It seems Santa Anita is experimenting. Instead of the micro brew festivals with bands performing after racing most weekends they had banked (pun intended) on a Snow Day with ski slope, skating rink and 200 tons of real snow. However, another big storm is forecast for the holiday weekend so the event has been postponed. Surely, a heavy storm and mist would add to the reality of being on the slopes?

Back to the Commerce. The Matt Savage HORSE tournament attracted a better than expected 212 entries. The event will probably not conclude until Midnight Thursday with the winner taking home  $55k a seat in the WPT Event and some tip money! I am not even going to predict a winner at this stage as pretty much everyone played.

This left downstairs lacking in names although I did chat with Alec Torelli back from his trip to Aus + NZ.

Todays $1k final threw up some fresh names including Spanish Full Tilt pro Raul Paez. The final was once again a slow affair, probably a tribute to Matt Savages structure. Andy Phan was the only elimination in the first two levels today.

7:00pm update
9) Andy Phan
8) Cheang Yoo
7) Sheldon Hayashi
6) John Racener

9) $4173, 8) $5796, 7) $7882 6) $10432

Chip counts:
Randy Ohel 225k, Estrella Baltazar 185k, Raz Mael 180k, Chou Nguyen 170k, Raul Paez 90k.

As you can see it is still a wide open final.

Tags: Commerce casino, LAPC, Matt Savage

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