Poker Tournament Results

Legends of Poker WPT Season 1

Hon Le

Tournament Report

Chris, Mark Tied for Lead! As excitement builds for the finale of the $5,000 no-limit hold’em championship, two players are tied for the chip lead. Tomorrow, Mark Seif and Chris Karagulleyan will step onto the World Poker Tour stage with $157,500 each. Not far behind with $141,000 is Kathy Liebert, who made a spectacular comeback. With seven players left and blinds of $3,000-$6,000 with $1,000 antes, she moved in for her last $31,500 with 10-9 of spades. Stan Goldstein called with pocket 6s and got outdrawn when a 9 turned. Four hands later Chris raised to $20,000 and folded when she moved in. Same thing a hand later: Hon Le raised to $20,000 and folded when she moved in again. Suddenly she had zoomed to $140,000. The 134 starting players, 69 of them super satellite winners, were winnowed down to six today. The field included three world champions: Phil Hellmuth Jr., Huck Seed and Carlos Mortensen. Of these, Hellmuth got the farthest, finishing eighth. Finishing 10th was Paul Zibits. He went all in with two jacks and lost when Hellmuth caught two bullets to his A-7. When the last nine players assembled, Can Hua was a big chip leader with about $135,000. At the second table he had doubled up against Paul Darden when he made a set. First out among the nine was Scott Brayer. With $500 antes and $2,000-$4,000 blinds, Hon Le raised to $10,000 with A-K, Brayer moved in for about $45,000 with A-J and Hon Le, after long thought, called and won when the board came K-6-2-10-J. “I misread him for a small pair,” Brayer said. On hand 13, Hellmuth bowed out on a play he wasn’t proud of. In the big blind with Q-5, he called when Seif, with pocket kings, raised to $10,000. With the board showing Q-8-2-4, Hellmuth, who said he hadn’t had a good hand in two hours, moved in for about $38,000 and got busted. “I used to be a good player,” he commented dejectedly. As play continued two levels more to $3,000-$6,000 blinds, Kathy made her big comeback while Paul Darden continued to sink. Finally, on hand 43, his last $3,500 was posted in the big blind in four-way action. All Paul had was 10-4 and he cashed out in seventh place when Mark, with pocket treys, flopped a set. The field was down to six, and now it’s lights, cameras and plenty of action for the championship event and the World Poker Tour spectacular. Meanwhile with points still to be had in the all-around points race, David Pham has an insurmountable lead with 364 points and has won the Mercedes SUV grand prize. In the super satellite race, Jeff Yoak collected $10,000 for his first-place finish, while Tony Cousineau collected $3,000 for finishing second and Randy Holland picked up $2,000 for coming in third. –Max Shapiro EVENT #30 RESULTS (DAY ONE) NO-LIMIT HOLD’EM CHAMPIONSHIP $5,000 + $80 $670,000 PRIZE POOL 134 PLAYERS 1………………………$258,000 2………………………$122,550 3……………………..…$61,270 4………………………..$38,700 5………………………..$29,025 6………………………..$22,575 7………………………..$16,125 8………………………. $12,900 9………………………. $11,285 ALL-AROUND POINTS CHAMPIONSHIP All-around points champion David “The Dragon” Pham is the winner of the Legends of Poker 2002 grand prize: a magnificent Mercedes ML 560 SUV. He accumulated 364 points, 61 more than his nearest rival (and also his cousin), Men “The Master” Nguyen by making eight final tables. He won two events: $1,000 7-card stud and $1,000 7-stud hi-lo. He also had a second in $500 stud hi-lo; three third-place finishes ($1,000 1/2 stud, 1/2 hold’em, $500 7-stud hi-lo and $500 Omaha hi-lo); a fifth in $300 7-stud; and a ninth in $300 limit hold’em. Pham, 35, came here from Vietnam 13 years ago. He won a World Series bracelet and $140,456 in the $1,500 S.H.O.E event last year, and was Card Player magazine’s Player of the Year in 2000. ALL-AROUND PAY-OFF POINTS Name Total 1. David Pham 364 2. Men Nguyen 303 3. Daniel Negreanu 221 4. Kathy Liebert 219 5. Ken Flaton 193 6. Marlon Delossantos 192 7. Sam Sanusi 189 8. Huck Seed 183 9. Andre Maloof 178 10.John Juanda 165 SUPER SATELLITE PAY-OFF POINTS Name Total 1. Jeff Yoak 405 2. Randy Holland 306 3. Tony Cousineau 301 4. Mickey Mouse 265 5. Param Gill 262 6. Craig Brennan 181 7. Hassan Kamoei 175 8. Kathy Liebert 162 9. Harley Hall 150 10.Jimmy Tran 143