Aventura resident wins Fat Boy Harley at Mardi Gras
Rina Aserov from Aventura home The Big Easy Poker Room Custom Harley-Davidson Fat Boy Sunday.
The poker room, at Mardi Gras Casino, had offered drawing entries to anyone who had a full house of aces over jacks or better. (A lot of people had quads.)
Aserov's name was drawn at Super Bowl halftime Sunday. The photo: Mardi Gras promotions coordinator Natasha Jocic (left), Rina Aserov and Arie Aserov.
The poker room now is offering satellites into the Florida Million poker tournament, which has Day One events at Mardi Gras March 7 and 14. (And a rare foray into tournament play at Mardi Gras.)
The $70 satellites provide an entry to the winner and to the high hand. The $40 entries, for a tournament of 20 to 60 players at 12:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays and 6:30 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays, awards one entry for every 20 players plus an entry for the high hand.
NICK SORTAL began playing 3-card "gut" and "Indian poker" on high school band trips, moved on to "night baseball" and "pass the trash" during a Dr. Pepper-infused midnight game in the 1980s at the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, and now play in a regular neighborhood Hold 'Em game in Plantation. I have been given the assignment of writing about the gambling life in South Florida casinos for the Sun-Sentinel...which means sitting around watching poker on TV now counts as research.
