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Spadavecchia Wins Caesars WSOP Circuit Event
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Monday, May 22, 2006
LAS VEGAS -- As reported by the Las Vegas Sun: "Poker tournament veteran John Spadavecchia picked up where he left off some 20 years ago by winning a big event at Caesars Palace.
"Spadavecchia,
Caesars Palace's Poker Room who earned victories in a 7-card stud and a no-limit Texas hold 'em tournament at Caesars during the old Super Bowl of Poker - a major tournament in the 1980s - outlasted a field of 209 entrants to win the World Series of Poker circuit event that concluded Thursday at Caesars.
Caesars Palace's Poker Room who earned victories in a 7-card stud and a no-limit Texas hold 'em tournament at Caesars during the old Super Bowl of Poker - a major tournament in the 1980s - outlasted a field of 209 entrants to win the World Series of Poker circuit event that concluded Thursday at Caesars.
"It was the first circuit tournament at the property since Caesars opened its new poker room in December and returned it to the poker scene after an absence of 15 years. (Caesars also hosted the National Heads-Up Poker Championship, an NBC Sports event, in March.)
"'I'm glad Caesars is back in the poker business,' Spadavecchia of Lighthouse Point, Fla., said. 'This has been a very lucky place for me.'
"Spadavecchia, who owns a ceramic tile and marble distributorship, won the top prize of $648,320 and a World Series circuit championship ring. His victory came in the $10,000 buy in, no-limit hold 'em main event that capped two weeks of preliminary tournaments.
"…Spadavecchia finished off runner-up Sean McCabe after surviving a final table of nine players that included five Las Vegans. When they were heads-up, Spadavecchia had about a 3-1 chip lead against McCabe. He clinched it when McCabe, desperately low on chips, went all-in with a 6-9 and failed to improve, while Spadavecchia made a pair of kings.
"…Spadavecchia plans to return to the World Series to try to add another championship bracelet to his collection. He won the deuce-to-7 draw event in 1991.
"At the final table at Caesars, he clashed in a couple of key hands with longtime Las Vegas professional gambler Bill Baxter, another former World Series deuce-to-7 draw champion. (Deuce-to-7 once attracted high-stakes action in poker, but the game has fallen out of favor with the boom in no-limit Texas hold 'em.)
"Baxter, a seven-time bracelet winner, won his first World Series tournament in 1975.
"…Bob Bright, owner of Bright Trading Inc., the Las Vegas-based day-trading company, finished in sixth place. Blair Rodman, co-author of the poker tournament book 'Kill Phil,' placed ninth.
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