What an amazing night! With 178 players, countless players, and a huge silent auction, the Charity Series Of Poker raised $45,400 for Sunshine Nevada to help fund overnight camps for children with autism. An incredible charity, and incredible venue, and an incredible event!
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An amazing crowd tonight and the photos sure show it. Congratulations to the winners of our break trophies.
Joey Gargiulo took home the hero trophy for the most rebuys. Thankyou for your generosity and support over the years Joey!
TJ Shulman won the chip lead trophy with an incredible 311,000 chips at the break. Good luck TJ!
You can see both of our winners, along with founder Matt Stout, in the photo above. All the other photos are in the gallery below.
Faces Of The CSOP - Event 101
When you play a CSOP event, you aren't just enjoying craft cocktails and good food and chatting with celebrities, the prize pool is also significant. In addition to generous gifts from sponsors that go to final table finishers, there is also real money! Turnout has been fantastic and we'll have numbers on the entries and rebuys soon as well as our trophy winners for the chip leader and the player with the most rebuys.
A quick video tour of the amazing silent auction items available here at CSOP 101!
CSOP 101 - Chip In For Autism is going to be a monster. The Sterling Club event space is packed to the gills with smiling faces! Many of those faces came over from the Bar Poker Open championship at The Golden Nugget. Players from all over the country win their way into a tournament here in Vegas and play for some serious cash. And, lucky for us, they also love to support charities and shuttles ran right from the Golden Nugget to The Sterling Club for our event.
We are also watching the Golden Knights playoff game on three huge screens during cocktail hour and getting the tables ready for all these players. Kudos to Sterling Club for finding a way to handle this many people in the valet, at the bar, and make enough snacks to keep everyone happy!
We will be back with a photo gallery and a list of celebrity bounties once cards are in the air.
We have reached the final table after four bust outs in the space of less than ten minutes. Our final table players include CSOP Vice President Brian Kip, Ted Way from our trophy sponsor Right Touch Engravers, actress Katie Morgan, and senior editor with PokerNews, Chad Holloway. This is gonna be a tough one!
Payouts
1st: $2,500
2nd: $1,500
3rd: $1,000
4th - 10th: Various sponsors prizes and future CSOP entries.
Final Table Faces
Joey Gargiulo, known in poker circles as "Uncle Joey The Poker Wizard," hails from Bensonhurst, NY, and grew up on Long Island. He currently resides in North Las Vegas where he settled after spending a few years on the poker circuit. Joey has been playing poker since he was five years old, transitioning from home games to underground New York games, then becoming an online player and cash game specialist. He ventured into live tournaments four years ago and has amassed nearly three hundred thousand dollars in tournament winnings.
Gargiulo's most significant poker achievement to date was a forty-eight thousand dollar payday for a tenth place finish in the Choctaw WPT Main Event, after winning his way in via a $200 satellite. Outside of playing, Joey is a poker author, intuitive poker coach, and spiritual guide. Despite the challenge of going blind multiple times in his life, he continues to make his mark in the poker world.
What a stunning environment for a poker tournament. Millions of dollars of high end automobiles and hundreds of people dressed in their finest made for a target-rich environment for our photographer. The gallery includes -
Katie Morgan and Rebel Lynn posing in front of a line of Lamborghinis.
Rebel posing with her husband Sid Coca right after they announced that she is pregnant with their second child. Congrats Sid and Rebel!
The amazing catering table with incredible beef dip sandwiches made fresh with 100% grass fed organic beef and spicy berry pies (delicious).
Mikki Gunter in elaborate costume as always, selling 50/50 raffle tickets.
Stars like Jay Wasley (Ghost Adventures), "Fat Mike" Burkett (NOFX), and poker superstars Tyler Patterson, Matt Stout, Mikki Limo, and Tim Reilly.
There is also a bonus photo of the GOAT of tournament directors, Matt Savage, taking time out of his day to teach the rudiments of poker to a pair of young ladies who thought their game could use a touch up before playing.
Faces Of CSOP 100
Vladyslav Shovkovyi (just Vlad on the livestream) has won the PokerAtlas Title event for over $100,000. After a huge hand where Vlad flopped two pair and Chase flopped top pair, Chase was left with crumbs. He got it in the next hand and flopped middle pair, but Vlad flopped top pair, which held to win the tournament. Congratulations to Vlad and to all of the final table participants who all went home with a nice check.
After chip leader Chase opened the button three-handed, Peter felt like he had just the right stack to shove all-in with , but whether it was a bad choice, or just bad timing, Chase called with the dominating and the board ran out with no pairs for either player, sending Peter to the rail in third place for over forty thousand dollars. Chase and June will begin heads up play with Chase as a 3 to 1 chip leader.
Bustouts
3rd: Peter ($41,630)
| Player | Stack | Won / lost |
|---|---|---|
| Peter (Lam) | 0 | -3,900,000 |
| Chase | 25,000,000 | +8,400,000 |
| Vlad | 8,000,000 | 0 |
Seemingly unwilling to share the bust out duties with Kris Burchfield, Peter busted him instead. With blinds of 150,000/300,000, Peter raised to 800,000 with from under the gun. Burchfield, who knows Peter is aggressive and may have a wide range in this spot, shoved all-in for 2,475,000 from the big blind with . Peter called, the board ran out clean, and Burchfield is out in 4th.
Bustout
4th: Kris Burchfield ($31,610)
| Player | Stack | Won / lost |
|---|---|---|
| Peter | 7,800,000 | +2,700,000 |
| Kris Burchfield | 0 | -2,475,000 |
Current Trailblazer Poker Tour POY leader Kris Burchfield has been scraping along all day on a short stack, but with a lucky flop he has busted Jason Faircloth and is a bit more comfortable with about twenty-five big blinds.
Burchfield shoved for twelve big blinds from under the gun with and Faircloth actually considered a fold with and exactly the same stack as Burchfield. when Faircloth made the call he was in good shape, but a runout of gave Burchfield the pot and sent Faircloth to the rail in 5th place.
Bustouts
5th: Jason Faircloth ($23,060)
| Player | Stack | Won / lost |
|---|---|---|
| Kris Burchfield | 6,300,000 | +3,300,000 |
| Jason Faircloth | 0 | -3,025,000 |
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