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Matt Savage, Commerce Casino Tournament Director Matt Savage watches the action during Commerce Casino's L.A. Poker Classic, the largest event on the World Poker Tour. ( World Poker Tour )
pokerplayernewspaper.com - 10/30/2009
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Michael Woos 'Em at Commerce Casino's Hold'em Series
Michael Woo Takes First Place Prize of $189,876 Last...
month, between September 10 and 27, Commerce Casino hosted their Hold'em Series, a group of tournaments that drew more than 6,000 players during its 17-day run. Buy-ins ranged from $200 to $2,500 with a prize pools in the hundreds of thousands. We reported on all but the main event last issue, which occurred too late for our press deadline. But we have it for you now, and local player Michael ...
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Matt Savage in the LA Times (Business Section)
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... Good story in some non-poker media on Matt Savage, tournament director at the Commerce Casino in California … specifically about what it takes to keep players happy (and business churning) at the largest poker room in the world (160 tables) when your job is to entice customers into events — bad economy and all — where 90 percent of them are guaranteed to go home losers. ...
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... was a volcano that erupted in 1809 that led to a very cold period. The volcano that's responsible for this is unknown. What those million jobs created or saved (and that's if you believe the statistic--and there's plenty of reason not to) really means. The Obama Administration doesn't like that people think it cost $160,000 per job saved/created. Mish calculates the true cost at $323,740 per job. Your tax dollars at work... A nice article on poker tournament director Matt Savage. An interesting article on why should be ...
Go There Now: Halloween Poll Jewish Bench Press
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... It's November 1st and we've got the inside dirt on everything you might have missed this week. We do our best to report on every little thing but, sadly, a few things always slip through undetected. Luckily for you we take the time to recap it all. Go there now! TD extraordinaire Matt Savage was featured on LAtimes.com. It's always good to see poker features in mainstream media and Savage is certainly a deserving candidate for a profile. You can check that out here. The Jewish Daily Forward examines why four of the ...
PTP News Hit and Run: November 1st
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... at Commerce Casino. The event will last for nearly a month and a half, starting on Jan. 21 with a $335 buyin tourney with a $1M guarantee. The event also features a $10K HORSE and heads-up events, and a $25K “high-roller” event. And here’s a cool story about the tournament director at the Commerce at the L.A. Times Web site. ...
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Tuesday Link Dump: Savage, durrrr Humor, and Twitter Fakes By Pauly Los Angeles, CA Here's a few links to keep you sane today... Matt Savage got some ink when everyone's favorite tournament director was profiled in a recent article. (L.A. Times) I wrote about gambling on the outcome of Top Chef. (Tao of Pauly) More face melting with this gem... Durrrr Challenge: Moderately Sized Electricity Bill Goes Unpaid. I love durrrr humor, er shall I say, humour. (Melted Felt) This ...
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Poker Profile: Matt Savage
pokerplayernewspaper.com 9/9/2009 — LA's Commerce Casino and its new tournament director Matt Savage might not have connected if Savage's Plan A had worked.
His thinking fizzled, so he looked around for a Plan B and what do you know, there it was. It's a long story but the 40-year-old Savage cuts to the chase with this explanation: He was 14 when he started working as a porter in a 60-lane Southern California bowling alley. His goal then was to become a professional bowler. It would have been fun. Years later he still carries a ...
Commerce Poker Tournament Attracts Nearly 4,000 Entrants
cardplayer.com 9/15/2009 — Commerce Casino needed three starting days to hold the masses, but by the time the dust cleared, it had made history. The casino hosted the largest non-WSOP live poker tournament ever this past week, welcoming 3,967 entrants to its $220 buy-in event at its new Hold’em Series.
Commerce Casino Hosts FOUR $10,000 Buy-In Events at the 2009 LA Poker Classic
pokerplayernewspaper.com 2/10/2009 — In addition to their $10,000 no-limit hold 'em championship-to be televised on the World Poker Tour with an expected $6 million prize pool-this year players can also enter three other $10,000 events: pot-limit Omaha, HORSE, and a heads-up championship. HORSE tests a player's all-around skills and features featuring rotating hands of different poker games, while the heads-up championship features a double elimination format, where players compete one-on-one.
'We feel that the addition of these ...
Commerce Casino To Host New Autumn Tournament Series
pokernewsdaily.com 8/17/2009 — After moving the extremely popular California State Poker Championship to May earlier this year, the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles, CA, was left with a gap in its schedule of poker events in the fall when the CSPC traditionally was held. To cover up that gap and offer some innovations to the poker tournament world, the Commerce announced last Friday that the Commerce Casino Hold’em Series would take place from September 10 th to September 25 th .
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I Got the Horse Right Here... Commerce Casino Offers Off-Track Betting
pokerplayernewspaper.com 9/9/2009 — Commerce Casino unveiled its new Race book in mid-July, just in time for horseracing enthusiasts to place their bets on the thoroughbreds opening the season at Del Mar. Commerce became the first card casino in Southern California-Los Angeles/Orange County metropolitan region to offer off-track wagering as a mini-satellite facility.
The casino's new Race book features eight self-serve kiosks that sell and cash tickets. A pari-mutuel clerk is also present. The Race book, located in the southern ...
Are Deep Stacks Good for Poker Tournaments?- by Matt Savage
twoplustwo.com 7/31/2009 — Creating tournament structures are my passion and one of the things I have always liked the most about being a Tournament Director. I have been involved in creating some of the best structures including the World Series of Poker, the Bay 101 WPT ...
Tournament Director Matt Savage Returns to Aruba Poker Classic
pokernewsdaily.com 8/21/2009 — For the consecutive third year, Tournament Director Matt Savage will supervise the Ultimate Bet Aruba Poker Classic , which is slated for October 3rd through 10th from the luxurious island nation.
Ultimate Bet pro Phil Hellmuth has the Aruba Poker Classic circled on his calendar each year. The 11-time World Series of Poker ( WSOP ) bracelet winner and de facto host in Aruba commented in a press release distributed by the online poker site, “Matt’s natural ability to run a smooth and fair ...
Record-Breaking Turnout at Commerce Casino's Opening Event Series Opener Attracts 3,967,
pokerplayernewspaper.com 10/18/2009 — A three-day start that allowed players to buy back in on subsequent days if they busted out early, along with a $500,000 guarantee, created a unique format that attracted just short of 4,000 players-a record number. Players ponied up $220 each to buy in to Commerce Casino's opening event. In the process they created the largest land-based poker tournament in history outside of the World Series of Poker and the seventh largest poker tournament ever.
The opening event's $164,627 first prize went ...
Eugene The Machine Tito Guns His Way to Victory at Commerce Casinos LAPC Opening Event
pokerplayernewspaper.com 2/26/2009 — In a tournament series that began January 22 and is set to run through February 26-more than a month of poker-Glendale, California's Eugene 'The Machine' Tito took a $300 buy-in and ran it into a pay day of $124,895. That's a 416 percent return on his investment, which is a pretty nice earn in these recessionary times.
Finishing second, and taking $64,858 back to Santa Ana, CA was Oscar Lopez Reyes, while Sara 'Sodapop' Chau, from Dallas, TX, managed a fizzy and carbonated third place finish ...
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