FAIRWAY JAY’S MASTERS PREVIEW ROUNDERLIFE.com KEN DAVITIAN BORAT’S CHUM EXUDES CHARISMA AND CLASS ROY JONES JR Y’ALL MUST HAVE FORGOT STEVE BRECHER WINS $1,025,500 NICK BINGER SURVIVING LONGEST FINAL FROM $50 TABLE IN WPT HISTORY TO $1,000,000 ALL CANADIAN FINAL WSOP CIRCUIT EVENT FEATURED MONTREAL’S SAMUEL CHARTIER VS POKER TORONTO’S JOHN NIXON PALOOZA APRIL 2009 $4.95US DREAM A LITTLE DREAM INSIDE: POKER + ENTERTAINMENT + FOOD + MUSIC + SPOR T S + G I R L S Live the EXCLUSIVE WEB VIDEO AT ROUNDERLIFE.COM ROUNDER GIRLS AFTER DARK • PLAYER INTERVIEWS HOT NEWS AND EVENTS CASINO AND RESTAURANT REVIEWS BEHIND THE SCENE FOOTAGE LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Before you can be a legend, PUBLISHER You gotta get in the game. he World Series of Poker Circuit Event, recently held at Caesars Atlantic Greg McDonald - [email protected] City, has consistently become one of the most well attended events on the circuit schedule. e eleven tournaments that took place from Mach 4th - 14th attracted EDITOR-IN-CHIEF T Evert Caldwell - [email protected] over 5000 players and generated more than $3 million dollars in prize money. is years champion was 23 year old Montreal, Quebec native, Samuel Chartier. e young pro MANAGING EDITOR took home $322,944, and the Circuit Champion’s gold ring for his eff ort. Second place Johnny Kampis fi nisher John Nixon from Toronto, Ontario, made it an All Canadian fi nal. e full time student took home $177,619. Could this be the year a Canadian wins the WSOP Main CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Event ? Canadians were well represented at last years Main Event, making up the highest Dave Lukow percentage of players from a country outside of the US. If you’re a ‘math guy’, it’s not a ART & DESIGN [email protected] bad bet...with the right odds, of course. Casey Wiesel, Nathan Hess, Whitney Prewitt Rounder Magazine and the Rounder Girls made the trip to Atlantic City to attend the PHOTOGRAPHY event and would like to send out a special ‘thank you’ to all the friendly staff at Caesars Kaden , Lee Cave, Hod Berman and Ballys who made us feel so welcome. e Rounder Girls were also very happy to meet Kristen Hanshaw, Jeremy Robinson 2008 WSOP ‘Main Event’ third place fi nisher Dennis Phillips, who played in the 5k event TELEVISION PRODUCTION and also took part in the ceremonies. Several other notables competed, including former Tom McDonald, Gregory McDonald WSOP bracelet winners Jason Young, Chris Reslock, and Cliff “Johnny Bax” Josephy, as Sherry McDonald, Suzanne La Belle well as last years defending champion Eric Haber. e fi nal two stops on this years circuit Jenna Edwards, Arthur Bergel, Susan Fowler schedule, leading up to the 2009 WSOP, are at Caesars Palace Las Vegas from April 12th RESEARCH & CONTENT - 29th and Harrahs New Orleans from My 8th - 20th. We hope to see you there ! The World Series of Poker Roberta Caldwell Spring Bayou Poker Challenge Running nearly simultaneously with the Caesars Atlantic City event was the Spring CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Poker Classic at the Gold Strike Casino Resort in Tunica, MS. ere were a total of Nolan Dalla, Susie Isaacs, Johnny Kampis A World Series of Poker Circuit Event sixteen events, including two Ladies Events. Congratulations to Harold ‘David’ Kruger Darlene Least, Peter Herold, Jay Ginsbach for winning the $2500 main event and the $100,287 fi rst place prize money. Kruger also David & Claire Sasseman, Peter Gulliver Jenna Edwards bested a fi eld of 136 players in a preliminary $300 Buy-in Event on March 10th. at win May 8 - 20 , 2009 was good for an additional $11,867. ADVERTISING SALES/DISTRIBUTION [email protected] Date Event # Tournament Buy-In Date Event # Tournament Buy-In While the tournaments were taking place, a photo shoot with cover girl Amber Forrester Evert Caldwell (205) 937-9887 was in full production at e Red Door Nightclub, located next to the Millennium eatre Hod Berman (917) 607-1641 May 8 1 No Limit Hold’em $300 + $40 May 14 13 No Limit Hold’em $500 + $50 inside the Gold Strike. Amber made the drive to Tunica from her hometown of Marietta Michael Clemente (954) 871-7216 Martin G. Kenny (702) 265-1822 May 8 2 Limit Omaha Hi-Low (8/B) 5pm $300 + $40 May 14 14 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Low (8/B) 5pm $300 + $40 Georgia. Amber is an avid poker player, and loves the competitiveness of the game. Once Danny Baseheart (407) 574-4549 May 9 3 No-Limit Hold’em $500 + $50 May 15 15 No Limit Hold’em $300 + $40 you see her photo spread, your vision of a poker player will never be the same. And that’s May 9 4 Pot-Limit Hold’em 5pm $300 + $40 May 15 16* Pot-Limit Omaha/Rebuys 5pm $250 + $35 a good thing! ROUNDER GIRL CASTINGS [email protected] May 10 5 No Limit Hold’em $500 + $50 May 16 17 No Limit Hold’em $500 + $50 May 10 6 No Limit Hold’em 5pm $300 + $40 May 16 18 Pot Limit Omaha 5pm $1000 + $70 MARKETING & PROMOTIONS May 11 7 No-Limit Hold’em $500 + $50 May 17 19** Ladies No Limit 11am $300 + $40 [email protected] May 11 8 Pot-Limit Omaha 5pm $500 + $50 May 18 Day 1 Circuit Championship $5000 + $150 LEGAL AFFAIRS May 12 9 No-Limit Hold’em (6 Handed) $500 + $50 May 19 Day 2 Championship Event Jeffrey P Kranzdorf May 12 10 No-Limit Hold’em 5pm $300 + $40 May 20 Day 3 Final Table @ 2pm SUBSCRIPTIONS May 13 11 No Limit Hold’em $300 + $40 * Event # 16 $100.00 Re-buy = $ 3,000.00 Chips 3960 Howard Hughes Parkway, Suite 500 Evert Caldwell May 13 12 Pot-Limit Hold’em/Omaha 5pm $500 + $50 ** Ladies Event #19 is a one day event. 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CALL 1-800-522-4700. 14 APRIL 2009 ROUNDER PROMOTIONS CELEBRITY Q&A 10 | Atlantic City 36 | Ken Davitian 12 | Gold Strike, Tunica, MS CASINO LISTINGS BEYOND THE RAIL 38 | Hotel & Casino Listings 14 | Luxor, Las Vegas SPECIAL FEATURE Q&A 41 | Amber Forrester 18 | Kathy Raymond PLAYER PROFILE SPORTS 48 | Nick Binger 20 | Sports Memo 50 | Kenna James SCHEDULE OF EVENTS DATE/TIME EVENT BUY-IN CHIPS BONUS CHIPS 22 | Rounder Sports 52 | Oklahoma Johnny Hale Sat. May 9 / Noon No Limit Hold’em $220 $7,500 $2,500 ROUNDER GIRLS ON THE ROAD W/JENNA 7PM No Limit Hold’em $110 $5,000 $2,500 24 | Christina 54 | Road Trip Sun. May 10 / Noon Omaha Hi-Lo $220 $7,500 $2,500 18 25 | Lorie 7PM No Limit Hold’em $110 $5,000 $2,500 56 | Rebecca SCHEDULE & RESULTS Mon. May 11 / Noon No Limit Hold’em $220 $7,500 $2,500 58 | Rounder of the Year 7PM No Limit Hold’em $110 $5,000 $2,500 ALL THINGS ROUNDER 60 | Deep Stack Extravaganza Tues. 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