Poker Tournament Results

Legends of Poker / WPT Event Season 7

Place	Name	Prize
1	Christopher McFarland (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$60,302
2	Michael Jones AKA "mike jones" (Hope Mills, NC, USA)	$32,000
3	Ablahad Salim AKA "Fast Eddie AS" (La Mesa, CA, USA)	$18,550
4	Jeremy Scharf AKA "Jewtastic" (Valley Village, CA, USA)	$16,235
5	Ronald Ho (Bellingham, WA, USA)	$13,915
6	Binh Dau (Huntingdon Beach, CA, USA)	$11,595
7	John Hanson (Westminster, CA, USA)	$9,275
8	Man Phung (Rosemead, CA, USA)	$6,960
9	Minh Le (Foothill Ranch, CA, USA)	$4,640
10	Mike Heintschel (Escondido, CA, USA)	$2,550
11	Liz Hagensick (Lakewood, CA, USA)	$2,550
12	Trong Nguyen (Garden Grove, CA, USA)	$2,550
13	Shar Pourdanesh (Irvine, CA, USA)	$2,085
14	Brandon Reimer (Cathedral City, CA, USA)	$2,085
15	Albertin Hernandez (Downey, CA, USA)	$2,085
16	Thomas Hover (Blue Diamond, Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$1,620
17	Raoul Eshak (West L.A, CA, USA)	$1,620
18	Cuu Hoang (El Monte, CA, USA)	$1,620
19	Sin Mer (Tustin, CA, USA)	$1,160
20	Shawn Batten (West Hollywood, CA, USA)	$1,160
21	Massoud Setayesh (Laguna Hills, CA, USA)	$1,160
22	Ramsey Daniels (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$1,160
23	Brian Lee (Diamond Bar, CA, USA)	$1,160
24	Audrey Wilkins (Long Beach, CA, USA)	$1,160
25	Thanh Huynh (Elk Grove, CA, USA)	$1,160
26	Eugene Shinozaki (Rosemead, CA, USA)	$1,160
27	Tim Sweeton AKA "Chico" (Long Beach, CA, USA)	$1,160
28	Tung Pham (Garden Grove, CA, USA)	$810
29	Mitch Akopyan (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$810
30	Karen Black (Whittier, CA, USA)	$810
31	Keith Kadena (Gardena, CA, USA)	$810
32	Toby Nguyen (Midway City, CA, USA)	$810
33	Joseph Tellez (Rch Cucamonga, CA, USA)	$810
34	Ly Le AKA "Leroy" (Huntington Beach, CA, USA)	$810
35	Rashaad Bell AKA "Da Pusher" (Long Beach, CA, USA)	$810
36	David Foust (Paramount, CA, USA)	$810
37	George Rechnitzer (Beverly Hills, CA, USA)	$675
38	Katrina Lim (Orange, CA, USA)	$675
39	Kirk Drickman (Westlake Village, CA, USA)	$675
40	Robert Nehorayan (Sherman Oaks, CA, USA)	$675
41	Akram Ali AKA "john" (Diamond Bar, CA, USA)	$675
42	Edmond Talia (Downey, CA, USA)	$675
43	Tadeh Vartanian (Glendale, CA, USA)	$675
44	Blair Mysko (Newhall, CA, USA)	$675
45	Marc Vieira (Hanford, CA, USA)	$675
46	Charles Polizzi (Yuca Ipa, CA, USA)	$555
47	Alice Talbert (Arcadida, CA, USA)	$555
48	Abraham Barbarian (North Hills, CA, USA)	$555
49	Joe Griffith (Santa Barbara, CA, USA)	$555
50	Young V Phan (Garden Grove, CA, USA)	$555
51	Lucky Sanderlin (Tucson, AZ, USA)	$555
52	Mari Lou Morelli AKA "Scari Mari" (Long Beach, CA, USA)	$555
53	James Vallejos (Orange, CA, USA)	$555
54	Vartkes Tomassian (Granada Hills, CA, USA)	$555
55	Danny Morgan (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$465
56	Scott Dehm (San Marino, CA, USA)	$465
57	Edgardo Villareal (Torrance, CA, USA)	$465
58	Grady Talbot (Arcadia, CA, USA)	$465
59	Mike Okayama (Newport Beach, CA, USA)	$465
60	Vardan Kilndian (Van Nuys, CA, USA)	$465
61	Keith Helgevold (Orange, CA, USA)	$465
62	Brian Ortiz (USA)	$465
63	Mandy Goglow (Sherman Oaks, CA, USA)	$465
64	Hyun Jung (Glendale, CA, USA)	$395

Tournament Report

C.R. McFarland Earns the 1st Ring in the 2008 Legends of Poker Event The 2008 Winnin' Legends of Poker kicked off event #1 with two day 1 fields totaling 797 players. Less than 200 made it to day 2 and the final table was set about 7 hours later just after 2am. All tables started 9-handed and the final table was set with the final nine that ran for a brief eleven hands. The first four hands of the final table began resulted in at least one player all-in. The pace was set that no one was waiting at this table. On hand #1 Jeremy Scharf pushed his 87K short stack in with pocket Queens. After being called in two places the board was checked down by both opponents. The board was 10c-9c-5s-7s-Ah. Jeremy thought the Ace on the river was the end but neither player held an Ace. Jeremy triples up and was back in the middle of the pack. On hand #4, after a flop of Ac-Kc-7s, Jeremy led out the betting and was raised all-in by Minh Le. Jeremy made the call for the additional 17K and Minh Le's tournament life was on the line. Jeremy showed 9-9 and Minh showed 7c-4c for the flush draw. The turn 6d and river Ah gave Jeremy the pot and Minh Le finished in 9th place and earned $4,640 for two days work. Just three hands later, Man Phung bet all-in post flop with a K-Q into a board of Ah-Jh-2h. Both blinds saw the flop and called Man's bet. C.R. McFarland held 9c-7h and John Hanson held 9h-2s. Both opponents on a flush draw but John's pair of ducks was in the lead and he also held the best draw. The turn blanked with a 5s but the river 3h completed the flush and John Hanson dragged a 250,000 pot and Man Phung finished in 8th place for a $6,960 payday. The final seven players discussed a chip count deal and the numbers were crunched. The figures came back and all players agreed to the deal. C.R. McFarland held the chip lead by only 6,000 chips over Michael Jones. With almost 2.4 million in play it was soooo close. C.R. McFarland was declared the winner and received the first 2008 Legends of Poker ring, a title, and a W-2G with lots of digits. -- Jay 'Bugsy' Siegel BIOGRAPHY C.R. McFarland, an actor and writer, started playing poker back in 2003 just when he relocated to Los Angeles from New York City. He plays both cash games and tournaments but has a strong preference for tournament play. C.R. deliberately does not read poker books but concentrates his reading on topics like human behavior. A graduate from Cornell University in Business, C.R. is currently a working actor/writer and is attached to some big projects 'in the works'. C.R. plays in a weekly home game with some very strong players and attributes his results to the lessons learned from that home game. C.R. wants to dedicate this win to a close friend, Brian Cullivan.