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David 'Mountain Dew' Burch Wins Indiana Circuit Opener
by: Bluff staff (Bluff Media)
Elizabeth, IN — "I'm just an old limit player," says David Burch, 55, a pro who only plays no-limit when he has no choice. Burch, who says he is addicted to Mountain Dew and is never seen playing without a bottle of that soda on the table, hadn't had a tournament win since he came first in a limit event at the Four Queens Classic in 1995. Tonight he broke his dry spell by topping a field of 416 as he captured the opening event of the WSOP Circuit tour at Caesars Indiana, $300 no-limit hold'em. The victory was worth $34,772, his biggest cash to date. And he won it in extraordinary fashion. He came to the final table with a mere 28,000 of the million-plus chips in play, quickly survived three all-ins in early action, had built up to 600,000 chips with four players left, and then won the final hand with quads!
Burch, from Loogootee, Indiana, served four years in the Air Force where he re-fueled jets. He began playing poker in Vegas in the 70s, then became a dealer at the Golden Nugget in 1976, alternating work between that casino and Binion's, where he dealt at the World Series from 1979 to 1982, He was married in 1994, and divorced 14 years later. Whether the coinciding marriage had anything to do with the drought is conjecture. His other major cash was a win at the Showboat in 1980.
Burch still prefers limit poker and flies to Vegas looking for action there because he feels there is a lot more skill to that game. "You can play a hand out of position, get five- or six-way action and get a lot of chips that way." He's dismayed by the all-in mentality of today's younger players. He feels that position is the most important consideration to no-limit play and shakes his head at how often young players go broke in no-limit out of position. But even limit has its hazards, he concedes, still remembering a stud tournament where he lost about 150,000 chips after being rolled up with aces, then losing to a player who, starting with J-J-2, made a straight with 3-4-5-6.
This tournament went very fast. The final table played through instead of returning on day 2, and the event was over before midnight. This is the fifth Circuit event at Caesars Indiana, the world's largest gaming riverboat, which is keeping in step with the march of poker as it undergoes a million-dollar upgrade of its poker room.
Tonight's final table got underway just as level 14 was nearing an end. In the lead with an even quarter-million in chips was Rick Stinson.
Here were the starting chip counts:
Seat 1. Jason Ainsworth 53,500
Seat 2. Bert Jolley 178,00
Seat 3. David Burch 28,000
Seat 4. Lewis Campbell 29,000
Seat 5. Kevin Davis 167,000
Seat 6. Rick Stinson 250,000
Seat 7. Matt Andrews 111,000
Seat 8. Alan Tavel 139,500
Seat 9. William Pfister 60,000
Blinds were 4,000-8,000 with 1,000 antes. Two hands later, the final one of that level, we lost our first player. William Phister pushed in his 60,000 with K-J offsuit, and was in bad shape when Alan Tavel called with Kc-Qc. A flop of J-10-9 gave Tavel a straight, and Phister took home $2,318 for ninth.
Phister, 53, is a consultant from Jasper, Indiana. He has played poker for five years, and this is his first Circuit and only final table.
Players returned from break to blinds of 6,000-12,000 and 2,000 antes. On the fourth hand, Burch had his first escape when his Ad-Qd held up against a Q-7. Four hands later, Lewis Campbell was much less fortunate. He was all in for 11,000 with Qc-Jc against Matt Andrews, in the big blind with the bottom hand, 7-2. Two deuces hit the board, and Campbell retired with $3,477 for eighth.
Campbell is a 38-year-old carpenter from Knoxville, Tennessee who learned poker when he walked into a Florida Seminole Indian casino. He's played about five Circuits, and feels fortunate to have five kids and a "beautiful wife."
Three hands later Burch got away a second time. This time he was all in from the big blind with 6d-3d against Andrews' pocket 4s. He flopped a flush draw when the board came Kd-Jd-3s, then hit his draw on the turn. Then, two hands later, he got very lucky. He had pocket 10s while Tavel, with Kc-8c, was ahead with a paired king until a river 10 gave Burch a set and saved him.
Short-chipped now, Tavel was soon all in when he called with his last few chips holding 6-4 after Burch moved in with K-J. The king-high held up, and Tavel, an optometrist from Indianapolis, Indiana, picked up $4,636 for seventh.
Tavel, 60, has played four Circuits and has just a 27th place in a circuit event here last year t show for it. "Poker drove me to play bridge," he said.
There was a big chip turnaround on the 29th deal when Kevin Davis, with Q-9, caught a 9 on the river to outrun Stinson's A-Q. Davis was now in the lead with close to 400,000.
Matt Andrews went home in sixth place. He was all in for 10,000 against two players. After the board came Q-Q-J-2-7, Burch turned over Q-J for the winner while Andrews mucked without showing. Sixth was worth $5,795.
Andrews, 30, is a gambler from Nashville, Tennessee who started playing at age 8 with his family. This is his first Circuit try.
After being all in for 42,000 with pocket 8s and surviving, Bert Jolley went on to knock out the next player a couple of hands later. This time he moved in with pocket jacks. Jason Ainsworth, all in from the small blind with just 6-5, couldn't help enough when the board came A-6-3-10-2 and cashed in fifth for $6,954.
Ainsworth, nicknamed "Arnie," is 35, from Fort Mill, South Carolina, and is an investment counsultant. He learned poker when he lived in Vegas for a year and a half. His other hobbies are in-line hockey and soccer, and this is his first Circuit.
Now came the decisive hand of the evening. Davis had A-9 and opened for 40,000. Burch called. The flop came J-J-9. Davis bet another 40,000. Burch called. When a queen turned, Davis bet the same amount, and this time Burch moved in. Davis called. Burch, with K-Q, was in the lead with a paired queen, and hit a king for a second pair on the river for good measure as he took a big lead with about 600,000 chips. "What are you going to do with all those chips?" Jolley asked. "I'm not going to take them home," Burch replied.
One more hand was played, with Davis doubling through with A-7, and then a break. The chip count stood: Burch, 598,000; Jolley, 202,000; Davis, 158,000; and Stinson, 116,000.
Players returned to blinds of 8,000-16,000 and 3,000 antes. A couple hands later Burch, on the button, moved in with Qh-9h and Davis called with 9c-8c. The board came Ah-4h-4c-3h-8s, and Davis jumped up and threw his hands in the air as he paired his 8 on the river. His joy was short-lived. "I have a flush," Burch quietly informed him. Davis settled for $8,113 for fourth.
Davis, 37, is from Shepherdsville, Kentucky where he owns a plumbing company. He learned poker four years ago in home games and has played in 20 Circuits. His highlights include a win in the Midwest Regional event in 2007. He also has a "great wife" and three kids who support his poker hobby.
Right after that the tournament got heads-up when Jolley busted out after moving in for 180,000 with K-J. Stinson called with K-Q and broke him when the board came A-9-6-7-7. Jolley collected $9,272 for third.
Jolley, 34, is a farmer from Livingston, Tennessee who's been playing since age 10. This is his fourth Circuit and his poker highlight.
Burch now held a 2-1 chip lead. Stinson suggested a deal, but Burch said he had never made one in 33 years of tournament play. The match lasted six hands. On the final deal, the board showed Qh-Js-2c-Jc. On a flush draw with Kc-5c, Stinson bet 75,000 and Burch, with Ks-Jd, put him all in and won when a river jack gave him quads.
Stinson, 52, a math teacher who retired this year, earned $18,661 for second. Stinson learned to play as a teenager. He's been in four Circuits and finished third in a $300 event here last year. He's also proud of motivating young people in math, football and wrestling. --Max Shapiro
For more information, please contact:
Max Shapiro -- WSOP Media Director at (323) 356-3303
Or visit our official website: www.worldseriesofpoker.com
World Series of Poker Commissioner – Jeffrey Pollack
Director of Poker Operations for Harrah’s Entertainment – Jack Effel
Caesars Indiana Poker Room Manager – Jimmy Allen
Tournament Directors -- Andy Cunningham and Christopher Reason
David 'Mountain Dew' Burch Wins Indiana Circuit Opener
by: Bluff staff (Bluff Media)
Elizabeth, IN — "I'm just an old limit player," says David Burch, 55, a pro who only plays no-limit when he has no choice. Burch, who says he is addicted to Mountain Dew and is never seen playing without a bottle of that soda on the table, hadn't had a tournament win since he came first in a limit event at the Four Queens Classic in 1995. Tonight he broke his dry spell by topping a field of 416 as he captured the opening event of the WSOP Circuit tour at Caesars Indiana, $300 no-limit hold'em. The victory was worth $34,772, his biggest cash to date. And he won it in extraordinary fashion. He came to the final table with a mere 28,000 of the million-plus chips in play, quickly survived three all-ins in early action, had built up to 600,000 chips with four players left, and then won the final hand with quads!
Burch, from Loogootee, Indiana, served four years in the Air Force where he re-fueled jets. He began playing poker in Vegas in the 70s, then became a dealer at the Golden Nugget in 1976, alternating work between that casino and Binion's, where he dealt at the World Series from 1979 to 1982, He was married in 1994, and divorced 14 years later. Whether the coinciding marriage had anything to do with the drought is conjecture. His other major cash was a win at the Showboat in 1980.
Burch still prefers limit poker and flies to Vegas looking for action there because he feels there is a lot more skill to that game. "You can play a hand out of position, get five- or six-way action and get a lot of chips that way." He's dismayed by the all-in mentality of today's younger players. He feels that position is the most important consideration to no-limit play and shakes his head at how often young players go broke in no-limit out of position. But even limit has its hazards, he concedes, still remembering a stud tournament where he lost about 150,000 chips after being rolled up with aces, then losing to a player who, starting with J-J-2, made a straight with 3-4-5-6.
This tournament went very fast. The final table played through instead of returning on day 2, and the event was over before midnight. This is the fifth Circuit event at Caesars Indiana, the world's largest gaming riverboat, which is keeping in step with the march of poker as it undergoes a million-dollar upgrade of its poker room.
Tonight's final table got underway just as level 14 was nearing an end. In the lead with an even quarter-million in chips was Rick Stinson.
Here were the starting chip counts:
Seat 1. Jason Ainsworth 53,500
Seat 2. Bert Jolley 178,00
Seat 3. David Burch 28,000
Seat 4. Lewis Campbell 29,000
Seat 5. Kevin Davis 167,000
Seat 6. Rick Stinson 250,000
Seat 7. Matt Andrews 111,000
Seat 8. Alan Tavel 139,500
Seat 9. William Pfister 60,000
Blinds were 4,000-8,000 with 1,000 antes. Two hands later, the final one of that level, we lost our first player. William Phister pushed in his 60,000 with K-J offsuit, and was in bad shape when Alan Tavel called with Kc-Qc. A flop of J-10-9 gave Tavel a straight, and Phister took home $2,318 for ninth.
Phister, 53, is a consultant from Jasper, Indiana. He has played poker for five years, and this is his first Circuit and only final table.
Players returned from break to blinds of 6,000-12,000 and 2,000 antes. On the fourth hand, Burch had his first escape when his Ad-Qd held up against a Q-7. Four hands later, Lewis Campbell was much less fortunate. He was all in for 11,000 with Qc-Jc against Matt Andrews, in the big blind with the bottom hand, 7-2. Two deuces hit the board, and Campbell retired with $3,477 for eighth.
Campbell is a 38-year-old carpenter from Knoxville, Tennessee who learned poker when he walked into a Florida Seminole Indian casino. He's played about five Circuits, and feels fortunate to have five kids and a "beautiful wife."
Three hands later Burch got away a second time. This time he was all in from the big blind with 6d-3d against Andrews' pocket 4s. He flopped a flush draw when the board came Kd-Jd-3s, then hit his draw on the turn. Then, two hands later, he got very lucky. He had pocket 10s while Tavel, with Kc-8c, was ahead with a paired king until a river 10 gave Burch a set and saved him.
Short-chipped now, Tavel was soon all in when he called with his last few chips holding 6-4 after Burch moved in with K-J. The king-high held up, and Tavel, an optometrist from Indianapolis, Indiana, picked up $4,636 for seventh.
Tavel, 60, has played four Circuits and has just a 27th place in a circuit event here last year t show for it. "Poker drove me to play bridge," he said.
There was a big chip turnaround on the 29th deal when Kevin Davis, with Q-9, caught a 9 on the river to outrun Stinson's A-Q. Davis was now in the lead with close to 400,000.
Matt Andrews went home in sixth place. He was all in for 10,000 against two players. After the board came Q-Q-J-2-7, Burch turned over Q-J for the winner while Andrews mucked without showing. Sixth was worth $5,795.
Andrews, 30, is a gambler from Nashville, Tennessee who started playing at age 8 with his family. This is his first Circuit try.
After being all in for 42,000 with pocket 8s and surviving, Bert Jolley went on to knock out the next player a couple of hands later. This time he moved in with pocket jacks. Jason Ainsworth, all in from the small blind with just 6-5, couldn't help enough when the board came A-6-3-10-2 and cashed in fifth for $6,954.
Ainsworth, nicknamed "Arnie," is 35, from Fort Mill, South Carolina, and is an investment counsultant. He learned poker when he lived in Vegas for a year and a half. His other hobbies are in-line hockey and soccer, and this is his first Circuit.
Now came the decisive hand of the evening. Davis had A-9 and opened for 40,000. Burch called. The flop came J-J-9. Davis bet another 40,000. Burch called. When a queen turned, Davis bet the same amount, and this time Burch moved in. Davis called. Burch, with K-Q, was in the lead with a paired queen, and hit a king for a second pair on the river for good measure as he took a big lead with about 600,000 chips. "What are you going to do with all those chips?" Jolley asked. "I'm not going to take them home," Burch replied.
One more hand was played, with Davis doubling through with A-7, and then a break. The chip count stood: Burch, 598,000; Jolley, 202,000; Davis, 158,000; and Stinson, 116,000.
Players returned to blinds of 8,000-16,000 and 3,000 antes. A couple hands later Burch, on the button, moved in with Qh-9h and Davis called with 9c-8c. The board came Ah-4h-4c-3h-8s, and Davis jumped up and threw his hands in the air as he paired his 8 on the river. His joy was short-lived. "I have a flush," Burch quietly informed him. Davis settled for $8,113 for fourth.
Davis, 37, is from Shepherdsville, Kentucky where he owns a plumbing company. He learned poker four years ago in home games and has played in 20 Circuits. His highlights include a win in the Midwest Regional event in 2007. He also has a "great wife" and three kids who support his poker hobby.
Right after that the tournament got heads-up when Jolley busted out after moving in for 180,000 with K-J. Stinson called with K-Q and broke him when the board came A-9-6-7-7. Jolley collected $9,272 for third.
Jolley, 34, is a farmer from Livingston, Tennessee who's been playing since age 10. This is his fourth Circuit and his poker highlight.
Burch now held a 2-1 chip lead. Stinson suggested a deal, but Burch said he had never made one in 33 years of tournament play. The match lasted six hands. On the final deal, the board showed Qh-Js-2c-Jc. On a flush draw with Kc-5c, Stinson bet 75,000 and Burch, with Ks-Jd, put him all in and won when a river jack gave him quads.
Stinson, 52, a math teacher who retired this year, earned $18,661 for second. Stinson learned to play as a teenager. He's been in four Circuits and finished third in a $300 event here last year. He's also proud of motivating young people in math, football and wrestling. --Max Shapiro
For more information, please contact:
Max Shapiro -- WSOP Media Director at (323) 356-3303
Or visit our official website: www.worldseriesofpoker.com
World Series of Poker Commissioner – Jeffrey Pollack
Director of Poker Operations for Harrah’s Entertainment – Jack Effel
Caesars Indiana Poker Room Manager – Jimmy Allen
Tournament Directors -- Andy Cunningham and Christopher Reason