Poker Tournament Results

Bellagio Five Diamond World Poker Classic

Place	Name	Prize
1	Mori Eskandani (Las Vegas, NV)	$43,844
2	Young V Phan (Garden Grove, CA, USA)	$25,210
3	Jon Brody (Davie, FL, USA)	$13,153
4	Christoph Wolters (Germany)	$7,673
5	Tom Cawley (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$6,577
6	Phil Immergluck (Chicago, IL)	$5,480
7	Kim Corten (Las Vegas, NV)	$4,384
8	Russel Scott (East Moline, IL, USA)	$3,289

Tournament Report

Former Mirage and Bellagio poker host Mori Eskandani played like he had home field advantage as the Las Vegan outlasted a field of 113 to take the $43,844 first prize in the Seven Card Stud event of the Bellagio Five Diamond World Poker Classic. This was Eskandani’s seventh 7 card stud title in his professional career. "This one was kind of a big deal for me, not only because it was my seventh stud title, but because it was at the Bellagio, one of the greatest poker rooms there is," said Eskandani. The veteran professional player, who plays regularly at the Bellagio, went to the final table as the chip leader, but soon found himself down in the pack after taking a couple of tough beats early. Eskandani stayed alive long enough to make it to a heads-up match against Young Phan of Irvine, CA, but then thought he had made an error that would knock him out of action. He was down to only $14,000 in chips when he accidentally made a miss-bet, causing him to complete a much larger bet than he wanted to at sixth street. He had determined that he was the big underdog at that point in the hand, but fortunately for him, he filled up on the river, won a big pot and never looked back. Thanks to Jim Sherman for the report