Grinz Winz Card Players WSOP FreerollJohn Grinzivich Will Represent All of Card Player in Main Event |
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The Card Player family has its World Series of Poker horse.
Congratulations go to John Grinzivich, who won the $10,000 WSOP freeroll that was held for Card Player Media's full-time employees. Card Player owner and CEO Barry Shulman made the event happen by hatching the idea and putting up the $10,000 for the winner.
Grinzivich will be playing for all of Card Player. By winning the tournament, he secured the seat and also 20 percent of his 
winnings, as long as he cashes. Second-place finisher Tim Resnik won 15 percent of Grinzivich; third-place finisher Justin Larue 10 percent; fourth-place Scott Dedoes won 5 percent; and the rest of the employees - no matter whether they played in the tourney or not - have 1 percent of Grinzivich.
We'll all be loudly cheering for him.
Card Player also wishes to thank the staff of the Palms poker room for running a superb tournament and dealing with the many spectators who ended up hanging around and watching the tourney long after they were eliminated.
Barry and Card Player's COO Jeff Shulman watched as 31 of their employees took their seats with $10,000 worth of chips facing a blind structure that imitated the WSOP. Jeff Shulman spent most of the day on the cardroom's PA system performing a cross between play-by-play and heckling, while Barry and his wife Allyn clearly enjoyed watching everyone have a great time (even those of us who couldn't pick up a hand if life depended on it).
The top-two finishers started heads-up play with a comparable number of chips and the match lasted for more 
than an hour. During the heads-up battle, there really wasn't any point when Grinzivich wasn't fully in control. Using a relentless system of raises and check-raises, he patiently whittled Resnik's stack down to the point that Resnik was forced to call with the marginal 7
8
after Grinzivich moved all in with A
4
and it all ended when the board came 9 K 4 K T.
As a sweetener, Resnik happens to be Grinzivich's boss (sorry Tim).
This will be Grinzivich's first appearance in any WSOP event, but the Card Player family is in good hands with Grinz, a New Castle, Pennsylvania, native who graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 2001. He has logged countless hours playing Internet poker and can often be found playing in live tournaments in casinos all around Las Vegas. (He plays under the name StickyStax at PokerStars.) He is also the points leader in Card Player's $30 weekly Wednesday tournament that takes place at his house that attracts on average 15 players.
His best live cash occurred earlier this year when he took more than $7,000 from a $300 event during the Venetian's Deep Stacks Extravaganza in which he finished in the top five.
Grinzivich handles many duties for Card Player's marketing department, including uploading results from tournaments that come in from all over the country. Managers of pub poker leagues also may be familiar with Grinz, as he helped get Card Player distributed for free to bars everywhere.
A special thanks from all the employees at Card Player goes to the Shulmans. The excitement the tourney generated in the office the last few weeks has been electrifying and we can't wait to root John into the money at this year's main event.
Now, Grinz, just do us all a favor and win the damn thing.
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