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The sixth stop on the 2013/2014 World Series of Poker Circuit schedule wrapped up its $1,675 Main Event on Monday night at Harvey’s Lake Tahoe. The tournament attracted 390 entries and created a prize pool of $585,000. After a long weekend of play, retired hedge fund manager Dan Harmetz of Sacramento, Calif. captured the $128,699 first-place prize and secured a spot in the season-ending National Championship.
| Place | Player | Hometown | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Daniel Harmetz | Sacramento, CA | $128,699 |
| 2nd | Ryan Rinker | Vacaville, CA | $79,531 |
| 3rd | Kevin Fleming | Pleasanton, CA | $58,114 |
| 4th | Austin Buchanan | Winter Park, FL | $43,150 |
| 5th | Jorge Walker | Cerritos, CA | $32,538 |
| 6th | Eric Matulis | Shorewood, IL | $24,903 |
| 7th | Jonathan Neckar | Blue River, WI | $19,340 |
| 8th | Grantland Hillman | Oakland, CA | $15,232 |
| 9th | Evan Karcie | San Francisco, CA | $12,168 |
According to the WSOP Live Blog, the final table was reached on Day 2. In Level 24 (10,000/20,000/3,000), Harmetz opened for 45,000 and then called when Evan Karcie moved all in. The rest of the players folded and Karcie discovered the bad news.
Harmetz:
Karcie:
Both players held an ace, but Karcie’s kicker had him in dire straits. The board ran out an uneventful , and Karcie hit the rail in ninth place for $12,168.
After Grant Hillman and Johnny Neckar fell in eighth and seventh place respectively, Eric Matulis of Shorewood, Illinois followed them out the door in sixth. It happened in Level 25 (12,000/24,000/4,000) when Matulis moved all in for his last 138,000 holding and WSOP Circuit regular Austin Buchanan looked him up with . Matulis got it in good, but Buchanan took the lead on the flop. Neither the turn nor river helped Matulis, and he had to settle for $24,903 for his sixth-place finish. Matulis’ elimination also brought about the end of the day.
Five players returned to action on Day 3, and it took about 45 minutes for the first elimination to occur. It happened when Jorge Walker opened for 60,000 form the cutoff and was met by a three-bet to 140,000 from Harmetz on the button. The blinds folded, Walker called, and it was heads-up action to the flop. Walker check-called a bet of 150,000 and then checked the turn. Harmetz bet 200,000 and then calls Walker’s all-in shove of 1.345 million.
Walker:
Harmetz:
Walker had turned a straight with a gutshot straight flush draw, and all he needed to do was avoid an eight and queen on the river. That proved easier said than done as the spiked on the river to give Harmetz the win.
In Level 27 (20,000/40,000/5,000), Buchanan lost most of his chips when his failed to overcome the of Ryan Rinker. In the very next hand, Buchanan shoved his last 195,000 with and received a call from Harmetz, who held the . Buchanan got it in good, but Harmetz hit two pair when the flop came down . The turn was no help to Buchanan, and neither was the river. Buchanan earned $43,150 for his fourth-place finish and immediately hopped a plane to Las Vegas to sweat his friend Ryan Riess in the November Nine.
Three-handed play last over four hours, and Kevin Fleming, who was the short stack at the start of the day, fell in Level 30 (40,000/80,000/10,000). Fleming shoved all in from the button with the and received a call from Harmetz, who had woken up with the in the small blind. The board came and that was all she wrote for Fleming, who took home $58,114 for his third-place finish.
Heads-up play lasted just a few hands, and in what was the final hand, Rinker shoved with the and received a call from the of Harmetz. It was a classic flip, and according to the PokerNews Odds Calculator, Rinker was a very slim 50.29% favorite while Harmetz would take it down 48.97% of the time. The flop made Rinker a 57.47% favorite, but Harmetz picked up a counterfeit option and would still win 39.19% of the time. The turn gave Harmetz more counterfeit outs, and that gave him a 45.45% chance of winning the hand. He may have been the underdog the entire hand, but the river flipped the script by counterfeiting Rinker and giving Harmetz the win.
Rinker took home $79,531 for his runner-up finish, but perhaps more importantly, he earned the Casino Championship title at Harvey’s Lake Tahoe, which secured him a spot in the season-ending National Championship to be held at Caesars Atlantic City.
Congratulations to Dan Harmetz, the 2013/2013 WSOP Circuit Harvey’s Lake Tahoe champion.
The 2013/2014 WSOP Circuit River Rock $1,675 Main Event is happening now in Vancouver. You can find a recap from that event on PokerNews.com later this week.
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| Harveys Lake Tahoe | |
|---|---|
| Location | Stateline, Nevada, U.S. |
| Address | 18 U.S. Route 50 |
| Opening date | 1944; 76 years ago |
| Theme | Pavilion |
| No. of rooms | 742 |
| Total gaming space | 87,500 sq ft (8,130 m2) |
| Notable restaurants | 19 Kitchen – Bar Caba Wabo Cantina Carvel Cinnabon Hard Rock Cafe Sage Room Starbucks Straw Hat Sports Bar & Grille |
| Owner | Vici Properties |
| Operating license holder | Caesars Entertainment |
| Architect | Martin Stern, Jr. and Associates |
| Previous names | Wagon Wheel Saloon & Gaming Hall Harveys Wagon Wheel |
| Renovated in | 1963: 11-story Mountain Tower 1986: 19-story Lake Tower |
| Coordinates | 38°57′37″N119°56′33″W / 38.9603°N 119.9424°WCoordinates: 38°57′37″N119°56′33″W / 38.9603°N 119.9424°W |
| Website | caesars.com/harveys-tahoe |
Harveys Lake Tahoe is a hotel and casino located in Stateline, Nevada. It has 742 rooms and suites as well as six restaurants and a casino with 87,500 square feet (8,130 m2) of space. It also has a video arcade, wedding chapel, pool, convention center and a full-service health club. It is owned by Vici Properties and operated by Caesars Entertainment.
History[edit]
Harvey's was originally opened in 1944 and operated by Sacramento meat wholesaler Harvey Gross and his wife Llewellyn. They opened the first high rise tower and an 11-story, 197-room hotel in Nevada just across the state line from Lake Tahoe, California in 1963.[1]
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The hotel suffered an explosion from a 1,000-pound bomb on August 27, 1980, that left a crater three stories deep when it was detonated by the FBI. (The area around the hotel had been cleared and no one was injured.) The bomb was placed by John Birges, a heavily in-debt Fresno landscaper who had lost at least $1 million at casinos in Stateline and was hoping to extort $3 million from the bomb threat. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, where he died from liver cancer in 1996.[2]
In 1983, Harvey Gross died at the age of 78; however, the company continued to operate under family management. In 1985, Harveys sold Harvey's Inn, northeast of Stateline, which reopened as the Lakeside Inn. The 18-story, $74 million, glass 'Lake Tower' opened in 1986,[3] the same year the trademark 'Wagon Wheel' was replaced on the 11-story tower with the current Harveys brand.
In early 1992, Harveys entered a bidding war with Hilton Hotels Corporation over the right to buy Bally's Reno, which opened on May 3, 1978, as MGM Grand Reno (now Grand Sierra Resort). Harveys announced an agreement on a $71 million deal, only to see Hilton up the ante to $73 million and assumption of Bally's debt. Several weeks later, after considering even higher bids, a federal bankruptcy court settled the matter by approving Hilton's final $83 million offer.
After going public on February 15, 1994, Harveys began new projects including a joint venture with Hard Rock America for an $80 million casino in Las Vegas, which it later sold its interest in 1997 and then a casino resort in Central City, Colorado. A riverboat casino-convention center in Council Bluffs, Iowa, followed in early 1996.
In the late 1990s, Bill Cosby was signed on as the spokesman for Harveys.[4] This included putting the actor's likeness on several of the casino chips[5] and recording several specials at the casino.[6]
In 1999, Colony Capital bought a controlling interest in Harveys Casino Resorts. Harveys announced on April 24, 2001, that it would be acquired by Harrah's Entertainment (later Caesars Entertainment) for $625 million.
On October 6, 2017, ownership of the property was transferred to Vici Properties as part of a corporate spin-off, and it was leased back to Caesars Entertainment.[7][8]
References[edit]
- ^'Harvey's hotel now open to the public,' Lake Tahoe News, April 5, 1963
- ^'John Birges, Sr.,' The Associated Press, September 6, 1996
- ^'Celebration set for new tower,' Tahoe Daily Tribune, June 26, 1986
- ^http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/harveys-casino-resorts-history/
- ^http://www.marlowcasinochips.com/nevada/TahoeStateline/Harveys/Harveys.htm
- ^http://www.laketahoenews.net/2014/01/now-stateline-casino-ownership/
- ^'Vici Properties Inc., completes spin-off from Caesars Entertainment Operating Company' (Press release). Vici Properties. October 6, 2017 – via NewsBank.
- ^Form 424B4: Prospectus (Report). Vici Properties. February 2, 2018. pp. F-54 – via EDGAR.
- Ferchland, William (August 22, 2005). 'Harvey's bombing changed casinos forever'. Tahoe Daily Tribune.
- '25th anniversary of Harveys bombing'. Reno Gazette-Journal. August 2005.
External links[edit]
- Official website
- Media related to Harveys Lake Tahoe Resort and Casino at Wikimedia Commons