Poker Tournament Results

Big Poker Oktober

Place	Name	Prize
1	Kevin Blakely AKA "The Snake" (La Crescenta, CA, USA)	$16,271
2	Phil Fuhrman (Kansas City, MO, USA)	$8,580
3	James Alarcon (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$4,485
4	Edgardo Castro	$3,925
5	Han Quoc (Alhambra, CA, USA)	$3,365
6	Jose Bravo (Downey, CA, USA)	$2,805
7	Thomas Walker (Newport Beach, CA, USA)	$2,240
8	Richard Soliman (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$1,680
9	Sammy Jaramillo AKA "Sambo" (Anaheim, CA, USA)	$1,120
10	Joseph Harmatz (Aliso Viejo, CA, USA)	$615
11	Shan Siang	$615
12	Adam Bondy	$615
13	Estrella Baltazar AKA "Star" (Torrance, CA, USA)	$505
14	Alexander Zisiades (USA)	$505
15	Tony Nguyen (Long Beach, CA, USA)	$505
16	Joon Lee (Rocky Mount, NC, USA)	$390
17	Brenda Lee Hogan	$390
18	Sonny Nguyen	$390
19	Craig Repoz (Anaheim, CA, USA)	$280
20	Guang Zhao Li	$280
21	Zhe Sun (Bell Gardens, CA, USA)	$280
22	William Porter	$280
23	Rod Sohrabi (Sherman Oaks, CA, USA)	$280
24	Shaimoom Newaz	$280
25	Jose Luis De Paz Osca	$280
26	Tony Nasr AKA "TNT" (Whittier, CA, USA)	$280
27	Timothy Pong (Granada Hills, CA, USA)	$280
28	Kwon W Cho	$195
29	Jose Franco (Tulare, CA, USA)	$195
30	Eduardo Leonard	$195
31	Robert Ratkay	$195
32	Yamil Sarmiento	$195
33	Stuart Pfeifer (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$195
34	Gary Fisher	$195
35	Chi Gia Phan (Arcadia, CA, USA)	$195
36	Vinh Duong (Westminster, CA, USA)	$195
37	Chatana Dejwan (La Habra, CA, USA)	$170
38	Rita Baumer (USA)	$170
39	Dai Nguyen (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$170
40	George Kozez (USA)	$170
41	Richard Procida (Whittier, CA, USA)	$170
42	Eric Arreca (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$170
43	Michael Adaricio	$170
44	David Ausman (Mission Viejo, CA, USA)	$170
45	Varujan Petrossian	$170
46	Domingo Gomez (Los Angeles, NV, USA)	$140
47	Edgardo Villareal (Torrance, CA, USA)	$140
48	Thong Hoang	$140
49	David Marciano	$140
50	Steve Kahn (Marina Del Ray, CA, USA)	$140
51	Jeffrey Fields	$140
52	Harvey Goldson (Long Beach, CA, USA)	$140
53	Jeremy Veltri (Downey, CA, USA)	$140
54	Antonio Fesi AKA "Tony" (Anaheim, CA, USA)	$140

Tournament Report

Final Table Snake Bit by Kevin “The Snake” Blakey A field of 578 players battled for their share of the $56,066 prize pool in the second event of the series. This No Limit Hold’em event found its way to the final table at 5:45am after the chip leader Kevin “The Snake” Blakey knocked out two players. The final nine took a break and returned to a 9-way chop with very little debate. Kevin Blakey shared with me a couple of big hands he had as he did his part in narrowing the field. Kevin knocked out so many players he couldn’t recall the total number. Kevin found himself in a 3-way pot after an opponent pushed all-in with A-J and A-Q called. Kevin was ahead during the entire board and hit a flush on the river just for kicks. With 13 players remaining Kevin took his dominated K-10 against the small blind A-10. The flop came A-Q-x and the turn Jack gave Kevin the nut straight. The river was a brick and Kevin takes out another stack. He landed at the final table with almost half the chips in play—guaranteeing himself 1st place money if they chop immediately. -- Jay “Bugsy” Siegel BIOGRAPHY Kevin “The Snake” Blakey has dominated tournament poker since returning after taking a year off. He had just cashed three times at The California State Championships and cashed in both events so far in Big Poker Oktober. Kevin had played his typical aggressive style that has worked very well for him over the last 4 years. Kevin said he worked his way up to 32,000 chips by the second level and never felt short stacked during the entire tournament. He leveraged his stack well while playing in position and was able to set some traps that netted a few sizable pots.