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December 2008 Poker Plays (Continued)
VALLEY VIEW CASINO (CONTINUED)
with amazing new tables. e new poker room will feature all of your favorite live poker games, daily tournaments and free rolls. Don’t miss out on all the action! For more information call 1-866-view-win.
Monday through Friday: 11 a.m., No-Limit Hold’em, $30+$5 buy-in.
Monday through Friday: 6p.m., No-Limit Hold’em, $50+$5 buy-in.
Saturday: 12 p.m., Free Roll Tournament, $500 prize pool, 40 player limit, rst-come, rst-served.
Saturday: 4p.m., No-Limit Hold’em, $50+$5 buy-in.
Sunday: 12 p.m., Free Roll Tournament. Up to 40 top players that logged the most poker hours from the week. Hours will be accrued from Friday at 10:01 a.m. ending the following Friday at 10 a.m. Qualifying
players will be announced on Friday at 7 p.m. on the board and online at www.ValleyViewCasino.com.
Sunday: 4 p.m., No-Limit Hold’em, $50+$5 buy-in.
High-Tech Live Poker: Get ready for faster, mistake- free poker. State-of-the-art automated tables mean you get more hands for your playing time. Plus, tables automatically provide you with player and pot information at a glance for a quicker and more exciting game. Valley View Casino’s amazing PokerPro® tables mean more action and more fun!
$1 Million Bad Beat Jackpot: Any player in a live cash game is instantly playing for the Bad Beat Jackpot. If your four 6’s get beat by a royal ush, you win $1,000,000.
VIEJAS CASINO & OUTLET CENTER
Whether your game is Omaha, Texas Hold’em, or Stud, Viejas has all the poker gaming action you can handle in their exclusive Poker Room. With more than 20 tables, you can always find a seat. New—All regularly scheduled tournaments now have a tournament Jackpot. Call 619-659-1700.
Viejas Poker Classic $100,000 Guaranteed 1st Place No-Limit Hold’em Tournament: Saturday and Sunday, January 17th and 18th, 2009. One winner is guaranteed to take home $100,000 cash. $400,000 estimated prize pool. Buy in $1,050 with no re-buys or add-ons. Earn $100 coupons toward buy-in with every 25 hours of live play through January 11th. Players receive $6,000 in starting chips, 40-minute levels, $25/$50 starting blinds.
All tournament entrants receive a ticket for cash
December 2008 Gaming News (Continued)
PDeter Eastgate wins $9,152,416 in 2008 World Series of Poker®
anish poker professional, 22-year-old Peter Eastgate (pictured right), won the 39th annual World Series of Poker® early on November 11th to become the youngest champion in the history of the No-Limit Texas Hold’em Main Event. Eastgate hit an
ace-to- ve straight on the turn and instantly called an all-in bet from Ivan Demidov on the river to win the title and $9,152,416. Demidov held two pair, twos and fours. Demidov, a 27-year-old semi-professional poker player from Moscow, took home $5,809,595 for second place.
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Eastgate, who speaks both English and Danish, dropped out of college to become a professional player, making his mark playing poker on the Internet. He paid the $10,000 entry fee in cash to get into the Main Event. He eliminated ve players, includingDemidov,atthe naltabletotake
the title.
After 12 days of grueling Main
Event competition in July, for the rst time ever, play at a World Series of Poker tournament was suspended prior to a champion being crowned. e unique event structure called for the nal nine—
Nine— $10,000
million. e nine players met to settle the title after taking a 117-day break for the tournament.
e 39th annual World Series of Poker was the largest and richest in history, attracting 58,720 competitors in its 55 events—an increase of 4,432,
or 8 percent, over the previous record established in 2007. e total prize pool at this year’s World Series
of Poker was $180,676,248, an increase of $20,880,030 over the previous record,
also established last year. Players from a record 118 countries participated in
this year’s tournaments, more than in the most recent Winter Olympics.
A eld of 6,844 players began the main event in July. ESPN televised the nal event live, and it is
expected to be repeated.
Sycuan’s $1,000,000 Football Challenge: 17 Weeks of Football Action
e November competitors in the No-Limit Texas
Two Southern California poker players were in the nalnine:DavidRheemfromLosAngelesplaced7th and won $1.772 million, and Kelly Kim of Whittier place 8th with $1.288 million in winnings.
39th World Series of Poker Main Event Results:
1st place: $9.152 million, Peter Eastgate, Odense, Denmark; 2nd place: $5.809 million, Ivan Demidov, Moscow; 3rd place: $4.517 million Dennis Phillips, St. Louis; 4th place: $3.774 million, Ylon Schwartz, Brooklyn, N.Y.; 5th place: $3.096 million, Scott Montgomery, Toronto; 6th place: $2.418 million Darus Suharto, Toronto; 7th place: $1.772 million, David Rheem, Los Angeles; 8th place: $1.288 million, Kelly Kim, Whittier, Calif.; 9th place: $900,670, Craig Marquis, Arlington, Texas.
Hold’em World Championship to return
to the Rio All-Suite Hotel and
Casino on November 9th to battle for
the Main Event title and the top prize of $9.1
ycuan Casino’s Million Dollar Football Challenge goes all cash. Plus, all entries qualify to win a trip to Hawaii to see the All-Star the way through football season. Seventeen weeks of football Game. And watch Sunday NFL football on Sycuan’s giant projection action—$100,000 in prizes and a shot at $1,000,000! Share in TVs and win your share of $1,000 in cash drawings. Drawings start at
the $3,700 weekly cash prizes. Select the most winning teams of the 1 p.m. every Sunday throughout the regular football season. season and you’ll win a trip to the “Big Game” in Tampa plus $5,000
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