AZ State Championship Final Table
I guess it shouldn’t surprise us that a bunch of top players in Arizona made the final table of the Arizona State Championship today. Though Pokerati’s horses keep dropping, it’s good to know we can keep adding horses from the soon-to-be-recognized and reckoned-with Arizona Posse. (OK, that name is starting to grind on me — perhaps we need something else — like the Scottfaces?)
Our embedded reporter Robert Goldfarb went out in 130somethingth place.
Our favorite Chinese Poker champion Jesse McGinty made the final table and finished 9th. Still waiting on the payouts.
Danny Fuhs finished 8th.
CORRECTION: Hooman Nikzad (also an AP player) finished 8th. You can see how we confused the names. It’s kinda a shame that a state championship doesn’t count in the various tournament-ranking databases, no?
Still alive from the Scottsdale-based crew are Ben Tang and Ryan Hughes (pictured), who won his first WSOP bracelet this summer. According to Tom Schneider, Ryan went to the final table with “a monstrous chip lead and will probably win it.”
UPDATE:
from Goldfarb
10:27 pm
Ryan out 3rd. 50k
It just occurred to me … did this tournament have an asterisk by it, because Gonz didn’t play?
DanM says:
August 22nd, 2007 at 12:56pm
Just for the record, I am being told I may have the 8th place finisher wrong. We will try to find out if it was indeed Fuhs, or maybe an Az Posse guy named Juman(?).
DanM says:
August 22nd, 2007 at 12:58pm
Here are the payouts for this $1,000+50 event:
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