Poker Tournament Results

Big Poker Oktober

Place	Name	Prize
1	Tammy Phelps (Malibu, CA, USA)	$9,500
2	Duoc Nguyen (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$4,920
3	Marjan Gibbel (Orange, CA, USA)	$2,700
4	Mike Moore (Hobe Sound, FL, USA)	$2,375
5	Luis Marquez (Downey, CA, USA)	$2,035
6	Jim Lamp (Compton, CA, USA)	$1,695
7	Isaac Crow (Downey, CA, USA)	$1,360
8	William Vo (Pacific Palisades, CA, USA)	$1,020
9	Jack Lee (Brownsville, TX, USA)	$680
10	William Trinidad (West Covina, CA, USA)	$375
11	Rick Bagley (USA)	$375
12	Joseph Assaad (Glendale, CA, USA)	$375
13	Jeff Grinberg	$305
14	Daniel Lopez (La Mirada, CA, USA)	$305
15	Leonardo Garcia	$305
16	Carlos Torres	$240
17	Enkhjargal Ochirbat (Diamond Bar, CA, USA)	$240
18	Fred Adriano (Agura Hills, CA, USA)	$240
19	Tony Ianni	$170
20	Sevak Dasadarian	$170
21	Hal David Coblentz (Huntington Beach, CA, USA)	$170
22	Daniel Quick (Sherman Oaks, CA, USA)	$170
23	Elvis Toomas (Glendale, CA, USA)	$170
24	Dave Banerjee	$170
25	Adam Miner	$170
26	Carlson Le (Goodyear, AZ, USA)	$170
27	Phil Scinzba	$170
28	Robert Cherfan (Sylmar, CA, USA)	$120
29	Theodore Lin	$120
30	Robert Frick (Sweden)	$120
31	Mario Mendez	$120
32	Hoover Lad	$120
33	Richard Salazar AKA "RichHandyman" (Round Rock, TX, USA)	$120
34	Bryan Cameron	$120
35	Carl Horton	$120
36	Bonnie Thai (Monterey, CA, USA)	$120
37	Charlie Yenokyan (N Hollywood, CA, USA)	$100
38	Susan Giatti	$100
39	Roger Wattanabe (Alhambra, CA, USA)	$100
40	Anthony Rodriguez (El Monte, CA, USA)	$100
41	Arthur Chale	$100
42	Dee Dee Cole (Mission Viejo, CA, USA)	$100
43	Alan Carothers	$100
44	Michael Demeritt	$100
45	Scott Harrison	$100
46	Kenneth Watanabe	$85
47	Terry Na	$85
48	James Shultz (Lewis Center, OH, USA)	$85
49	William Bishop (Tampa, FL, USA)	$85
50	Reza Torkamani	$85
51	David Gilbody	$85
52	Lawrence Wein	$85
53	Miguel Aguilar	$85
54	Dai Nguyen (Pomona, CA, USA)	$85
55	John Nguyen (San Jose, CA, USA)	$70
56	Zib Zibkowski	$70
57	Genaro Hilario	$70
58	Edward Quick (Torrance, CA, USA)	$70
59	Perinasari Vo	$70
60	Robert Andrino	$70
61	Steve Reitzfeld (Culver City, CA, USA)	$70
62	Ernesto Santiago (Tujunga, CA, USA)	$70
63	Darren Gozumain	$70
64	Tony Curvey	$70

Tournament Report

Tammy Phelps Outlasts 700 Player Field The 2008 Big Poker October continued with event #5, a $60 buy-in No Limit Hold'em tournament. A field of 700 played for a share of the $33,950 prize pool. The final table was to start with 5K antes and 20K/40K blinds. Tammy Phelps arrived to the final table as the chip leader with 1,010,000 of the 4,174,000 chips in play. Before the start of the final table there was some discussion of doing a chip count deal. The tournament staff ran the numbers and after some negotiation the numbers were agreed to with Tammy Phelps declared winner of event #5. Tammy shared a hand where she held pocket 8's and was all in preflop against two other players holding overcards. Her 8's held up and she won a huge pot that propelled her into the chip lead. She never looked back and carried the lead to the final table. -- O.J. Alcaraz BIOGRAPHY Tammy Phelps is a mom who resides in Malibu. She calls the Bike her home casino and in addition to playing tournaments you can see her at the $100 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em cash games. Tammy is consistently placing in the top 10-20% of the field and was very happy to breakthrough and win a tournament with such a large field. When Tammy is not busy being a mom and playing poker she enjoys playing tennis. With this win expect Tammy to play in quite a few more events in this year's Big Poker October.