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Meanwhile at the Bike

Steve — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 19:12:26 +0000

While I may have gone all Hollywood for spending Saturday night at Nancy Cartwrights Northridge residence,the grinders down in Bell Garden where out in force.768 players tried to turn $225 into $65614.Only one player could achieve that and he was James Goldstein. The Bikes Big Poker October runs until the 9th with two tournaments a day at Noon and six pm.

1) James Goldstein $65k
2) Kevin Prendergast $33.5k
3) Manolo Garcia $16k
4) Eugene Chun $12k
5) Sharif Elbayoumy $9k
6) Steve Applebaum $7k
7) Eric Aude $5k
8) Oleg Stolyar $4k
9) Jerry Gerstal $3k

Event #16 $30k guarantee(prize pool $38k)

1)Greg Hubbard $13k
2) Mike Lien $6.6k
3) Turbo Nguyen $3k

Event #17 $10k guarantee (prize pool $17k)

1) Rocky Le $6k
2) Josh Ganet $3k
3) John Pekenon $1k

Event #18 $30k guarantee Prize pool $35k

1) Erkan Osbek $12k
2) Richard Munro $6k
3) Scott Jay $2.8k

Freeroll time at the Bike

Steve — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 07:15:30 +0000

The last tournament ME finished on Monday (no results available,I believe because Greg is probably taking a couple of well earned days off).The Star + Stripes begins tomorrow (no tournie on the 4th). Inbetween the Bicycle Club held a $50k freeroll for cash players yesterday and a $10k freeroll for giving your email to thebike.com today. I was one of over 300 playing tonight. Some estimates thought 1000 was possible. I was surprised by the structure. Players started with between 3k-6k,depending on if you had played on their free poker site. I have not as it isn’t mac friendly. Blinds started at 25-25 with thirty minute rounds.A good way to attract new players.

Robert Turner missed out . He must have better opportunities to shoeshine in Vegas.Still waiting on a, non rubber. check.

The Bike is making a big effort to make the Legends of Poker a major success. PartyPoker are sending online qualifiers.The search for a big name,well connected, TD is underway. In any event the atmosphere there is much improved from a year ago.If Matt Savage accepts the job he will have to move to the Caymen Islands.

Friday and Saturday the Bike has a re entry $50k guarantee tournie at 6pm. The final is on Monday evening at 7pm. L.D. Gray won nearly $10k in event#1 of the Star + Stripes.442 paid the $80 entry fee.

Friday also sees the return of World Cup action. The finalists will not be asked to return in November. The winners will be from South America or Europe unless Ghana shocks the world.

My poker hero Julian Gardner, who unlike me has a real Manchester accent, added $91k to his lifetime winnings with sixth place in the $5k PLO. Two HendonMob players Joe Beevers and Ross Boatman also cashed.

Not much love for Shannon Elizabeth when it was announced she has signed with CarbonPoker. Everyone in my house has heard of Shannon. None of us has heard of Carbon b4 so good publicity. She loves poker and is pretty approachable. Certainly pretty!

Tour de Bike gallery

Steve — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 08:26:04 +0000

162 players playing for $85k first place.

Going Green.Switch to the Bike.

Steve — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 20:14:20 +0000

My commute hasn’t changed much with my coverage of the “Winnin on the Green” tournie at the Bike. Located just a couple of miles from the Commerce it would be an easy cycle from the one to the other. I wasn’t expecting to see shopping centers all around and could easily spend my dinner breaks in Ross across Florence/Eastern from the card room.

I had the feeling of changing to a new school as I had never been to the Bike before. However, Kelly O’Hara had made me welcome and security had been warned about the Brit with a camera. The food menu in the high limit looks similar to the Commerce. Yosh wasn’t hosting his game on Friday but Mo was.

The tournament co ordinator is Dennis WilliamsÂ and the first two tournaments have attracted over 300 players per tournie.

Results : Event #1 $300 NLHE 1) Kane Sec $36k, 2) Kevin Gagliotta, 3) Henry So, 4) L Babahekian 5) A Barbarian 6) Brandon Lee 7) Sandy Heyes 8) Ameen Behzadnia 9) Ha Diep

Event #2 $325 bounty 1) Amir Ghazvinian $19k 2)Kevork Kozakjian 3) Hugo Cerdeiro 4) Leang Kuoch 5) Yun Zeng 6) Henry Kaptanjian 7) Pogos Simityan 8) Ricardo Moreno 9) Andy Phan

With such a big weekend in Las Vegas it is sad to see the likes of Thor Hanson, Chris Gregorian and Paul Dardon grinding it out here but then again maybe they are in LA to go to Santa Anita today. I know I am.