Carli managed to finish fourth in Event 8 earlier this week but beat that accomplishment the very next day by finishing second at Event 9. It was the third final table for Carli at the WSOPC Caesars Indiana. At this rate Carli must be wishing the event series would never end.
Two players who would likely agree with Carli are Robby Frank, who actually won Event 9, and Brett Henthorn, who took down Event 10.
Here's a look at how each event played out:
Event 9, $500+$50 ½ No-Limit Hold'em, ½ Pot-Limit Omaha
Exactly 100 players came out to play in this hybrid poker variant that features half the action as No-Limit Hold'em and the other half Pot-Limit Hold'em.
Insurance firm owner Robbie Frank came to the final table of Event 9 with a commanding chip lead that saw him holding $142,000 of the $350,000 chips in play.
Incredibly, Carli came to the final table with only $7,500 but managed to battle his way back into the game.
For a period of time at the final table it looked like the crowd was in for a terrific upset as Frank saw his gigantic chip lead diminish to almost nothing, but instead Frank stayed calm and managed to regain the chip lead by the 65th hand.
By heads-up time Frank had the chip lead over Carli but with one quick double-up the landscape could have changed dramatically. Instead the final hand saw Carli call all-in with A-A-J-7 to Frank's K-K-10-6. The board came K-J-4-8-Q and that was enough to seal the deal for Frank.
Despite Carli's loss, he did increase his record-holding number of Circuit cashes to 28.
Here's a look at the complete final-table payouts:
| Player: | Prize: |
| 1. Robbie Frank | $14,045 |
| 2. Doug Carli | $7,370 |
| 3. Russ Merrill | $4,335 |
| 4. Donnie Godsey | $3,468 |
| 5. Steve Mitchell | $2,601 |
| 6. Jason Song | $2,167 |
| 7. Mark Dreshaj | $1,734 |
| 8. Thomas McGrath | $1,300 |
| 9. Eric Dam | $867 |
Event 10, $300+$30 No-Limit Hold'em
As expected, Event 10 $300+$30 No-Limit Hold'em proved to be one of the most popular events of the 2008 WSOPC Caesars Indiana. A total of 364 players came out to get their hands dirty in No-Limit Hold'em action.
The story of the tournament was Brett Henthorn, who came to the final table with a commanding chip lead and proceeded to crush the final table, knocking out six of his eight opponents.
Henthorn is a student who was taking a brief break from his studies to play some cards at Caesars Indiana. He met Dennis Schroeder in heads-up play and in the final hand made a straight to get the check mark.
Henthorn received $31,240, but mentioned he's not even going to be thinking about poker over the next couple of months as he will be focused on school.
Here's a look at the final-table payouts:
| Player: | Prize: |
| 1. Brett Henthorn | $31,240 |
| 2. Dennis Schroeder | $16,124 |
| 3. Henry Barnes | $8,062 |
| 4. Cy Dixon | $7,054 |
| 5. Tommy "Tap" Pruitt | $6,046 |
| 6. Donald Crail | $5,039 |
| 7. Darrell Lackey | $4,031 |
| 8. Stephen Mitchell | $3,022 |
| 9. Richard Woehler | $2,015 |
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Update on Lee Rousso vs. the State of Washington
Rousso, a lawyer and the state representative for the PPA in Washington, is challenging the constitutionality of Washington's online gambling ban. He filed the lawsuit on the first day of the 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event.
He regularly updates readers on his case at http://pokerplayersalliance.org, and on Friday, Rousso was optimistic about Robert's ruling over the discovery dispute.
"The judge agreed with me about 99%, [with] the state only about 1%," he said. "In layman's terms, it was a rout."
Rousso remarked he has one more item left to debate with the state of Washington but it looks extremely likely he will be heading to court.
In the past Rousso has accused the state of imposing a ban on online gambling to protect its own gambling industry. That would be a violation of the U.S. Constitution's commerce clause forbidding individual states from passing protectionist laws against other states' business.
Rousso hit an obstacle to his case last year when the state demanded information, as part of discovery, that Rousso believed was confidential and implicated his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
Due to a change in court scheduling Rousso's hearing date has been moved back to May 15. Rousso is asking all Seattle-area poker players to make an appearance at the court and show their support for online poker.
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Lawyer: “Poker tournaments aren’t gambling” in PA case
A lawyer who has been charged with operating illegal poker games is saying they aren’t illegal at all. Larry Burns, 63, of Westmoreland County near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was charged last year with misdemeanors for running poker tournaments and earning a profit from them. He wants gambling charges ��...full article
A lawyer who has been charged with operating illegal poker games is saying they aren’t illegal at all.
Larry Burns, 63, of Westmoreland County near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was charged last year with misdemeanors for running poker tournaments and earning a profit from them.
He wants gambling charges against him dismissed, saying poker is not actually gambling, in the latest court case that tries to distinguish poker from other types of wagering.
According to a story at majorwager.com:
“There are, however, a number of reported decisions of various courts of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania that define the terms ‘gambling’ and ‘unlawful gambling’ in ways that do not proscribe such conduct and which specifically state that wagering on poker or playing poker for money or other prices is not ‘gambling’ or ‘unlawful gambling’ within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,” Burns’ defense attorney David Millstein wrote in a brief filed Thursday.
The motion to dismiss will likely be heard later this year.
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