2010 Harrah's New Orleans
Event 16 - $300 Buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha with Rebuys Final Results. 2010 Harrah's New Orleans WSOP Circuit Events.
| 2010 Harrah's New Orleans World Series of Poker Circuit Events Official Results |
2010 Harrah's New Orleans Event #16 Results
2009/2010 World Series of Poker Circuit
Harrah’s New Orleans
Bayou Poker Challenge
Event #16
Pot-Limit Omaha with Re-Buys ($100)
Buy-In: $300 (+40)
Total Entries: 51
Number of Re-Buys: 262
Total Prize Pool: $40,255
May 15-16, 2010
Harrah’s New Orleans
Bayou Poker Challenge
Event #16
Pot-Limit Omaha with Re-Buys ($100)
Buy-In: $300 (+40)
Total Entries: 51
Number of Re-Buys: 262
Total Prize Pool: $40,255
May 15-16, 2010
| Hamilton McGowan |
Final Results:
Place
Name
Hometown
Prize
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Hamilton McGowan
Tony “Tekk” Seunsom
Gene Timberlake
A.W. “Antony” Vidmer
Gary Bolden
“Captain” Tom Franklin
Mark Gallagher
Joshua Fanguy
Michael Schneider
Tony “Tekk” Seunsom
Gene Timberlake
A.W. “Antony” Vidmer
Gary Bolden
“Captain” Tom Franklin
Mark Gallagher
Joshua Fanguy
Michael Schneider
Eunice, LA
Houston, TX
Houston, TX
Nashville, TN
St. Louis, MO
Gulfport, MS
Houston, TX
Houston, TX
NA
Houston, TX
Houston, TX
Nashville, TN
St. Louis, MO
Gulfport, MS
Houston, TX
Houston, TX
NA
$12,881
$8,051
$5,132
$3,622
$2,918
$2,415
$2,012
$1,710
$1,509
$8,051
$5,132
$3,622
$2,918
$2,415
$2,012
$1,710
$1,509
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Gentlemen’s Agreement: Top Three Finishers Make Deal
Ricky McGowan Wins First Major Tournament Victory at Harrah’s
New Orleans
New Orleans, LA – Fireworks were expected at the latest Bayou Poker Challenge
tournament final table. Instead, the much-anticipated show ended up as a bust. It was a
firecracker with a wet fuse. Not that anyone complained. The tournament’s top three
finishers agreed to a deal and went on their merry ways. But anyone who was expecting
to witness the most interesting final table of any held thus far at Harrah’s New Orleans
departed with a bitter sense of disappointment. It was like watching the time trials of the
Indianapolis 500, and then calling it a real car race.
Of course, deals are a big part of poker. And, it’s the player’s prerogative to negotiate
deals amongst themselves. After all, players post the prize pools through their entry fees
and once skill discernable differences become measured by razor-thin margins, sometimes
altered by the turn of a single card, then it makes perfect sense to hammer out a deal.
That’s what Ricky McGowan, Tony “Tekk” Seunsom, and Gene “Timberrrr” Timberlake all did
in World Series of Poker Circuit Event #16. McGowan got his piece. Seunsom got his. And,
Timberlake took his. The final table might as well have been a bare carcass laying on the
prairie after a pack of starving wolves had devoured all the meat. Oh, and McGowan ended
up taking the gold ring. Let’s all hear it for the “winner!”
This was the 16th of 19 gold ring events on this year’s WSOP Circuit schedule at Harrah’s
New Orleans. The $340 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha tournament was played over two
consecutive days during May 15th and 16th. The tournament attracted 51 entries. But the
prize pool was bolstered by a whopping 262 re-buys, which amounted to more than four
per player. The top nine finishers divided a prize pool totaling $40,255.
After 45 players were eliminated on the first day, six-handed play began at 2:00 pm. The
nine finalists and their starting chip counts were as follows:
Seat Player Hometown Chip Count
1 A.W. (Tony) Vidmer Nashville, TN 132,000
2 Gary Bolden St. Louis, MO 88,000
3 “Captain” Tom Franklin Gulfport, MS 69,000
4 Gene Timberlake Houston, TX 60,000
5 Tony “Tekk” Seunsom Houston, TX 240,000
6 Ricky McGowan Eunice, LA 140,500
“Some” players were eliminated in the following order:
Sixth Place: “Captain” Tom Franklin Given Honorable Discharge
Former WSOP gold bracelet winner “Captain” Tom Franklin busted out about an hour into
play. His AAxx ended up losing to a straight. Franklin, a former Vietnam vet, won a gold
bracelet in the Limit Omaha event at the 2009 WSOP. He now has $2.6 million in
accumulated live tournament winnings. Franklin, who now lives in Gulfport, MS collected
$2,415.
Fifth Place: Gary Bolden
Gary Bolden, a 31-year-old poker from the St. Louis area, ended up in fifth place. This was
Bolden’s fourth WSOP Circuit cash and third final table appearance. He has also previously
cashed at the WSOP in Las Vegas. Fifth place paid $2,918.
Fourth Place: Film Director Cut
Film director and screenwriter A.W. “Tony” Vidmer battled his way to a fourth-place finish.
He lives in Nashville, ended up with $3,622 in prize money. Vidmer is best known in the
poker world as the writer and director of the film “High Roller,” a biographical story of the
late poker icon Stu Ungar. This marked Vidmer’s second time to cash at this year’s Bayou
series, following a ninth-place finish in Event #12.
Third Place: “Timberrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr” -- The Spirit of Competition Falls
Gene Timberlake, a longtime poker player and accountant from Houston, took third place.
Timberlake was running over the table the previous day, but lost chips late and was short-
stacked the entire duration of the final table. Timberlake, who has never won a poker
tournament in his life, decided it was the best thing to work a deal. Timberlake now has
innumerable final table appearances (notch one more mark on his belt), and zero wins. His
resume currently shows about $350,000 in career tournament earnings, no doubt pumped
up by a few extra thousand after collecting $5,132, the official payout for the third-place
finisher.
Second Place: Tony “Tekk” Seunsom Takes Second – Again and Again and Again
Tony “Tekk” Seunsom plays poker for money. He made yet another deal and relinquished
his opportunity to win a first WSOP Circuit gold ring, instead choosing to pocket some extra
jack. He’s now got something like 563,912 second-place finishes, but who’s counting? The
official meaningless figure Seunsom presumably collected amounted to $8,051.
First Place: “Ricky McGowan Wins!” “Ricky McGowan Wins!” “Ricky McGowan Wins!”
The closing moments of the latest WSOP Circuit tournament won’t rival Bobby Thompson’s
so-called “shot heard ‘round the world” in the Dodgers-Giants playoff game, but the result
of a three-way handshake was just the same as a blast into the left field bleachers. Ricky
McGowan, from Eunice, LA collected a gold ring and could rightfully declare himself as the
champion. So, McGowan ultimately gets his name in headlights for a day and the history
books forever (well, the Internet forever), while a few also-rans could presumably take
some satisfaction in their expert negotiating skills.
The WSOP Circuit at Harrah’s New Orleans continues through May 19th. This year’s
schedule includes 19 gold ring events, along with multiple second-chance tournaments,
single table and mega satellites, in addition to cash games going around the clock inside
the Harrah’s New Orleans Poker Room. This marks the sixth straight year Harrah’s New
Orleans has been a part of the WSOP Circuit. This is the 11th and final WSOP Circuit stop
of the 2009-2010 season following previous tournaments held in Chicago, Southern
Indiana, Lake Tahoe, Harrah’s Atlantic City, Tunica, Council Bluffs, Caesars Atlantic City,
Harrah’s Rincon, Harrah’s St. Louis, and Caesars Palace Las Vegas.
Executive Staff, World Series of Poker Circuit – Harrah’s New Orleans
Tournament Director – Steve Frezer
General Manager of Harrah’s New Orleans -- Jim Hoskins
Vice President of Marketing – Sandie McNamara
Director of Table Games – Tosha Skipper
Shift Manager of Harrah’s New Orleans – Larry Barrett
Special Events Coordinator – Gretchen Holzhauser
Ricky McGowan Wins First Major Tournament Victory at Harrah’s
New Orleans
New Orleans, LA – Fireworks were expected at the latest Bayou Poker Challenge
tournament final table. Instead, the much-anticipated show ended up as a bust. It was a
firecracker with a wet fuse. Not that anyone complained. The tournament’s top three
finishers agreed to a deal and went on their merry ways. But anyone who was expecting
to witness the most interesting final table of any held thus far at Harrah’s New Orleans
departed with a bitter sense of disappointment. It was like watching the time trials of the
Indianapolis 500, and then calling it a real car race.
Of course, deals are a big part of poker. And, it’s the player’s prerogative to negotiate
deals amongst themselves. After all, players post the prize pools through their entry fees
and once skill discernable differences become measured by razor-thin margins, sometimes
altered by the turn of a single card, then it makes perfect sense to hammer out a deal.
That’s what Ricky McGowan, Tony “Tekk” Seunsom, and Gene “Timberrrr” Timberlake all did
in World Series of Poker Circuit Event #16. McGowan got his piece. Seunsom got his. And,
Timberlake took his. The final table might as well have been a bare carcass laying on the
prairie after a pack of starving wolves had devoured all the meat. Oh, and McGowan ended
up taking the gold ring. Let’s all hear it for the “winner!”
This was the 16th of 19 gold ring events on this year’s WSOP Circuit schedule at Harrah’s
New Orleans. The $340 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha tournament was played over two
consecutive days during May 15th and 16th. The tournament attracted 51 entries. But the
prize pool was bolstered by a whopping 262 re-buys, which amounted to more than four
per player. The top nine finishers divided a prize pool totaling $40,255.
After 45 players were eliminated on the first day, six-handed play began at 2:00 pm. The
nine finalists and their starting chip counts were as follows:
Seat Player Hometown Chip Count
1 A.W. (Tony) Vidmer Nashville, TN 132,000
2 Gary Bolden St. Louis, MO 88,000
3 “Captain” Tom Franklin Gulfport, MS 69,000
4 Gene Timberlake Houston, TX 60,000
5 Tony “Tekk” Seunsom Houston, TX 240,000
6 Ricky McGowan Eunice, LA 140,500
“Some” players were eliminated in the following order:
Sixth Place: “Captain” Tom Franklin Given Honorable Discharge
Former WSOP gold bracelet winner “Captain” Tom Franklin busted out about an hour into
play. His AAxx ended up losing to a straight. Franklin, a former Vietnam vet, won a gold
bracelet in the Limit Omaha event at the 2009 WSOP. He now has $2.6 million in
accumulated live tournament winnings. Franklin, who now lives in Gulfport, MS collected
$2,415.
Fifth Place: Gary Bolden
Gary Bolden, a 31-year-old poker from the St. Louis area, ended up in fifth place. This was
Bolden’s fourth WSOP Circuit cash and third final table appearance. He has also previously
cashed at the WSOP in Las Vegas. Fifth place paid $2,918.
Fourth Place: Film Director Cut
Film director and screenwriter A.W. “Tony” Vidmer battled his way to a fourth-place finish.
He lives in Nashville, ended up with $3,622 in prize money. Vidmer is best known in the
poker world as the writer and director of the film “High Roller,” a biographical story of the
late poker icon Stu Ungar. This marked Vidmer’s second time to cash at this year’s Bayou
series, following a ninth-place finish in Event #12.
Third Place: “Timberrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr” -- The Spirit of Competition Falls
Gene Timberlake, a longtime poker player and accountant from Houston, took third place.
Timberlake was running over the table the previous day, but lost chips late and was short-
stacked the entire duration of the final table. Timberlake, who has never won a poker
tournament in his life, decided it was the best thing to work a deal. Timberlake now has
innumerable final table appearances (notch one more mark on his belt), and zero wins. His
resume currently shows about $350,000 in career tournament earnings, no doubt pumped
up by a few extra thousand after collecting $5,132, the official payout for the third-place
finisher.
Second Place: Tony “Tekk” Seunsom Takes Second – Again and Again and Again
Tony “Tekk” Seunsom plays poker for money. He made yet another deal and relinquished
his opportunity to win a first WSOP Circuit gold ring, instead choosing to pocket some extra
jack. He’s now got something like 563,912 second-place finishes, but who’s counting? The
official meaningless figure Seunsom presumably collected amounted to $8,051.
First Place: “Ricky McGowan Wins!” “Ricky McGowan Wins!” “Ricky McGowan Wins!”
The closing moments of the latest WSOP Circuit tournament won’t rival Bobby Thompson’s
so-called “shot heard ‘round the world” in the Dodgers-Giants playoff game, but the result
of a three-way handshake was just the same as a blast into the left field bleachers. Ricky
McGowan, from Eunice, LA collected a gold ring and could rightfully declare himself as the
champion. So, McGowan ultimately gets his name in headlights for a day and the history
books forever (well, the Internet forever), while a few also-rans could presumably take
some satisfaction in their expert negotiating skills.
The WSOP Circuit at Harrah’s New Orleans continues through May 19th. This year’s
schedule includes 19 gold ring events, along with multiple second-chance tournaments,
single table and mega satellites, in addition to cash games going around the clock inside
the Harrah’s New Orleans Poker Room. This marks the sixth straight year Harrah’s New
Orleans has been a part of the WSOP Circuit. This is the 11th and final WSOP Circuit stop
of the 2009-2010 season following previous tournaments held in Chicago, Southern
Indiana, Lake Tahoe, Harrah’s Atlantic City, Tunica, Council Bluffs, Caesars Atlantic City,
Harrah’s Rincon, Harrah’s St. Louis, and Caesars Palace Las Vegas.
Executive Staff, World Series of Poker Circuit – Harrah’s New Orleans
Tournament Director – Steve Frezer
General Manager of Harrah’s New Orleans -- Jim Hoskins
Vice President of Marketing – Sandie McNamara
Director of Table Games – Tosha Skipper
Shift Manager of Harrah’s New Orleans – Larry Barrett
Special Events Coordinator – Gretchen Holzhauser
To view the complete schedule and results for the 2010 Harrah's New Orleans WSOP Circuit Events, click on the link below:
2010 WSOP Circuit Harrah's New Orleans Schedule and Results
2010 WSOP Circuit Harrah's New Orleans Schedule and Results
