The Bicycle Casino's Deepstack Mini Series championship event drew 208 players, creating a prize pool in excess of $100,000, with first place taking home $33,500 plus a $10,000 seat into the World Poker Tour/Legends of Poker tournament next month.
Amir Ghazvinian, a structural engineer who has been playing poker for four yearsâ€"ever since he moved to the Los Angeles area from Floridaâ€"was the winner when a chip count deal was reached with three players remaining. Ghazvinian was the chip leader by approximately 100,000 chips at that point and was declared the winner.
Amir, who learned Hold'em from books and playing with his friends at home games, attributes his win to doubling up early and never having a below average stack.
BICYCLE CASINO 6/27/09
MINI SERIES OF POKER
NO LIMIT HOLD'EM CHAMPIONSHIP
BUY-IN $500 + $45
PLAYERS 208
PRIZE POOL $100,880
1. Amir Ghazvinian . . $33,515
2. Edmund Liu . . . . . . $16,720
6/25/09
NO LIMIT HOLD'EM
BUY-IN $200 + $25
PLAYERS 169
PRIZE POOL $32,788
1. Arturo Cadena . . . . $12,378
2. Tong Le . . . . . . . . . . . $6,065
6/24/09
POT LIMIT OMAHA REBUY 1 ONLY
BUY-IN $150 + $20
PLAYERS 36
REBUYS 17
PRIZE POOL $7,712
1. Philip Kang . . . . . . . . $3,472
2. Keith Rogers . . . . . . . $1,930
6/23/09
H.O.R.S.E.
BUY-IN $200 + $25
PLAYERS 103
PRIZE POOL $20,182
1. Kirk Conrad . . . . . . . $7,387
2. Boris Kolas . . . . . . . . $3,695
6/22/09
NO LIMIT HOLD'EM
BUY-IN $200 + $25
PLAYERS 199
PRIZE POOL $38,606
1. Euloguio Urtado . . . $14,576
2. Julian Chung . . . . . . $7,140
3. Liranza Rodolfo . . . . $3,665
6/21/09
NO LIMIT HOLD'EM
BUY-IN $150 + $20
PLAYERS 209
PRIZE POOL $30,625
1. Byung Lee . . . . . . . . $11,245
2. Joshua Smith . . . . . . $5,595
6/20/09
NO LIMIT HOLD'EM RE-BUY
BUY-IN $100 + $20
PLAYERS 166
PRIZE POOL $36,472
1. Steve Shkolnik . . . . $13,767
2. Kirk Conrad . . . . . . . $6,750
3. Ming Huang . . . . . . . $3,470
6/19/09
1/2 STUD HI-LO, 1/2 OMAHA HI-LO
BUY-IN $150 + $20
PLAYERS 71
PRIZE POOL $10,641
1. Larry Kantor . . . . . . . $4,131
2. Ralph Rivera . . . . . . . $2,375
6/18/09
NO LIMIT HOLD'EM
BUY-IN $150 + $20
PLAYERS 225
PRIZE POOL $32,738
1. Youssef Elgharor . . $12,103
2. Man Phung . . . . . . . . $6,025
3. Jonathan McNeely . . $2,945
6/17/09
OMAHA HI-LO
BUY-IN $150 + $20
PLAYERS 100
PRIZE POOL $14,550
1. Hamid Mohammadi . $5,495
2. Eric Chhor . . . . . . . . $2,680
6/16/09
NO LIMIT HOLD'EM
BUY-IN $150 + $20
PLAYERS 252
PRIZE POOL $37,800
1. Edwin Tekmar . . . . $13,581
2. Einay Limor . . . . . . . $6,750
3. Kevin Tang . . . . . . . . $3,300
