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The annual Beau Rivage Million Dollar Heater wrapped up its 14-event schedule this past week. The series spanned 13 days and offered tournaments with buy-ins ranging from $200 to $2,700.
“We’ve had more than 5,000 poker players participate in this year’s Million Dollar Heater,” said Beau Rivage Poker Room Manager Henry Garrison. “The tournament continues to grow and is considered the premier poker event in the South.”
The $2,700 buy-in Main Event, which ran from January 12-14, attracted 158 entrants, which surpassed the $300K GTD by generating a $395,500 prize pool. After three days of action, Edmund Sexton Jr. took the $105,282 first-place prize back to Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Prior to the win, Sexton had just $17,423 in lifetime earnings including a prior career-best of $10,705 for finishing sixth in the 2017 World Series of Poker Circuit Harrah’s New Orleans Event #4: $365 No-Limit Hold’em.
“This is a great way to start off 2019,” Sexton said after the win. “I feel like I’m waking up from a dream. I played with guys way better than me and won. It feels amazing.”
Others to cash but miss out on making the final table were Luther Tran (16th - $6,414), video poker jackpot expertKyle Cartwright (13th - $7,923), and final table bubble boy Judge Leo Boothe (11th - $8,678), who retired from the Seventh Judicial District in 2014.
2019 Beau Rivage Million Dollar Heater Main Event Final Table Results
Place | Winner | Prize |
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1 | Edmund Sexton, Jr. | $105,282 |
2 | Trace Henderson | $60,762 |
3 | Joe Golias | $35,106 |
4 | Bryan Clark | $27,559 |
5 | Lacey Coffey | $23,786 |
6 | Max Young | $20,013 |
7 | Benjamin Diebold | $15,863 |
8 | Dustin Stewart | $10,565 |
9 | Jared Eskandari | $9,433 |
10 | Daniel Howard | $8,678 |
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Sexton wasn’t the only big winner at the Beau Rivage. Two weeks ago, the series kicked off with Event #1: $360 No-Limit Hold’em, which offered up a $600K GTD. With 2,763 entries, the guarantee was smashed as an $801,270 prize pool was created.
The top 329 finishers got paid including David Bradshaw (3rd - $46,420), Durand Bass (15th - $8,376), David Nicholson (24th - $5,583), and Gary Blackman (27th - $5,583). In the end, it was William Stanford who emerged victorious to capture the $92,684 top prize, the biggest payout outside the Main Event.
Another player to capture a five-figure prize was Dennis Hicks, who bested a 504-entry field to win Event #9: $360 NLH Monster Stack for $36,139. That tournament crushed its $50K GTD by generating a $146,160 prize pool.
In addition to the Monster Stack, there was Event #13: $200 Little Monster, a tournament that drew 267 entries and created a $40,050 prize pool. Mack Ham won the one-day event for $11,300, while Chris Adams and Al Dapkus took second and third for $6,041 and $3,410 respectively.
2019 Beau Rivage Million Dollar Heater Winners
Event | Winner | Prize |
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#1 $360 No Limit Hold’em $600K GTD | William Stanford | $92,684 |
#2 $300 No Limit Hold’em | Shawn Calvit | $22,609 |
#3 $300 Big O | Nikita Patalinghug | $9,382 |
#4 $300 Heads-Up No Limit Hold’em | Chris Dupuy | $6,242 |
#5 $300 No Limit Hold’em | Charles Campos | $11,892 |
#6 $300 Limit Omaha 8/B | Robert McCay | $5,687 |
#7 $300 No Limit Hold’em Seniors | Charles Temple | $23,681 |
#8 $500 Pot Limit Omaha | Keith Ray | $10,247 |
#9 $360 No Limit Hold’em Monster Stack | Dennis Hicks | $36,139 |
#10 $300 No Limit Hold’em with $50 Bounties | Sandra Brown | $8,705 |
#11 $300 Tag Team No Limit Hold’em | Trace Henderson | $3,413 |
#12 $200 No Limit Hold’em 8-Max | Justin Sharp | $8,690 |
#13 $200 Little Monster | Mack Ham | $11,300 |
#14 $2,700 Main Event $300K GTD | Edmund Sexton Jr. | $105,282 |
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A few years ago in a $2/$5 no-limit hold 'em game at the Beau Rivage poker room, a high-stakes regular bought in for $2,500. Suddenly an ego war broke out.
'Your stack's a bit light,' someone smirked. The high-stakes regular shrugged, reached into his jacket, and tossed a hefty brick of cash onto the felt. Then he glanced at shift manager Adam Nash for approval. Nash nodded and said, 'Cash will be in play after this hand.'
Welcome to one of the only poker rooms in the country with an uncapped buy-in across all games.
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Cash no longer plays at the popular Biloxi casino (or at any MGM property, as of April 2015). But according to Nash, who spoke with me recently during the Million Dollar Heater tournament series, the uncapped buy-in structure isn't going anywhere.
'The majority of people love it,' he said.
The Beau's $1/$3 and $2/$5 no-limit games, which can play up to 500 or 1,000 big blinds deep, generate plenty of action and excitement.
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'There are times when I'm here on a random Tuesday and I'm sitting in a pretty boring $1/$3 game,' said Norris*, a Beau regular since 2008. 'Then a guy who came from the pits will sit down with $7,000 and say, 'Let's gamble.'
Stack Depth and Skill Edge
For Norris and other skilled professionals, uncapped games present opportunities not only 'to gamble' but also to realize a deep-stacked advantage. Playing deep requires you to make more decisions in a hand. Making good decisions — or at least better decisions than your opponents — yields a higher win rate.
But how much higher?
'I think my win rate against an average recreational player is 150 percent as big at 1,000 big blinds as it is at 100 big blinds,' said Nate Meyvis, co-host of the Thinking Poker Podcast and strategy contributor here at PokerNews.
'Against certain kinds of players that could go way up (to 250 percent?),' Meyvis added. 'Really good deep-stacked players might start with a 225 percent edge or so versus recreational players.'
The relationship between skill edge and stack depth is complex. It depends on playing style, position, hand selection, table dynamics, and other factors that invite speculation.
So let's speculate.
Imagine you're in an uncapped $1/$3 game with 100 big blinds when a tourist buys in for $7,000 and says, 'Let's gamble.' You happen to have $7,000 in your pocket, which means that you can choose to sit 2,333 big blinds deep against a gambly recreational player. Should you add more chips? If so, how many?
Here are a few things to consider:
Skill Edge
- What's your edge against the table?
- What's your edge against specific players at the table?
Stack Depth
- What range of buy-in options are available?
- How will your skill edge change depending on your stack size?
Managing Variance
- How much are you willing to lose?
- How many times are you willing to reload?
Managing Emotion
- How will you respond if you win or lose a huge pot?
- How will your tablemates respond if they win or lose a huge pot?
You might decide, in the scenario above, to add $7,000. You might decide, given bankroll considerations, just to add $1,000 and reload if you get stacked. Or you might decide to stick with 100 big blinds. Whatever you choose, avoid simply buying in for a 'standard' amount and consider an effective buy-in strategy.
It's also worth remembering that (1) you can 'go north' and add chips later, but you can't 'go south' and remove chips from play; and (2) regardless of how much money is on the table, you can only lose the chips in front of you.
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Recreational Players and the Poker Economy
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With deep stacks, good action, and a well run room, the Beau Rivage may seem like poker paradise. But one downside of an uncapped buy-in structure is that, in the long run, it can hurt the local poker economy.
'If you have a recreational guy who's got a ton of money but is losing $3,000 a day, that's not sustainable,' Norris explained. 'He'll get discouraged, move down in stakes, or just stop playing.'
Many recreational players lack the knowledge or discipline to consider buy-in strategies. They just want to gamble. Table caps protect these players from losing too much, too fast.
Better players, online training sites, and the local economy will also affect a poker room's health. But table caps, perhaps more than anything else, control the flow of money. The same gambler who quits poker after one horrific session might, under the protection of table caps, lose five or ten times that amount in the long run.
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However, when you visit the Beau Rivage on a Friday night, these 'big' questions about table caps and skill edges and poker economies tend to vanish.
Everything is bustle and commotion: a dealer calling out a vacant seat, the hoot of a bad beat, countless clacking chips. Tourists waddle to their tables, their pants sagging like overladen donkeys, and feed games that run all day and night, the late evenings blurring into early mornings when fresh players, sipping coffee and scanning newspapers, join stubborn bleary-eyed gamblers. Dressed smartly in suits and glasses, poker room managers Henry Garrison and Adam Nash oversee the action.
'People will ask me how much they can buy in for,' Nash said, and he smiled. 'I just tell them that, in these games, you are your only limit.'
*Not his real name.
Ben Saxton is a teacher and a writer from upstate New York who has played small stakes poker, both live and online, since the early 2000s. Ben lives in New Orleans and covers poker on the Gulf Coast.
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