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Ante Up Poker Tour - Jamul San Diego

Our friends at Jamul Poker Room at Jamul Casino in San Diego – the region’s newest poker option – are temporarily closed as part of the state of California’s COVID-19 response.

The poker room at the closest casino to San Diego is operated by John Rochfort, who was part of the team to help establish TVPokerRoom at Thunder Valley Resort outside Sacramento.

We look forward to bringing more updates and activities from Jamul once businesses can reopen.

RunGood Poker Series Travels to Jamul San Diego

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$100k GTD Main Event

2022 RunGood Poker Series at Jamul San Diego

The RunGood Poker Series stays in California, heading to San Diego Feb. 1-6 at Jamul Casino. The feature event for this series is a $100,000 GTD $575 Main Event.

There’s seven different events in the series, kicking off with a $125 and $135 Guest Bounty on opening day. Two flights are offered in the $20,000 GTD $185 Deepstack, with a PLO and two additional bounty events on the calendar.

The Main Event has three starting flights, wrapping up with the Day 2 Final on Feb. 6.

Check the entire schedule and all structure sheets here.

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Casinos, Cardrooms Starting to Reopen

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Casinos, poker rooms and cardrooms across the US are beginning to reopen as state-by-state quarantine restrictions begin easing. California has a series of cardroom-only ‘casinos,’ and one 6-poker-table room re-opened today.

Towers Casino in Grass Valley, according to staff there and the cardroom’s website, has three of its six tables in use. Staff stated today full 9-handed cash games are available, with no tournaments scheduled at this time. Staff stated they are using state-recommended cleaning procedures.

“Staff members will be wearing face masks or shields. Patrons will be required to wear face masks,” the cardroom’s website states.

Jamul Casino San Diego has a ‘soft-open’ for the next three days. Only its top-tier customers are in, with the full casino open 24/7 starting on Thursday. The poker room opens for business on Thursday, according to Poker Room Manager John Rochfort.

Those are the only two California poker rooms opening this week – that we know of right now.

One South Dakota poker room and one in Texas is already open, both playing with limited-numbers of players and limited tables as well.

Seminole Hard Rock Tampa in Florida is posted on its website as re-opening this Thursday. There is no specific mention of the poker room in the website notification.

Ante Up Magazine has a running list of all U.S. poker rooms and their current status listed, the list updated as information is provided.

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Segni Wins Player of Series Race in Last Tourney

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Ronald Segni - 2019 Ante Up Jamul San Diego Player of the Series

Ronald Segni was sitting 30 points back of Tavish Margers when Event 8 – $100 Series Finale – began in the Ante Up Jamul San Diego Series, needing a 3rd-place or better finish, and no cash for Margers, to earn the Player of the Series title.

Segni went two places better, winning the Series Finale and with it, he is the inaugural Ante Up Jamul Sand Diego Player of the Series. Margers finishes 2nd, with Christopher Smith and David Para tied for 3rd, Smith holding the tiebreaker of most money earned in the series.

Here’s what the top-three finishers win.

  • Segni – A $550 Entry in to a future Sweetwater Showdown tournament.
  • Margers – A $250 credit to Prime Cut Dining at Jamul Casino.
  • Smith – $100 in Jamul Poker Room tournament vouchers.

Here’s a look at the Top-10 finishers – the full leaderboard can be found here.

PLACENAMEPOINTS
1RonaldSegni190
2TavishMargers160
3ChristopherSmith110
4DavidPara110
5YaryHing90
6JohnWellnitz85
7AaronKnapp82
8RipFritzer80
9EricBradford70
10SandorMolnar65
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Ante Up Jamul Series Results

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Jamul San Diego Poker Room
DATEEVENTBUY-INTOURNEYRESULTS
9/20-221$300$40k GTDResults
9/222$150$50 BountyResults
9/233$100$5k GTD 8-MaxResults
9/244$100$2.5k GTD Omaha8Results
9/255$160$10k GTD DeepstackResults
9/27-296$550$100k GTD Main EventResults
9/297$240$100 BountyResults
9/298$100Series FinaleResults
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Segni Scores Finale Win

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Ronald Segni - Winner - Event 8 Ante Up Jamul San Diego Series

Ronald Segni waited until Event 8 in the Ante Up Jamul San Diego to find the winner’s circle, earning the victory in the $100 Series Finale with Chipleader Bonuses.

Here’s the final results, with Player of the Series points included.

9/29/19Jamul PokerAnte Up San Diego
Event 8$100SeriesFinale
24Entries
$1,920Prize Pool
4Places Paid
PLACENAMEPAYOUTPOINTS
1RonaldSegni$86060
2DerrickHelton$57640
3JasonTang$38430
4DanielLugano$1000
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Souza Takes $100 Bounty Win

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Jamul San Diego Poker Room

Michael Souza came out on top of today’s Event 7 in the eight-tournament Ante Up Jamul San Diego Series – $240 NLH With $100 Bounties, as the final two participants brought the event to its conclusion.

Here’s the final results, with Player of the Series points included.

9/29/19Jamul PokerAnte Up San Diego
Event 7$240NLH$100 Bounty
30Entries
$3,000Prize Pool
$3,000in Bounties
4Places Paid
PLACEPAYOUTPOINTS
1MichaelSouza$1,16040
2MatthewPolera$1,00040
3DavidPara$51030
4RichardLanes$33025
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Sweating The Player of the Series Results

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Jamul San Diego Poker Room

Tavish Margers, Ronald Segni and David Para are grinding the final two tournaments today, making a push for the Ante Up Jamil Player of the Series title.

  • Margers leads with 160 points and is in the $100 Series Finale.
  • Segni is 2nd with 130 points and also in the Series Finale
  • Para is 4-handed in the $240 with $100 Bounties, in the money and looking for more points. He needs 2nd to pass Christopher Smith for 3rd place and earn one of the Player of the Series prizes. Para may also choose to late-register the Finale and make a dash for the top spot.

Winner of Player of the Series earns an entry to a future $550 Jamul Sweetwater Showdown tournament. 2nd place earns a $250 credit to Prime Cut steakhouse, while 3rd receives $100 in Jamul Poker Room tournament vouchers.

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Hing Wins Ante Up Jamul Main Event

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Yary Hing - Winner - Ante Up Jamul San Diego Main Event

Yary Hing comes out on top, earning the title in the inaugural Ante Up Jamul San Diego $550 Main Event. He takes home $17,856 and is going to be the featured cover photo for the November edition of Ante Up Magazine.

The tournament drew a 171-entry field for the two starting flights, Friday afternoon’s Day 1A and Saturday’s Day 1B.

Scott Lewis, the start-of-day chipleader for Sunday’s Day 2, finished third for a $14,000 cash. Christopher Smith – who won the $40,000 Guaranteed $300 Event 1 in the series – finished as runner-up to Hing, earning $14,000 as runner-up. Smith also earns an entry to the $500,000 Guaranteed $1,650 Ante Up World Championships in July 202 at TVPokerRoom.

Scott moves to third in the Player of the Series race, Hing fourth, and both are debating late-registering tonight’s Series Finale to try to and catch current leader Tavish Margers.

Here’s the tournament’s final results. Pick up a copy of the November edition of Ante Up Magazine for the full main event and series stories.

9/25/19Jamul PokerAnte UpSeries
Event 6$550Main Event$100k GTD
171Entries
$100,000Prize Pool
22Places Paid
PLACENAMECITYPAYOUT
1YaryHingSan Diego, CA$17,856
2ChristopherSmithLa Mesa, CA$14,000
3ScottLewisSan Diego, CA$14,000
4YoungHilliardSpring Vly, CA$13,000
5NajibKeron/a$4,736
6RalphMittmann/a$3,924
7DavidLebharSantee, CA$3,393
8DevenWareSan Diego, CA$2,969
9AfzalAttan/a$2,553
10TimothyCostelloEl Cajon, CA$2,553
11SorenAsadovLas Vegas, NV$2,203
12TailongQiaoSan Diego, CA$2,203
13KeithLangillEl Cajon, CA$1,864
14VladimirMedvinskyOceanside, CA$1,864
15CameronBrinsfieldSan Diego, CA$1,864
16RichardFurfaroChula Vista, CA$1,549
17AlaaBotrosRancho SD, CA$1,549
18GrantFosterSan Diego, CA$1,549
19DavidBatzerSan Diego, CA$1,254
20AaronKnappEscondido, CA$1,254
21NoeZamudion/a$1,254
22GeorgeKalfayanChula VIsta, CA$959
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Time to Start Series Finale

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Jamul San Diego Poker Room

Cards are in the air for Event 8 in the Ante Up Jamul San Diego series – the $100 Series Finale.

Players begin with 10,000 stacks and play 20 minute levels the entire one-evening tournament. Registration and the unlimited-entry period is available until the start of Level 7 at 9:15pm.

Added prizes tonight include $100 tournament vouches to the top 4 stacks on first break each win a $25 Jamul Casino food voucher. The top-2 stacks on 2nd break each earn $100 in Jamul Poker Room tournament vouchers. The chipleader on 3rd break (winner of the tournament if it finishes before 3rd break) earns a $100 tournament coucher and a $200 credit to Prime Cut steakhouse.

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Heads-Up for the Title

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Jamul San Diego Poker Room

Christopher Smith eliminates Scott Lewis in third place KQ > KJ to set to the heads-up match between Smith and Yary Hing for the 2019 Ante Up Jamul San Diego Main Event title.

Young Hilliard ($13,000) was eliminated in fourth place an orbit before Lewis.

Hing has $17k locked up, Smith $14k. At stake is $856 additional, the November cover photo for Ante Up Magazine and the $1.650 entry in the $500,000 GTD Ante Up World Championship next July at TVPokerRoom.

Smith is 3rd in the Player of the Series race, Hing 4th. Both may be jumping in the 7pm $100 Series Finale to try and catch current leader Tavish Margers.

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Leave Some on the Table

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Jamul San Diego Poker Room

The final four players in the Ante Up Jamul San Diego $550 Main Event – Yary Hing, Scott Lewis, Christopher Smith and Young Hilliard – have agreed to alter the payouts and keep playing for additional money and the title.

Hing receives $17,000, Smith and Lewis each lock up $14,000 and Hilliard has $13,000 guaranteed.

This leaves $856 on the table along with a $1,650 entry in the July 2020 $500,000 Guaranteed Ante Up World Championship at TVPokerRoom and the cover photo for the November edition of Ante Up Magazine.

Player of the Series points for this tournament freeze 4-handed, each player receiving 55 points. Levels reduce to 15-minutes for the remainder of the play-down to the winner.

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Two Fast Eliminations

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Yary Hing - Jamul San Diego Poker Room

Yary Hing eliminates both Ralph Mittman in 6th place and Najib Kero in 5th place in consecutive hands to send the Ante Up Jamul San Diego Main Event down to its final four participants.

Kero earns $4,736 for his 5th-place finish, while Mittman – whose Ace_Jack ran in to the Aces of Hing – takes home $3,924.

The final four players start to check ICM numbers, then decide to get cards back in the air without looking to see what chip-based payouts would be.

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A San-Diego-Special

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Jamul San Diego Poker Room

Action folds around to the blinds, and Yary Hing makes it 5x + from the SB – 160,000. Scott Lewis then moves all in from the BB and Hing snap-calls.

  • Ace_Eight for Hing
  • Ace_Five for Lewis

The board goes 9 – 4 – K – T – T and the players chop.

I can’t tell you how many times this week I saw a player move all-in with Ace_Eight, apparently it is the San Diego Special.

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Smith Doubles Through Kero

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Chris Smith - Jamul San Diego Poker Room

LEVEL 22 —- ANTE 30K —– BLINDS 15K-30K —– REMAIN 6/171

Christopher Smith opens for 65,000 and action folds to Najib Kero in the BB, who asks for the bet amount, and then makes the call.

Both players check the 7c – 9s – 6s action flop, with Kero leading out for 150,000 on the 7s more-action turn. Smith doesn’t waste much time in making the call.

6h comes on the even-more-action river, and Smith moves all in for his last 385,000. Kero asks for a count, asks for a count a second time, asks the pot be spread, gets clock called on him and then makes the call for half of his stack.

Smith shows 8h- 7h for a flopped middle pair and open-ended draw that turned trips and rivered a boat.

Kero shows 4s -5s for a flopped open-ended straight draw and a flush draw and completed the flush on the turn and was also an open-ended straight flush draw that was beaten on the river.

Smith to 1.2 million, Kero to 385,000, 6-handed play continues in the main event.

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7th for Lebhar

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David Lebhar - Jamul San Diego Poker Room

David Lebhar gets the last of his chips in the middle from the SB and runs in to start-of-day chipleader Scott Lewis in the BB, who makes the call to put Lebhar at risk, 7-handed in the Ante Up Jamil San Diego Main Event.

  • Six_Three for Lebhar
  • Nines for Lewis

The runout goes J – A – Q – J – 2 and Lebhar is eliminated in 7th place, cashing for $3,393.

Deven Ware (8th, $2,969) and Alex Atta (9th, $2,553) were earlier final table eliminations.

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$1,350 to $100 Bounty Winner

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Jamul San Diego Poker Room

Registration has closed on Event 7 in the eight-tournament Ante Up Jamul San Diego series – $240 NLH With $100 Bounties – and the scoreboard shows 30 entries.

The players created a $3,000 prize pool, with an additional $3,000 paid out in bounties. The tournament pays four places, with the winner receiving $1,350.

Here’s today’s scheduled payouts.

9/29/19Jamul PokerAnte Up San Diego
Event 7$240NLH$100 Bounty
30Entries
$3,000Prize Pool
$3,000in Bounties
4Places Paid
PLACEPAYOUTPOINTS
1$1,35060
2$81040
3$51030
4$33025
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Final Table Time for Ante Up Jamul Main Event

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Final Table - Ante Up Jamul San Diego Main Event

For the very first time ever, a tournament series Main Event final table is established at Jamul San Diego as the $100,000 Guaranteed $550 Ante Up Poker Tour has reached its last nine players.

Here’s the players in seat-position order, with player-provided chipcounts included. Event 1 winner Christopher Smith is the chipleader.

TABLESEATNAMECHIPS
11ScottLewis480,000
12RalphMittman280,000
13DevenWare390,000
14ChristopherSmith1,400,000
15AlexAtta500,000
16YoungHilliard580,000
17NajibKero415,000
18YaryHing655,000
19DavidLebhar405,000
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Payouts 10-18 in Main Event

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Jamul San Diego Poker Room

Here’s the players finishing in 10-18th place in the September 2019 $100,000 Guaranteed Ante Up Jamul San Diego $550 Main Event. Also included is the earned Player of the Series points.

10TimothyCostelloEl Cajon, CA$2,55320
11SorenAsadovLas Vegas, NV$2,20317
12TailongQiaoSan Diego, CA$2,20317
13KeithLangillEl Cajon, CA$1,86414
14VladimirMedvinskyOceanside, CA$1,86414
15CameronBrinsfieldSan Diego, CA$1,86414
16RichardFurfaroChula Vista, CA$1,54912
17AlaaBotrosRancho SD, CA$1,54912
18GrantFosterSan Diego, CA$1,54912
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Smith Soars to Chiplead

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Christopher Smith - Jamul San Diego Poker Room

LEVEL 20 —- ANTE 20k —– BLINDS 10k/20k —- REMAIN 11/171

A few hands after taking most of Tailong Qiao’s stack, Event 1 winner Christopher Smith calls TQ’s all in for 140,000, the last 7BB for TQ..

  • Ace_Ten for Qiao
  • Nine_Seven for Smith

Smith is OK with the 8 – 5 – J flop giving him a gutter to a straight. The 4 turn doesn’t change anything, but Smith doesn’t need the straight, catching a river 9 FTW to move to 1.35 million chips and a massive chiplead.

Qiao is out in 12th place, earning $2,203 and 17 Player of the Series points to move to 10th on the leaderboard with the final two tournaments ($240 with $100 Bounty and $100 Series Finale) taking place today.

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Kero Doubles Through Hilliard

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Najib Kero - Jamul San Diego Poker Room

LEVEL 19 —– ANTE 15K —– BLINDS 10K/15K —- REMAIN 15/171

Tim Costello opens for 45,000, Young Hilliard matches the bet, action folds to Najib Kero and he moves all in for 185,000. Back over to Costello is goes, and he steps away. Hilliard, however snap-calls to put Kero at risk

  • Sevens for Kero
  • Ace_Jack (hearts) for Hilliard

The Qs – Kd – 5s flop gives Hilliard a gutter to Broadway as additional outs. Turn is Qh and the outs don’t change.

River 5c and Kero doubles to 440,000, Hilliard back to 165,000.

Earlier 2-table eliminations included Coach Richard Furfaro (16th), Alaa Botros (17) and Grant Foster (18), all cashing for $1,549.

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Chipcounts and Redraw for Final 18

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Ante Up Poker Tour - Jamul San Diego

We’re down to the final two tables in the Ante Up Jamul San Diego $550 Main Event. Players are on their first 15-minute break of the day, so here’s a chance to take a look at the new table layout.

Players are listed by table, in seat-position order, with player-provided chipcounts included.

TABLESEATNAMECHIPS
11RalphMittman156,000
12TailongQiao525,000
13GrantFoster112,000
14AlaaBotros146,000
15SorenAsadov119,000
16VladimirMedvinsky377,000
17AlexAtta360,000
18DevenWare406,000
19ChristopherSmith437,000
21CameronBrinsfield135,000
22TimCostello233,000
23YoungHilliard355,000
24RichardFurfaro590,000
25YaryHing320,000
26NajibKero239,000
27KeithLangill191,000
28ScottLewis303,000
29DavidLebhar128,000
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Early Main Event Payouts

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Jamul San Diego Poker Room

Here’s the players cashing in 19-22nd place in the September 2019 Ante Up Jamul San Diego Main Event. Included is the Player of the Series points each player earned.

19DavidBatzerSan Diego, CA$1,25410
20AaronKnappEscondido, CA$1,25410
21NoeZamudion/a$1,25410
22GeorgeKalfayanChula VIsta, CA$95910
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$240 With $100 Bounties at 2pm

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Jamul San Diego Poker Room

Event 7 in the eight-tournament Ante Up Jamul San Diego Series begins today at 2pm – a $240 NLH with $100 Bounties.

Players open with 15,000 stacks and play 20-minute levels during the six levels registration (and the unlimited-entry period) is open. Levels move to 30-minutes long once registration closes at 4:15pm and Level 7 begins.

1-in-8 entries earns a tournament cash and Player of the Series points.

The final tournament of the series, the aptly-named $100 Series Finale, begins at 7pm.

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Hilliard Doubles Through Asadov

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Jamul San Diego Poker Room

LEVEL 17 —- ANTE 10000 —- BLINDS 5000/10000 —- 19/171

Young Hilliard opens for 24,000 and Soren Asadov gives a speech before calling. The 2-7-3 flop comes out and Hilliard puts his last 45,000 in, with Asadov snap-calling.

  • Ace_Deuce for Hilliard for bottom pair, and he needs help.
  • Jacks for Asadov, an overpair.

Deuce on the turn and Asadov knocks over his chips in a less-than-happy move, while Hilliard doubles to 150,000

19 remain in the Ante Up Jamul San Diego Main Event.

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Lewis Eliminates Bradford on Bubble

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Scott Lewis - Jamul San Diego Poker Room

The second hand of Bubble Play finds an all in over at Table 1, so let’s wander over and check out what is going on.

Start-of-day chipleader Scott Lewis opened and Omaha8 winner Eric Bradford has moves in for his last 78,000. Lewis verifies the count and makes the call.

  • King_Queen – the Fred-Bevill Mom-and-Dad hand
  • Ace_Seven (spades) for Lewis

Lewis grabs a bigger lead right away with an Ace in the window, followed by 6 – 2. The turn King gives Bradford 5 outs but the river 5 sends Bradford out in 23rd place, missing the money by one position.

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Bubble Time in San Diego

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Jamul San Diego Poker Room

Michael Zucchet’s Aces don’t hold against the 6-7 of Deven Ware, sending the remaining 23 players in the Ante Up Jamul San Diego Main Event to the money bubble.

JohnQTD tells the players 2 minutes is being peeled off the play clock for each hand until one more player is eliminated and the last 22 are all in the money.

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Massive Pot Eliminates Margers

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Yary Hing - Jamul San Diego Poker Room

Tavish Margers opened and say Yary Hing bump it to 50,000. That piqued the interest of the current leader in the Player of the Series race, so Margers moved all in for 320,000 and was stunned when Hing snap-called off his 307,000 stack.

  • Ace_King for Margers and the outlook is not great
  • Aces for Hing

The 6 – J – J flop gives Hing two pair, but the turn Queen gives Margers a gutter to a Ten for Broadway.

River is a 3 and Hing moves way up and above the previous top-stack in the room, now at 625,000.

Margers is left with 13,000, moved all in the next hand, runs in to trips and is eliminated 6 from the money, opening back up the Player of the Series race to others chasing him today.

“I thought he was just making a move,” said Margers.

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Smith Eliminates Azam

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Chris Smith - Jamul San Diego Poker Room

Event 1 winner Chris Smith opens for 16,000, action folds around to Rafi Azam on the button and he moves all in. The BB gets out of the way and Smith snap-calls to put Azam at risk.

  • King_Ten for Azam and he needs major help.
  • Aces for Smith

The board runs 3 – 7 – 9 – 4 – 8 and Azam is out 10 from the money in Day 2 of the Ante Up Jamul San Diego Main Event.

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Off We Go With Day 2 Ante Up Jamul Main Event

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LEVEL 15 —- ANTE 6000 —– BLINDS 3000/6000 —– REMAIN 34/171

Cards are in the air for Day 2 of the $100,000 Guaranteed Ante Up Jamul San Diego $550 Main Event.

34 players return for Day 2, with 22 making the money and the winner earning $27,180 including an Ante Up World Championship entry.

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Day 2 Ante Up Jamul Seat Assignments

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From a 171-entry starting field, the Ante Up Jamul San Diego $550 Main Event is down to 34 players returning Sunday at noon for the Day 2 Final restart, playing down to a winner.

Scott Lewis (355,000) is the top stack going in to Day 2, followed by Tim Costello and Adrian Lopez (both at 315,000) and current Player of the Series leader Tavish Margers (301,000) as the top stacks.

22 players cash tomorrow, the winner scheduled to receive $27,180 – including a $1,650 entry in the $500,000 Guaranteed Ante Up World Championship at TVPokerRoom at Thunder Valley Resort in northern California in July 2020.

Here’s all the Day 2 information you can eat – players sorted by last name in Tab 1; by chipcount in Tab 2 and by table/seat in Tab 3.

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Costello, Lewis Bag Top Day 1B Ante Up Jamul Man Event Stack

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Tim Costello and Adrian Lopez separated from the field at the end of the night to lead the 22 players advancing from today’s Day 1B on to Sunday’s Day 2 Final restart at Noon.

Costello and Lopez each bagged a 315,000 stack to sit atop the chipcounts as co-leaders, followed by Event 5 winner Tavish Margers at 301,000 as the top-three stacks from the 114-entry Day 1B field.

Here’s the final Day 1B chipcounts, Day 2 Seat Assignments to follow.

TimCostelloEl Cajon, CA315,000
AdrianLopezSan Diego, CA315,000
TavishMargersSantee, CA301,000
VladimirMedvinskyOceanside, CA269,000
RichardFurfaroChula Vista, CA229,000
DevenWareSan Diego, CA173,000
EricBradfordSan Diego, CA170,000
DavidLebharSantee, CA169,000
AfzalAhaSan Diego, CA133,000
YoungHilliardSpring, Valley, CA130,000
BenAndersonEl Cajon, CA126,000
RafiAzamEscondido, CA121,000
SorenAsadovLas Vegas, NV119,000
AlaaBotrosRancho SD, CA111,000
KeithLangillEl Cajon, CA106,000
RalphMittmann/a101,000
DavidBatzerSan Diego, CA86,000
JosephZellerSan Diego, CA79,000
NajibKeron/a76,000
SeanColcloughSan Diego, CA53,000
RichLanesEl Cajon, CA53,000
GlennPooleSan Diego, CA49,000
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3 More Hands

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JohnQTD has paused the tournament play clock at 10 minutes and announced there’s three more hands until the Bag-n-Tag portion of Day 1B takes place in the $550 ante Up Jamul San Diego Main Event.

We’ll return in 25 minutes with final Day 1B chipcounts, and 25 minutes after that with the Day 2 Seat Assignments.

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Podnieks Misses Out on Day 2

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Eric Podnieks - Jamul San Diego Poker Room

Eric Podnieks opens, had the 1-seat at his table move in, and Podnieks thinks for a minute before deciding to call off his stack.

  • Ace_Ten (spades) for Podnieks
  • Ace_Queen (h/d) for his challenger.

Podnieks calls for a Ten, then his tablemates suggest he now call for a Queen when the flop comes K – J- x

Blank, blank goes the runout and Podnieks misses bagging a Day 2 Stack by 14 minutes.

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Not This Time for Sharifi

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Saum Sharifi jammed a 33,500 stack earlier because he didn’t want to bag a small Day 1B Main Event stack. He doubled with 56dd to get to 70,000.

Now with that 70k stack, he jams again in a blind-vs-blind clash and runs smack in to a bigger-stacked BB’s Aces with his Jack_Seven offsuit.

T-J-T goes the flop to give him a sweat, the Ten turn giving both players a boat and a river blank sinks Sharifi’s boat 35 minutes away from bagging a Day 2 stacks.

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Margers Marches to Top

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Tavish Margers - Jamul San Diego Poker Room

Tavish Margers is familiar with leading during this Ante Up Jamul San Diego Series.

He won Event 5, the $10,000 Guaranteed $160 Deepstack, and is currently No. 1 on the Player of the Series Leaderboard.

Now he’s the top stack with 36 players remaining in Day 1B of the $550 Main Event, sitting at 275,000 with one hour remaining in Day 1B play.

Competition tonight continues until about 7:40pm when Level 14 ends. All players with chips after 14 Levels qualify to return Sunday at Noon for the Day 2 Final restart, playing down to a winner.

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Sharifi’s Gambol Pays Off

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There’s an open to 8,000, then Saum Sharifi bumps it ~4x to 33,500 all-in. Action folds around to the original raiser, who asks for a count, then puts Sharifi at risk in Day 1B of the Ante Up Jamul San Diego $550 Main Vvent.

  • Sharifi turns up Five_Six (diamonds)
  • His challenger shows King_Jack (diamonds, also)

Sharifi takes the lead on the 5s – 8d – 7h flop, falling behind once again on the Jc turn, but getting there for a straight with the river 9d.

Chirp-like table banter follows, Sharifi talking about how he didn’t want to move forward a 30k stack on to Sunday, his challenger implying 56dd was a less-than-stellar hand to attempt a double with.

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Jamul San Diego Bad Beat Jackpot Hits

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Bad Beat Jackpot - Jamul Poker Room

A big day at Jamul San Diego’s poker room became bigger a few minutes after the Main Event payouts were announced, as a group of people yelled and cheered from the back of the cash game area.

Aces vs. Kings and the board ran out 3 – K – A – K – 6 — Aces Full falls to Quad Kings and the Bat Beat Jackpot of $11,319 is paid out.

  • The player with Aces Full – loser of the hand – receives $4,556
  • The player with Quad Kings – winner of the hand – receives $2,278
  • The seven other players at the table each receive $650.

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$27,180 to Ante Up Jamul Main Event Winner

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Ante Up Poker Tour - Jamul San Diego

Registration has closed on both starting flights in the inaugural $100,000 Guaranteed Ante Up Jamul San Diego $550 Main Event and the scoreboard shows 171 entries. With a contribution from the casino, the players created a $100,000 prize pool, paying 22 places.

The winner receives $27,180, including an entry in the $500,000 Guaranteed $1,650 Ante Up World Championship in July 2020 at TVPokerRoom at Thunder Valley Resort in northern California, a tournament jacket and is on the cover of the November edition of Ante Up Magazine.

Here’s Sunday’s scheduled payouts

9/25/19Jamul PokerAnte Up San Diego
Event 6$550Main Event$100,000 GTD
171Entries
$100,000Prize Pool
22Places Paid
1st Includes$1650 Ante UpChampionshipEntriy
PLACEPAYOUTPOINTS
1$27,180100
2$17,10380
3$10,08665
4$6,13755
5$4,73645
6$3,92435
7$3,39330
8$2,96925
9-10$2,55320
11-12$2,20317
13-15$1,86414
16-18$1,54912
19-21$1,25410
22$95910
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Two Final Sunday Ante Up Jamul Tournaments

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There’s two more tournaments remaining in the eight-event Ante up Jamul San Diego Series – two more chances for cash payouts and Player of the Series points as well.

2pm is a $240 NLH with $100 Bounties – players receive a 15,000 stack for their buy-in and play 20-minute levels during the six levels registration is open. Levels move to 30-minutes long once reg closes at 4:15pm.

7pm is the $100 Series Finale with Chipleader Bonuses. Players begin with a 10,000 stack and play 20-minute levels, registration closing at 9:15pm when Level 7 begins. The chipleaders at the end of the first three breaks earn additional prizes, including $25 dining certificates, $100 tournament vouchers and a $200 credit to Prime Cut steakhouse.

Meanwhile, back at the Main Event, Level 10 begins, 1600 ante, blinds 800/1600, 63 players remain.

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114 for Ante Up Jamul Main Event

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LEVEL 10 —– ANTE 1200 —– BLINDS 600/1200 —– ENTRIES 114

Cards are back in the air for the start of Level 10, registration is now closed for the $100,000 Guaranteed $550 Ante Up Jamul San Diego Main Event and the scoreboard shows 114 entries today.

Play continues tonight for six more 30-minute levels, coming to a close a bit after 7:40pm when Level 14 wraps up. All players with chips at the end of Level 14 bag up their stacks, turn those bags over to tournament staff and return Sunday at Noon for the Day 2 Final restart, playing down to a winner.

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Carlton Eliminates Fortuno on Reg Break

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LEVEL 9 —- ANTE 1000 —- BLINDS 500/1000 —- ENTRIES – 110

The final hand before registration break finds Anthony Carlton facing an all-in bet from Robert Fortuno, and it is for most of Carlton’s stack.

He finds the call and also finds he’s in a good place.

  • Queens for Carlton
  • Queen_Nine (hearts) for Fortuno

The 5-2-2-T-3 runout eliminates Fortuno, and he says he’s OK with that, for he has the 15-minute registration break to fins a new 30,000 stack in exchange for a $550 buy-in.

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Erwin Moving Up in Chips

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Ben Erwin - Jamul San Diego Poker Room

The winner of the $100,000 Guaranteed Ante Up Jamul San Diego $550 Main Event earns a cash payout, a custom tournament jacket and has the cover photo in the November edition of Ante Up Magazine.

But wait, there’s more, the winner also earns an entry in the $500,000 Guaranteed Ante Up World Championship $1,650 at Thunder Valley Resort’s TVPokerRoom in July 2020.

On arrival at TVPokerRoom for the tournament, the winner is going to be greeted by Ben Erwin, Director of Poker Operations, who also happens to be seated today at one of the outer tournament tables.

Erwin has chipped up to 59,000 with about 10 minutes left in level 8 today in Day 1B of the Main Event.

Registration for the main event closes when level 9 begins at about 4:28pm.

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Satellite-Entry Podnieks Looking to Chip Up

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Eric Podnieks - Jamul San Diego Poker Room

LEVEL 7 —- ANTE 800 —- BLINDS 400/800 —- ENTRIES 109

Eric Podnieks is one of the more than 40 players who won their way in to the $100,000 Guaranteed Ante Up Jamul San Diego $550 Main Event in a $70 or $125 satellite.

Here with that satellite entry in play, Podnieks has worked his way up to 52,000 as he opens a pot for 2,500 and draws a call from only the BB.

Both players check the Tc – 7d – 8c flop, then Podnieks calls a 3,000 bet from the BB on the 6h turn, but can’t find a call when the 5c river comes, putting a world of potential big hands out there.

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Triple-Digit Saturday at Jamul

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The scoreboard clock shows five Main Event levels complete and there’s now 102 entries in Day 1B of the Ante Up Jamul San Diego $100,000 Guaranteed $550 Main Event.

This brings the total field size to 159 with registration available for just under two more hours.

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Jamul Poker Mystery Chip Promotion Give Cash Players a Chance to Double-Up

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Jamul San Diego Poker Room Mystery Chip Promotion

Play in Cash Games Saturday and Sunday – from 12pm to 12am, so that includes a 12am Monday drawing – at Jamul Poker Room and have a shot at one of the Mystery Chip drawings.

There’s two winners ever half-hour who draw a ‘Mystery Chip’ for $25 up to $500, and have a chance to Flip-That-Chip to double the prize up to $1,000.

Here’s all the details, and watch as one of the poker room regulars goes for the Double-Up.

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94 Back From First Break

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Players in Day 1B of the $100,000 Guaranteed Ante Up Jamul San Diego $550 Main Event are on their way back from their first of three 15-minute breaks today and the scoreboard shows 94 entries.

Registration and the unlimited-entry period id available through the next four 30-minute levels and a 15-minute break, closing permanently for the entire Main Event when Level 9 begins at 4:25pm.

Competition continues tonight until 7:30pm when Level 14 ends, players bag up their chips and return Sunday at noon for the Day 2 Final restart, playing down to a winner.

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Fortuna Gets There Against Souza

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Robert Fortuna - Jamul San Diego Poker Room

LEVEL 4 —- ANTE 400 —- BLINDS 200/400 —– ENTRIES 91

A short-stacked Michael Souza is able to get all his chips in the middle preflop, draw a call from Robert Fortuna and be ahead goinGg to the flop in Day 1B of the $100,000 Guaranteed Ante Up Jamul, $550 Main Event.

  • Souza turns over Eights
  • Fortuna shows Sevens

No worries for Souza on the T – 5 – J flop, but Fortuna gets there on the 7 turn, leaving Souza drawing to two outs.

The river 3 sends Souza to the registration podium for another 30,000 stack.

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Feinberg Looking for Better Day 1B Finish

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Mark Feinberg - Jamul San Diego Poker Room

Friday was a good day of poker for Mark Feinberg until it became a bad day at the very end of the night in the $100,000 Guaranteed Ante Up Jamul San Diego $550 Main Event.

While Feinberg was not chipping up a great deal, he had a playable stack throughout all 14 levels – that is until JohnQTD and Mel Hines TD announced there was three hands remaining in the flight.

Ace_King and a chance for a full double to bag up and move on to Sunday’s Day 2 Final … until the BB wakes up with Kings, hold, and eliminated Feinberg at the end of the day.

On to today’s Day 1B – the final starting flight – and a change to see Sunday with a playable stack in front of him.

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75 Entries in Level 2

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LEVEL 2 —- ANTE 200 —- BLINDS 100/200 —- ENTRIES 75

Midway through Level 2 in Day 1B of the $100,000 Guaranteed $550 Ante Up Jamul San Diego Main Event and the scoreboard shows 75 entries.

This pushes the total field size to 132 with registration and the unlimited-entry period open until about 4:25pm when Level 9 begins.

Day 1B ends at the end of Level 14 a little after 7:30pm. Players with chips remaining when Level 14 ends get a 16-hour-long dinner break, returning Sunday at Noon for the Day 2 Final restart, playing down to a winner.

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Tournament Series Coming Full Circle

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John Rochfort, Ben Erwin, Scott Long

Back in 2010, Jamul San Diego Poker Room Manager John Rochfort was in northern California with Ben Erwin, opening the poker room at Thunder Valley Resort. The first tournament series held at TVPokerRoom was an Ante Up Magazine Poker Tour event.

Today it is Erwin, TVPokerRoom Tournament Director John Quattrochi and Ante Up Magazine Publisher Scott Long all here joining Rochfort in celebrating the first tournament series at Jamul Casino – an Ante Up Poker Tour event.

As part of the first-place prize, the winner of the Main Event tomorrow night earns an entry in to the July 2020 Ante Up $500,000 Guaranteed World Championship $1,650 in TVPokerRom at Thunder Valley.

The poker community is not a very big one, and for some it has a feel of family. The family is here today for the Main Event.

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