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Card Player Player of the Year Update
1: Poorya Nazari — 3,000
2: Cornel Cimpan — 2,730
3: Anthony Gregg — 2,500
4: Benjamin Spindler — 2,000
4: Binh Nguyen (pictured at right) — 2,000
6: Jens Kyllonen — 1,920
6: Stewart Scott — 1,920
6: Moritz Kranich — 1,920
9: Steve Weinstein — 1,800
10: Allen Carter — 1,680
This Week in Poker
Card Player Live Coverage Event — $10,000 L.A. Poker Classic no-limit hold’em championship event
The final six players in the 2009 L.A. Poker Classic took their seats at 4 p.m. last Thursday at the final table in the $10,000 no-limit hold'em championship event of this marquee tournament series. Here is a look at the starting stacks when the final table began:
1: Chris Karagulleyan — 4,080,000
2: Mike Sowers — 2,405,000
3: Pat Walsh — 2,200,000
4: Binh Nguyen — 1,895,000
5: Cornel Cimpan — 1,740,000
6: Chris Ferguson — 1,565,000
It took 66 hands before the first player fell, and it was the most notable professional at the table who was the first victim. Chris Ferguson busted in sixth place and he took home $240,538 in prize money. Pat Walsh was able to double up a few times after that on a short stack, but he was the second player to leave the table in fifth place ($310,694) 96 hands into play. Things picked up in speed after that as the blinds and antes left players with 20 big blinds on average, and the next two players fell quickly. Chris Karagulleyan was eliminated in fourth place ($430,963) and Mike Sowers fell in third place ($654,797).
That left Binh Nguyen, who stormed into the chip lead heading in the heads-up match, and Cornel Cimpan, who tread the path of survival to make the final two. The heads-up match lasted five and a half hours, with Nguyen running over Cimpan at the start, only to see Cimpan flop two pair when Nguyen had him dominated preflop to prolong the match. That process repeated itself three times as Cimpan continued to double up until he took the chip lead. In the end, Cimpan won the tournament shortly before 3 a.m., and he walked away with $1,686,760 in prize money. Nguyen was the runner-up, taking home $935,424 in prize money.
Full Final-Table Recap
Card Player Liver Coverage Event – NBC National Heads-Up Championship
At press time the 2009 NBC National Heads-Up Championship first-round matches had been announced last night from the draw party at PURE night club in Caesars Palace. Play began on Friday at 1:30 p.m. in this single-elimination tournament (except for the championship match, which will be a best-of-three to see who wins it all). Check out profiles for the 2009 players and catch up on NBC Heads-Up history on the NBC Heads-Up page.
The first-round matches will take place Friday, Mar. 6. The round of 32 and the sweet 16 take place on Saturday, Mar. 7, and the elite eight, final four, and championship match take place on Sunday, Mar. 8. Card Player will be there for every single elimination, bringing you all of the action with live updates, photos, and videos from CardPlayer TV.
Hearts Bracket - Begins play at 1:30 p.m. Winner of the hearts bracket will play the winner of the diamonds bracket.
Johnny Chan vs. Eli Elezra
Erick Lindgren vs. Howard Lederer
J.C. Tran vs. David Williams
Jamie Gold vs. Scott Fischman
Erik Seidel vs. John Phan
Jerry Yang vs. Clonie Gowen
Allen Cunningham vs. Sam Farha
Andy Bloch vs. Peter Eastgate
Diamonds Bracket - Begins play at 4:00 p.m. Winner of the diamonds bracket plays the winner of the hearts bracket.
Kenny Tran vs. Antonio Esfandiari
Greg Raymer vs. Jennifer Harman
Kenny Yeh vs. Phil Laak
Vanessa Selbst vs. Layne Flack
David Benyamine vs. Gus Hansen
Huck Seed vs. Jonathan Little
Chad Brown vs. Glen Chorny
Annie Duke vs. Brad Garrett
Clubs Bracket - Begins play at 7:00 p.m. Winner of the clubs bracket plays the winner of the spades bracket.
Don Cheadle vs. David Pham
Paul Wasicka vs. Nicholas Joy
Jennifer Tilly vs. Phil Ivey
Doyle Brunson vs. Vanessa Rousso
Hevad Khan vs. Scotty Nguyen
Ted Forrest vs. Orel Hershiser
Daniel Negreanu vs. Chris Moneymaker
Mike Matusow vs. Dario Minieri
Spades Bracket - Begins play at 9:30 p.m. Winner of the spades bracket plays the winner of the clubs bracket.
Gabe Kaplan vs. Chris Ferguson
John Juanda vs. Joe Hachem
Ilari Sahamies vs. Gavin Smith
Fred Collins vs. Bertrand Grospellier
Jeffrey Ishbia vs. Leon Yanovski
Mike Sexton vs. Phil Hellmuth
Gavin Griffin vs. Tom Dwan
Barry Greenstein vs. Blandino Gines
Looking Ahead
Card Player Live Coverage Event – PokerStars EPT German Open
Tuesday, Mar. 10: Day 1A
Wednesday, Mar. 11: Day 1B
Thursday, Mar. 12: Day 2
Friday, Mar. 13: Day 3
Saturday, Mar. 14: Final Table
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