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Cards In The Air

We are up and running with cards in the air for event #89 benefitting the Junior League Of Las Vegas. The room is filled with excitement and the tables are full as a great field is building for this event. Our prize pool and celebrity bounties are below. Each celebrity bounty has a mystery envelope and a bounty badge for the player who busts them the first time (our celebrity bounties typically rebuy until the end of the rebuy period).

 

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Starting Off With A Learning Session

Event #89 kicked off a little early, before the cocktail mixer even started, with a lesson for a group of ladies from the Junior League of Las Vegas. Jordan Handrich, the Loose Cannon on this season of the PokerStars Big Game On Tour, talked to the ladies about how the game works and helped them to become more comfortable playing their first poker tournament. Handrich covered everything from how blinds and betting works to some basic strategies and bet-sizing advice.

The Junior League Of Las Vegas works to help young women succeed and build confidence, and what better place to start then the poker table! More and more women are playing poker in recent years and the environment is certainly not the boys club that it once was. The Charity Series Of Poker sees a much higher percentage of women in it’s events than a typical poker tournament and it is our sincere hope that getting more ladies into our events means more women getting interested in poker and playing serious tournaments.

Thanks to Mrs. Handrich for lending her skills and fame to the event and helping these ladies with the skills to crush this event. We hope to see one of them holding the trophy at the end!

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Notable Stacks Remaining

We’ve still got some notable players in the field with nice stacks!

Lena Evans is still in the fight for that main event seat!

Lena Evans: Total live earnings $388,349 and best live cash $53,020; runner-up in WPTDeepStacks San Diego for $53,020; 7th-place finish for $5,390 on Sep 1, 2025. Runs PLON (Poker League Of Nations). Hendon Mob Profile

Mike Matusow: Total live earnings $10,764,593; win in the 2005 WSOP Tournament of Champions for $1,000,000; 6th place in the 2001 WSOP Main Event for $239,765. Hendon Mob Profile

Jordan Handrich: Total live earnings $220,453; 13th in the 2016 WSOP Little One for One Drop for $27,714; 4th in the $300 Super Sunday Special on May 25, 2025 for $18,834. Recently played as the “Loose Cannon” on the PokerStars Big Game On Tour for four episodes. Hendon Mob Profile

Chad Holloway: Total live earnings around $334k; win in the 2013 WSOP $500 Casino Employees Event for $84,915. Hendon Mob Profile

Alex Outhred – Career earnings of $658,384 with a 4th-place finish at the WPT Mandalay Bay Poker Championship for $184,745 and a 6th-place finish in the 2021 WSOP $800 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack for $54,722. Hendon Mob Profile

 

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St. Jude Pic Dump #1 And Award Winners

We’re having a great time with some amazing bounties and wild action here at the biggest CSOP of the year. We are setting records tonight with Alex Outhred winning the trophy for the largest stack at the end of the rebuy period with the largest stack ever recorded at this point in a CSOP event (over 400,000), and Lisa Szyc winning the trophy for the most rebuys with more than $10,000 donated during the rebuy period.

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Amazing Prizes From The CSOP And Our Sponsors!

The prize pool isn’t the point of a charity event, but it’s always nice to win a little something, and when it’s a CSOP event, it’s more than a little something. Sponsor donations help create a serious prize pool with some great packages available and let’s not forget the $10,000 WSOP or WPT seat for first place!

  1. $10,000 WSOP or WPT tournament seat
  2. 2026 Viva St. Jude Package
  3. CSOP Celebrity Cash Game + $1,000 Wakebusters Gift Certificate
  4. Las Vegas ATV Tour (for two) + $1,000 Wakebusters Gift Certificate
  5. $300 CSOP Seat + $100 Gift Card From Loaded Empanadas
  6. $300 CSOP Seat + $100 Gift Card From Loaded Empanadas
  7. $300 CSOP Seat + $100 Gift Card From Loaded Empanadas
  8. $300 CSOP Seat + $100 Gift Card From Loaded Empanadas
  9. $300 CSOP Seat + $100 Gift Card From Loaded Empanadas
  10. $300 CSOP Seat + $100 Gift Card From Loaded Empanadas
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A First Hand All-In

On the very first hand of the tournament, Chad Hunter raised from early position to 700. Joe Berg reraised to 2,500, and Hunter shoved his entire 10,000 chip stack. Berg called and they showed their hands.

Joe Berg –  Q Q Q Q

Chad Hunter – A A K K

The board ran out 5 5 9 9 7 7 4 4 A A

Announcer Joe Stapleton called it “The Barry Greenstein” when the ace hit the river to send Berg to the rail and give Hunter a very healthy stack. Action has been wild so far, with too many all-ins to keep track of and St. Jude super donor Gavin Ernstone going all-in blind every hand for the last ten minutes or so. What a hero! Charity tournaments are always wild, but this one is amazing right from the start. We’re going to raise a lot of money for a great charity tonight!

Video directly from Joe Berg

 

Berg Hand

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Matusow Gets Aces

One of the first hands of the tournament we had one of our bounties all-in. Mike ‘ The Mouth’ Matusow got it all-in with two aces against two kings. The aces held and The Mouth holds on to his bounty medal for now.

Player
Current Stack
Stack Change
Mike Matusow
40,000
20,000
Villain
0
-20,000
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