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POKER

Seifner wins NDPT's Main Event

The 2011 Spring National Deaf Poker tournament at Atlantic City's Trump Taj Mahal conculded on Saturday, March 5th with the "Main Event" which had 153 players. Joey Seifner came out on top winning the jackpot of $8,074. Lauren Clarke won the Women's event and Anthony LoBue won the NDPT ASL event. Top finishers of Saturday's events listed below.

Main Event - 153 players

1. Joey Seifner $8074
2. Michael Scharnow $4037
3. Leo Bourgeois $2375
4. Mike Devlin $1900
5. Jarrod Musano $1425
6. Tomeka King $950
7. Al Wilkins $712
8. Mark Panella $594
9. William Tai $475
10. Cren Quigley $356
11. Tom Coons $356
12. Martin Peabody $356
13. John Smith $356
14. Ricky Cooper $356
15. Joey Dolan $356
16. Dan Stoddard $356
17. Molly O'Hara $356
18. Stan Bailey $356
19. Paul Sauerland
20. Robert Davilia
21. Kathrik sethurhaman
22. Paul Kaufman
23. Thomas Valerio
24. Alex Simmons
25. Brian Farah
26. Lana Coker
27. Francis Steffl

Ladies - 42 players
1. Lauren Clarke $1650
2. Regina Russo $917
3. Megan Conghan $550
4. Camy Lange $367
5. Donna Kolwaski $183
6. Tracey Pachuilo
7. Andrea Wilbur
8. Christine Ste-mine
9. Heather Herzig

NDPT ASL Event – 73 players
1. Anthony LoBue - $2,549
2. Justin Brown - $1,466
3. Daniel Chorlto - $765
4. Dustin Zeno - $446
5. Thomas Pirozzi - $351
6. Simi Zfati - $287
7. Francis Russo - $223
8. Natan Zfati - $159
9. Kevin Perrin - $127
10. Bill Loftus
11. Hong Diep
12. John Smith
13. James Forncook
14. Melissa Stein
15. Cisco Minckler

Spring 2011 National Deaf Poker Championship

The Spring 2011 National Deaf Poker Championships is currently underway at Atlantic City’s Trump Taj Mahal Casino this weekend. The tournament is hosted by the National Deaf Poker Tour and the results of the March 4th Early Bird tournament, Omaha, and Madness is listed below. The Main Event being held on Saturday, March 5th is being played at the time of this article being written and there are 151 players. Results of the Main Event will be posted.

Early Bird Tournament - 143 players

1. Victor Viera $3100 split
2. Martin Peabody $3100 split
3. Francis Steffl $1249
4. Heather Herzig $999
5. Ralph Vice $749
6. Michael Procopio $500
7. Yusrf Yusufov $375
8. Moose Plavsky $312
9.  Robert Davilia $250
10. Andrew Mochi $187
11. James Hanson $187
12. Barbara Lurman $187
13. Radu Junc $187
14. Joseph Robinson $187
15. Michael Murphy $187
16. Alan Brown $187
17. Tam Cao $187
18. Tony Ratcliff $187
19. Peter Magistri
20. Megan Conaghan
21. Tom Brown
22. MaryBeth Reffitt
23. Chris Hammond
24. Donald Witulski
25. Martin Breiter

Omaha - 23 players

1. Francis Russo $904
2. Anthony Lobue $502
3. Rydzard Szynkowski $301
4. John Klaver $201
5. James Rydstrom $100
6. James Forncrook
7.  Larry McNutly
8. Cren Quiegly
9.  Tad Yamada
10. Molly O'Hara

Madness - 100 players

1. John Mull $3143
2. James Hanson $1746
3. Kevin Garrett $960
4. Alex Simmons $742
5. Charles Haney $655
6. Michael Nacci $567
7. Mike Tayman $393
8. Alex Welch $306
9. Hong Diep $218

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