Saturday, March 25th: Weekend Warriors Have Their Day

ICYMI: Friday's evening tournament ($150 No Limit Hold'em $10,000 GTD) drew a sizable crowd, with the official prize pool eclipsing the posted $10,000 guarantee ($10,580).  The final ten spots would be paid, and once that point was reached, we had a final table housing numerous Isle Poker Room tournament regulars.  After Robert Mikuski (Margate, FL) was eliminated in 10th place ($243), John Palace (Jupiter, FL) would become the first well-known player to exit the tournament (9th Place - $290).  It wouldn't be until Gyorgy Cseke (Tamarac, FL) in 7th place ($444), that the remaining players would start discussing a deal.

After some number crunching, the final six players agreed to a chop:

1. Hosney "Tony" Boutros (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) $2,161
2. Juan Martinez (Margate, FL) $1,728
3. Anthony Kuchar (Palm Beach Gardens, FL) $1,643
4. Patricia Miles (Lapeer, MI) $1,416
5. Eric Nuss (Waterloo, ON) $1,302
6. David Levine (Miami, FL) $993

The full results will be posted in Monday's "Week In Review" feature, along with all of the official numbers from each tournament held this past week.

Tournaments: Two tournaments are on today's schedule, totaling $11,000 in guaranteed prize money.  The first tournament, which begins at 11:00am, is a $100 No Limit Hold'em "Big Stack Turbo" w/ $25 Bounties ($3,000 GTD).  That event is followed at 6:00pm by the "New Monster Stack," a $120 No Limit Hold'em tournament with an $8,000 guaranteed prize pool.  This tournament offers a "mid-major" feel, with a 25,000 chip starting stack, and (25) minute levels throughout.

Promotions: The high hand promotions take another "breather" today, between yesterday's (11) hours worth of "turbo" high hands, tomorrow's (7) hours of $300 high hands (awarded every 15 minutes).  The "standard high hand" procedure is in place, awarded prizes to qualifying high hands every (30) minutes (with rollovers).

11:00am - $100 No Limit Hold'em "Big Stack Turbo" w/ $25 Bounties ($3,000 GTD):

- Players will begin with a 18,000 starting stack

- Late and re-entries for the first (10) levels

- Option player "add-on" at the end of Level 10 ($25 for 10,000 tournament chips), with 100% of the "add-on" going to the prize pool 

- Levels are (15) minutes in length

6:oopm - $120 No Limit Hold'em "New Monster Stack" ($8,000 GTD):

- Players will start with 25,000 in tournament chips 

- Late and re-entries for the first (8) levels

- Alternates and re-entries will start with a full stack

- Levels are (25) minutes in length