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Poker Tournament Results
The Mini Series
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Youssef Elgharor |
| 1 |
Youssef Elgharor (Los Angeles, CA, USA) |
$12,103 |
| 2 |
Man Phung (Rosemead, CA, USA) |
$6,025 |
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Jonathan McNeely (Los Angeles, CA, USA) |
$2,945 |
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Sam Atter (Sherman Oaks, CA, USA) |
$1,965 |
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Sean Riley AKA "ReachAround Riles" (Burbank, CA, USA) |
$1,475 |
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Sabino Flores (Huntinton Park, CA, USA) |
$1,145 |
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Romik Abovian (Glendale, CA, USA) |
$820 |
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Phillip Saravan (Burbank, CA, USA) |
$655 |
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Gary Kozin |
$490 |
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Joseph Sands (Brea, CA, USA) |
$410 |
Tournament Report
Youssef Elgharor Takes Down Event #15
The 2009 Mini Series of Poker continued with Event #15, a $170 buy-in No Limit Hold’em tournament. A field of 225 players vied for a share of the $32,738 prize pool. Final table play began with 18:50 remaining at level 15 with blinds at 4K-8K with a 1K ante. Youssef Elgharor arrived as the chipleader with 258,000 of the 1,575,000 chips in play.
Play was tight early on as there were very few flops and little action. Our first elimination was not until hand #22 when Joseph Sands was all in with pocket 9’s against Sean Riley’s A-Q. A Queen in the window of the flop of Q-8-4 gave Riley the lead. The turn brought another Queen as Sands still needed one of the remaining two 9’s in the deck. It was not meant to be as the river came a 3 sending Sands out in 10th place for $410.
A few hands later Gary Kozin was all in with pocket 3’s. He was up against Sam Attar who held A-Q and Sabino Flores who also held A-Q. Somehow an Ace still showed up as the board came 10-A-K-8-8 and Kozin was eliminated in 9th place for $490.
Phil Saravan found himself short stacked at this point and all in against Man Phung who held J-7 and Sabino Flores who held Q-8. The board came J-6-5-9-4 and Phung’s pair of Jacks was good enough to send Saravan out in 8th place for $655.
We were down to 7 players for another 20 hands until discussion of a chip count deal came up. The players decided to take a look at the numbers. After the tournament staff announced what each player would get, everyone was in agreement thus ending the tournament. Youssef Elgharor, who arrived as the chip leader, finished as the chip leader declaring him winner of event #15.
-- O.J. Alcaraz
BIOGRAPHY
Youssef Elgharor has been playing poker for 19 years. When he finds time between the two jobs he works, you can see him playing $200 buy-in No Limit hold’em cash games. Elgharor mentioned the biggest hand of the tournament for him was when he made quad Kings against someone who had pocket Aces. It was a huge pot and it was at that point he felt he could win the tournament.
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