Poker Tournament Results

Big Poker Oktober

Place	Name	Prize
1	Michael Mills (Downey, CA, USA)	$19,689
2	Luong Quach (Bakersfield, CA, USA)	$9,810
3	James Hewett (Riverside, CA, USA)	$4,900
4	Richard Krynsky AKA "Rick" (Santa Clarita, CA, USA)	$3,270
5	Paul Emata (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$2,455
6	Hun Lee (USA)	$1,900
7	Joon Lee (USA)	$1,360
8	Dyson Eng (USA)	$1,090
9	Ivan Youssefian AKA "Ivan The Terrible" (Glendale, CA, USA)	$815
10	Shahan Martirosian (Woodland Hills, CA, USA)	$680
11	Dia Nguyen (USA)	$680
12	David King (USA)	$680
13	Edgardo Castro	$545
14	Arman Sogomonian (Hollywood, CA, USA)	$545
15	Steven Moss (USA)	$545
16	Phil Liu	$380
17	Jedd Gold (USA)	$380
18	Enrique Primicias (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$380
19	Marshall Kim (Sherman Oaks, CA, USA)	$300
20	Allen Zuckerman (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$300
21	Antonio Padilla AKA "Tony" (orange county, CA, USA)	$300
22	Tino Golchin (Valencia, CA, USA)	$300
23	Linda Balint AKA "tough cookie" (Thousand Oaks, CA, USA)	$300
24	Aaron Chiu (Arcadia, CA, USA)	$300
25	Robert Salinas (Pasadena, CA, USA)	$300
26	F. Jahangard Maboo (USA)	$300
27	Gevork Kasabyan AKA "Kyaj" (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$300
28	Josephino Gabriel (Norwalk, CA, USA)	$190
29	Stuart Pfeifer (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$190
30	Leanardo Fenderson (Yorba Linda, CA, USA)	$190
31	Gor Kochyan (USA)	$190
32	Florentino Ornelas (Walla Walla, WA, USA)	$190
33	Brian Somerville AKA "dalmolition man" (Canyon Country, CA, USA)	$190
34	Edwin Jacinto (POMONA, CA, USA)	$190
35	Steven Gee AKA "Check Dark" (San Diego, CA, USA)	$190
36	James Henesy AKA "DanaPointKid" (Northridge, CA, USA)	$190

Tournament Report

Mickey 'Mouse' Mills Takes Another Tournament Down The 2008 Big Poker October continued with event #14, a $120 buy-in No Limit Hold'em tournament with one optional $100 rebuy. A field of 336 players made 226 rebuys generating a $12,949 prize pool. Final Table play began at level 17 with 3K antes and blinds at 8K/16K. Hon Le arrived to the final table as the chip leader with 428,000 of the 2,810,000 chips in play. Our first elimination was on hand #6 when Shahen Martirosian limped in under the gun. Hon Le called as well as the small and big blinds. The flop came 8s-7x-6s and Martirosian went all in with pocket Aces and Hon Le had 8-5 for top pair and an open-ended straight draw. The turn came a 3 improving neither player. The river came an 8 and Hon Le made trip 8's cracking Martirosian's Aces and sending him out in 10th place for $680. A few hands later Ivan Youssefian went all-in with Q-J. He was called by Joon Lee's K-J and Paul Emata's A-K. After the board came 5-A-5-8-10 Emata's pair of Aces sent Youssefian out in 9th place for $815. On hand #13 Dyson Eng was all-in with A-K against James Hewett's pocket 9's. After the board came 10-7-10-7-8 Hewett's 9's were enough to send Eng out in 8th place for $1,090. Not much went on for a couple rounds until Joon Lee was all in for his last 80K holding Q-5 against Richard Krynsky's A-K. The board came 2-K-4-J-A and Krynsky's two pair sent Lee out in 7th place for $1,360. Hon Le was definitely the aggressor raising most pots. On hand #36 he got caught as it was folded to him in the small blind as he pushed all in with Q-8. Mickey 'Mouse' Mills called instantly from the big blind with pocket Jacks. After the board came K-4-K-2-2 Mills' Jacks held sending Le out in 6th place for $1,900. After Mickey 'Mouse' Mills won that large pot the players realized it was after 7am and discussed making a chip count deal. The tournament staff ran the numbers and after some deliberation they made a deal with Mickey 'Mouse' Mills the chipleader declaring him winner of event #14. -- O.J. Alcaraz BIOGRAPHY Final tables and tournament wins are nothing new for Mickey 'Mouse' Mills. He simply stated that his strategy was to 'get lucky and say my prayers'. He added he likes playing small pot poker and tries to risk as little as possible while trying to get the most reward. Mickey uses position and timely bluffs while trying to mix up his play to pick up chips. It definitely worked out tonight as he adds another win to an already impressive tournament record.