Amy Devoe of Fort Lauderdale outlasted more than 220 players on May 19 to win the season-ending tournament in All in Free Poker at the Isle.

She won $2,000 in buy-ins to the Florida State Poker Championship events at the Isle casino, including the $900 buy-in for the main event. She also got a $2,000 poker table from the WPT Boot Camp.

She is a regular at the Sports Den, according to All in's Bryan Oulton. For the uninitiated, bar poker is free game, played at bars. Then there are four or five big tournaments a year, for big prizes.

She defeated Greg Danver, who regularly plays at Ye Olde Falcon Pub. Danver won two entries to the Isle’s Florida State Poker Championships; each worth $330.

Ben Vassallo finished third and won a $330 tourney entry. Robert Oulton, chip leader after day one, gets a satellite for fourth as did fifth through 10th: Nancy Thomas, Frank "Lazarus" Greentree, Jean Fluery, Deb Vashon, Marc Hansen and Stacey Rosso.

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Tom Cuce prevailed in a field of 220 to win the All In Free Poker season-ending tournament March 3 at the Isle Casino and Racing.

Cuce won close to $2,000 in buy-ins to events at The Isle Casino and Racing, as well as a poker table valued at $1,500. Michael Feroce finished second, according to a release from All In Free Poker. They played for around 20 hands before Tommy won with queens full of sixes, when he turned a queen after a flop of A 6 6. Michael pushed on the turn and Tommy insta-called.

With that hand, Tommy had a 19-1 chip advantage and the tournament was over two hands later. Feroce won an entry into the $550 March 25 isle event and an entry into a $120 Isle event.

Dwight Matlack, owner of the Sports Den, finished third, winning an entry into the $350 St. Patrick’s Day tournament. Fourth place and a $200 entry went to Taylor Brooks. David Fuenmayor placed fifth and won an entry into the isle $150 bounty tournament. Sean Lavery placed sixth and gets into a $120 tournament. Next placers winning a $50 satellite, were: Debbie Knight, Sharon Danver, Stacey Rosso and David Torres.

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There might be an older poker player somewhere in South Florida, but there aren’t many more dedicated than Teddy Mass.

Mass, of Weston, usually plays seven nights a week in the All In Free Poker league.

He turned 95 Tuesday. His poker pals from the league celebrated with cakes and small gifts twice: Sunday at Ye Olde Falcon Pub in Davie and Monday at Roy’s Sports Bar in Margate.
Mass also squeezes in trips to Gulfstream, the Isle, Mardi Gras and the Seminole Hard Rock to play the slots.

“What else am I going to do?” he asks? “Watch TV?

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On a recent night of bar poker at Billy's on SR 84 in Davie, dealer Leonard Brown decided to take things a little further: He dressed up in a tux and got flowers for the nine players vying for tickets to Busch Gardens, a one-time giveaway.

The top three qualifiers from play on three previous nights played it out.

I did a story last week on bar poker, and also included a link to all the bar poker web sites I know.

You have a favorite place to play? Why?

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Cathy Josey of Hollywood won the recent season-ending Bar Poker Pros tournament at Hillcrest Country Club on July 20.

Players qualified for the tournament by earning points playing in bars/pubs from April to Mid-July.

First prize was $5,000. Josey took out Scott Ramshaw and Herbert Lavinsky on the final hand with four queens.

Bar Poker Pros has over 65 events at 50 bar and restaurants in Broward and Dade counties. The next points season will run from Mid-July through October.

Over the last year Bar Poker Pros Players have taken home over $71,000 in cash prizes.

For information go to www.barpokerpros.com.

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Mark Mika of Coral Springs won the quarterly All in Free Poker league tournament earlier this month.

The tournament was July 13 and 15 at the Isle in Pompano Beach. Bill Scott of Fort Lauderdale finished second, and Joe Catalano of Coral Springs was third.

All-in Free Poker conducts four "season-ending" tournaments a year, with players from its 25 or so bars, bowling centers and such gathering to play for larger prizes.

Mika won a $4,200 package, including a $1,100 entry into a poker tournament, and a $999 cruise package for two on the All in Free Poker cruise Jan. 12-16 (details on their site). Scott, a dealer in the league normally, and Catalano won cruise packages.

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