Dallas Pokeratizens Tearing Up Early Choctaw Events

Rising poker couple: DC n La ring in the new year with a WSOP bang to confirm their his-and-her badass status.

Move over Tom and Julie Schneider … you two were like so \’07-\’09. The new, reigning king-and-queen power couple of Team Pokerati are DC n La. Sure, DC wasn\’t wearing a Pokerati patch when he took down the first ring event of the inaugural WSOP-Choctaw … but hey, that\’s never stopped us before from taking claim to a player with lots of chips after putting up a big win. (And of the 8 patches we have left, only three of those still have glue!)

Two days after David Clark\’s win in Durant, Oklahoma (the closest thing to the Dallas market the WSOP could find), his girlfriend, La Sengphet, got 2nd place in the $235 Ladies Event for a $5k payday. La, of course, was Team Pokerati\’s 2010 WSOP MVP — making the final table of the ladies event (7th place, $22k) to add to her previous big scores in an \’09 Venetian Deep Stack (2nd, $31k) and Caesars Mega Stack (1st, $12k). (She\’s Asian, too, btw.)

Check it out here, for how DC took down the $345 NLH event, with 935 players, for a first-place payout of $50,921 and proof to his girlfriend that he has indeed been paying attention during pillow talk.

Also at the final table in Oklahoma with DC was friend o\’ Pokerati Josh Evans, who finished 6th for $10k. You may remember Josh for tearing up a second-chance tourney at the \’07 WSOP before making a deep run in the main event where he made his video debut in this fine poker film, which has since become an \”underground\” cult classic:

Wish I coulda been there. Great to see players I grew up with (poker-wise) in the Dallas boomtime poker rooms represent! Also it\’s kinda a reminder why these sorts of \”small\” events matter to skillful grinders, even without online sponsorship in play. (After all, where else can you expect to find the next Dwyte Pilgrim?) Also cool to see Choctaw, with its brand spankin\’ new casino-resort built by Dallas poker money, able to ship some cash back to Texas.

Click below to see more of DC n La in recent Pokerati-branded action:

DC (rail, left) texts to his girlfriend, La (seat 5): \”good fold, babe she had KQ. remem, eye on prize. 1% pokerati ftw = rich? #sizzler min\”

La Sengphet is always a threat in gender-specific WSOP events: \”Back off, bitch! I see you eyeing my chips.\”

DC, aka \”La\’s boyfriend\” (left) with Team Pokeratier John Harris aka @85nutz (right) at the WSOP ladies event. Who knew less than a year later he\’d finally have a ring on his finger?