4th Street Poker Tour

Ladies Night - Recap

WPT Ladies Night

It was an historic night at the Bicycle Casino as the World Poker Tour hosted the largest women's tournament in history. 354 women entered ‘Ladies Night’ with hopes of winning the $11,000 grand-prize and a coveted seat into the WPT 'Ladies Night Invitational', airing on the Travel Channel during Season 3.

The 4th Street Poker Tour was represented and represented well in this tournament as two of our own ladies, Jennifer and Carrie, threw down the $120 entry fee for a chance to compete with the pros...

Fall Season Game 1 Recap

A 4th Street 1st
Going into last weeks’ heads-up match we all knew one thing was certain...after 9 weeks we would finally have our first two-time winner. In only her 3rd week playing on the Tour, Carrie was able to take down Dino in the final showdown. Living by the river all night, Dino died on the flop when Carrie called his K-9 with a Q-10 and hit the straight when the flop came K J A. We'll see this week if Carrie can ride the momentum of her 2 wins in 3 weeks to another victory and become the Tour's first back-to-back winner.

Highlights
Dino's River Rush

3-way all-in, Dino knocked out Susan and Matt when he hit the flush on the river.

Dino eliminates Charles when he outdraws a straight and makes his flush on the river.

Dino's K-Q outdraws and eliminates Keith on the river who held A-J. The flop 9 3 4 turn J river Q.

In the Money
16 players - 2 tables - pot $320

1st - $180 Carrie "DJ Tanner"

2nd - $80 Dino

3rd - $40 Keith "The Cooler"

4th - $20 Richard

Game #5 Recap - July 15, 2004

(brought to you by Jennifer, Jeff's scribe) They say the House Always Wins.... Well, that couldn’t have been any truer last Thursday night when Matt and Carrie hosted Rooftop poker and Carrie took home the “lion’s share” of the grand-prize money. For those of you that were “out of town” (i.e. didn’t want to drive to the valley) – you missed a great event. There were plenty of snacks and barbecued hot dogs for all as seven players duked it out under the stars. Claiming it was only the second time she’s every played, Carrie was unstoppable with a record four full-houses during the game. Other players quickly learned to get out of her way if there was even a low-pair showing on the board, because invariably she would have a pocket-pair that would trip-up to make a full-house by the river. Her hands included KKK22, 44433, 44455, and 55599 (this one she didn’t show, but we all knew she had it). Even more impressive, however, was the way she busted out the competition in the first 4th Street Poker Tour three-way all-in showdown for the final hand. With only three players left in the game, Jeff and Josh were severely short-stacked to Carrie’s massive fortress of chips. Jeff decided to go all-in with AK. Josh called with KJ and Carrie called right behind them both with a pocket pair of 9s. The flop came 8, 7, 8, 4, 6 – making Carrie two-pair to win the game (we were all very surprised she didn’t hit another full-house). As we were only paying out to 2nd place, we had to call upon our World Poker Tour gurus Mike Sexton and Vince Van Patten to recognize that Josh would take home second place since he had three more chips than Jeff going into the showdown. Highlights

Matt sitting stone faced for a full ten minutes while Josh hemmed and hawed (and even purposefully flashed his cards) trying to decide whether to call his All-In.

Another great “Rookie” moment when Josh called out “Skip” and then “Pass,” trying to remember the correct term – “Check.” I hate to break it to you, Josh – we weren’t playing Uno…

In the Money 7 players - 1 table - pot $140

1st - $100 Carrie

2nd - $40 Josh