CHIP POSITION FINAL TABLE
Tim Foley
$96,500
Dale Nelson
$29,500
Freddy Legaspi
$36,500
Tony Nasr
$35,500
Stanley Yen
$38,000
Don Lambertus
$37,500
Jerome Moss
$32,000
Arlo Eisenberg
$23,500
Eric Chhor
$19,500
Paul Savier
$18,500
ALL-AROUND
PAY-OFF POINTS
Name Total
1. John Spoonen 65
2. Timothy Foley 63
3. Dedric Oree 61
4. Robert Eades 57
5. Jerome Moss 55
6. Xuan Nguyen 53
7. Oscar Robles 51
8. Donald Lambertus 49
9. Eric Chhor 48
10.Danny Morgan 47
SUPER SATELLITE
PAY-OFF POINTS
Name Total
1. Derek Bukowski 133
2. John Hoang 132
3. Dejan Nikitovic 108
4. Leo F. 79
5. Mike Ruter 77.
6. Chris Grigorian 73
7. Bijan Ashkan 75
8. Dennis Cardinale 71
9. Laurene Holland 55
10.Chris Karagulleyan 55
All Fold’em, Hold’em Win!
Tim Foley set some kind of poker tournament record when he folded every hand he was dealt and still ended up winning the third event of Winnin’ o’ the Green 2004.
How was that possible? Simple. Only five hands were played at the final table before the nine finalists agreed to a chip count deal. Foley, who owns a catering business, started with a very big chip lead of 96,500 and was still in front when all the chips were tallied.
However, as noteworthy as Foley’s win was, an even more remarkable feat would be managing to fill in all the allotted space in this report with almost nothing to write about and without using 72-point type. But we’ll give it a go, using the largest words we can think of. Too bad Arnold Schwarzenegger didn’t make the final table. Writing his name a few times would have taken up a lot of space. Well, we’ll do it anyway: Schwarzenegger, Schwarzenegger, Schwarzenegger.
Occupation-wise, it was an interesting final table in that three of the players are, or were, in the food and restaurant business, and a fourth is a restaurant inspector.
The final table started with $500 antes and blinds of $5,000-$10,000, with 6:46 remaining. On the first hand, Stanley Yen, an environmental health specialist (restaurant inspector) living in Cerritos, very nearly busted out. Yen, who plays online, started with 38,000 in chips and was dealt K-6 in the big blind. When the flop came Kh-10s-4s, he moved all in with his paired king. Jerome Moss had flopped a set of 10s and had an easy call. After a trey and a queen were dealt, Moss scooped up the chips, leaving Yen with just 6,000. Moss, who lives in Sherman Oaks, recently sold his soul food restaurant and plans to open another.
On the second hand, Freddy Legaspi of Los Angeles, who is self-employed, moved in with A-7. Yen called from the small blind with his last 3,500 holding pocket queens. The ladies held up when the board came 9-4-3-8-K, and Yen got to stick around. On the next hand, Paul Savier, from Cebu in the Philippines, took the pot by moving in after Moss re-raised.
The next hand was almost the last. Savier went all in with pocket jacks. He was in good shape against Moss, who called with A-J, but then a board of 10-3-2-5-4 gave Moss a wheel, and Savier cashed out in 10th place for $504.
After one more hand the blinds were to be $3,000-$6,000 with $1,000 antes. But things never got that far because the players talked deal, and a chip count was taken. The results: Foley, who had only given up five antes, had $94,000 and won an unofficial $8,845. Moss, who had 89,500, cashed in second for $8,450. Donald Lambertus had 40,000 and picked up $4,160 for third. Lambertus, a retired realtor from Scottsdale, Arizona now is a full-time player. He plays mostly online, his game of choice being no-limit hold’em.
Tony “TNT” Nasr of Covina is a Bike regular playing daily tournaments. He considers this casino lucky for him, and has been having a good year so far. He finished with 31,000 in chips and collected $3,380 for fourth. After him came Legaspi, a Los Angeles businessman, whose payoff was $3,160 for his 28,500 in chips. Dale Nelson of Azusa, retired and a regular at the $9-$18 Omaha hi-lo tables, picked up $3,030 for his chip total of 27,000. Yen had 23,500 and cashed in for $2,730. Eric Chhor of Bell Gardens is a gambler and former bakery owner making his second straight final table. He had 18,500 and won $2,295. And Arlo Eisenberg of San Pedro, low-chipped with 15k, won $1,990. --Max Shapiro
BIOGRAPHY
Timothy Foley owns Red Carpet Catering, which does parties for business and private groups. He’s been in the restaurant business for two years and right now is looking for investors for his next venture, an upscale deli in Los Angeles. Any takers? Foley has been playing poker all his life, and tournaments only about a year. His side game is $6-$12 Omaha hi-lo. He likes no-limit hold’em for tournaments, and has been trying to get more practice in for that game, though he didn’t get much practice at the final table tonight. He’s had some cash-outs, but this is his first tournament win.
His style of play, he said, varies depending on the game and his opponents. In this tournament, he recalled, he got off to a rocky start when three hands in a row, pocket kings the first two times, pocket deuces the next, were beaten, but after that went steadily upwards.
All Fold’em, Hold’em Win!
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