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Another Twenty-Seven Poker Players Get Their Shot at the L.A. Poker Open $500K Guarantee

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LA Poker Examiner

Ramzi SrourAnother thousand plus poker players entered Day 1b of the opening L.A Poker Open tournament series event on Friday, November 6, 2009.  Commerce Casino's $500K guaranteed prize pool event continues to draw large fields with the irresistible payout.  For the second day in a row, 99 places were paid with the top 27 entrants moving on to Day 2 on Sunday, November 8, 2009.

The second batch of 27 players :

1 Pat Bonilla, Upland, CA 283,000
2 Robert Pisano, Las Vegas, NV 266,500
3 Felix McNulty, N. Hollywood, CA 257,000
4 Andrew Shack, Hollywood, CA 171,000
5 Minh Ly, Rosemead, CA 154,000
6 Thanh Luong, Garden Grove, CA 153,000
7 Khang Pham, Santa Ana, CA 147,500
8 Vadim Baranovsky, Los Angeles, CA 131,500
9 Hon Le, Bell Gardens, CA 128,500
10 Jeff Wilson, Los Angeles, CA 124,000
11 Seymour Ogeare, Moreno Valley, CA 124,000
12 Eric Mandap, Los Angeles, CA 102,000
13 Justin Jones, Rockdale, TX 93,500
14 Tung Vo, Westminster, CA 90,500
15 Larry Furie, Hollywood, CA 87,500
16 Kristie Hoang, San Gabriel, CA 78,500
17 Jamil " Nick" Hodaly, Sherman Oaks, CA 78,000
18 Kenton Keilholtz, Orange, CA 71,000
19 Lori Vanderby, Chino, CA 69,500
20 Dean Stinson, Canyon Lake, CA 64,500
21 Ramzi Srour, Glendale, CA 63,000
22 Constance Hammock, Sherman Oaks, CA 60,500
23 Eugene Krank, Hawthorne, CA 58,500
24 Davidson Matthew, Toronto, CANADA 48,000
25 Mai Le, Los Angeles, CA 37,000
26 Michael Ignacio, Oceanside, CA 32,000
27 Craig Dahl, Newport Beach, CA 24,500
 

Although Commerce Casino only needs about 550 players to register on Day 1c in order to make the guarantee, one can easily expect treble that amount to take a shot at hitting the big one.  The entire ball room is expected to be elbow to elbow, standing room only for those procrastinators who find themselves waiting to take a seat as an alternate.

At 5:00 p.m. today, registration closes and the tournament staff will begin calculating the final pay out structure.  Today is the day that the day that the total prize pool will be announced, and this poker writer is taking the over on $600K. You can expect to see me among the masses of poker players determined to make the final cut.

Commerce Casino is located at 6131 East Telegraph Rd., Commerce, CA 90040, just off the Santa Ana (5) Freeway at the Washington Blvd. exit. The phone is (323) 721-2100 

  Need Help? Call the gambling hotline: 800 GAMBLING 

www.Marie-Lizette.com

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Marie-Lizette lives, works and plays in the greater Los Angeles area. After years of playing the cash tables, Marie-Lizette has turned her attention towards the poker tournament circuit. Marie-Lizette is a professional poker tournament player, blogger, writer, and photographer at events in the...

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