Ellen M. Douras, Mercedis Blake, David Strittmatter, Michael Wilson and James Pickett were winners of Ante Up Poker Cruise packages in the recently concluded Ante Up Set Sail Series event at Dover Downs Hotel & Casino in Dover, Del.
Players earned a raffle ticket for each event in the Masters Poker Series event that they entered, with five names drawn on the final day, with each winner getting an Ante Up Poker Cruise package for the April 18 sailing out of Port Canaveral, Fla. In addition, all cashers in all events earned Ante Up Poker Tour Player of the Year points.
The Ante Up Set Sail Series designation is placed on any tournament series that awards at least five Ante Up Poker Cruise packages. Ante Up Poker Cruises transforms the conference centers aboard regularly scheduled Royal Caribbean and NCL sailings into a professionally staffed and equipped poker room, complete with cash games, tournaments, free poker classes and an open-bar cocktail party. For more information or to book, visit AnteUpCruises.Com.
Ante Up Set Sail Series – The Masters Poker Series
Oct- 28-Nov. 1
Dover Downs Hotel & Casino – Dover, Del.
Event #1 – No-Limit Hold’em
Buy-in: $125
Entries: 91
Prize pool: $9,000 prize pool
1. Gertrude Dinnocenzo, $1,092
2. Jack Scales, $1,092
3. Thomas McEvoy, $1,091
4. Joanne Liu, $1,091
5. Jason Texter, $1,091
6. Richard Wood, $1,091
7. Paul Shrader Jr., $1,091
8. Mark Wittman, $1,091
9. Dudley McClain, $270
Event #2
Buy-in: $240
Entries: 65
Prize pool: $15,000
1. Louis Kanaras, $3,750
2. Paul Shrader, $3,000
3. Richard Carter, $3,000
4. Josh Chavis, $3,000
5. T J Cloutier, $1,200
6. Michael Midgette, $1,050
Event #3
Buy-in: $290
Entries: 55
Prize pool: $15,000
1. James C. Sloat, $4,900
2. James L Sloat, $1,770
3. John Mertz, $1,770
4. William Jewel, $1,770
5. Patrick Luu, $1,770
6. David Strittmatter, $1,770
Event #4
Buy-in: $550
Entries: 87
Prize pool: $50,000
1. Thomas Grey, $16,500
2. Brian Maness, $10,000
3. Joseph Tozzi, $7,000
4. T J Cloutier, $4,500
5. Chad Hymel, $4,000
6. Timothy Dinger Jr., $3,500
7. Anthony Hayward, $2,500
8. Brian Roche, $2,000
Event #5
Buy-in: $240
Entries: 60
Prize pool: $15,000
1. James Gardner, $2,488
2. Paul Shrader, $2,488
3. Joshua Chavis, $2,487
4. Elizabeth Hymel, $2,487
5. Sonya Eggerton, $,1560
6. Frank Ward, $1,490
7. Thomas McEvoy, $1,000
8. Eric Sheehan, $1,000
Event #6
Buy-in: $550
Entries: 75
Prize pool: $50,000
1. Joanne Liu, $13,250
2. Paul Shader Jr, $4,000
3. Craig Schzer, $4,000
4. Magaret Kocis, $4,000
5. Georgious Gregoaskas, $4,000
6. Robert Kosyder, $3,000
7. Thomas McEvoy, $2,000
8. Robert Kocis, $2,000
9. Stephen Cordrey, $2,000
10. Harold Gorley, $2,000
11. Charles Townsend III, $2,000
12. Frank Fulmer, $2,000
13. James Pickett, $2,000
14. JM Kenny, $2,000
15. Frederick Carolin, $1,750
Event #7
Buy-in: $100
Entries: 49
Prize pool: $5,000
1. John Mullecker 3rd, $2,500
2. Michael Maloney, $500
3. Carey Black, $500
4. Wesley Chong, $500
5. Sean Delaney, $500
6. G. Bray, $500
