2009 L.A. Poker Classic
$10,000 No Limit Hold'em Championship
Day: 4
Event Info
2009 L.A. Poker Classic
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$9,600
Total Entries
696
Level
35
Blinds
125,000 / 250,000
Ante
0
Players Left 1 / 696
Filter
Level: 22
Blinds: 6,000/12,000
Ante: 2,000
Table 1
Seat 1: Xuan Nguyen
Seat 2: Blake Cahail
Seat 3: Nick Schulman
Seat 4: Donnie D'Auria
Seat 5: Binh Nguyen
Seat 6: Tom Braband
Seat 7: Danny Lu
Seat 8: Payman Arjang
Seat 9: Ben Sarnoff - ELIMINATED
Table 2
Seat 1: Tam Ly
Seat 2: Chris Ferguson
Seat 3: Pat Walsh
Seat 4: Cornel Andrew Cimpan
Seat 5: Jeremy Kottler
Seat 6: Dan O'Brien
Seat 7: Hoyt Corkins - ELIMINATED
Seat 8: Mark Bryan
Seat 9: Zach Hyman
Table 3
Seat 1: Greg Mueller - ELIMINATED
Seat 2: Chris Karagulleyan
Seat 3: Mike Sowers
Seat 4: Peter Feldman
Seat 5: Billy Pilossoph
Seat 6: Teddy Monroe
Seat 7: Nancy Todd Tyner
Seat 8: Justin Scott
Seat 9: Matt Woodward
By the time we were able to get the table draw together and into the blog, three players had been eliminated. Ben Sarnoff went out in 27th place; Hoyt Corkins went out to a round of applause in 26th place; and Greg Mueller, one of the shortest remaining stacks, was eliminated in 25th place. Each player received $44,433 in prize money.
and ran into Arjang's pocket kings. The board filled out nine-high thus cementing Wasicka's exit.The tournament clock has since been paused while the remaining 27 players redraw for new seats.
On a board showing
, Akkari led out with an 8,000 bet that was countered with a raise to 40,000 from Ferguson. Akkari answered by moving all in over the top and Ferguson made the call setting up the following showdown:Ferguson:
Akkari:
Akkari's sweat was short lived, as the turn delivered the
giving Ferguson a flush and ending Akkari's run at a WPT championship. Ferguson moved past the 1.5 million mark in chips with the win.
Chris Ferguson - 1,550,000
Payman Arjang - 1,100,000
Binh Nguyen - 1,065,000
Dan Lu - 765,000
Chris Karagulleyan - 750,000
Matt Woodward - 686,000
Dan O'Brien - 610,000
Nick Schulman - 565,000
Peter Feldman - 545,000
Mike Sowers - 490,000
With 28 players remaining, the average chip stack is 497,142
A political consultant and president of Nancy Todd Inc., an international strategic consulting firm based in Las Vegas, Todd posted a few smaller cashes on the tournament circuit in 2007 before making a big splash on the WPTL last April, where she took down the ladies championship, good for a $68,640 payday.
Todd is currently sitting with around 280,000 in chips - just a few thousand more than she started the day with - though she has managed to outlast some of the game's biggest names in what has become, perennially, one of the toughest tournaments of the year.
against Danny Lu's and flopped a king that held up through the river.The field is definitely tending towards level stacks, which will make the process of winnowing these 31 players down to the last 18 a much longer one.
