The action continues at the Four Queens Poker Classic with two a day tournaments. Today’s offering was a $300+35 Stud event at noon and a $100+20 No-Limit Hold’em with one rebuy at 7:00 pm. Many poker celebrities were there today watching and taking part in the events. The Hendon Mob is in town and playing in the tournaments and satellites. Oklahoma Johnny was seen watching the evening tournament. Tom McEvoy was playing in the evening tournament sitting comfortably behind a large stack of chips. We will post complete results once available along with Debbie Burkhead’s great play-by-play.
Across the Fremont pedestrian mall the Women’s Poker Club begin the WPC Vegas Showdown tournament at Binion’s Horseshoe Casino. The tournament events begin tomorrow in the first floor tournament area next to the poker room. The ladies will be holding daily events for the next couple of days with the final event scheduled for 9:00 am Saturday, 09-11-04. A great opportunity for any ladies wishing to compete in a big-time poker atmosphere and win some money and a little fame. A fun time is guaranteed by this poker playing group of gals.
More bad news for the Las Vegas monorail. The train opened yesterday after closing down when one of the cars lost a wheel assembly. The monorail was repaired and reopened yesterday morning only to have even more parts fall off and immediately shut down again. The closure this time may be for an extended period of time since it involves some parts added after a driveshaft fell off during the initial shakedown period. The private project that has been creating traffic jams for months on Vegas surface streets during the construction phase will apparently continue to create problems for Las Vegas. Probably the final solution will involve millions of taxpayer dollars to bail out the problem plagued project. The publicly touted clean air we will all realize from all of the parked autos appears to be just more spin doctor smoke screens fouling our already dirty air just like any other pollutant. If you are looking for the Las Vegas Monorail version of the Simpson’s Monorail song you can find it here.
By Debbie Burkhead
Chad Layne Played Catch-up to Capture the No-Limit Hold’em Event
Today’s No-Limit Hold’em event began at noon and at 7:00 p.m. the final ten players took their seats at the final table.
The blinds were $300-$600 with a $100 ante.
Marlen Milne was in first chip position with $25,000, Kevin Coon was in second place with $21,700, Sarah Casey, from Las Vegas made her second appearance at the final table in third with $19,700, Sarah placed 2nd in the $230 no-limit event on Friday, September 3
Chad Layne was in fourth with $18,400, Warren Karp was in fifth with $17,300, Gene Collens was in sixth with $16,800, Jeff Rine was in seventh with $13,300, Todd Tucker was in eighth with $14,300, Max Pescatori was in ninth with $11,600, and Mick Cowley was in last place with $5,300.
At 7:40 the blinds increased to $500-$1,000 and the anted stayed at $100.
Two hands before the dinner break Warren Karp raised $4,000 and Todd Tucker moved all-in for $7,800 and Warren called all-in for $3,600 more. Todd showed A-J and Warren turned over A-6. Warren caught a straight on the turn and left Todd with $200.
On the very next hand Todd went all-in with his remaining $200 and caught two pair for the win and increased his stack to $1,400, then went to dinner.
Marlin had increased his lead to $28,300, Kevin moved up to $23,100, Sarah was still in third place with $19,700, Jeff jumped up to fourth place with $18,700, Warren increased his chip stack but was still in fifth place with $18,500, Gene was still holding on to sixth with $18,300, Chad dropped from fourth to seventh with $15,400, Mick moved up to eighth place from last place with $12,100, Max dropped to ninth place with $6,000 and Todd was in real trouble with only $1,400.
Play resumed at 8:45 with 32 minutes remaining in level 11.
On the first hand after the dinner break Todd raised all-in with his remaining $1,400 and Kevin called the $400 more from the big blind. Todd showed K-6 of clubs and Kevin showed J-8 of hearts. The flop came J-8-6 but no king came and Todd took $945 for his 10th place finish.
At 9:00 Max moved all-in with A-8 and got a call from Gene, holding A-J. The board came K-2-10-A-J and Max collected $1,415 for his 9th place finish.
At 9:20 the blinds rose to $800-$1,600 and a $200 ante.
Jeff Rine moved all-in for $8,900 and Chad called. Jeff showed A-9 and Chad rolled over pocket jacks. The flop came with a nine to give Jeff a pair but no more help after the flop and Chad’s jacks took the pot. Jeff pocketed $1,885 for his 8th place finish.
At 9:55 Warren moved all-in for $11,000 with pockets threes and Gene called. The flop came with an ace to give Gene the lead and neither the turn or the river produced a three. Warren had to settle for $2,352 and a 7th place finish.
At 10:00 the blinds went to $1,000-$2,000 with a $300 ante.
At 10:10 Gene raised and Sarah moved all-in and Gene called. Gene showed pocket threes and Sarah turned over A-Q. The board came void of aces or queens and Sarah had to settle for 6th place and $4,830.
Two hands later Chad got Marlen all-in before the flop and showed him pocket rockets. Marlen had Q-9 and received no help on board. He took a 5th place finish along with $3,300 in cash.
At 10:35 Mick raised $8,000 and Gene moved all-in for $27,000 and Mick called. Gene showed J-Q of diamonds and Mick turned over pocket fours. The board flop a straight draw for Gene and turned a flush but neither the straight or the flush came on the river and Gene had to settle for 4th place and $3,770.
The blinds increased to $1,500-$3,000 with $400 ante at 10:40.
At 11:20 the blinds went to $2,000-$4,000.
At 11:25 Chad bet $12,000 on a flop of 5-7-10, Kevin raised $20,000 more and Chad moved all-in for $9,000 more and Kevin called. Keven showed 9-5 and Chad turned over 10-9 for the lead. The turn and the river were no help to Kevin and he was left with $9,000.
On the next hand he was all-in with pocket sixes against Mick, holding 4-3 when the flop came 3-4-7 and again no help for Kevin, he finished 3rd for $5,185.
Chad Layne and Mick Cowley were heads up with Chad in the lead with $100,000 to Mick’s $62,000.
On the third hand of head’s up play it was checked by both players. The flop came A-7-8 and it was checked again. The turn card came a 5 and Mick bet $6,000, Chad raised to $16,000, Mick moved all-in and Chad called with the nuts, 6-4. Mick was drawing dead with pocket kings and had to settle for 2nd place and $9,430.
Chad was down to the felt several times at the final table but managed to rebuild until he had all the chips.
Chad Layne was declared the winner of the $335 no-limit hold’em event and carried off $16,030 to add to his bankroll.
Wayne Haynes Hits Pay Dirt on his Fourth Final Table Appearance
Today’s Seven-Card Stud event began at noon and at 6:30 p.m. the final eight players took their seats at the final table.
There were 15 minutes remaining in the $600-$1,200 with a $100 ante.
Ram Vaswani went to the final table the chip leader with $25,100, Glenn Smith was in second place with $10,400, Bruce Corman and D’arcy Christensen were tied for third with $9,700, Ed Klien was right on their heels with $9,500, James Tippin was in fifth place with $7,000, Wayne Haynes was in sixth with $6,400 and Nat Cooper was in trouble with $3,000.
Ten minutes into final table play Nat Cooper took an early out in 8th place and pocketed $620.
At 6:45 the limit increased to $800-$1,600 with a $200 ante.
At 7:20 Glenn Smith, Bruce Corman and James Tippin got involved in a multi-action hand that send two players to the rail. James took out both Glenn and Bruce when he caught a flush on the river.
Bruce took home $826 for his 7th place finish and Glenn added $1,035 to his bankroll for his 6th place finish.
Three hands later D’arcy Christensen ran into some bad luck and had to settle for a 5th place finish and $1,445.
At 7:45 the remaining four players took their dinner break.
Ram was still in the lead with $27,600, Wayne jumped up to second position with $20,200, Ed was in third place and James was trailing with $7,800.
At 8:45 the limit went to $1,000-$2,000 with a $200 ante.
At 9:05 Ed Klien went up against Ram Vaswani. Ram made two pair on the river to send Ed home in 4th place with $1,965.
At three handed James had the chip lead with $32,200, Wayne was still in second and Ram had dropped to last place with $13,500.
At 9:10 the limit rose to $1,500-$3,000 with a $200 ante.
Five minutes later Ram went all-in on sixth street with aces and fives and James called with 10’s up. Ram’s hand didn’t improve on seventh but James hit another 10 for the full house.
After coming to the final table the chip leader Ram was forced to take a 3rd place finish and collected $2,685.
At 9:20 it was heads-up between James Tippin and Wayne Haynes.
At 9:25 Wayne took the chip lead away from James when his pocket threes held up in a sizeable pot.
On the next hand Wayne pushed queens all the way to the river and made two pair to beat James out of another big pot.
On the next hand Wayne was rolled up with nines but James escaped the trap when he folded.
Wayne had a commanding chip lead with $52,800 to James’ $18,20 and before the next hand was dealt Wayne offered James $500 more to take a hike. James excepted and the tournament ended at 9:30.
James took the 2nd place finish and added $5,045 to his bankroll.
This was Waynes fourth final table at the Four Queens Poker Classic. He finished 4th in the Omaha 8-or-better, 3rd in the no-limit hold’em, 2nd in the Seven-card Stud 8-or-better and finally takes a 1st place finish in the $335 Seven-card stud event.
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