This is a special issue of WNP. Andrew N.S. Glazer reports live from the WSOP - World Series of Poker Apr 22 to May 24, 2002.

$5,000 Limit Hold'em:

"The Queen of Two Queens"
By Andrew N.S. Glazer

There used to be a fairly dreadful television show called "The A-Team." It had few redeeming features other than the almost inevitable moment, at the show's end, when actor George Peppard would light up a cigar, crack a broad smile, and say, "I love it when a plan comes together."

Today, in the finals of the World Series of Poker $5,000 Limit Hold'em event, several plans came together, including the appropriate appearance of two women at the final table of Limit Hold'em's most prestigious event, while the first day of the Ladies Tournament was going on in the background.

I've ranted and railed against the concept of the Ladies Tournament for years, considering it an insult to women, who don't need a handicap event to compete with men, but it's a WSOP tradition and I guess it's here to stay. Ladies Tournaments are fine at local clubs, where women who don't experience the conventional male bonding experience of poker games can get their feet wet, but once you get to the World Series level, I think you're either playing poker against the world's best, no players excluded, or you're playing for something that means something far less than a traditional WSOP bracelet.

Stepping down from my soapbox, we had a REAL World Series poker tournament today, and it offered all the skill one would expect from players who put up 5k each to vie for the title.

The "plan started coming together" last night, as I watched actor/comedian Gabe Kaplan just miss the final table, and I spoke with Daniel Negreanu.

"You just watch tomorrow," Daniel said. "It's an insult to Jennifer Harman to say she's one of the best, or even the best, woman player in the world, because she's just flat out one of the best players in the world, period. It's nice to see her focusing in a tournament, because she plays so high in the live games (frequently as high as $2,000-$4,000) that I don't think she always gives it her best effort in tournaments, that don't pay nearly as much as the money games she plays."

When we started playing today, we had just six minutes left on the clock at the $1,000-$2,000 blind level, with the seats and chip positions as follows:

Seat
Name
Chips
1
Al Stonum
$28,000
2
Jennifer Harman Traniello
$61,000
3
Fred Bonyadi
$64,000
4
"Q"
$76,000
5
Mimi Tran
$55,000
6
Brian Green
$24,000
7
Jon Brody
$38,000
8
Allen Cunningham
$85,000
9
Humberto Brenes
$121,000
10
Tony Hartman
$14,000


There was so much exciting action in the late stages of this tournament that I'm going to give the start short shrift.

Hartman, the short stack, survived the rest of the starting round, and we moved to $2,000-$3,000 blinds, playing $3,000-$6,000. Hartman got his last 5k into the pot in late position with A-7, and Harman, who has traditionally been identified just by her maiden name (she got married a little over a year ago), played today as Harman Traniello. To avoid confusion, I'm going to stick with Harman for right now, and she decided to call for $3,000 out of the small blind with J-10. The flop left Hartman in the lead, but jacks hit both the turn and river, and we were nine-handed.

STONUM GETS FLUSHED AWAY

Stonum also started the day low on ammo, and when his Qh-10h flopped strong possibilities with Ah-9h-5c, he bet out, with Harman raising him all-in. The flush never got there, and Harman's ace was good. Eight players left.

The other significant early action involved the black-hat and sunglass-wearing "Q", who had started the day among the leaders. He and Tran both called a Brenes raise in the blinds, and Q called Tran's aggressive betting action down the whole way. Tran had called with 5c-6c in the big blind, flopped fives and sixes, and Q's stack took a big hit, while sending Tran among the leaders.

These early moves left the chip totals, after about an hour, at:

Harman, 78k
Bonyadi, 70k
Q, 30k
Tran, 85k
Green, 48k
Brody, 42k
Cunningham, 115k
Brenes, 97k

Harman started a move upwards when Brenes raised a pot to 6k, only to see Harman make it 9k from the small blind. Brenes called, and also called Harman bets on the flop and turn as the board started 7d-5h-2c-3c. Both checked with the 9c hit the river, and when Harman flipped up her pocket jacks, Brenes mucked.

Q's stack grew very short when he called another Brenes raise out of the blind, this time the big, and the flop came As-Ks-9s. Both players checked the flop, but when the 10c hit the turn, Q bet out, and Brenes called. Both checked when the 2d hit the river, and Q's K-Q was no match for Brenes' A-8.

"SEVEN, LUCKY SEVEN!"

A few hands later, down to 7k, Q decided to shove 6k in under the gun, and the ever-active Brenes re-raised, clearing out the rest of the field, and Q tossed his last chip in. His Ad-9d held up against Brenes' Ks-Jh, and with a cry of "lucky seven!" Q made it through the first of what would be several all-in situations, the second of which came only two hands later, when his pocket aces doubled him through Harman, who'd held K-Q and flopped a king.

What goes around comes around, though, and only four hands later, Harman made it 6k, Q went to 9k again, and Harman called. The flop came Kc-6s-3h, Harman checked, Q bet, and Harman called, a scenario repeated on the turn when another king, the Ks, hit. Both players checked when the 10s hit the river, and Harman turned over her own pocket aces, and it was pretty clear that the second king on the turn had ruined her plan to check-raise Q there.

As we hit the break, the blinds moved to $2,000-$4,000, playing $4,000-$8,000, and I thought "Here is where the action is really going to get serious." Ah, if only I could be that good a prognosticator when at the tables. The chip counts at the break were:

Harman, 130k
Bonyadi, 50k
Q, 29k
Tran, 85k
Green, 55k
Brody, 16k
Cunningham, 120k
Brenes, 80k

Harman also showed some smarts by rubbing forearms with Mighty Phil Ivey just before play started again. As they say of chicken soup, it couldn't hurt.

I hadn't been numbering hands to this point, but decided to start here, and didn't even have to take my shoes off to count high enough for a mightily important hand to hit.

On the second hand after the break, Green held the button, and Brenes made it 8k, with Harman making it 12k and Brenes calling. The flop came 6h-Jd-7s, Brenes checked, Harman bet 4k, and Brenes called. The same sequence held on both the turn and river as the 10s and 10d hit. Brenes turned over pocket queens, and Harman turned over pocket kings. Although he'd lost a bundle on the hand, Brenes had done well not to lose more: most players would have. This was also the first time that two queens would prove to play an important role in Harman's day.

Harman now had the chip lead, and four hands later, her most dangerous opponent, Allen Cunningham, played a big pot. Tran raised to 8k, only to see Cunningham raise her back to 12k, with Tran calling. The flop came 3c-9s-5s, and Tran checked and then called Cunningham's bet. The 5c hit the turn, and again Tran check-called. The Ac hit the river, and Tran bet out. Cunningham didn't look happy, and took a long time considering his decision, but you don't get to Allen Cunningham's level by running away the first time a scare card hits the board, and he called.

Tran turned over Kc-Jc, a backdoor flush, and Cunningham, who thought his pocket kings might have lost to a pair of aces on the river, had instead lost to a backdoor flush.

A PERFECT HAND OR A PERFECT DISASTER?

On the very next hand (I SAID I thought the tournament was really going to get going here) Bonyadi raised it to 8k from the button, Tran made it 12k from the big blind, and Bonyadi gave it the old "take that" by re-raising to 16k, with Tran calling.

The flop came Kd-6d-4c, Tran checked, Bonyadi bet, and Tran called. The Ad hit the turn, Tran checked again, Bonyadi bet again, but this time Tran popped him back, a raise to 16k, and Bonyadi re-raised his last few chips all-in. Tran turned over a perfectly beautiful A-K, and Bonyadi turned over a perfectly wondrous pair of pocket fours, a set. The 5c river didn't change anything, and instead of being out of the tournament, Bonyadi had $84,000.

We got to relax for exactly one uncalled raise hand before the fur started flying again. Tran held the button, and Cunningham made it 8k under the gun. As was her pattern much of this day, Harman three-bet the hand, and Cunningham called. As the board came down 10d-7d-8h-3s-Jh, Cunningham check-called the hand the whole way through. Harman turned over pocket nines on the end for a straight, and Cunningham showed his Ah-Jh.

"I think I played that one badly," Cunningham said later. "She can have all kinds of pocket pairs that leave me in a lot of trouble. On the turn I'm only getting the right price if she doesn't have a big hand, and on the river, I think it's only right to call if an ace hits. The jack, even though it's my card, just puts too many possibilities out there."

PHIDIPPIDES, WHERE ART THOU?

One more calm hand passed before yet another major fleet engagement took place. Q raised it to 8k, and Brenes decided to call in the small blind. The flop came Ac-Jh-3s, Brenes checked, Q bet, and Brenes called. The Qc hit the turn; Brenes checked again, Q bet again, but this time Brenes gave his trademark "thumbs up" signal to indicate he was raising Q all-in for his last three chips. Q didn't look like he minded throwing them in, and why not, because he turned over Ah-Qh, top two pair. Brenes turned over pocket threes, a set, and Q started to stand up from the table.

The queen of spades hit the river, giving Q a full house and $48,000 that would have been in Brenes's stack but for yet another big runner-runner hand.

We'd played eleven hands at the new level, and already we'd scene more elation and despair than we'd seen in the entire tournament.

Four hands later, Bonyadi made it 8k from the button, and Tran called from the big blind. The flop came 9c-5h-6h, and Bonyadi called Tran's bet. A third heart, the 10h, hit the turn, and Tran check-called. The Ad hit the river, leaving the board

9c-5h-6h-10h-Ad

I replay the board because the betting sequence was fantastic. Tran checked, Bonyadi bet 8k, Tran made it 16k, Bonyadi made it 24k, and Tran made it 32k. Bonyadi slumped visibly, looked longingly at the huge pot, and decided to throw his hand away. I saw it, but he hadn't shown it to the table, so I didn't know if I could write about it: I never do, unless players give permission. When Bonyadi later got knocked out, I asked if it was OK to write that he had released the Qh-7h.

"Yes, it's OK, thanks for asking," he said. "I hated to throw that hand away at that point, but when she check-raises me and goes for four bets, I have to think she has a higher flush."

The chips had moved so rapidly around the table during these first 15 hands that it was time for a recount:

Harman, 215k
Bonyadi, 60k
Q, 42k
Tran, 110k
Green, 42k
Brody, 12k
Cunningham, 42k
Brenes, 42k

The "Ladies Tournament" was proceeding on the other side of the room, and over here at the biggest limit hold'em tournament at the WSOP, the two ladies were kicking the gentlemen's butts.

We lost the short stacked Brody three hands later when he raised 2/3 of his stack from the button, and Cunningham put him all-in from the small blind. Brody had a temporary lead with A-2 vs. K-Q, but a king hit the flop to send Brody out eighth.

Five hands later, Cunningham opened for a raise, and once again Harman three-bet him, with Cunningham calling. Cunningham check-called the Qs-9c-3d flop, both players checked when a second queen hit the turn, and Cunningham check-called when the Kc hit the river.

HARMAN ACES CUNNINGHAM

Harman turned over another pair of pocket aces, and not only had she now come close to accumulating half the $565,000 in chips at the table, she had crippled the one player she least wanted to oppose.

Harman finished what she started on the very next hand when Cunningham raised it to 8k, with Harman calling. The flop came 10s-7d-4d, Cunningham bet, Harman raised, and Cunningham called, leaving him with five chips in front of him. The 4s hit the turn, and Cunningham tossed those last five chips in. Harman thought very briefly and called. A-K for Cunningham, 5-5 for Harman, and a queen on the river sent Cunningham out seventh.

Brenes was the next to get Harmanized when he limped in from the small blinds and Harman decided to look at a cheap flop of As-3s-8c. Brenes led out, with Harman calling, a scene repeated on the turn when the 2d hit. On the river, the 7s hit, Brenes led out again, but this time Harman raised. Brenes called, and Harman turned over Qs-Js. A disheartened Brenes showed his 8s-9s; he'd had the pair to go with his flush draw, a draw it turned out he didn't want to make.

Ten hands later, Green raised it to 8k, Brenes called all-in for his last five chips, and Tran called from the big blind in what I assumed was going to be a check-down maneuver. Green and Tran did indeed each check the Js-6d-Kd flop, but when the Kh hit the turn, Tran bet, usually a sure sign of ultra-confidence, especially with such a tiny side pot. Green threw his hand away, and Tran turned over Qd-9d, a mere flush draw, while Brenes showed A-Q.

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU LIKE, YOU MIGHT GET IT

"I like my hand," said Brenes, but he didn't like it when the 3d hit the river. Diamonds were this girl's best friend, and the likeable Costa Rican was out sixth. Meanwhile, Jennifer's cup runneth over:

Harman, 310k
Bonyadi, 55k
Q, 40k
Tran, 120k
Green, 40k

After surviving his many all-ins, Q had gone into a waiting game shell, playing far fewer hands than the other players, and adopting a strategy that had worked pretty well thus far: letting Jennifer Harman bust his opposition and let him move up the pay ladder. Five-handed, the button moves around pretty quickly, and this strategy was going to start proving more difficult. Harman had noticed Q's passive play, and the vagaries of chance had given her the button whenever Q had the big blind. She'd made a pretty regular habit of stealing it (I mean, I guess she could have had a big hand 15 times in a row), but Q finally took a stand on hand #52 of the new level, raising back to 12k, with Harman calling.

The flop came 8s-4s-6h, Harman checked, Q bet, Harman raised, and Q let the hand go. He later told me he'd had A-K, and while I usually view most claims of unseen cards with distrust, this one seemed believable enough. In any event, his lowly stack was halved, and his one attempt to play himself into position for a run at the serious money had gone awry.

Five hands later, it looked like Q was going to get a shot at one of those ladder moves he'd coveted anyway. Tran made it 8k from the small blind, and Green called from the big. The flop came 7c-2c-3d, Tran bet, Green raised, Tran raised, and Green called. The turn brought the Jh, Tran bet 8k, Green made it 16k, leaving only six chips left in front of him.

A GLANCE WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS (OR AT LEAST EIGHT)

Tran thought for a moment, and mucked her hand, and I immediately caught Q's eye, which told the full tale. If ever one glance could have asked the question "Why couldn't she have had a real hand?" Q's glance asked it.

With the limits about to go up momentarily, the chip count stood at

Harman, 347k
Bonyadi, 35k
Q, 13k
Tran, 100k
Green, 70k

Because the players had taken a voluntary rest room break about half an hour before the round ended, play continued straight through when the clock went off, raising the blinds to $3,000-$6,000, playing $6,000-$12,000. On the very first hand at that new level, #64 since I'd been counting, Q tossed his last 8k all-in, with Tran completing the bet to 12k.

Q hadn't found a bad hand, considering he was so short, As-8d, but Tran turned over pocket kings, and with nary an ace in sight, Q was dead with half the dead man's hand.

Harman probably has more shorthanded experience than her three remaining opponents put together, and I expected her to start pushing her advantage so that by the time she got heads up with someone, her chip lead would be so big it would be nearly overwhelming, and she didn't disappoint. Time and time again she fired to 12k and rarely found someone willing to take her on. The one time someone did, it was Tran, who three-bet her, only to be called, and then raised on the flop, when Tran let the hand go.

A WOMAN AMONG GIRLS?

If you'll pardon the expression, it was like watching a man among boys. Maybe we'll have to change it to being like watching a woman among girls.

Just when it looked like Harman was going to win every hand she played, Green raised a pot to 12k from the small blind, and Harman made it 18k from the big. Both players checked the Ah-7c-4c flop, but when the 8d hit the turn, Green checked, Harman bet 12k, and Green raised to 24k.

Harman sat and thought a long time. Green had only 11k left in front of him, so there was almost certainly no way to run him off the hand, and almost certainly no way she wasn't going to have to call another 11k on the river if she called here. After taking a full minute, maybe two, Harman decided to call, and when Green bet the expected 11k after the 6s hit the river, Harman called quickly: clearly, she had made the river decision when she'd made the turn decision.

Green turned over A-4 for two pair, Harman mucked, and suddenly Green had more than 100k in front of him.

Bonyadi was now the short stack, and on hand #81, Harman raised it to 12k, with Bonyadi making it 18. Harman went ahead and re-raised Bonyadi's last two chips, so we got to see the whole hand played to conclusion.

Bonyadi, Ks-9s
Harman, 10d-7h

The board came down Jc-4s-7c-4h-3s, and Bonyadi was fourth.

GREEN, TRAN BATTLE FOR SECOND, IT APPEARS

Two hands later, Tran and Green battled it out on a big hand that looked like it would, for all intents and purposes, decide second place. Tran made it 12k from the button, and Green made it 18k from the small blind. Harman got out of the way, and Tran called.

The flop came 9h-8h-7s, Green bet out, and Tran called. The Jh hit the turn, making all kinds of straights and flushes possible. Green checked, Tran bet, and Green raised to 24k. Tran thought for a while, and eventually decided to call. Both players checked when the 2c hit the river, and Tran turned over Qh-10s, the top straight with the Qh for back-up in case Green had a low flush. Green mucked, and now trailed the two women badly.

Tran's big win, along with some other aggressive play, left the chip count at roughly

Harman, 305k
Tran, 190k
Green, 70k

For the first time in a long while, it seemed possible that Harman could lose this tournament. It didn't seem possible for long. On hand #91, Harman made it 12k, Tran made it 18k, and Harman called. The flop came Ad-Kc-2s, Tran bet, and Harman mucked two queens. Two queens are a monster hand in a three way game, but with two overcards on the board, Harman wasn't going to get trapped for a bundle.

She recovered the chips, and $24,000 more, just two hands later, when she took A-9 up against Tran, flopped top two pair, and got Tran to check call the whole way. It looked like Tran threw A-7 away on the end, but I couldn't be sure.

Tran returned the favor on the next hand, flopping two pair with her J-5, as Cordovez described the hand as "an immediate rematch."

APOLLO CREED WOULDN'T HAVE LIKED IT: YOU COULDN'T SAY "AIN'T GONNA BE NO REMATCH"

"Three-handed, there are going to be a lot of immediate rematches," quipped Harman.

Green won some less gargantuan pots, making the chip count now roughly

Harman, 290k
Tran, 170k
Green, 105k

THE QUEEN OF TWO QUEENS

On hand #100, Harman made it 12k from the button, Tran, no slouch at shorthanded play herself, called, and Green called also, giving us our first three way action in a while. The flop came Jh-10h-4c, Tran checked, Green bet 6k, Harman made it 12k, and both opponents called. A bit pot was brewing.

The 10s came off on the turn, and all checked to Harman, who bet 12k. Only Tran called this time. The 5d hit the river, and Tran again check-called.

Harman turned over two queens, Tran mucked, and Harman collected a monster pot. It was the same hand she'd received just nine hands previously, but this time she collected the max rather than losing the min. Between the correct play of both Q-Q hands, and the fact that she was playing alongside one of the other queens of poker, the title "The Queen of Queens" suggested itself, but since that came a bit too close to the theme of the Eddie Murphy movie "Coming to America," I decided to go with "The Queen of Two Queens."

Harman had retaken control, the chips now

Harman, 370k
Tran, 110k
Green, 85k

A BRIEF TIME-OUT FOR SOME FANTASY PROJECTING, CORDOVEZ-STYLE

During some inconsequential maneuvering, Diego Cordovez, once again doing his guest announcing duties, made a remark that Green was in a position that was every man's fantasy, one man with two women, but I don't think the fantasy usually involves poker, and if it does, it certainly doesn't involve trailing two such tough players. I have no idea what kind of threesomes Brian Green fantasizes about, if he does at all, but I'm pretty sure this wasn't it. Besides, Jennifer is married to a hunk, and Tran has a boyfriend. As I've been told many times, Diego, "I think this is your fantasy, not mine."

It took until hand #129 for a major equity swing. Harman made it 12k from the button, Tran made it 18k from the small blind, and Green folded. Tran bet the 10c-7c-5h flop, Harman pushed it to 12k, and Tran pushed back to 18k. Harman had pushed enough, and just called. The 9c came off on the turn, putting flush possibilities out there, and Tran bet out, with Harman calling. The Qc hit the river, a fourth club, Tran checked, Harman bet, and Tran called resignedly.

Harman turned over the Ac-4d, for the nut flush, and Tran mucked her pocket jacks. Tran now had only 50k left, with Green still at about 85k, and Harman now up at 430k.

A dozen hands later, Tran's stack had eroded to 12k, and when Harman raised from the button, Tran thought a while, shuffling her last nine chips, before eventually sliding them into the pot. Green folded, and Tran turned over a pretty good stand-taking hand: A-7.

OK, IF SHE WASN'T THE QUEEN OF TWO QUEENS BEFORE, SHE HAD IT LOCKED NOW

Jennifer Harman turned over two queens, and queen hit the flop, and if she hadn't been the queen of two queens before, she certainly was now. The two women hugged, clearly each happy for the other, each a little sad that it hadn't come down to the two of them, but then it was back to business for Harman, who started the heads-up duel leading 445k-120k.

We were in Nevada, not Florida, but I decided on a recount, and started over with hand #1 of the heads-up duel marked as #1, not #142. Heads-up, the small blind goes on the button (SBB), and acts first before the flop but second after it.

Green lost ground immediately, folding his SBB, then folding to a Harman raise from her SBB, then folding his own SBB. When Harman folded her own SBB on #4, the clock went off, and they took the $1,000 chips off the table, substituting the burnt orange 5k chips.

Green folded his SBB on #5, then folded to a Harman raise from her SBB on #6. I'd been speculating with Daniel Negreanu and Allen Cunningham about Harman's chances heads-up, guessing that she had about a zillion times more heads-up experience than Green did. Negreanu rolled his eyes back over three times, a neat trick that, his way of agreeing. Still, at the new level of $5,000-$10,000 blinds, playing $10,000-$20,000, a few big hands could change matters in a hurry.

GREEN'S ATTORNEY PLEADS TEMPORARY INSANITY

Green apparently decided that he didn't want to play Harman's chopping game, because hand #7 got wild. He raised from his SBB, with Harman calling. The flop came 10d-8c-6d, Harman checked, Green made it 10, Harman made it 20, Green made it 30, and Harman made it 40 before Green decided that he'd better slow down a bit.

The 5d hit the turn, Harman bet 20k, and Green raised his last 30k all-in. Harman had the sort of hand you might expect with this kind of heavy action, 8-6, two pair on the flop, but Green somehow had gotten a ton of chips in with Qh-2d. Harman didn't have a diamond, so if one fell on the river, Green would win, but he couldn't know that, and he certainly didn't have much of anything on the flop. A harmless seven fell on the end, and the Queen of Two Queens was now the Queen of the $5,000 Limit Hold'em tournament.

I asked the 40 year-old Green, who has lived in San Jose, Costa Rica, for the last dozen years, running a telecommunications firm, about his, well, let's face it, questionable play on the last hand.

"I felt like I had to take a shot and gamble with her," Green said. "I didn't think I was going to be able to outmaneuver her slowly, but in retrospect I think I could have picked a better hand to gamble it up with."

The last time I'd interviewed Harman, it was when she won the Deuce-to-Seven tournament in 2000, a game she'd never played before. These were entirely different circumstances, because high limit hold'em is Harman's bread and butter.

DID JENNIFER AGREE WITH DANIEL?

I told her about her friend Negreanu's comments the night before, about being happy seeing her focus in a tournament, and she disagreed.

"No, really, I think I focus more in a tournament," Harman said. "I'm newer at them, and I'm really competitive, probably too competitive for my own good. I hate to admit it, but I have a big ego, and it probably doesn't always serve me well. Tournaments aren't like money games. I can't just reach into my pocket for more money, so the beats are tougher to take, emotionally."

I mentioned that just about every great poker player I knew had a big ego, and that I hadn't seen it get in their ways too often.

"Well, it can help and it can hurt," Harman said. "But I said yesterday, before this tournament started, ‘No one's getting in my way. I was determined. I told people I wasn't going to be able to play the Hold'em shootout, because I was going to be at the final table of this tournament. I've been getting close in tournaments, but not close enough—12th, 11th, or a low final table finish. I figured I was doing something wrong not to be able to close it out, so I played yesterday to make sure I'd have enough chips to play with today."

I've got news for you, Jennifer. You played with more than chips today. You made the boys look like boys, and while I would have been glad to see someone with your personality win under any conditions, on the day when I annually rant and rave against the insult that the Ladies Tournament is to women players, I was very happy to see you and Mimi Tran prove one more time (It's been proven often enough, but more evidence can't hurt) that while Ladies Tournaments are fine ways to introduce women to poker, once it comes World Series time, the women can handle themselves just fine. That might not be every man's fantasy, but it's a fact.

Final Official Results, Event #24, $5,000 Limit Hold'em
Total Entries: 113
Total Prize Pool: $531,100

Finish
Name
Prize Money
1
Jennifer Harman Traniello
$212,440
2
Brian Green
$106,200
3
Mimi Tran
$53,100
4
Fred Bonyadi
$31,860
5
"Q"
$23,900
6
Humberto Brenes
$18,580
7
Allen Cunningham
$13,280
8
Jon Brody
$10,620
9
Al Stonum
$8,500
10
Tony Hartman
$6,380

11th-12th, $6,380 each: Danny Qatami, Gabe Kaplan.
13th-15th, $5,840 each: David Pham, Richard Gazzano, Thor Hansen.
16th-18th, $5,320 each: David Enoch, Jesse Danial, James Courtney.

EDITOR'S NOTE: ORIGINALLY, TOMORROW'S REPORT WAS TO BE ABOUT THE LIMIT HOLD'EM SHOOT-OUT EVENT. TOURNAMENT OFFICIALS MADE A LATE DECISION TO MAKE THE SHOOT-OUT A ONE DAY AFFAIR, WITH THE FINAL TABLE KICKING OFF AT MIDNIGHT. AS A RESULT, TOMORROW WE WILL BE PUBLISHING RESULTS ONLY ON THE LADIES TOURNAMENT AND THE HOLD'EM SHOOT-OUT.

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