Blair Wins WSOPC Lodge, Boyd Loses Lawsuit

Eric Blair Wins WSOPC Lodge

The World Series of Poker Circuit has wrapped at the Lodge Casino Black Hawk, Colorado with Eric Blair as its Main Event champion.

The $1,675 WSOPC tournament began on May 2 and drew 330 entries over the two starting days. The prize pool was set at $495K to pay the top 33 players.

Day 2 took the field from 69 players into the money as players like Joe Kuether, Bernard Lee, and Alexandru Masek cashed. The unofficial final table began with Alex Greenblatt as the chip leader, but Eric Blair doubled through him to take the chip lead. But the roller coaster ride ended late into the night with five players remaining, Craig Varnell in the lead, followed by Nicholas Petitti, Blair, Greenblatt, and Corey Zedo.

Day 3 started with Blair ousting Zedo and Varnell eliminating Greenblatt. Blair chipped away at Varnell, who ended up leaving in third place. Blair took the lead into heads-up, but Petitti doubled, and the two traded the lead. But Blair took it back and soared into the last hand, where his A-Q outflopped the pocket tens of Petitti. Blair took home his first ring and impressive amount of money.

Results:

1^st place: Eric Blair ($116,325)

2^nd place: Nicholas Petitti ($71,924)

3^rd place: Craig Varnell ($52,237)

4^th place: Alex Greenblatt ($38,585)

5^th place: Corey Zedo ($28,967)

6^th place: Gino Levrini ($22,092)

7^th place: Jonathan Haidsiak ($17,112)

8^th place: Jamie Wolf ($13,454)

9^th place: Brian Hartner ($10,737)

Dutch Boyd Loses Lawsuit

The Las Vegas Sun reported that Russell Boyd, better known to most in poker as Dutch Boyd, lost his case in the US Ninth District Court of Appeals on Friday. The court upheld the 2012 decision that ruled Boyd infringed upon the Two Plus Two Publishing trademark.

Boyd was accused of registering the domain TwoPlusTwoPoker dot com in bad faith with the intent to lure customers to his site instead of the company’s actual website. Two Plus Two Publishing is now due $25K in statutory damages and nearly $34K in attorneys’ fees.