EVENT #7	The Orleans Open Seven Card Stud ($230 buy-in)	July 17, 1998

The Final Table Official Results The Evening Tournament

Eight Card Studs By Mike Paulle The final table took on a special glow as some of the stars came out. The record book squeaked by with another record as 220 players signed up for the Seven Card Stud event. That was 4 more than last year's record. The total prize pool was $44,000. When Freddie Dak lost to Jack McClelland's trip tens, the irony was complete. Dak who has been paid by McClelland in so many tournaments, was denied payment by him in this one. To set up the final table, Bob Skundberg mucked his hand when Ken Reed showed him Jacks full. Skundberg was stunned to find himself out of the final table with two tiny stacks going into it. The Final Table Seat 1 Steve Radulovich Las Vegas, NV $2,900 Seat 2 Dave Dobrofsky Laguna Hills, CA $15,700 Seat 3 Carl Heller Kingwood, TX $16,100 Seat 4 Jack McClelland Las Vegas, NV $25,700 Seat 5 Ken Reed Tucson, AZ $14,900 Seat 6 Irv Warsaw San Bernadino, CA $18,700 Seat 7 Ken Hoey Mystic, CT $4,700 Seat 8 Bob Feduniak Las Vegas, NV $12,400 It was going to be either Ken Hoey or Steve Radulovich leaving the final table first. They were by far the smallest stacks. Ken Hoey caught trip 9's and a straight on the river. No good said David Dobrofsky, Dave caught his flush on the last card. Ken said "Hoey" and left in 8th. Ken Reed was trying to win the tournament not climb the money ladder. He was unsuccessful in both. Going all-in with split 7's, he caught air as Irv Warsaw made K's and J's. Reed was blowing in the wind in 7th place. Steve Radulovich of Card Player Magazine, couldn't find a pair at the final table. To his credit, he still moved up two places. Finally going all-in with a split pair of 8's, Steve was leading Irv Warsaw to the river until he was dunked in it when Warsaw caught a second ten. David Dobrofsky had lost most of his chips with a pocket pair of Kings. He just couldn't lay them down in front of Bob Feduniak's Ace door card. Fenuniak had the Ace in the hole. All-in with Queens and sixes, the miracle card of the final table put Dobrofsky out of the tournament. Jack McClelland had 8's with a Queen. The case Queen came on the river to give McClelland Q's and 8's. Dobrofsky, who had once been the tournament chip leader, left in 5th. Jack McClelland is a world class poker player who isn't known as a player at all. He is the most famous tournament director in the history of the game. Having come to the final table as the chip leader, he didn't win a hand for over an hour until he put David Dobrofsky out. It wasn't enough to give McClelland any cushion. All-in with split 7's against Carl Heller, it was Heller who caught everything-Kings full-to send McClelland out in 4th. With three players left, Heller and Warsaw were playing for second place. Bob Feduniak had an enormous chip lead on both of them. Soon Warsaw went on a mini-rush. Heller had to go all-in with K Q against Irv's 10's. Heller got no help while Warsaw made a flush. Now there were two. With about a 3-1 chip lead, no deal was volunteered and none expected. Feduniak systematically put Warsaw away with the final hand being 10's and 8's for Feduniak and an unimproved pair of sevens for Warsaw. Official Prize Money 1st Bob Feduniak $17,541 2nd Irv Warsaw $8,965 3rd Carl Heller $4,678 4th Jack McClelland $2,339 5th David Dobrofsky $1,949 6th Steve Radulovich $1,559 7th Ken Reed $1,169 8th Ken Hoey $780 9th-16th received $440 Bob Skundberg, Bill Boston, Sed Day, Mike Samford, Ron Zwicki,, Mike Souchak, Sven Arntzen and Brian Castagna The Evening Tournament In the evening tournament, they played a nearly sold out $120 Limit Hold'em tournament. There were 192 entries and 131 rebuys for a total prize pool of $32,300. The last three players split the remaining prize money, $5,970, $6,770 and $6,370 respectfully. The chip leader, J Ruston Eleogram took less money to compensate for getting the Tournament of Champions entry. Official Prize Money 1st J Ruston Eleogram Pahrump, NV $10,920 2nd Jason Myers La Peer, MI $5,460 3rd Ken Sutton Las Vegas, NV $2,730 4th Kathy Liebert Las Vegas, NV $2,047 5th David Herbst Las Vegas, NV $1,364 6th Lou Macchiaverna S Bound Brook, NJ $1,395 7th Chris Bigler Baden, Switzerland $1,092 8th Amir Vahedi Woodland Hills, CA $956 9th Flo Miller Las Vegas, NV $819 10th Chuck Barker Dallas, TX $683 11th-20th received $350 Greg Jensen (CO), John Decker (LV), Herman Smith (MD), Bob Gammon, (IN), Exxon Fuiznia (LV), Bill Johnson (OR), Jim Weatherby (LA), Marie Gabert, (CA), Jon Andlovec (AZ) and Dennis Horton (NV)