Poker Tournament Results

Legends of Poker / WPT Event Season 7

Place	Name	Prize
1	Rene Vas (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$22,635
2	Terry Crowe (Hollywood, CA, USA)	$11,245
3	Paul Lee (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$5,500
4	James Henesy AKA "DanaPointKid" (Porter Ranch, CA, USA)	$3,665
5	Brian Nadley (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$2,750
6	Abraham Zarate (South Gate, CA, USA)	$2,140
7	Ryan Lewin AKA "Rylew" (Canoga Park, CA, USA)	$1,530
8	Minh Nguyen (Lake Elsinore, CA, USA)	$1,220
9	Steve Kahn (Marina Del Ray, CA, USA)	$915
10	Domingo Enciso AKA "Rocky" (Glendale, CA, USA)	$765
11	Barry Levy (Brooklyn, NY, USA)	$765
12	Marshall Ragir (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$765
13	Keith Sahara (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$610
14	Russell Salzer AKA "The Muscle" (Hollywood, FL, USA)	$610
15	Elvis Toomas (Glendale, CA, USA)	$610
16	Gary Paul (Chatsworth, CA, USA)	$520
17	Moe Jazayeri (San Jose, CA, USA)	$520
18	Jose Mendoza (Downey, CA, USA)	$520
19	Anton Ulker (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$425
20	Alex Ferrari (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$425
21	Pei Fang Zhou (Monterey Park, CA, USA)	$425
22	Duane Reed AKA "The Chile" (Northridge, CA, USA)	$425
23	Don Halpern (Santa Monica, CA, USA)	$425
24	Terry Hays (Queen Creek, AZ, USA)	$425
25	Brent Carter (Oak Park, IL, USA)	$425
26	Adam Yuen (Burbank, CA, USA)	$425
27	Jose Santos (Canyon Country, CA, USA)	$425

Tournament Report

Omaha Hi-Lo Champion Rene Vas Takes it Down Without a Fight The Legends of Poker first non-Hold'em event drew in 210 players for the $300+$35 Omaha Hi-Lo event #7. With twenty-four starting tables, the final table was set about 2am with 8 remaining players due to a double knockout on the final table bubble. Steve "Pair the Board" Kahn took 9th place and earned $915. The final table players asked for a chip count calculation prior to beginning any final table play. The numbers came back and there looked like too much debate for any deal to be reached. The dealer ran "high card for the button". Here's the action: seat 6 got the Queen of Clubs and won the button. Why report on the high card? Because during that process the players feverishly negotiated a final deal and no final table play occurred. Rene Vas was the chip leader and consequently declared the winner. What's a tournament reporter to do when he reports on a final table that never was? He asks the players to share a key hand that they had or ...wait for it... a bad beat story. I can't believe I asked to hear a bad beat story. All I know is that if I had a nickel for every bad beat story that has been thrust on me, I'd be chip leader and be taking home $22,635. But I don't and consequently I'm left to working for a living. Jim Henesy, the forth place finisher and a friend of mine, told of a huge swing pot. Jim held As-3s-Qd-4d against 2 other callers. The board came Js-7s-4-9-8s. Jim caught the nut high and second nut low to scoop and bring his stack from 25,000 to over 80,000. Rene Vas recalled the hand that gave him the chip lead which he never relinquished. Rene held A-4-J-6 with the suited Ace against 2 callers. The board fell J-8-2-3-J and Rene hit the nut low with top set for high. Rene crippled one player and knocked the other out. That was the last hand before the break so during the break he took a minute to check out the other 2 tables and their respective chip stacks. He then realized he had twice as many chips as the number two stack. This was quite a turnaround since he was down to 700 chips in the third round (blinds 100/200). -- Jay "Bugsy" Siegel