$15,000 Add On Two day Tournament
Tuesday: Limit Hold Em
Wednesday: No Limit
$120 Buy In with optional $100 rebuy
$100/500 chips Day one
Rebuy 100/1000 chips Day two
Prize Money $33,800
128 players/60 rebuys
Batter Up... Springs Training for the WSOP continues
By Rich Wilens
Week number two into spring training for the WSOP. Casino Arizona is stepping to the plate by adding $15,000 every week. The best players in Arizona come out to play. We had a few players from Michigan, Illinois, California and Vegas. Everyone has noticed that the level of play is gotten higher.
This week, tournament players were down from the previous week to 128. Instead of paying three tables for 150 plus entries, fewer than 150 pays two tables. Still, last table pays $450.00 minimum and it went up from there. Not bad for 7 hours work.
I watched quite a few players bad beat tonight. I watched quite a few players get badly beaten. A million stories, here's a couple. First night, Limit Hold'Em:
Lefty Spitz calls Mark Hopkins in the big blind. Lefty is peeking at pocket JJ and decides to slow play. Six players are in the hand, Call, Call, Call, Call, Call, lets go and the flop comes J 7s 8s. Mark, big blind, (like the hotel in SF, no relation) has 6 9s. Big blind bets. Muck, muck, call, muck, Lefty calls. Turn is As. Mark bets, 5 seat mucks and Lefty raises. Re-raise says Mark. Lefty calls. 7 on the flop. Bet raises, re-raise, re-raise, and re-raise. Mark calls all in. Full house beats Flush.
The worst bad beat was mine. Here is a lesson for all. We have 61 players left. We are going hand for hand. I had 1050 chips which was average for the cut. Our turn to deal. (Note: I know a player at another table has one chip left). 10 seat has a set of 77's, I have 98. Flop comes 6 7 10. I flop the straight, 10 seat Jesse has a set of sevens. I bet, Jesse raises. I say OK. Turn 6. I bet Jesse raises. I re raise he re-raises. Now I am caught up. I couldn't see the full house. River J. Bet, raise, re raise all in I am. I show the straight, Jesse shows the full house. I tilt, leave the table. Sonja, the tournament assistant manager, calls that's it and 60 players were in. He didn't have enough to cover my all in. I had 3 chips. I would have made the finals. That's a lesson learned.
Wednesday Nite
Ok, I am better now. Even though I don't get to play. Twelfth through 20th place looks like this:
Aaron Long, Howard Lamb, Jack Swidler, Dave Mataya, Frank Shadid, Steve Varga, MG Cook. Chip Jett, Xia Byrne, Harold Liming
Eleventh place Harold Lemming was the big blind caught the 45s. 10 seat Richard Caviness has the AQ. Harold pushes all in with $2000. Richard has more than enough chips and calls. Bottom line: Ace high wins. That brings us to the final table.
The final table looks like this:
| Seat 1 Darnell Jones, Phoenix | $10,500 |
| Seat 2 Fred Carlisle, Scottsdale | $11,500 |
| Seat 3 Jesse McGinty, Phoenix | $19,500 |
| Seat 4 David Vanderwall, Scottsdale | $14,000 |
| Seat 5 K C Clark, Fountain Hills | $7,000 |
| Seat 6 Larry Levine, Scottsdale | $24,000 |
| Seat 7 Juan Moreno, Miami | $11,500 |
| Seat 8 Terry Oltman, Phoenix | $2,000 |
| Seat 9 Richard Caviness, Phoenix | $18,000 |
| Seat 10 Ralph Dipiero, Phoenix | $7,000 |
First to go is Terry Oltman. Terry has a pair of 5's. Big Blind has A9. Nines take it. Ninth place goes to KC Clark. KC in the small blind with Q10s. Big blind is J4. Flop comes 884 turn and river X X. Eights and fours goes to Richard Caviness in the 9 seat. There was only one Juan in the tournament. He was placing number 8. With KJ in his hand, AQ took the hand with Aces. Richard is on a roll.
Darnell Jones steps up to the plate to take 7th. His JQ wasn't strong enough to beat KQ . Adios says Darnell.
With six players left, a chip count ensues. A deal was cut and each player walked with close to $4200.00. Not bad for two days work.
A chip count ensues and the winner is determined by the most chips.
Official Money Winners
1. Richard Caviness, $4199.00
2. Larry Living, $4199.00
3. Fred Carlisle, $4199.00
4. David Vanderwall, $4199.00
5. Jesse McGinty, $4199.00
6. Ralph Dipieno Jr, $4199.00
7. Darnell Jones, $1465.00
8. Juan Moreno, $1172.00
9. KC Clark, $580.00
10. Terry Oltman, $580.00
11 thru 20 received $450.00
Aaron Long, Howard Lamb, Jack Swidler, Dave Mataya, Frank Shadid, Steve Varga, MG Cook. Chip Jett, Xia Byrne, Harold Liming
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