Poker Tournament Results

Big Poker Oktober

Place	Name	Prize
1	Andy Phan (Garden Grove, CA, USA)	$33,920
2	Minh Nguyen (Bell Gardens, CA, USA)	$16,865
3	Xuan Nguyen (Anaheim, CA, USA)	$8,250
4	Aaron Abargil (Sherman Oaks, CA, USA)	$5,500
5	Mario Esquerra AKA "Super" (Whittier, CA, USA)	$4,125
6	Walter Lang (Studio City, CA, USA)	$3,210
7	Sung Lee (Pomona, CA, USA)	$2,290
8	Shahan Martirosian (Woodland Hills, CA, USA)	$1,835
9	Mauricio Rauld (Hermosa Beach, CA, USA)	$1,375
10	Makram Merhom (Glendale, CA, USA)	$1,150
11	Jeff Abell (Studio City, CA, USA)	$1,150
12	Jim Quach	$1,150
13	Eden Stachelik (USA)	$915
14	Korosh Soltani (Pacific Palisades, CA, USA)	$915
15	Vince Burgio (West Hills, CA, USA)	$915
16	Tony Grand (Chatsworth, CA, USA)	$780
17	Sam Jozani (Aliso Viejo, CA, USA)	$780
18	William Daniels	$780
19	Estrella Baltazar AKA "Star" (Torrance, CA, USA)	$640
20	Kwinsee Khoa Tran (Garden Grove, CA, USA)	$640
21	Jack Boghosian	$640
22	Stephane Fitoussi (Oxnard, CA, USA)	$640
23	Johan Yha (Burbank, CA, USA)	$640
24	Brian Somerville AKA "dalmolition man" (Canyon Country, CA, USA)	$640
25	Jose Franco (Tulare, CA, USA)	$640
26	Suk Chung AKA "Sudlor" (Fullerton, USA)	$640
27	Arthur Coleman (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$640

Tournament Report

Andy Phan 1st Place - Nice Deal Event #17 of Big Poker October was a big buy-in event for this series at $300 + $35. This no-rebuy tournament had 315 entries which resulted in a prize pool of $91,665. The final table was set at 5:15am when the final eleven players had two all-ins and was covered by one of the final table players. The double knockout resulted in the final 9 players combining to the final table. The players arrived at the final table and had a 10 minute break while the tournament staff did a chip count. At 5:30 the players returned and all agreed that they wanted to see a chip count deal. The numbers were run and it was clear that they all were eager to call it a day. Each player agreed to the deal without any negotiation and the final table was done before it even started. Andy Phan was the chip leader over local poker pro Minh Nguyen by about 10%. Without a single hand to report, I do have one hand recored when there were two tables remaining. Poker pro Vince Burgio was knocked out on a tough beat. Vince was all-in with A-Ko against a player with A-10. Vince flopped the King and was in a big lead until running spades fell and Vince saw his preflop dominating hand go down in flames on the river. -- Jay "Bugsy" Siegel BIOGRAPHY Andy Phan declined to be interviewed. A quick search on the internet did not show any previous tournament cashes so congratulations on his "first-first" (first time - first win). CHIP COUNTS ARRIVING AT FINAL TABLE Seat 1 Sung Lee $251,000 Seat 2 Minh Nguyen $585,000 Seat 3 Andy Phan $644,000 Seat 4 Shahen Martirosian $214,000 Seat 5 Lex Lang $268,000 Seat 6 Xuan Nguyen $397,000 Seat 7 Mauricio Rauld $197,000 Seat 8 "Super" Mario Esquerra $291,000 Seat 9 Aharon Abargil $304,000 Chip Variance = +1000