2010 Horseshoe Council Bluffs
Event 20 - $300 Buy-in No Limit Holdem Final Results. 2010 Horseshoe Council Bluffs WSOP Circuit Events.
| 2010 Horseshoe Council Bluffs World Series of Poker Circuit Events Official Results |
2010 Horseshoe Council Bluffs Event #20 Results
2009-2010 World Series of Poker Circuit
Horseshoe Council Bluffs
Feb. 27
Event #20
No-Limit Hold’em
Buy-In: $300 + $45
Number of Entries: 329
Total Prize Money: $95,739
Horseshoe Council Bluffs
Feb. 27
Event #20
No-Limit Hold’em
Buy-In: $300 + $45
Number of Entries: 329
Total Prize Money: $95,739
| Steve Kats |
Final Results:
Place
Name
Hometown
Prize
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
Steve Kats
Danny Parde
Mark Fink
Michael Dreiger
Scott Pape
Duane Gerleman
Mitchell Ricknell
Jason Fennell
Dave Muller
Tony Treiber
Daniel Collier
Nicholas Srille
Gerald Walter
Daniel Roth
Dave Ward
Randal Simmons
Larry Nichols
Robert Conway
James Schertz
Gary Fleischman
John Nohr
Lyle Bryan
Jefferey Fielder
Kyle Schroeder
Kirk McKenzie
Carl Mellecker
Nathan Robda
Morgan Carr
Michael Albert
Michael Fong
Dennis Moffitt
Paul Hansen
Daniel Rinkel
Timothy Sciscoe
John Johnson
Cullen Oldham
Danny Parde
Mark Fink
Michael Dreiger
Scott Pape
Duane Gerleman
Mitchell Ricknell
Jason Fennell
Dave Muller
Tony Treiber
Daniel Collier
Nicholas Srille
Gerald Walter
Daniel Roth
Dave Ward
Randal Simmons
Larry Nichols
Robert Conway
James Schertz
Gary Fleischman
John Nohr
Lyle Bryan
Jefferey Fielder
Kyle Schroeder
Kirk McKenzie
Carl Mellecker
Nathan Robda
Morgan Carr
Michael Albert
Michael Fong
Dennis Moffitt
Paul Hansen
Daniel Rinkel
Timothy Sciscoe
John Johnson
Cullen Oldham
Omaha, NE
Lincoln, NE
Sioux Falls, SD
Omaha, NE
Omaha, NE
Ridgeway, IA
Pittsburg, KS
Chicago, IL
Cedar Rapids, IA
Lincoln, NE
Sioux Falls, SD
Omaha, NE
Omaha, NE
Ridgeway, IA
Pittsburg, KS
Chicago, IL
Cedar Rapids, IA
$26,683
$15,318
$7,659
$6,702
$5,744
$4,787
$3,838
$2,782
$1,915
$1,149
$1,149
$1,149
$957
$957
$957
$765
$765
$765
$574
$574
$574
$574
$574
$574
$574
$574
$574
$383
$383
$383
$383
$383
$383
$383
$383
$383
$15,318
$7,659
$6,702
$5,744
$4,787
$3,838
$2,782
$1,915
$1,149
$1,149
$1,149
$957
$957
$957
$765
$765
$765
$574
$574
$574
$574
$574
$574
$574
$574
$574
$383
$383
$383
$383
$383
$383
$383
$383
$383
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Circulation Salesman Steve Kats, Playing Only His 2nd
Tournament, Wins Event 20
Key Hand Comes in Heads-Up Match When he Makes an
Inside Straight
Council Bluffs, IA — Steve Kats, a circulation salesman for the Omaha World Herald, scored
his first tournament cash by winning the 20th event of the WSOP Circuit tour at Horseshoe
Council Bluffs, $300 no-limit hold’em. The win brought him $26,683 and a diamond-and-gold
trophy ring. He came to the final table with a good chip and held it throughout, although
Danny Parde came close to catching up during their heads-up match that lasted nearly an
hour.
Kats, 27, is from Omaha and has been playing 10 years, mainly in home games and online.
He played one tournament here last year, but only got to 90th place. He said he never got
pocket aces throughout the tournament and had only half average until about four tables
were left when he began moving up.
This event drew 329 players and the prize pool was $95,739. Play kicked off with blinds of
8,000-16,000 and 2,000 antes, 23 minutes on the clock. With 483,000 chips, Kats had a
sizeable lead.
Here were the starting chip counts:
Seat Name Chip Count
1. Michael Dreiger 174,000
2. Duane Gerleman 130,000
3. Danny Parde 204,000
4. Dave Muller 32,000
5. Jason Fennell 78,000
6. Scott Pape 326,000
7. Mark Fink 330,000
8. Mitchell Ricknell 162,000
9. Steve Kats 483,000
9th place: On the first hand, Lowest-chipped Dave Muller pushed in his last 30,000 with
A-6, called by Scott Pape with 6-4 A board of 9-7-5-2 gave Pape a double belly-buster
straight draw (either an 8 or a trey), but he settled for a paired 4 to leave Muller ninth,
worth $1,915. Muller, 46, is an eye surgeon from Cedar Rapids, IA. He’s had several
Heartland Poker Tour cashes, and this is his first final table.
8th place: It didn’t take long to lose another player. We had a classic match-up: pocket
queens for an all-in Jason Fennell, Ac-Kc for Kats. A board of 6c-8d-3c-4h gave Kats 15
ways to knock Fennell out, with a club, an ace, or a king. A jack of clubs rivered, and Kats’
flush gave Fennell, a 27-year-old army sergeant from Chicago, his discharge to eighth
place, which paid $2,782.
7th place: With blinds of 10,000-20,000, Mitchell Ricknell found himself all in and in bad
shape with A-10 against Kats’ A-Q. A board of 7-10-J-5-3 left both players with 10s, and
Kats’ ace kicker was the decider as Ricknell took home $3,838. Ricknell, 49, from Pittsburg,
Kansas, is self-employed. He won the Masters of Oklahoma tournament twice and played
in a WSOP main event.
6th place: For the fourth time a player would go all in, and for the fourth time fail to get
out. The victim this time was Duane Gerleman, ahead with A-Q against Mark Fink’s K-J. The
flop was 10-3-2, and then Fink caught a fourth-street king to outrun Gerleman and leave
him in sixth place, paying $4,787. This was the third final table in this tournament series
for Gerleman, a 54-year-old farmer from Ridgeway, Iowa. His other cashes include a 23rd
out of 2,240 entrants in the WSOP Seniors event two years ago.
Blinds jumped twice, to 12,000-24,000, before we had another all-in. This time it was
Danny Parde, who had A-8 to Pape’s pocket kings. For the first time we had a survival
when Parde paired his ace on the flop.
5th place: Scott Pape went out with pocket 10s when Kats flopped an ace to his A-6.
Pape, 54, is a maintenance technician from Omaha who’s played weekly tournaments
here for the last four years. He took out $5,774 for fifth.
4th place: Soon after, Michael Dreiger, 59, a programmer from Omaha, checked out fourth
for $6,702 when his A-9 could not overtake Kats’ A-K. Last year he finished seventh in a
similar event here.
3rd place: This event got heads-up when Mark Fink went out on a bad beat. He had A-J
against Parde’s A-3. Both players were nearly even chips, but Parde just had his
opponent covered. The board came K-3-7-9-5, and Parde’s paired trey knocked Fink out
in third place, which paid $7,659. Fink is 30, from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and works in
his family electrical contracting business. He has four Circuit and two WSOP cashes.
2nd place: The final match lasted just under an hour. Kats started with the lead, but
Parde was never far behind as the chips went back and forth. With blinds now at
20,000-40,000 and 5,000 antes, the killer hand came down. The flop showed 8-7-3,
and all the chips went in the middle. Parde, with Qc-8c, was in the lead with a paired 8,
while Kats, with Jc-10h, had two overcards and an inside straight draw. A 9 turned to
give Kats a straight, and Parde, drawing dead, was suddenly down to 80,000 chips.
Parde was all in on the next hand with 9h-7h against Kats’ Ks-7s. A board of 4-2-8-Q-J
didn’t make any difference, and Kats had his first big cash.
Parde, 33, a U.S. Postal Service mailman from Lincoln, Nebraska, was making his second
Circuit final table. His second-place finish paid him $15,318. He also has a couple of
cashes in the Poker Classic events here.
– Max Shapiro
Director of Poker Operations for Harrah’s Entertainment – Jack Effel
Horseshoe Council Bluffs Poker Room Manager – Gary Margetson
Tournament Director – Kevin Ferguson
Tournament, Wins Event 20
Key Hand Comes in Heads-Up Match When he Makes an
Inside Straight
Council Bluffs, IA — Steve Kats, a circulation salesman for the Omaha World Herald, scored
his first tournament cash by winning the 20th event of the WSOP Circuit tour at Horseshoe
Council Bluffs, $300 no-limit hold’em. The win brought him $26,683 and a diamond-and-gold
trophy ring. He came to the final table with a good chip and held it throughout, although
Danny Parde came close to catching up during their heads-up match that lasted nearly an
hour.
Kats, 27, is from Omaha and has been playing 10 years, mainly in home games and online.
He played one tournament here last year, but only got to 90th place. He said he never got
pocket aces throughout the tournament and had only half average until about four tables
were left when he began moving up.
This event drew 329 players and the prize pool was $95,739. Play kicked off with blinds of
8,000-16,000 and 2,000 antes, 23 minutes on the clock. With 483,000 chips, Kats had a
sizeable lead.
Here were the starting chip counts:
Seat Name Chip Count
1. Michael Dreiger 174,000
2. Duane Gerleman 130,000
3. Danny Parde 204,000
4. Dave Muller 32,000
5. Jason Fennell 78,000
6. Scott Pape 326,000
7. Mark Fink 330,000
8. Mitchell Ricknell 162,000
9. Steve Kats 483,000
9th place: On the first hand, Lowest-chipped Dave Muller pushed in his last 30,000 with
A-6, called by Scott Pape with 6-4 A board of 9-7-5-2 gave Pape a double belly-buster
straight draw (either an 8 or a trey), but he settled for a paired 4 to leave Muller ninth,
worth $1,915. Muller, 46, is an eye surgeon from Cedar Rapids, IA. He’s had several
Heartland Poker Tour cashes, and this is his first final table.
8th place: It didn’t take long to lose another player. We had a classic match-up: pocket
queens for an all-in Jason Fennell, Ac-Kc for Kats. A board of 6c-8d-3c-4h gave Kats 15
ways to knock Fennell out, with a club, an ace, or a king. A jack of clubs rivered, and Kats’
flush gave Fennell, a 27-year-old army sergeant from Chicago, his discharge to eighth
place, which paid $2,782.
7th place: With blinds of 10,000-20,000, Mitchell Ricknell found himself all in and in bad
shape with A-10 against Kats’ A-Q. A board of 7-10-J-5-3 left both players with 10s, and
Kats’ ace kicker was the decider as Ricknell took home $3,838. Ricknell, 49, from Pittsburg,
Kansas, is self-employed. He won the Masters of Oklahoma tournament twice and played
in a WSOP main event.
6th place: For the fourth time a player would go all in, and for the fourth time fail to get
out. The victim this time was Duane Gerleman, ahead with A-Q against Mark Fink’s K-J. The
flop was 10-3-2, and then Fink caught a fourth-street king to outrun Gerleman and leave
him in sixth place, paying $4,787. This was the third final table in this tournament series
for Gerleman, a 54-year-old farmer from Ridgeway, Iowa. His other cashes include a 23rd
out of 2,240 entrants in the WSOP Seniors event two years ago.
Blinds jumped twice, to 12,000-24,000, before we had another all-in. This time it was
Danny Parde, who had A-8 to Pape’s pocket kings. For the first time we had a survival
when Parde paired his ace on the flop.
5th place: Scott Pape went out with pocket 10s when Kats flopped an ace to his A-6.
Pape, 54, is a maintenance technician from Omaha who’s played weekly tournaments
here for the last four years. He took out $5,774 for fifth.
4th place: Soon after, Michael Dreiger, 59, a programmer from Omaha, checked out fourth
for $6,702 when his A-9 could not overtake Kats’ A-K. Last year he finished seventh in a
similar event here.
3rd place: This event got heads-up when Mark Fink went out on a bad beat. He had A-J
against Parde’s A-3. Both players were nearly even chips, but Parde just had his
opponent covered. The board came K-3-7-9-5, and Parde’s paired trey knocked Fink out
in third place, which paid $7,659. Fink is 30, from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and works in
his family electrical contracting business. He has four Circuit and two WSOP cashes.
2nd place: The final match lasted just under an hour. Kats started with the lead, but
Parde was never far behind as the chips went back and forth. With blinds now at
20,000-40,000 and 5,000 antes, the killer hand came down. The flop showed 8-7-3,
and all the chips went in the middle. Parde, with Qc-8c, was in the lead with a paired 8,
while Kats, with Jc-10h, had two overcards and an inside straight draw. A 9 turned to
give Kats a straight, and Parde, drawing dead, was suddenly down to 80,000 chips.
Parde was all in on the next hand with 9h-7h against Kats’ Ks-7s. A board of 4-2-8-Q-J
didn’t make any difference, and Kats had his first big cash.
Parde, 33, a U.S. Postal Service mailman from Lincoln, Nebraska, was making his second
Circuit final table. His second-place finish paid him $15,318. He also has a couple of
cashes in the Poker Classic events here.
– Max Shapiro
Director of Poker Operations for Harrah’s Entertainment – Jack Effel
Horseshoe Council Bluffs Poker Room Manager – Gary Margetson
Tournament Director – Kevin Ferguson
To view the complete schedule and results for the 2010 Horseshoe Council Bluffs WSOP Circuit Events, click on the link below:
2010 WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Council Bluffs Schedule and Results
2010 WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Council Bluffs Schedule and Results
