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Everett Carlton (right)
Event 45 – $1,500 NLH, 3,097 entrants
71st – Everett Carlton, St. Paul, $7,860
This was Carlton’s eighth-career cash at the WSOP. He previously pocketed $92,000 for a seventh-place finish in event 14 in 2006 — an ESPN televised final table.
The WSOP Main Event starts in less than one week — Monday, July 5.
For more provincial WSOP results, check out these previous posts.
12:15 a.m. Update – Kuong Yek of Woodbury was a short stack when he arrived at the final table Sunday evening but managed to grind his way through several players and the big stacks of Brian Schallhammer and David Gonia to take down the title and over $19K. Final results:
1st – Kuong Yek – $19,430
2nd – David Gonia – $11,103
3rd – Brian Schallhammer – $8,327
4th – John Marlowe Jr. – $6,662
5th – Justin Thurlow – $4,996
6th – Nancy Larson – $3,331
7th – Peter Miller – $1,664
9:20 Update - 3 players remain, Brian Schallhammer, Kuong Yek and David Gonia (pictured)
7:30 Update – Currently 8 players remain, 7 is the money. Mark Dunbar just busted 9th, Troy Huston busted 10th. John Marlowe Jr. is still alive and has a healthy stack, 2nd in chips. Marlowe Jr. just won the Canterbury Firecracker 500 yesterday for over $10K. They are playing for a $19,430 1st place prize. Here are the 8 remaining:
Seat 2: Brian Schallhammer – St. Paul
Seat 4: David Gonia – White Bear Lake (Chip Leader)
Seat 5: Kuong Yek – Woodbury
Seat 6: Nancy Larson – Stillwater
Seat 7: Peter Miller - Golden Valley
Seat 8: Kathleen Day-Coen – Marine on St. Croix
Seat 9: Justin Thurlow – Cottage Grove
Seat 10: John Marlow Jr. – St. Paul
10:30 A.M. Update - Running Aces Harness Park is hosting their 2nd Anniversary Tournament today. The $1,000+$100 buy-in tourney started at 10:00 this morning, 40 minute levels and $25K starting stack. 59 Entrants.
John Marlowe, Jr.
As part of their 25th anniversary celebration this weekend, Canterbury Park held a $550 buy-in “Firecracker” tournament.
The tournament drew 61 entrants for a prize pool of $30,500, and John Marlowe, Jr. took home $10,673 for first place.
Saturday was another good showing for 3-Putts as well, who finished second for $6,100.
| Canterbury Firecracker 500 | ||
| 61 entrants – $500+50 buy-in | ||
| Place | Player | Prize |
| 1 | John Marlowe, Jr. | $10,673 |
| 2 | 3-Putts | $6,100 |
| 3 | Aalok Arora | $3,813 |
| 4 | Ryan Rizzio | $3,050 |
| 5 | Blake Bohn | $2,288 |
| 6 | Jerry Durand | $1,678 |
| 7 | Nate Rosenbaum | $1,220 |
| 8 | Toan Pham | $915 |
| 9 | Thompson Sullivan | $763 |
There are two big poker tournaments in the metro area this weekend:
Saturday: The Firecracker 500 at Canterbury Park
- $550 buy-in and a $10,000 guaranteed prize pool
Sunday: The Anniversary Tournament at Running Aces
- $1,100 buy-in
Chad Ogle won the Anniversary tournament in 2009 for just over $20,000.
Jeanne Nelson
Event 34: $1,000 Seniors No Limit Hold’em, 3,142 entrants
12th – Jeanne Nelson, St. Paul, $28,221
35th – John Morgan, Minneapolis, $11,282
Nelson’s story, in particular, is intriguing and inspiring. According to the official WSOP.com report for event 34, Nelson suffers from cancer, and playing in the WSOP was on her bucket list:
One of the most interesting stories of any player at this year’s Seniors Championship was told by a player named Jeanne Nelson. She is a 60-year-old accountant from St. Paul, MN. This was Nelson’s first time ever to play in the WSOP. One year ago, she was diagnosed with cancer. Her husband bought her into this tournament as a birthday gift. She stated that playing in the WSOP was on her so-called “Bucket List.” To play was her dream come true. Not only did Nelson enter this tournament, she also cashed in 12th place — which paid $28,221. The entire WSOP family wishes Jeanne Nelson well and believes she is a true inspiration for everyone to follow their dreams.
More solid showings from Minnesotans in the World Series of Poker:
Event 30: $1,500 No Limit Hold’em, 2,394 entrants
68th – Bill Criego, Prior Lake, $6,657
Event 33: $2,500 Pot Limit Hold’em & Omaha, 482 entrants
38th – Mike Schneider, Eagan, $5,244
The Dates for the Twin Cities Poker Open at Canterbury Park have been announced.
No-Limit Texas Hold’em
August 25 – 29
Buy your way into the finals or win your way through one of the qualifying heats.
Finals
Sunday, August 29
10:30 AM
$1,000 Buy In + $100 Entry Fee
Qualifying Heats*
August 25 – 28
$220 Buy-In + $30 Entry Fee
| Wednesday, August 25 | 6:30 PM |
| Thursday, August 26 | 6:30 PM |
| Friday, August 27 | 10:30 AM |
| Saturday, August 28
Saturday, August 28 |
10:30 AM
6:30 PM |
*Top 20% from each heat win a seat in the Finals with no additional entry fee.
One-table satellites begin Monday, August 23.
The Saturday Series for the 1st half of 2010 at Running Aces is over and the $10,000 WSOP Main Event seat prize was awarded Saturday, June 19th. Though…two players decided to chop and keep the cash. Rose Kahnke and Mario Hudson(pictured) took home $5K each.
The Saturday Series for the the 2nd half of 2010 is now underway. The Saturday tournament is a $200+25+10, $20,000 starting chips and 30 minute levels beginning at 2:00.
Qualifying for the $100K freeroll at Canterbury is just about over, June 30th is the last day. They have recently released the structures for the Semi-Finals and the Finals.
Semi-Finals will be held July 21 – 24. The Finals will be held Sunday, July 25.
Semi-Finals structure: http://www.canterburypark.com/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=sY-r3fNcfQM%3d&tabid=366
Finals structure: http://www.canterburypark.com/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=KxcRjM0F_lo%3d&tabid=366
Tom Burandt
With his final table appearance at the Minnesota State Poker Tour event at Northern Lights last weekend, Tom Burandt put a slight dent in Everett Carlton’s massive POY points lead. Unfortunately, Burandt likely needed a top two finish to really pull close.
Still, with several big events coming up later this summer and in the fall, the race is not over.
| Name | Total | POY Cashes |
| Everett Carlton | 143 | 9 |
| Tom Burandt | 98.5 | 9 |
| John Alexander | 83 | 7 |
| Mario Hudson | 72.5 | 2 |
| Jeremy Dresch | 70.5 | 3 |
| Joe Matheson | 67.5 | 1 |
| Bruce Vang | 60 | 2 |
| Darren Hendrickson | 60 | 1 |
| Dan Dow | 57 | 5 |
| Scott Heiligman | 55.5 | 5 |
| Tony Moses | 55 | 1 |
| Brian Schallhammer | 52.5 | 1 |
| Kuong Yek | 50 | 1 |
| Chris Dolan | 49 | 4 |
| Doug Fink | 48.5 | 3 |
| Matt Leshovsky | 47.5 | 1 |
| Ron Imgrund | 46 | 5 |
| Wayne Martinson | 45.5 | 4 |
| Jason Banfi | 45 | 2 |
| Peter Baker | 45 | 1 |
| Ryan Swanberg | 45 | 1 |
| Bill Sather | 44.5 | 2 |
| James Nytes | 42.5 | 1 |
| Bev Paulson | 40 | 1 |
| Tyree Johnson | 40 | 1 |
| David Webb | 40 | 1 |
| Matt Kirby | 40 | 2 |
| David Jones | 37.5 | 1 |
| 3 Putts | 35.5 | 3 |
| Steve Bissett | 35 | 2 |
| Brian Johnson | 35 | 1 |
| Toan Pham | 34.5 | 4 |
| Scott Drill | 34.5 | 2 |
| Steve Buettner | 32.5 | 1 |
| Jesse Knoblach | 32.5 | 1 |
| Chuck Costanzo | 32.5 | 1 |
| Jeremy Ensrud | 32.5 | 1 |
| Kevin Marcotte | 32 | 3 |
| Todd Melander | 31.5 | 5 |
| Chad Lashinski | 30 | 1 |
| Gary Loeffler | 30 | 1 |
| Tyler Caspers | 29 | 6 |
| David Ramirez | 29 | 8 |
| Darren Ficek | 28.5 | 7 |
| Leon Sells | 28.5 | 2 |
| Gary Grams | 28 | 3 |
| Andy Sjolund | 27.5 | 1 |
| Tony Hartmann | 27.5 | 1 |
| Mitchell Bank | 27.5 | 1 |
| Zachary Weiler | 27 | 1 |
| Mike Reich | 27 | 2 |
| Leroy Martin | 27 | 4 |
| Jody Cluever | 25.5 | 2 |
| Geoff Hayes II | 25.5 | 6 |
| Mark Hodge | 25.5 | 4 |
| Mark Dunbar | 25 | 1 |
| John Wilhelmy | 25 | 1 |
| Dave Danielson | 25 | 6 |
| Jeffery Henkel | 25 | 1 |
| Bob Spizman | 24.5 | 3 |
| Ken Gjerde | 24.5 | 5 |
| Thomas Hammers | 24 | 1 |
| John Hooper | 24 | 6 |
| Dan Stewart | 24 | 4 |
| Bill Weber | 24 | 3 |
| Amir Tavanae | 23.5 | 4 |
| David Mandt | 23 | 7 |
| Tuong Dao | 22.5 | 2 |
| Dennis Stevermer | 22.5 | 1 |
| Bill Freid | 22.5 | 1 |
| Wally Goodrich | 22 | 5 |
| Nes Coburn | 21 | 3 |
| Max Stephans | 21 | 1 |
| Jessica Mcguire | 21 | 5 |
| Dan Favreau | 21 | 6 |
| Adam Dahlin | 20 | 1 |
| Roger Guzek | 20 | 1 |
| Chad Poitra | 20 | 2 |
| Chuck Marty | 20 | 1 |
| Brad Mayer | 20 | 6 |
| Peixin Liu | 20 | 4 |
| Darren Childs | 20 | 5 |
| Aaron Johnson | 20 | 5 |
| Jess Geesey | 20 | 1 |
| Jeff Dobrin | 19.5 | 1 |
| Jeff Havenor | 19 | 3 |
Since the motto of the Minnesota State Poker Tour is “Suited for Players”, we definitely try to listen to what the players have to say.
After the Mille Lacs event in February, we received a ton of feedback from players requesting we pay more places similar to the HPT. So we obliged. We increased the payouts from 18 to 27 places. After all, on average 60% of MSPT main event fields are players who qualified through means of a $250 satellite or less.
With the massive turnout at Running Aces in April, paying 27 was perfect and not one suggested change was filed.
But this backfired slightly at Northern Lights. Due to a perfect storm…the largest graduation weekend of the year and the WSOP in Vegas, the turnout at Northern Lights was still ok but less than anticipated. Paying 27 spots in an 87 player field was not ideal. Because it was advertised that 27 places would be paid we didn’t change it the day of the Main Event.
It still worked out ok for most since 80% of the field in that instance were in for $250 or less as the majority of the typical direct-buys were in Vegas for the WSOP.
But going forward the payout structure will be modified slightly. Update: In instances of 119 players or less, which likely won’t happen if we avoid June tournaments, the MSPT will pay 18 places. 120 players or more and the payout will remain 27.
Update: In instances where the Main Event field contains 79 players or fewer, the MSPT and host casino reserve the right to pay nine places, rather than 18.
We welcome your feedback, please feel free to email me anytime at bryan@mnpokermag.com with questions, concerns or compliments.
Peace out!
