North Texas Player Kicking Butt in Atlantic City
by Dan Michalski, Oct 4, 2007 | 6:42 pm
With 27 players remaining in the U.S. Poker Championship, held at the Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, Louis Lee from Plano will start Day 4 tomorrow 4th in chips. Jeff Madsen is the fairly dominant chip leader, followed by his party pal Gavin Smithr. Other recognizable names still alive in this $10k event include Allen Kessler, Victor Ramdin, Cliff Josephy (aka JohnnyBax), and Bill Gazes.
Eighteen get paid, with first prize being a little more than $600,000. (164 players started — kinda small, no?)
PokerPages is the only outlet following the action semi-live …
CORRECTION: PokerListings is at the USPC tables, too.
Louis’ up-and-coming tournament history here.
Owen Laukkanen says:
October 4th, 2007 at 8:02pm
Hey, not to spam or anything but PokerListings.com is in A.C. too. If I’m going to have to be in Jersey, I might as well get readers, right?
California Jen says:
October 4th, 2007 at 10:01pm
Owen! What’s going on in Joisey, besides giving yourself a shout-out on Pokerati? 😉
PokerListings and PokerPages are the only two outlets there, right? Looks like it’s a good tourney so far, even though it’s a light field.
sezen says:
October 4th, 2007 at 10:27pm
go lewis go lewis go lewis !!!
DanM says:
October 5th, 2007 at 11:59am
Owen, my bad. You know I dig your reporting chili. Do me a favor and get a picture of Louis and we’ll really love you.
Owen Laukkanen says:
October 5th, 2007 at 3:17pm
Joisey is the pits, but what else is new? It’s refreshing, though, to get to cover a tournament with no media restrictions or exclusive deals, even if the days do start at times like 1:15 p.m. and their final table will feature ten players.
I have a pic of Louis up on the site here:
http://www.pokerlistings.com/photos/thumb/louis-lee/louis-lee-13472.jpg
But I’ll work on getting a better one if and when he ever takes his hand away from his mouth.