Coral Springs woman prevails in All In finals
Deb Trigoboff of Coral Springs won the recent season finale of All In Free Poker.
Trigoboff earned an entry into the Isle's $900 main event and the $720 "seven-deuce" tournament, and other prizes.
All In Free Poker, a bar poker league, had 180 players in its Jan. 10 finals and played down to 10. Those 10 then finished it off on Jan. 15 at Smokey Bones Fort Lauderdale, giving it a bar poker feel, said All In's Bryan Oulton, who sent the results, along with a picture that makes Trigoboff look spooky (she isn't).
The next finals are March 19-26, with the finals at the Duck Tavern in Boca Raton. All In also had players represent their "home bar," giving other players a rooting interest. The final 10, with home bar and hometown:
1. Deb Trigoboff, Smokey Bones Boca Raton, Coral Springs
2. Wendy Middleman-Miller, Daisy Duke's Saloon, Hollywood
3. Adam Goldstein, Smokey Bones Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale
4. Troy Parra, Sullivan's, Lighthouse Point
5. Justin Huntsman, Sullivan's, Pompano Beach
6. Sean Lavery, No Home Bar, Pompano Beach
7. Mary Maguire, Mugs Bar, Fort Lauderdale
8. Sharon Aziz, Yak-zies, Sunrise
9. Larry Fitzpatrick, Ye Old Falcon Pub, Hollywood
10. Flo Horne, Ye Olde Falcon Pub, Davie
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.