Tournament Information
Tournament:
2009 California State Poker Championship
Date:
Apr 30 - May 24, 2009
Venue:
Commerce Casino
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Event:
No Limit Hold'em (May 15 - 17, 2009)
Buy-in:
$200 + $20
Prize:
$330,816
Entries:
1,723
Other Events
| Apr 30, 2009 | No Limit Hold'em | $200 + 20 |
| May 1 - 3, 2009 | No Limit Hold'em | $300 + 35 |
| May 3 - 4, 2009 | Limit Hold'em | $300 + 35 |
| May 4 - 5, 2009 | No Limit Hold'em | $300 + 35 |
| May 5 - 6, 2009 | No Limit Hold'em - Six Handed | $500 + 45 |
| May 6 - 7, 2009 | Omaha 8 or Better | $300 + 35 |
| May 7 - 8, 2009 | No Limit Hold'em | $500 + 45 |
| May 8 - 9, 2009 | H.O.R.S.E. | $500 + 45 |
| May 9 - 10, 2009 | No Limit Hold'em | $200 + 20 |
| May 10 - 11, 2009 | No Limit Hold'em | $1,000 + 65 |
| May 11 - 12, 2009 | Limit Hold'em | $1,000 + 65 |
| May 12 - 13, 2009 | No Limit Hold'em - Six Handed | $500 + 45 |
| May 13 - 14, 2009 | No Limit Hold'em | $300 + 35 |
| May 14 - 15, 2009 | Omaha 8 or Better | $300 + 35 |
| May 14 - 15, 2009 | Seven Card Stud 8 or Better | $300 + 35 |
| May 15 - 17, 2009 | No Limit Hold'em | $200 + 20 |
| May 17 - 18, 2009 | No Limit Hold'em | $300 + 35 |
| May 17 - 18, 2009 | Seven Card Stud | $300 + 35 |
| May 18 - 19, 2009 | No Limit Hold'em - Heads-Up | $500 + 45 |
| May 19 - 20, 2009 | No Limit Hold'em | $1,000 + 65 |
| May 19 - 20, 2009 | H.O.R.S.E. | $1,000 + 65 |
| May 20 - 21, 2009 | No Limit Hold'em | $300 + 35 |
| May 20 - 21, 2009 | No Limit Hold'em | $2,000 + 85 |
| May 22 - 24, 2009 | No Limit Hold'em - Championship | $5,000 + 100 |
Event Results
| Place | Player | Prize | GPI | PoY 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Avraham Kadosh | $83,932 | — | — | |
| 2nd | Chad Viall | $43,552 | — | — | |
| 3rd | Douglas Smith | $23,651 | — | — | |
| 4th | Sung In Oh | $20,190 | — | — | |
| 5th | Binh Le | $16,729 | — | — | |
| 6th | Gary Weiss | $13,268 | — | — | |
| 7th | Le Kim Banh | $10,095 | — | — | |
| 8th | Richard Blower | $7,212 | — | — | |
| 9th | Alan Kim | $4,355 | — | — | |
| 10th | Levi Faddoul | $2,401 | — | — | |
| 11th | Mostafa Jamasbi | $2,401 | — | — | |
| 12th | Troy Wallace | $2,138 | — | — | |
| 12th | Ryan Matthes | $2,138 | — | — | |
| 14th | Juan Garfias | $1,875 | — | — | |
| 15th | Rod Sohrabi | $1,875 | — | — | |
| 16th | David Philip Orchard | $1,356 | — | — | |
| 17th | Ronnie Kevin | $1,356 | — | — | |
| 18th | Areg Ashoghian | $1,356 | — | — | |
| 19th | William Douglas "Doug" Smith | $1,183 | — | — | |
| 20th | Travis Case | $1,183 | — | — | |
| 21st | Hung Khoun "Young Man" Tran | $1,183 | — | — | |
| 22nd | William Vo | $1,183 | — | — | |
| 23rd | Nathan Nate Bjerno | $1,183 | — | — | |
| 24th | Thai Q. "Ty" Tran | $1,183 | — | — | |
| 25th | Greg Benoit | $1,183 | — | — | |
| 26th | Christopher Hooper | $1,183 | — | — | |
| 27th | Paramjit Singh Gill | $1,183 | — | — | |
| 28th | Moises Lopez | $1,067 | — | — | |
| 29th | Do Sok Yi | $1,067 | — | — | |
| 30th | Ishan Mohamed | $1,067 | — | — | |
| 31st | Matthew Fischman | $1,067 | — | — | |
| 32nd | Fredrick Masjedi | $1,067 | — | — | |
| 33rd | Jeff Roberts | $1,067 | — | — | |
| 34th | Aaron Bundschuh | $1,067 | — | — | |
| 35th | Thong Dinh | $1,067 | — | — | |
| 36th | Sang San | $1,067 | — | — | |
| 37th | Roland Suen | $952 | — | — | |
| 38th | Felix Enofre | $952 | — | — | |
| 39th | Minh Vo | $952 | — | — | |
| 40th | Kevork Simonian | $952 | — | — | |
| 41st | Ba Minh Tran | $952 | — | — | |
| 42nd | Rick Clark | $952 | — | — | |
| 43rd | Shant Kuyumjian | $952 | — | — | |
| 44th | Mike Phu | $952 | — | — | |
| 45th | Joel Nieart | $952 | — | — | |
| 46th | James Mitchell | $836 | — | — | |
| 47th | Minh Ngo | $836 | — | — | |
| 48th | Jin Yu | $836 | — | — | |
| 49th | Carlos Ruiz | $836 | — | — | |
| 50th | Raffy Titzian | $836 | — | — | |
| 51st | Michael Shvartman | $836 | — | — | |
| 52nd | Alden Chase | $836 | — | — | |
| 53rd | Mohammad Ghazi | $836 | — | — | |
| 54th | Ramzi Scour | $836 | — | — | |
| 55th | Pat Truong Nguyen | $721 | — | — | |
| 56th | Hathi Hosseini | $721 | — | — | |
| 57th | Mitch Akopyan | $721 | — | — | |
| 58th | Bill Williams | $721 | — | — | |
| 59th | Jeffrey Welles | $721 | — | — | |
| 60th | Ara Ashikyan | $721 | — | — | |
| 61st | Agop "Jack" Boghossian | $721 | — | — | |
| 62nd | Mario Perera | $721 | — | — | |
| 63rd | David Levine | $721 | — | — | |
| 64th | Oshri Twig | $635 | — | — | |
| 65th | Thuong Hoang | $635 | — | — | |
| 66th | Brian Tambourine | $635 | — | — | |
| 67th | Weston Thompson | $635 | — | — | |
| 68th | Joe Mortimer | $635 | — | — | |
| 69th | Fred Adriano | $635 | — | — | |
| 70th | Luis Gonzalez | $635 | — | — | |
| 71st | Bill Nuss | $635 | — | — | |
| 72nd | William Morelli | $635 | — | — | |
| 73rd | John Draper | $450 | — | — | |
| 74th | Ryan Stocz | $450 | — | — | |
| 75th | Stephanie Harkey | $450 | — | — | |
| 76th | Wadhah Saalih | $450 | — | — | |
| 77th | Noel Mendoza | $450 | — | — | |
| 78th | Kenny "The Kid" Tran | $450 | — | — | |
| 79th | Patrick Wolff | $450 | — | — | |
| 80th | Jeff Abell | $450 | — | — | |
| 81st | Sinh Quach | $450 | — | — | |
| 82nd | Carlos Chavez | $450 | — | — | |
| 83rd | Altus Hudson | $450 | — | — | |
| 84th | Chau Pham | $450 | — | — | |
| 85th | Si Mai | $450 | — | — | |
| 86th | Tim Sweeton | $450 | — | — | |
| 87th | Hung Giang | $450 | — | — | |
| 88th | Binh Dau | $450 | — | — | |
| 89th | Earl Bach | $450 | — | — | |
| 90th | Xuan Van Nguyen | $450 | — | — | |
| 91st | Shane Ellis | $450 | — | — | |
| 92nd | Tony "TNT" Nasr | $450 | — | — | |
| 93rd | Eugene Chun | $450 | — | — | |
| 94th | John Lewis | $450 | — | — | |
| 95th | Louis Saludes | $450 | — | — | |
| 96th | Robert Sinclair | $450 | — | — | |
| 97th | Jeffrey Lyman | $450 | — | — | |
| 98th | Darrell Woodard | $450 | — | — | |
| 99th | Chau Hoang Nguyen | $450 | — | — | |
| 100th | Wayne Brown | $450 | — | — | |
| 101st | Man Vong | $450 | — | — | |
| 102nd | Marc Phelps | $450 | — | — | |
| 103rd | Sumeet Mody | $450 | — | — | |
| 104th | Ted Woolridge | $450 | — | — | |
| 105th | Ron McCloud | $450 | — | — | |
| 106th | Roger Pham | $450 | — | — | |
| 107th | Joe DeNiro | $450 | — | — | |
| 108th | Steven Richhart | $450 | — | — | |
| 109th | Paul W Lee | $450 | — | — | |
| 110th | Isaac Crow | $450 | — | — | |
| 111th | Michael Siegel | $450 | — | — | |
| 112th | Dektor Nicholas | $450 | — | — | |
| 113th | Makram Merhom | $450 | — | — | |
| 114th | John West | $450 | — | — | |
| 115th | Rick Barbaria | $450 | — | — | |
| 116th | Peros Panossian | $450 | — | — | |
| 117th | Jameel Harris | $450 | — | — | |
| 118th | David Salcedo | $450 | — | — | |
| 119th | Philip Quartararo | $450 | — | — | |
| 120th | Steven Martinez | $450 | — | — | |
| 121st | Steven Zellers | $450 | — | — | |
| 122nd | Eugeniy Nyu | $450 | — | — | |
| 123rd | John Yu | $450 | — | — | |
| 124th | Wade Edwards | $450 | — | — | |
| 125th | Shaun Wang | $450 | — | — | |
| 126th | Jerry Simon | $450 | — | — | |
| 127th | Jimmy Lim | $335 | — | — | |
| 128th | Jim Trotter | $335 | — | — | |
| 129th | Tong Lee | $335 | — | — | |
| 130th | Daniel Saucedo | $335 | — | — | |
| 131st | Simon Turobiner | $335 | — | — | |
| 132nd | Erik Swanson | $335 | — | — | |
| 133rd | Thao Thiem | $335 | — | — | |
| 134th | Michael Dohfrera | $335 | — | — | |
| 135th | Stas Dolinsky | $335 | — | — | |
| 136th | Nuht Tran | $335 | — | — | |
| 137th | Nolan Prunty | $335 | — | — | |
| 138th | Xin Li Ye | $335 | — | — | |
| 139th | Paul Darden | $335 | — | — | |
| 140th | Harry Hudson | $335 | — | — | |
| 141st | Dan Klocman | $335 | — | — | |
| 142nd | Big Rod | $335 | — | — | |
| 143rd | Tommy Le | $335 | — | — | |
| 144th | Shavarsh Pirikanian | $335 | — | — | |
| 145th | David Reza | $335 | — | — | |
| 146th | Serge Max Benat | $335 | — | — | |
| 147th | Delbert Ramos | $335 | — | — | |
| 148th | Phuong Nguyen | $335 | — | — | |
| 149th | Robert Baptista | $335 | — | — | |
| 150th | Robert Simpson | $335 | — | — | |
| 151st | Dannie Perry | $335 | — | — | |
| 152nd | Jessie Musngi | $335 | — | — | |
| 153rd | Hoi Diep | $335 | — | — | |
| 154th | Calvin Ma | $335 | — | — | |
| 155th | Du Doan | $335 | — | — | |
| 156th | James Major Polk | $335 | — | — | |
| 157th | Kasey Nam | $335 | — | — | |
| 158th | Kwinsee Khoa Tran | $335 | — | — | |
| 159th | Mark Yamamoto | $335 | — | — | |
| 160th | Kenneth Garen | $335 | — | — | |
| 161st | Adrian Castagnino | $335 | — | — | |
| 162nd | Juan Sanchez | $335 | — | — | |
| 163rd | Thuan Tran | $335 | — | — | |
| 164th | Kirk Cauerlingo | $335 | — | — | |
| 165th | Jason Tran | $335 | — | — | |
| 166th | Travis Dang | $335 | — | — | |
| 167th | Alfredo Sepulveda | $335 | — | — | |
| 168th | Michael Dollins | $335 | — | — | |
| 169th | Tue Vo | $335 | — | — | |
| 170th | Robert Klobuchar | $335 | — | — | |
| 171st | Emon Bakhatiari | $335 | — | — | |
| 172nd | Francisco Fragoso | $335 | — | — | |
| 173rd | Stew Lovelace | $335 | — | — | |
| 174th | Simon Dang | $335 | — | — | |
| 175th | Rick Montijo | $335 | — | — | |
| 176th | Eugene Alessandro | $335 | — | — | |
| 177th | Markiyan Blahy | $335 | — | — | |
| 178th | Robert Begley | $335 | — | — | |
| 179th | Paul Kim | $167 | — | — | |
| 179th | Pat McMillan | $167 | — | — | |
| 180th | Dong Tao | $167 | — | — | |
| 180th | Mihal Soproni | $167 | — | — | |
