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THE QJ SCOOP!
May 17 2012 Report


Eric

WPT LAPC: THE DOCTOR IS IN - SANDS LOOKS FOR FIRST FOR FIRST WPT TITLE

PHOTO (credit BJ Nemeth)/SOURCE: WPT.com

Yet another successful Matt Savage hosted event is about to come to an end. Many star players of the poker world made their way to sunny California the past few weeks, trying to become the next LAPC Champion.

After five days of battle, the Main Event is down to the final six participants.

The chip leader is WPT Boot Camp graduate Sean Jazayeri. Not many people expect Jazayeri to win today so, Jazayeri may just feel like he's on a freeroll. Jazayeri shouldn't be taken lightly - he does have quite a few live event scores on his resume, including a second place finish at the Wynn Classic last season.

The spotlight today may very well be on David "Doc" Sands. After a successful run at the WSOP Main Event last summer, it seems that Sands is part of everyone's list of poker players on the verge of taking over. Sands (2011 PTPR Rank: 10th) earned seven PTPR Scores in 2011, including a very nice run at the Five Diamond Classic to end the 2011 season.

Doc (pictured, right) has a little over 4M in chips to start final table play.

The man right on Sands' heels is star player Noah Schwartz. Schwartz (2011 PTPR Rank: 828th) - who won a PCA PLO side event in January - is currently 14th on the 2012 PTPR Poker Tournament Player of the Year Leaderboard.

WSOP bracelet winners Dan Kelly (2011 PTPR Rank: 539th) and Jason Somerville (2011 PTPR Rank: 77th) are both seeking a first WPT title of their career.

Jason Burt is the remaining player at the final table. Burt (2011 PTPR Rank: NR) earned his big payday in 2009, finishing fifth in the 15K WPT Festa al Lago at Bellagio.

Final table play live from Commerce Casino is set to begin at 4PM PT today!

FINAL TABLE SEAT ASSIGNMENTS/CHIP COUNTS
Seat 1. Sean Jazayeri - 4,380,000 (73 BBs)
Seat 2. Jason Burt - 835,000 (13 BBs)
Seat 3. Dan Kelly - 2,570,000 (42 BBs)
Seat 4. Jason Somerville - 840,000 (14 BBs)
Seat 5. Noah Schwartz - 3,835,000 (63 BBs)
Seat 6. David Sands - 4,010,000 (66 BBs)

NOTABLE DAY 5 ELIMINATIONS
Season 7 WPT Beau Rivage Champ Allen Carter, David "The Dragon" Pham, Stephen Chidwick, 2010 PTPR Player of the Year Sorel Mizzi, Jason Dewitt, former WSOP World Champion and Season 5 WPT Five Diamond Classic Champ Joe Hachem, Daniel Idema and Nick Binger.

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WPT LAPC PAYOUTS (USD) 1st $1,370,240 2nd $806,370 3rd $521,770 4th $355,750 5th $252,980 6th $202,910 RELATED POSTS >> SCHWARTZ LEADS LAPC RACE >> IVEY'S BUBBLE BURSTS >> SELBST WINS LAPC ASG >> ALL-STAR CAST AT LAPC >> EDALAT WINS KICKOFF >> BROOKS WINS 2011 LAPC >> SCWARTZ WINS PLO @ PCA DEFENDING CHAMPION Gregory Brooks (Eliminated) 2011 PTPR Ranking: 26th FINAL TABLE "LIVE" STREAM WPT.com NEXT TOUR STOP WPT Shooting Star Bay 101, San Jose, CA 2011 Champion: Alan Sternberg

PTPR PREMIER EVENT Los Angeles Poker Classic WPT LAPC Main Event February 24-29, 2012 Commerce Casino | California Buy-in: $10,000 | Prizepool: $5,270,400 Entries: 549 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION 1st place 130 2nd place 80 3rd place 50 4th place 40 5th place 35 6th place 30 ALLEN CARTER 30 DAVID PHAM "THE DRAGON" 15 STEPHEN CHIDWICK 15 SOREL MIZZI 15 JASON DEWITT 15 JOE HACHEM 13 ELVIS HUYNH 13 A.J. JEJELOWO 13 SKIP WILSON 13 DANIEL IDEMA 10 NICK BINGER 10 SHAHEN MARTIROSIAN 10

WPT LAPC: SCHWARTZ, KELLY LEAD RACE TO FINAL TABLE AT COMMERCE

PHOTO (credit BJ Nemeth)/SOURCE: WPT.com

There are quite a few big name players still alive at the LAPC, in fact, the number of star players outweigh the number of lesser known players with 18 players left at the LAPC where Day 5 play is set to begin in a little over an hour from this post.

Leading the charge is the #14th ranked player on the 2012 PTPR Poker Tournament Player of the Year Leaderboard Noah Schwartz. Schwartz (2011 PTPR Rank: 828th) won the 5K PLO Turbo 8-max event at the PCA right out of the gate in 2012. Schwartz also had a nice run in his home state at the WPT Lucky Hearts earlier this month.

Scwartz is followed closely by WSOP bracelet holder Dan djk123 Kelly, Kelly is 21K in chips behind Schwartz at the start of Tuesday play. Kelly (2011 PTPR Rank: 539th) had a score earlier in the year at a Aussie Millions prelim event.

Stephen Chidwick (2011 PTPR Rank: 786th), who scored in the 5K prelim event here at the LAPC last week and Jason Dewitt (2011 PTPR Rank: 1236th) round-out the Top 5.

DAY 5 SEAT ASSIGNMENTS/CHIP COUNTS
TABLE 1:
Seat 1. Shahen Martirosian - 236,000 (11 BBs)
Seat 2. Jason Somerville - 1,025,000 (51 BBs)
Seat 3. Joe Hachem - 700,000 (35 BBs)
Seat 4. A.J. Jejelowo - 1,573,000 (78 BBs)
Seat 5. David Sands - 819,000 (40 BBs)
Seat 6. Elvis Huynh - 675,000 (33 BBs)
Seat 7. Allen Carter - 580,000 (29 BBs)
Seat 8. Dan Kelly - 1,749,000 (87 BBs)
Seat 9. Jason Dewitt - 1,182,000 (59 BBs)

TABLE 2:
Seat 1. Jason Burt - 609,000 (30 BBs)
Seat 2. Daniel Idema - 433,000 (21 BBs)
Seat 3. Sean Jazayeri - 1,126,000 (56 BBs)
Seat 4. Sorel Mizzi - 600,000 (30 BBs)
Seat 5. Nick Binger - 565,000 (28 BBs)
Seat 6. Noah Schwartz - 1,770,000 (88 BBs)
Seat 7. David Pham - 855,000 (42 BBs)
Seat 8. Stephen Chidwick - 1,420,000 (71 BBs)
Seat 9. Skip Wilson - 625,000 (31 BBs)

NOTABLE DAY 4 ELIMINATIONS
Joe Tehan, Tyson Marks, Tom Marchese, David ODB Baker, Brandon Meyers, Day 3 Chip Leader Tuan Phan, Kunal Patel, Matt Marafioti, Amit Makhija and Chrisian Harder.

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WPT LAPC PAYOUTS (USD) 1st $1,370,240 2nd $806,370 3rd $521,770 4th $355,750 5th $252,980 6th $202,910 7th $155,480 8th $110,680 9th $79,060 10-12th $60,610 13-15th $47,430 16-18th $39,530 RELATED POSTS >> IVEY'S BUBBLE BURSTS >> SELBST WINS LAPC ASG >> ALL-STAR CAST AT LAPC >> EDALAT WINS KICKOFF >> BROOKS WINS 2011 LAPC >> SCWARTZ WINS PLO @ PCA DEFENDING CHAMPION Gregory Brooks (Eliminated) 2011 PTPR Ranking: 26th

PTPR PREMIER EVENT Los Angeles Poker Classic WPT LAPC Main Event February 24-29, 2012 Commerce Casino | California Buy-in: $10,000 | Prizepool: $5,270,400 Entries: 549 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION 1st place 130 2nd place 80 3rd place 50 4th place 40 5th place 35 6-7th place 30 8-11th place 15 12-15th place 13 16-18th place 10 LIVE EVENT COVERAGE LAPC LIVE NEXT TOUR STOP WPT Shooting Star Bay 101, San Jose, CA 2011 Champion: Alan Sternberg

2012 AUSSIE: PEDLEY OUTLASTS xMONSTERxDONGx AS LOCAL LEGENDS BATTLE

PHOTO/SOURCE: POKERENEWS.com

An All-Aussie showdown was the culmination of a stacked final table down under at the Aussie Millions NLH 1K Rebuy event.

Michael Pedley and xMONSTERxDONGx Jonathan Karamalikis gave the local crowd what they wanted - two Aussies fighting for the Championship. In the end, the man that won a Aussie prelim back in 2008 was the winner as Pedley collected over 122K AUD with the victory. Karamalikis, obvisouly, was second.

djk123 Dan Kelly's third place finish was his second big showing this week at the Aussie - Kelly won the PLO event earlier this week - certainly a good start to the year for djk123.

Sad to see Marvin Rettenmaier and Michael Benvenuti go so early. Both players were game for a go at the title but, neither was able to get things going early - Benvenuti's struggles earned him zero PTPR Points for the effort while Rettenmaier, who was the chip leader coming into final table play, managed to earn 5 PTPR Points.

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EVENT PAYOUTS (in AUD): 1st Michael Pedley $122,670 2nd Jonathan Karamalikis $88,830 3rd Dan Kelly $57,105 4th Tyron Krost $40,185 5th Mike Watson $29,610 6th Jim Collopy $25,380 7th Tony Sama $21,150 8th Marvin Rettenmaier $16,920 9th Andrew Scarfe $12,690 10th Michael Benvenuti $8,460 LIVE UPDATES >> POKERNEWS.com PLAYER TWEETS >> #aussiemillions RELATED POSTS >> MIDDLETON DEFEATS DODDS >> MAD MARVIN LEADS FT CHARGE >> RUBIE WINS AUSSIE OPENER >> GOING INTO OVERTIME DOWN UNDER >> BLOOD, GUTS AND GORR!!! (2011)

PTPR SIDE EVENT Aussie Millions NLH 1K Rebuy Event January 20-21, 2012 Crown Casino | Melbourne Buy-in: $1,150 | Prizepool: $443,135 Entries: 423 FINAL RESULTS MICHAEL PEDLEY 75 JONATHAN KARAMALIKIS 40 DAN KELLY "djk123" 25 TYRON KROST 15 MIKE WATSON "SirWatts" 10 JIM COLLOPY 8 TONY SAMA 5 MARVIN RETTENMAIER 5 ANDREW SCARFE 5

djk123 WINS, KASSELA LEADS THE WAY!!!

PHOTO CREDIT: WSOPPhotos.com

The 25k 6-handed event saw two of the PTPR Top 3 score points ... and, after dominating for months (and a very disappointing WSOP showing), Toronto's Sorel Mizzi is no longer on top.

Semi-pro player Frank Kassela - third in this tournament combined with his two WSOP bracelets - is now on top the PTPR standings. Carlos Mortensen remains in third but has closed the gap on Mizzi.

Mizzi will have to get back on the tour trail for the remaining five months of the poker schedule in order to take back what was rightfully his for most of this season.

Congrats to djk123 Dan Kelly - the 21-year old internet wiz kid was amongst a select group of players favored to do well in their rookie WSOP season - and Kelly, a full-time college student by day, succesful internet poker player by night - met his objective.


PTPR PREMIER EVENT
2010 World Series of Poker
Event 52 : 25k No-Limit Hold'em Six Handed
June 30-3, 2010

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $25,000
Prizepool: $4,536,250
Entries: 191

2010 FINAL RESULTS
KELLY DAN - 126
BUCHANAN SHAWN - 76
KASSELA FRANK - 46
SOMERVILLE JASON - 36
THURITZ MIKAEL - 31
KATCHALOV EUGENE - 26
TRICKETT SAM - 26
KENNEY BRYN - 11
HAXTON ISAAC - 11
HODHOD BRIAN - 11
NEGREANU DANIEL - 11
MOSSERI ABE - 9
ADENIYA MARTINS - 9
JORDANOU BASILIS - 9
MERCER HEATHER - 9
TRINCHER VADIM - 6
MORTENSEN CARLOS - 6
BONOMO JUSTIN - 6