And even more locals in the WSOP money (updated twice)
Hard to keep up with them all but this puts it through Event 17. Strong showing by our local women, especially:
Event 7: $2,000 No-limit Hold 'em: Fred Goldberg, Hollywood, 48th, $7,823; Claudio Fonseca, Weston, $7,823; Richard Cleveland, Boynton Beach, $3,477.
Event 8: $10,000 Mixed Games: Chad Brown, Margate, 23rd, $16,243.
Event 9: $1,500 Six-handed Hold 'em: David Zand of Weston, seventh, $36,442; Timothy Bannigan, Parkland, 85th, $2,868; Ted Lawson, Plantation, 114th, $2,278.
Event 11: $5,000 six-handed shootout: Richard Kirsch, Fort Lauderdale, 11th,; Jacobo Fernandez, Hollywood, 25th, $16,920.
Kirsch sent me an email:
I played the $5000 shootout. 360 people entered. The format of the shootout works like this: 360 people play 36 ten handed tables. The winner of each table (36 people) play 6 six handed tables. The winners of those six tables (6) go to the final table. I won my first table and then got heads up against Phillip Tom in my second table. Two times I had Phillip all-in with the best hand, and both times he hit miracle cards to stay alive. He went on to beat me after a 3 and a half hour heads up match. He then proceeded to go the final table and win the bracelet ($450k). I received $17,000 for winning my first table - the 11th place finish is misleading, everyone who won their first table but failed win the second table basically all finished in the same place.
Event 12: $1,500 Limit Hold-em: Stuart Elkin, Delray Beach, 28th, $5,526; Gregory Monaldi, Davie, 34th, $5,526.
Event 13: $2,500 No-Limit Hold 'em, Ariel Soffer of Hollywood, seventh, $107,639; Adam Katz of Delray Beach, 10th, $38,236; Jason Mercier of Hollywood, 13th, $30,203; Benjamin Zamani, Boca Raton, 53rd, $9,961; Tristan Wade, Boynton Beach, 86th, $6,426.
Event 14: $10,000 Seven-Card Stud, Jacobo Fernandez of Hollywood, 12th, $33, 417.
That's three cashes for Fernandez, with 41 events to go. Player of the year?
Event 15: $1,000 Ladies No-Limit tournament: Marla Crumpler, Fort Lauderdale, fifth, $60,101; Debbie Mitchell, Miramar, sixth, $47,106; Lauren Failla (creator of the High Heels Poker Tour), Hollywood, 63rd; $3,032.
Event 17: A $1,500 No-Limit Shootout. The tournament had 1,000 players, which meant 100 10-player tables. Then the 100 winners gathered at 10 tables, and those winners compiled the final table.
Corey Zeidman of Coral Springs was listed as 25th, and Lisa Teebagy (who won both High Heels events in South Florida), was listed as 99th, each winning, $5,596. By my math, that means they each won their first shootout table, then were eliminated in the second table. Everyone like them, from No. 11 through 100, each earned $5,596, so the place isn't quite as meaningful.
Event 19: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha: James Lampropoulous, Boca Raton, 25th, $5,905; John Womack, Lauderhill, 65th, $2,900.
