LOS ANGELES (March 4, 2011) – The youth revolution continues on the World Poker Tour®, as 23-year old internet marketing entrepreneur Gregory Brooks crushed a final table featuring a former Online Player of the Year and two WPT champions. Brooks outlasted a field of 681 players winning $1,654,120 of the $6.5 million prize pool. Hosted at Commerce Casino in Commerce, CA, the LAPC is widely considered among the toughest fields at any WPT event. This year was no exception with poker superstars like Read more.
COMMERCE, CA (March 1, 2011) – Beware the players that get in the way of the Erik Seidel locomotive! The stoic veteran pro has been steamrolling everything in site when it comes to high roller poker tournaments around the world and the LA Poker Classic’s $25K Tournament is his latest conquest. In defeating an illustrious field Monday night, he added $144,570 to his two-month 2011 total winnings, bringing him to $3.5 million!
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COMMERCE, CA (February 25, 2011) – Journeyman poker pro Tony Ma, of El Monte, CA, has a slim lead in the race for the Player of the Tournament at the LA Poker Classic going into today’s Main Event. Southern Californians hold the top six places. The player who accrues the most points is expected to bank an extra $25,000. Read more.
COMMERCE, CA (February 25, 2011) – Nicholas Rampone is making the most of the first two months of 2011—getting off to a $100,000 “head” start.
In the wee hours of Thursday morning he took down the Heads-Up Championship at the LA Poker Classic at Commerce Casino to collect $81,480. That followed right on the heels of garnering $24,009 January 18, for a second place spot in the Southern Poker Championship.
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COMMERCE, CA (February 25, 2011) – After 27 years as a mediator, San Marino’s Bruce Antman can say this is one time that he didn’t need his negotiating skills. It was straight poker skill that found him at the apex of the very first Senior Championship at the LA Poker Classic at Commerce Casino Thursday night.
Now five years retired from his day-job, Antman, 60, decided to venture into the event for players 50 and older on the advice of a friend who noted the odds of winning were better with Read more.
COMMERCE, CA (February 25, 2011) – Wearing a Guns and Roses sweatshirt, Las Vegas’ Randy Dorfman went gunning for the competition, and bested 101 players for the top spot in Commerce Casino’s $5,100-buy-in No Limit Hold’em tournament at the LA Poker Classic. He collected $163,270--what he considered to be a very nice present on his February 24th 53rd birthday.
It’s been quite a two-year ride for the retired NYSE options trader, who turned to poker full time in May, 2009. Since then he has cla Read more.
World Poker Tour® Celebrity Invitational Saturday, Feb. 19 at Commerce Casino
What: A red carpet extravaganza, featuring the biggest names in Hollywood, sports stars and well-known personalities prior to the annual WPT Celebrity Invitational benefiting Chrysalis
Where: Commerce Casino/ 6131 East Telegraph Road/Commerce, CA 90040
When: Red Carpet begins at 6:00 PM on Saturday, February 19
Celebrities expected to appear include...
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COMMERCE, CA (February 9, 2011) – Here’s what poker’s players-in-the-know say about the cash games at Commerce Casino during the L.A. Poker Classic (LAPC):
• “Christmastime all over again, just on a two month delay switch.”—Phil Laak, recent World Series Bracelet winner and former WPT Invitational champion
• “The Mecca of poker, whether it’s tournaments or cash games … nothing even comes close.” –Antonio Esfandiari, owner of a WSOP bracelet and former LAPC winner
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COMMERCE, CA (February 8, 2011) – Josh Romero waded through a very tough field of 4,731 to garner victory and $82,775 Sunday in the LA Poker Classic’s $125-buy-in, $300,000-guaranteed Turbo No-Limit Hold’em event at Commerce Casino.
The win put the Las Vegas resident in the points lead for the new Player-of-the-Series which--should he win--would net him an additional $25,000 to $30,000.
“That’s another smile in my favor,” beamed Romero. “More money is good!”
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COMMERCE, CA (January 25, 2011) – Despite having a tooth infection, Cory Nistler felt so good about his poker playing over the past week that he disregarded the pain and discomfort. He was “in the zone” and let nothing diminish his focus. As a result, The Desert Hot Springs resident was certainly not feeling any pain when he collected $183,455 for winning the $1 Million Guaranteed Tournament that opened Commerce Casino’s Los Angeles Poker Classic on Sunday. Read more.
COMMERCE, CA (January 17, 2011) – It can’t get much better than this if you’re a guy! Double-stack poker on a Sunday at Commerce Casino, while watching the Super Bowl on giant screens and hi-def TVs whichever way you turn. Oh, and let’s not forget the scrumptious, served-at- your-table meals. If you’re a football-loving poker player, then Feb. 6 at Commerce Casino, the world’s largest poker room, is nirvana!
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COMMERCE, CA (January 10, 2011) – Imagine yourself at the poker table with Jason Alexander, Don Cheadle, Jennifer Tilly, Ray Romano, Shannon Elizabeth, Eric Dane and some of the world’s most famous poker players. With that mix of Hollywood glitz and poker prowess it could only be the World Poker Tour® (WPT) Celebrity Invitational at Commerce Casino. But could you get a seat at the table of this exclusive, invitation-only event?
You Bet! When the five-week-long LA Poker Classic gets rolling at Read more.
***M E D I A A D V I S O R Y***
POKER PLAYING MEMBERS OF THE PRESS…
WORLD POKER TOUR® AND COMMERCE CASINO
INVITE YOU TO PLAY FOR A SEAT IN THE WPT CELEBRITY INVITATIONAL™ AT THE LA POKER CLASSIC “MEDIA” TOURNAMENT
Media-Only Texas Hold’Em Free-Roll Tournament
Awards Three Coveted WPT Celebrity Invitational™ Seats This Year
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COMMERCE, CA (December 20, 2010) – Tired of competing against those young internet hotshots in your tournament poker play? Then Commerce Casino has just the event for you! The first ever LA Poker Classic No Limit Hold’em Senior Championship on Wednesday, February 23 at 1 p.m. Only people aged 50 and above will be allowed to compete. Players must show their driver’s license to secure a seat in the $545 buy-in event.
Senior events are becoming hugely popular as older players often feel marginal Read more.
COMMERCE, CA (December 6, 2010) – Here’s what poker’s players-in-the-know say about the cash games at Commerce Casino during the LA Poker Classic (LAPC):
• “Christmastime all over again, just on a two month delay switch.”—Phil Laak, recent World Series Bracelet winner and former WPT Invitational champion
• “The Mecca of poker, whether its tournaments or cash games … nothing even comes close.” –Antonio Esfandiari, owner of a WSOP bracelet and former LAPC winner...
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COMMERCE, CA (Nov. 29, 2010) – Commerce Casino has unveiled another blockbuster lineup of tournaments for the 2011 LA Poker Classic, with $2 million in guarantees. With 53 events from January 19-March 3, the LA Poker Classic is chock full of unique and challenging events that brings the world’s best poker players to Los Angeles for 43 days of non-stop action and high visibility at the world’s largest poker casino. All eyes are on the players vying for victory in the $10,000 LA Poker Classic Main Read more.
COMMERCE, CA (Sept 20, 2010) – Ayyub “Bob” Patel slowly, patiently and relentlessly wore down his competitors in the $271,600 No Limit Hold'em Main Event to close out Commerce Casino’s Hold'em Series. Patel, of Torrance, CA, took home $86,920.
Patel bested 140 players in the $2,580-buy-in event including John Smith of La Habra Heights. The title came down to just the two of them on Sunday, the final day of the event.
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COMMERCE CASINO IS BUSTING AT THE SEAMS WITH HOT NEW
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Tournaments Begin in September With $25,000 Added to the Prize Pool Weekly
COMMERCE, CA (Sept 13, 2010) – There is a new game in town that is so hot that people are coming from across the ocean to play it in Southern California’s premiere casino…so hot that the casino can’t keep up with the number of players and is having to ad
COMMERCE CASINO GUARANTEES $100,000 TO TOP FINISHER AS A RECORD PAYOUT FOR FIRST PLACE IN A $120 BUY-IN NO-LIMIT HOLD ‘EM EVENT
Largest Guaranteed Prize Pool of $300,000 in a Low Stakes Tourney
Los Angeles’ own Rudy Fulson Tops Field of 3,030
COMMERCE, CA (Sept 13, 2010) – Commerce Casino continues to achieve new heights in providing huge returns for low buy in-tournament players. A record first prize payout of $100,000 was to be awarded to the last player standing in the $12
COMMERCE, CA (JULY 26, 2010) – After spending years as a commercial fisherman catching halibut and black cod before retiring, San Pedro’s Rick Bakovic proved he was no fish among sharks, netting the $173,500 first prize in Commerce Casino’s first summer Guaranteed Million Dollar Tournament .
Playing five tournaments a week for the past five years, the 68-year-old had never cashed for more than $22,000. “It’s the thrill of a lifetime,” said Bakovic. “It just goes to show that if I can do it,
