Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Brett Parise | Busted | |
Jeremy Clemons | Busted | |
Coach Furfaro
|
Busted | |
Kendra Dieter | Busted | |
Eric Liu | Busted | |
Haiau Han | Busted | |
Nathan Trimble | Busted | |
Armando Mesina | Busted |
2022 MSPT Sycuan Casino
While PokerNews is covering the $1,110 Main Event, several players took down preliminary events throughout the Showdown Series at Sycuan Casino Resort.
A total of 59 runners turned out to compete in Event #3: $250 Pot-Limit Omaha and it was local tournament veteran Rip Fritzer who walked away with the trophy and the $4,424 top prize. Fritzer defeated Brian Nordin of San Diego heads-up. Other players finishing in the money were Stanley Solis, Tai Purpero, Mark Birdsall, and David Para.
Event #3: $250 Pot-Limit Omaha Results
Place | Name | Hometown | Prize |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Rip Fritzer | El Cajon, CA | $4,424 |
2 | Brian Nordin | San Diego, CA | $2,738 |
3 | Stanley Solis | El Cajon, CA | $1,794 |
4 | Tai Purpero | Santee, CA | $1,239 |
5 | Mark Birdsall | Kihei, HI | $909 |
6 | David Para | Alpine, CA | $696 |
Level: 18
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 10,000
Players are now on their first 10-minute break of Day 2.
Huy Nguyen is starting to pull away from the field as he is now above 1,000,000 chips for the tournament.
There are now 36 players left, with the next elimination taking home $2,668.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Huy Nguyen |
1,075,000
177,000
|
177,000 |
Steve Wendroff called the PokerNews team over to his table to update his growing legion of fans around the world.
Wendroff's stack had swelled to over 800,000 and had just sent Jeremy Clemons to the rail.
Clemons had and Wendroff had . The board ran out with no help for Clemons and he was out of the tournament while Wendroff jumped back near the top of the leaderboard.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Steve Wendroff |
855,000
170,000
|
170,000 |
Jeremy Clemons | Busted |
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Brad Gafford | Busted | |
|
||
Mark Birdsall | Busted | |
Jesse Jaurigue | Busted | |
Alan Mastic | Busted | |
Andrew Ostapchenko | Busted | |
Ryan Adams | Busted | |
Kalvinci Ewing | Busted | |
Michael Lo | Busted |
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Huy Nguyen |
898,000
270,000
|
270,000 |
Gianluca Pace |
785,000
394,000
|
394,000 |
Steve Wendroff |
685,000
33,000
|
33,000 |
Matthew Blagg |
557,000
27,000
|
27,000 |
Christopher Skinner |
475,000
155,000
|
155,000 |
Jason Hickey |
270,000
-171,000
|
-171,000 |
Arielle Frank |
261,000
109,000
|
109,000 |
Rich Alsup |
185,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
|
||
Katerina Grishakova |
180,000
79,000
|
79,000 |
Fadi Moshi |
135,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
Rip Fritzer |
117,000
42,000
|
42,000 |
Maxwell Lineberger |
115,000
-62,000
|
-62,000 |
Brett Parise |
91,000
-85,000
|
-85,000 |
Lena Evans |
87,000
-95,000
|
-95,000 |
Level: 17
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 8,000
In the second PokerNews Podcast episode of the New Year, Sarah Herring and Chad Holloway discuss Dan "Jungleman" Cates' controversial tweet about lip fillers, recap winners from the Venetian High Rollers, and preview the upcoming Phil Hellmuth vs. Tom Dwan High Stakes Duel match to take place on Wednesday, January 26.
They also highlight Michael Addamo's win in the GGPoker Super MILLION$, Jake Ferro and Mike "BrockLesnar" Holtz winning Player of the Year races, and Kasey Orr taking down record-breaking RGPS Thunder Valley Main Event.
This week's guest is none other than popular poker vlogger Andrew Neeme, who talks to Sarah about marriage, his well-received "The Villain Who Stole Christmas" vlog, and what inspired him to join forces with Doug Polk and Brad Owen in investing in a Texas cardroom.
Finally, they bid adieu to the great Jeff Platt and recognize his contributions to the PokerNews Podcast.