LA Poker Classic 2008 Event #1&#2

  • 1-29-2008

Online Poker Freeroll

The LA Poker Classic is celebrating its sixth edition with a series of events that will last for over one month and offers all different kinds of games and buy-ins. As usual, the tournament will end with a Main Event which is always attracting a large selection of well known poker pros. As a part of the World Poker Tour this event comprise 29 events with the ending $10.000 Main Event.. The Main Event features a $10.000 buy in and will kick off on February 23rd. Besides the Main Event there’s also a lot of satellites for players with a smaller bankrolls and for those who prefer to play in different tournaments with lower buy-ins. Here are the results from Event #1 and #2.


Event #1 - No-Limit Hold'em Freeze-out - Buy-in: $300

The first event of the LA Poker Classic started with a record of 1.191 poker players, fighting for the $346.581 price pool. 99 players got in the money and the winner received a check over $77.631. U.S player Kimya Williams won the $300 buy-in event after tow days of intense poker action. He won his Heads-Up match against his fellow Jun Zhou. It was William’s first career victory and increased his overall winnings to $88.186.  The results for the final table are the following:

 Platz 

 Name 

 Preisgeld 

 1.

 Kimya Williams

 $77.631

 2.

 Jun Zhou

 $48.729

 3.

 Khang Pham

 $31.539

 4.

 Jose Hurtado

 $20.795

 5.

 David Salced

 $14.556

 6.

 Joshua Molina

 $11.091

 7.

 Carl Kuran

 $8.318

 8.

 Robert Wein

 $6.065

 9.

 Tyler Isono

 $4.332

 10.

 Aenoy Sinthavong

 $3.189

 

 

 

 

Event #2 - No-Limit Hold'em Freeze-out - Buy-in: $300

387 players signed for the $300 buy in No Limit Hold’em Freeze-Out. L.A resident Frank Mariani didn’t complete his mission of winning his third title; at the end Mariani and ended up losing against Bob Pacle, who won the Heads-Up and received $30.408. Here are the results of Event #2:

Platz

 Name

 Preisgeld

 1.

 Bob Pacleb

 $30.408

 2.

 Frank Mariani

 $17.005

 3.

 Joseph Bibartola

 $11.543

 4.

 Donald Oleson

 $7.996

 5.

 Anthony Tran

 $5.969

 6.

 Paul Nason

 $4.730

 7.

 Miami John Cernuto

 $3.547

 8.

 Charles Futrell

 $2.646

 9.

 Agop Boghossian

 $1.914

 10.

 Eric Thompkins

 $1.295

 


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