Minneapolis. He covers the Vikings
and Twins for his day job and grinds out $50 SNGs at night.
What goes
around…
Comes
around
to represent it knowing that when in doubt, I can always
luckbox my way into a gut-shot straight (yes, I did just use
‘luckbox’ as a verb).
My intention was to bet $4 into the $6 pot, the same bet I
always make into a pot that size.
So, I looked for the ole number 4 (not Brett Favre) on my
keyboard and proceeded to hit the key followed by the enter
key. I shockingly looked back up at my monitor to see that I
accidentally double-clicked the number 4 and I’ve now made
a bet of $44 into a $6 pot!
Doh! You’ve gotta be kidding me!
Well, the good news is, my opponent’s got to have an extremely good hand to call my massively huge overbet!
My opponent had $31 remaining and immediately called
off the remainder of his stack! He held the 8♠7♠ and his two
pair was vastly superior to my six-high and gut-shot straight
draw.
Usually I wouldn’t mind putting a bad beat on somebody,
but even if I hit a five here, I would throw up. Unfortunately,
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In last month’s issue I went into great detail of a hand
online where I spotted somebody ‘mis-clicking’ and I proceeded to make an aggressive move to take down a goodsized pot. I thought I was so brilliant. It can be difficult to
pat yourself on the back, but I have long, lanky arms so I was
able to do so quite frequently after my great play.
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once said, ‘what goes around, comes all the way back
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The pre-flop action was folded to me and in middle position, I raised to $3 with 4♦6♦. And you thought I was a rock.
Ok, this is as loose as I get.
It was folded around to the big blind, who called. The pot
is a little over $6 and we headed to the flop.
Flop was: K♠7♥8♥.
Obviously not a great flop for me other than my gut-shot
straight draw and I have position. My opponent checked.
I’ve never seen a heads-up pot that I didn’t continuation
bet, and with a King on the flop I’m going to try my best
MNPOKERMAG.COM the turn and river were two blanks and I was unable to hit
a five and be the sickest person on the planet. So, I lost over
$35 all because I accidentally fired the wrong bet on my
keyboard. And now, the rest of the table has put a big, fat
donkey label on me!
I had written in my last column that the move made by my
opponent in that hand would’ve never happened at a live
table, only online, and now I feel his pain. If I was at a local
brick-and-mortar casino, I would’ve never verbally made
a bet of $44 and I would’ve never accidentally pushed too
many chips into the middle. It’s an error that could only happen on the cyberfelt.
Though just like at this online table, a live table would
think I was a huge donkey as well.
The Poker Gods giveth, and the Poker Gods taketh away.
Mr. Timberlake, I now know how you feel.
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12
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O
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BUY-IN
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NH+
$50
12P
NH+
$25
12P
6:30P
2P
Sa
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NH+
$100
$40
$15
10:30A
NH
$40
6:30P
NH+
5P
NHAl+
$25
7P
NHB+
13
9
Shooting Star
7
Treasure Island
Diamond Jo
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$115
12:15P
6:15
4P
NHAl
NHAl
NH
$50
$80
$50
$60
$60
12:15P
6:15P
NHAl
NH
$50
$140
2:15P
NHAl
$110
12P
6:30P
LH+
NH+
$5
$20
12P
NH+
$50
10:30A
NHZ
$65
7P
NH
$45
NH
$30
White Oak
3
6P
6:30P
2P
Pi
NH+
6P
NH
$25
$45
12P
6P
7P
$30
$180
12P
NHAl+
$40
6P
NH+
$60
6P
NH+
$30
$25
$30
$50
Turtle Lake
SUNDAY
TIME
GAME
1-Dec
TUESDAY
MONDAY
BUY-IN
TIME
GAME
BUY-IN
Black Bear
TIME
GAME
BUY-IN
12P
NH+
$25
GC - Hinckley
GC - Mille Lacs
GAME
BUY-IN
White Oak
Diamond Jo
Black Bear
Canterbury Park
Fortune Bay
NHAl
NH
$50
$140
2:15P
NHAl
$110
12P
6:30P
LH+
NH+
$5
$20
12P
NH+
$50
10:30A
NHZ
$65
$50
$80
$50
6:30P
NH
$30
NHAl+
$40
Prairie's Edge
Running Aces
Shooting Star
Treasure Island
7P
NH+
$60
10:30A NHAl+
3P
NHAl+
7:30P
OH/L
$65
$30
$125
$20
$60
$30
6P
NHB+
$65
$340
$65
$45
NHB
$60
6P
NH+
$60
6P
NH
$30
2P
7P
12P
NH+
NH
NH+
$30
$120
$115
11-Dec
FRIDAY
TIME
GAME
BUY-IN
TIME
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BUY-IN
7P
NH+
$50
12P
NH+
$25
12P
6:30P
2P
Sa
NH
NH+
$100
$40
$15
10:30A
NH
$40
$40
$230
$35
$40
$60
NH
Sa
NH+
NH
NH+
10:30A
7:30P
6:30P
10:30A
6:30P
6:30P
OH+
$35
8P
NH+
$50
6P
NH
$115
12:15P
6:15P
NHAl
NH
$50
$140
2:15P
NHAl
$330
2:15P
NHAl
$110
2P
NH
$40
6P
NH+
$60
10:30A NHAl+
3P
NHAl+
$40
$65
2P
NHB
$75
4P
NH+
$50
2P
Pi
$45
7P
NHB+
$40
6P
NH
$60
12:15P
6:15P
6P
NHAl
NHAl
NHB
$50
$60
$50
12:15P
6:15P
NHZ
NHAl
$60
$50
12:15P
6:15
4P
NHAl
NHAl
NH
$50
$80
$50
2:30P
7
$10
6:30P
NH
$30
6:30P
11:30P
NH
NH
$120
$65
2P
6:30P
NHAl+
NHAl+
$30
$180
7P
6P
NH+
$70
6P
NH
$25
12P
6P
7P
12P
NHAl+
$40
BUY-IN
NH+
$25
12:15P
NHZ
6:15 NHAlB
$60
$60
NH
NHF
NH
$25
$30
$50
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6:30P
NH
$60
$60
6P
NH+
$30
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7P
NH+
$60
10:30A NHAl+
3P
NHAl+
$65
$30
12P
6:30P
LH+
NH+
$5
$20
10:30A
NHZ
$65
BUY-IN
TIME
GAME
BUY-IN
12P
NH
$110
7P
NH+
$50
12P
NH+
$25
12P
6:30P
2P
Sa
NH
NH+
$100
$40
$15
10:30A
NH
$40
6:30P
NH+
11A
NH
$330
5P
NHAl+
$25
7P
2:15P
NHAl
$110
12:15P
6:15P
6P
NHAl
NHAl
NHB
$50
$60
$50
2P
NH
$40
2:30P
7
6P
NH+
$60
6:30P
11:30P
NH
NH
$40
$65
2P
NHB
$75
4P
NH+
$50
White Oak
Diamond Jo
2P
Pi
TIME
GAME
BUY-IN
12P
NH+
$40
10:30A
NH
$175
Black Bear
Canterbury Park
Fortune Bay
6P
NHB+
$30
7P
NHB
$60
6P
NH+
$60
12P
NH+
$50
NH
10:30A NHAl+
2P
NHAl+
6:30P NHAl+
$65
$340
$65
$45
GC - Mille Lacs
Northern Lights
Running Aces
Treasure Island
NH
$30
2P
7P
12P
NH+
NH
NH+
$30
$120
$115
White Oak
Diamond Jo
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10:30A NHAl+
3P
NHAl+
7:30P
OH/L
$65
$30
$125
NHB+
$30
6P
7P
NHB
$60
6P
NH+
$60
24-Dec
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10:30A NHAl+
2P
NHAl+
6:30P NHAl+
6P
NH
$30
2P
7P
12P
NH+
NH
NH+
$30
$120
$115
25-Dec
FRIDAY
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BUY-IN
12P
NH+
$25
TIME
GAME
$65
$340
$65
26-Dec
SATURDAY
BUY-IN
TIME
GAME
12P
NH+
BUY-IN
$40
10:30A
NH
$40
10:30A
NH
$175
$60
6:30P
NH+
$35
6:30P
NH+
$150
NHB+
$40
6P
NH
$60
8P
NH+
$50
6P
NH
$115
12:15P
6:15P
NHZ
NHAl
$60
$50
12:15P
6:15
4P
NHAl
NHAl
NH
$50
$80
$50
$60
$60
12:15P
6:15P
NHAl
NH
$50
$140
2:15P
NHAl
$110
$10
6:30P
NH
$30
12P
6:30P
LH+
NH+
$5
$20
12P
NH+
$50
$120
$65
2P
6:30P
NHAl+
NHAl+
$30
$180
10:30A
NHZ
$65
7P
NH
$45
7P
6P
NH+
$70
6P
NH
$25
12P
6P
7P
NHAl+
12P
NH
NHF
NH
$25
$30
$50
GAME
BUY-IN
TIME
GAME
BUY-IN
TIME
GAME
BUY-IN
NH
$110
7P
NH+
$50
12P
NH+
$25
12P
6:30P
2P
Sa
NH
NH+
$340
$40
$15
10:30A
NH
$40
6:30P
NH+
$60
5P
NHAl+
$25
7P
NHB+
$40
2:15P
NHAl
$110
12:15P
6:15P
6P
NHAl
NHAl
NHB
$50
$60
$50
12:15P
6:15P
NHZ
NHAl
$60
$50
2P
NH
$40
2:30P
7
$10
6:30P
NH
$30
6P
NH+
$60
6:30P
11:30P
NH
NH
$120
$65
2P
6:30P
NHAl+
NHAl+
$30
$180
$75
4P
NH+
$50
6P
NH+
$70
6P
NH
$75
6P
NH
$25
2P
Pi
$45
7P
12P
6P
7P
NH
$60
7P
NH+
$60
6P
NH+
$60
6P
NH+
$30
6P
TIME
GAME
$30
NHB
$60
6P
NH+
$60
BUY-IN
$40
$230
$35
6P
NH
$60
12:15P
6:15
4P
NHAl
NHAl
NH
$50
$80
$50
12P
NHAl+
$40
6P
NH+
$60
6P
NH+
$30
TIME
GAME
BUY-IN
12P
NH+
$25
12:15P
NHZ
6:15 NHAlB
$60
$60
6:30P
NH
$60
7P
NH+
$60
6P
NHB+
$30
7P
NHB
$60
6P
NH+
$60
LadNH $25/$40
NH
NHF
NH
$25
$30
$50
10:30A NHAl+
$65
12P
OH/L+
$60
6P
NH
$30
2P
7P
12P
NH+
NH
NH+
$30
$120
$115
31-Dec
THURSDAY
NH
NH
NH+
10:30A
7:30P
6:30P
NHB+
7P
30-Dec
WEDNESDAY
12P
NHB
6:30P
LadNH $25/$40
29-Dec
TUESDAY
2P
12:15P
NHZ
6:15 NHAlB
$40
Turtle Lake
$60
$40
$230
$35
28-Dec
MONDAY
$40
$65
$60
NH+
NH
NH
NH+
TIME
10:30A NHAl+
5P
NHAl+
NH
7P
10:30A
7:30P
6:30P
$45
GC - Hinckley
Shooting Star
6P
TIME
Turtle Lake
Prairie's Edge
7P
NH+
GAME
Jackpot Junction
LadNH $25/$40
6P
TIME
10:30A NHAl+
3P
NHAl+
6:30P
23-Dec
WEDNESDAY
BUY-IN
27-Dec
SUNDAY
$110
$25
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12P
Running Aces
22-Dec
TUESDAY
GAME
12-Dec
SATURDAY
BUY-IN
NHAl+
TIME
Northern Lights
Shooting Star
NH
5P
GC - Mille Lacs
Treasure Island
10-Dec
THURSDAY
BUY-IN
NH
10:30A NHAl+
2P
NHAl+
6:30P NHAl+
$30
7P
9-Dec
WEDNESDAY
GAME
GC - Hinckley
Prairie's Edge
7P
Turtle Lake
$60
GAME
White Oak
Diamond Jo
NH
LadNH $25/$40
HOSE
NH+
NH+
Canterbury Park
21-Dec
MONDAY
TIME
Jackpot Junction
6:30P
12P
Jackpot Junction
Northern Lights
12:15P
NHZ
6:15 NHAlB
Black Bear
Fortune Bay
TIME
GC - Hinckley
GC - Mille Lacs
$175
12:15P
6:15P
NHAl
NHAl
NH
TIME
NH
$60
$60
12:15P
6:15
4P
8-Dec
TUESDAY
10:30A
$115
$60
$50
7-Dec
MONDAY
$40
NH
Turtle Lake
6-Dec
SUNDAY
NH+
6P
NHZ
NHAl
10A
6P
6P
12P
$50
12:15P
6:15P
$25
$30
$50
BUY-IN
NH+
$60
NH
NHF
NH
GAME
8P
NH
Treasure Island
20-Dec
SUNDAY
TIME
$35
6P
12P
6P
7P
$25
BUY-IN
OH+
$40
7P
Shooting Star
NH+
GAME
6:30P
Prairie's Edge
Running Aces
12P
TIME
$40
NHB+
12P
BUY-IN
NH
7P
$30
$180
GAME
10:30A
$60
NHAl+
NHAl+
TIME
5-Dec
SATURDAY
$40
$230
$35
NH+
2P
6:30P
4-Dec
FRIDAY
NH
NH
NH+
6:30P
Jackpot Junction
Northern Lights
TIME
10:30A
7:30P
6:30P
Canterbury Park
Fortune Bay
3-Dec
THURSDAY
2-Dec
WEDNESDAY
12:15P
NHZ
6:15 NHAlB
LadNH $25/$40
NH
NHF
NH
$175
$50
$10
NH+
NH
$35
7
7P
10:30A
NH+
2:30P
$70
$40
OH+
$60
6P
BUY-IN
NH+
8P
$40
$50
GAME
12P
6:30P
NH
$75
TIME
$60
NH+
NHB
BUY-IN
NH
2P
4P
GAME
6P
6P
2P
TIME
$40
$60
$50
NHAl+
NHAl+
$25
$60
NHZ
NHAl
2P
6:30P
BUY-IN
NH+
$40
12:15P
6:15P
$120
$65
GAME
12P
NH
$50
$60
$50
NH
NH
TIME
10:30A
NHAl
NHAl
NHB
6:30P
11:30P
BUY-IN
19-Dec
SATURDAY
$40
$230
$35
12:15P
6:15P
6P
$40
$65
GAME
18-Dec
FRIDAY
NH
NH
NH+
$110
10:30A NHAl+
3P
NHAl+
TIME
17-Dec
THURSDAY
10:30A
7:30P
6:30P
NHAl
2:15P
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16-Dec
WEDNESDAY
15-Dec
TUESDAY
TIME
Jackpot Junction
10
Hold em
No Limit Hold em
Limit Hold em
No Limit
Limit
Stud
7-Card Stud
5-Card Stud
14-Dec
MONDAY
GC - Hinckley
14
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Bar League Happenings
Bar League Happenings
Minnesota Poker League
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Little Poker League
www.mnpokerleague.com
Fall Poker Spectacular Leaders as of 11/17/09
Chippy Poker League
www.sfpokertour.com
www.littlepokerleague.com
Season 6 Leaders as of 11/17/09
Vegas Baby! Session 3: Leaders as of 11/17/09
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2009 Season 4 standings as of 11/17/09
Wins
Points
Player
1. Antonio Harper
4
1,513
1. "Gerry T"
313
2,235
2. Rand Koch
1
1,422
2. Tony "Master" Plaster
249
7
2,180
3. Cory Eckhart
-
1,334
3. Tom Chan
199
4. Jason Francis
3
2,130
4. Clint Christiansen
1
1,293
4. Paul Waggoner
188
1,352
5. Shane Klein
7
2,080
5. Ivan Sist
3
1,236
5. Barry "The Critic" Knowles
185
6. Matt Wolff 1,336
6. Jody Wagner
7
1,750
6. Carla Glassing
-
1,173
6. Morten Arneson
176
7. Tony Grimm 1,174
7. Dale Piller
6
1,665
7. Kathy Caron
-
1,096
7. Jim Gleason
172
8. Jason Halverson 1,153
8. Brad Carter
3
1,620
8. Mikquel
1
1,095
8. Michael A Flasch
160
9. Kelly Bergesch 1,100
9. Josh Korbl
3
1,600
9. Scott Clark
-
1,034
9. John Loren
153
10. Kayla Lobbins 1,089
10. Kevin Hegg
6
1,560
10. Nick R
2
1,019
10. Rick "The Rickster" Schalo
152
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Points
Player
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4
2,235
1,715
2. Megan Patrick
5
3. Andy Lagarde
1,555
3. Eric Anderson
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1,467
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1,986
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2
15
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14,790
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2,770
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2
14
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13,936
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2,685
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2
12
3. Debbie Arens
9,315
3. k8t
Bullets
3,000
4. Todd Pagel
2
11
4. Sue London
8,788
4. Hangman
Bullets
2,625
5. Brandee Hagemann
2
11
5. Laurel Bahn
8,595
5. kokomo
Cowboys
4,145
6. Sharon Tonn
2
11
6. Len Lau
8,480
6. Bon-z-i
Cowboys
3,850
7. Bruce Redfield
2
8
7. Allan Litwin
8,089
7. DeGenXer6666
Hooks
2,130
8. John Branch
2
8
8. Sam Foust
7,728
8. Rodney6666
Hooks
1,985
9. Paul Jaeger
1
9
9. Karen Eide
7,709
9. Augs
Wisconsin 1,075
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1
7
10. Dennis Holman
7,495
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Wisconsin 1,015
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