This really has nothing to do with Tiffany (or Beth) as a person or anything along those lines, but calling herself, or allowing herself to be introduced as, a professional poker player is misleading at best. That being said, my real issue is with Fox News having such a short rolodex that when they flip to “Poker/Gambling Expert” Beth Shak and Tiffany Michelle are the only entries – apparently Annie Duke was busy yesterday. Not to derail the topic but, can we get Brian Balsbaugh to do a little cable news outreach with some of his clients?

Let’s take a quick look at Tiffany’s Hendon Mob page, and see just what constitutes a poker pro these days shall we? Since November of 2010 Tiffany has cashed in two poker tournaments –that would be 32 months and two cashes. In June of 2011 she finished in 49^th place in a $550 NLHE tournament at the Deep Stack Extravaganza III, pocketing $1,135, and in March of 2013 she finished 47^th in a $300 NLHE event at the Winning O’ the Green tournament series in LA, for a cool $665.

Now I don’t know about you but if my resume over the past three years was highlighted by a pair of Top 50 finishes in small tournaments I wouldn’t feel right adding the title “Professional Poker Player” to my bio, let alone having it appear under me on TV!

And it’s not as if she was tearing up the poker world before this. She had her huge score, when she was the last woman standing in the 2008 WSOP Main Event, and other than a Heartland Poker Tour final table in 2010 (a nice $20,000 score for 7^th place) she has done absolutely nothing in poker. Tiffany is a reality TV star, and poker just happened to be her big break.

Additionally, how does the producer who books these guests (Annie Duke or Tiffany Michelle) not perform the most basic online search and see that Annie Duke is despised in the poker community and has been involved with not one but two shady businesses, or that Tiffany Michelle is not, nor was she ever, considered a poker pro. Emmitt Smith wore an FTP Patch at the NBC Heads-Up Championship in 2011, why not have him on to talk about the Barton Bill?

It actually makes me wonder about the other guests who appear on cable news as so-called experts. What do they actually do? All the time we hear people introduced as strategists, so what are they really? Are they substitute teachers? Are they ushers at the local movie theater? It really makes you wonder how they vet their other guests when FOX News will put “Professional Poker Player” under Tiffany Michelle and bring her on as an expert in the field.

Again, nothing against Tiffany, but if you’re not actually a poker pro don’t go on TV and say you are. I have no problem with her espousing her opinion (you don’t need to be a poker pro to have an opinion on poker) but why couldn’t they just call her a reality TV star with a passion for poker, and let her talk poker and politics?

I’m actually not sure how I feel about this idea, as I’ve been both for and against Super-High-Roller tournaments over the past few years. One of my criticisms has always been the haphazard way they are thrown together (usually with lightning fast structures and on short notice), not to mention the incredibly bad timing of adding $100k events, when the poker economy is at one of its lowest points since the Poker Boom of 2003 – How awesome would Alpha8 have been back in 2005?

According to the Press Release (which I have included in full below) the tournaments will take place across the globe with the broadcast of the events appearing on FOX Sports 1, with four hours of coverage dedicated to each tournament. The first event on the Alpha8 Tour will be at the upcoming Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open on August 26. According to the Press Release, Alpha8 will feature a “new” set and will feature PokerNews.com’s Lynn Gilmartin as the anchor of the coverage.

Here is a look at the full press release on the WPT Alpha8 Tour:

World Poker Tour® Teams Up with FOX Sports 1 for the All-New WPT Alpha8™ Series of Televised, Super High-Roller Tournaments to Begin Airing in March 2014

Exclusive, Super High-Roller Tournaments Promise Elite Fields, Unprecedented Poker Action

Twitter: @WPT

Facebook.com/WorldPokerTour

www.WPT.com

Los Angeles, CA (July 18, 2013) – World Poker Tour®, the world’s leading purveyor of high-quality, high-stakes televised poker tournaments is launching WPT Alpha8™, an all-new, global series of super high-roller poker tournaments broadcast on FOX Sports 1, premiering in March 2014.

Held in some of the world’s most prestigious venues in North America, Europe, Asia, and South Africa, each event will feature a buy-in of at least $100,000. Tournament structures designed by WPT Executive Tour Director Matt Savage will ensure exciting poker action at all levels throughout the tournament and allow World Poker Tour to provide four hours of televised action from each event where viewers can watch the game’s very best players compete for millions of dollars in prize money and unprecedented bragging rights.

“I am honored to announce Alpha8, WPT’s newest and most ambitious offering in conjunction with its primetime home on FS1,” said WPT President, Adam Pliska. “Showcasing the world’s poker elite and featuring multimillion dollar prize pools, Alpha8 represents the highest televised treatment of super high-roller tournament poker to date. Playing out over a global stage, this series will give audiences insight into the intensity and skill demanded at the sport’s highest levels.”

Launching August 26, 2013, this exclusive new tournament series will begin with Event 23 of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open — WPT Alpha8 Florida — held at the prestigious Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida. As a frequent host of many WPT Main Event and Regional tournaments in the burgeoning Florida poker market over the past 11 seasons, Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino has earned a reputation as one of the region’s elite casino properties, making it an ideal home for WPT’s newest and most exclusive event.

“As a long-time World Poker Tour partner, Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino is excited to be hosting the first event in this exclusive, super high-roller series,” said Seminole Gaming COO Larry Mullin. “Adding WPT Alpha8 Florida to the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open schedule raises the volume on this already highly anticipated series, including our $10 million guarantee Main Event.”

Befitting an entirely new tournament series, WPT Alpha8 will feature a unique, modern set and will be hosted by fresh, new talent, including Lynn Gilmartin, who will serve as the show’s Anchor. Recorded for broadcast on FOX Sports 1 in 2014, WPT Alpha8 will be a key element of the network’s new original programming and will air as part of its primetime line up every Sunday at 10pm ET. The show’s expanded format will allow World Poker Tour’s cameras to provide viewers with in-depth coverage of all the play down to the final table, affording viewers with unparalleled insight into the strategies and gamesmanship that sets the world’s best players apart from everyone else.

“We’re excited to bring WPT’s new high-roller series to FS1 viewers,” said FOX Sports 1 Vice President of Programming David Sussin. “WPT Alpha8 will be a key part of our primetime line up and a tremendous complement to our other sports programming including MLB, NASCAR, UFC, soccer, and college basketball and football. With this new series, WPT has significantly raised the stakes of televised poker. By increasing the risk and raising the pressure, WPT Alpha8 delivers more drama and bigger personalities, and we’re confident the show will quickly become a habit for our viewers.”

As part of an exclusive, three-year deal with FOX Sports 1, subsequent WPT Alpha8 tournaments will be aired throughout 2014, and will be sponsored by ClubWPT.com, a membership poker site that provides players with great VIP benefits and the chance to play free online poker tournaments for a share of $100,000 in cash and prizes each month.*

Viewers looking to watch the WPT Alpha8 Florida final table before it airs on TV can watch a live stream of all the action on WPT.com on August 27. On August 28, poker fans can visit www.seminolehardrockpokeropen.com for exclusive live streaming of the final table of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Main Event final table, where players will compete for the title and the winner’s share of the World’s largest guaranteed prize pool of $10 million.

*No purchase is necessary for the ClubWPT sweepstakes and the service is void in states where prohibited. For more information visit ClubWPT.com.

courtesy of www.wsop.com

After the elimination of 21001 WSOP Main Event Champion in 10^th place the 2013 World Series of Poker final table is now officially set. In this series I will take a look at each of the November Nine, and offer up my thoughts on what their winning the WSOP Main Event would mean to poker.

1. JC Tran — 38,000,000
2. Amir Lehavot — 29,700,000
3. Marc McLaughlin — 26,525,000
4. Jay Farber — 25,975,000
5. Ryan Riess — 25,875,000
6. Sylvain Loosli — 19,600,000
7. Michiel Brummelhuis — 11,275,000
8. Mark Newhouse — 7,350,000
9. David Benefield — 6,375,000

JC Tran

The chip-leader heading into November’s final table tilt is also the best-known and most-accomplished player in the field, Justin Coung Van Tran, better known as JC Tran. Tran built up a sizable chip-lead during Monday’s action and will take an 8.3 million chip-lead into the final table. Still, the trail-pack (5 players have 19.6 million or more chips) is close enough on his heels to make this one of the most tightly contested final tables in recent memory.

The 36 year-old Californian (Tran was born in Vietnam) is considered by virtually all of his peers as a pro’s pro, and will likely have one of the biggest cheering sections in recent memory.

Career Accomplishments

Tran is a two-time WSOP bracelet winner, a WPT Champion, the Season 5 WPT Player of the Year, the 2006 PokerStars WCOOP Main Event winner, and has over $9 million in career tournament earnings –good for 32^nd on the all-time money-list.

Here is a look at some of Tran’s career highlights:

• Won the $1,500 No Limit Holdem tournament at the 2008 WSOP — $631,170
• Won the $2,500 Pot Limit Omaha tournament at the 2009 WSOP — $235,685
• 2006 WCOOP Main Event Winner — $670,000
• Won the 2007 Doyle Brunson Five Diamond Poker Classic $5k tournament — $523,075
• Party Poker Premier League III Winner — $300,000
• Runner-Up at the 2007 WPT LA Poker Classic — $1,177,010
• 2007 WPT World Poker Challenge Champion — $683,473
• Eight career Top 7 finishes on the WPT
• WPT Season 5 Player of the Year

What a JC Tran Victory Would Mean for Poker

Tran is a well-liked and well-respected poker pro, so a victory in the WSOP Main Event would be a welcome outcome. Unfortunately, the same things that make JC a well-liked player would also hinder him as a poker ambassador, as he’s a relatively quiet and humble guy. Still, of all the remaining players there is nobody I would rather see as the winner of the Main Event, with his maturity and demeanor serving as the perfect model for future poker players.

*Resources: www.thehendonmob.com, www.wikipedia.org

Thomas “Srsly Sirius” Keeling Bluff Interviews

Thomas “Srsly Sirius” Keeling, better known for his satirical poker songs on YouTube, was hired as the Bluff Magazine Multimedia Director prior to the 2013 WSOP and in that role he developed one of the most interesting interview formats I’ve seen. Basically, during the editing process Keeling eliminates all questions and the interview turns into a monologue of sorts for the interviewee.

What really made these videos standout was the decision to let some of the most polarizing people in the game speak their mind; from Chino Rheem, to Dutch Boyd, to Matt Marifioti.

You can watch all of Keeling’s videos here: http://www.bluff.com/news/author/thomas-keeling/

Doyle Brunson cashes in the Main Event

If you’re going to announce your retirement and then come back the least you can do is perform at a high level, and that is precisely what Doyle Brunson did in the 2013 WSOP Main Event. Brunson cashed in the Main Event for the xx time in his career, and now has cashed in the tournament in each of the last five decades.

PokerNews.com’s MyStack App

The MyStack App allows players to update their chip counts to PokerNews.com on their own. This was extremely helpful in getting correct chip-counts for the players who used it, and as more and more players start to use MyStack it should ease the burden of tournament reporters, allowing them to focus on other things instead of constantly updating chip counts.

You can download the MyStack App here: http://www.pokernews.com/mystack/

Nolan Dalla’s blogs

Nolan Dalla has been blogging on his website for a while now, but during the WSOP his blog really came to the attention of the poker community and Dalla seemed to be a bit more prolific with his writings. There are some absolute gems on Dalla’s blog, ranging from everyday rants to backroom poker stories.

I highly recommend visiting Nolan’s blog at http://www.pokernews.com/mystack/

Ladies prove 2012 wasn’t a fluke

After a really slow start the ladies picked-up the pace at the 2013 WSOP following the Ladies Tournament, winning two open-event bracelets for the first time since 2004, and as I write this Jackie Glazier is in 12^th place with 68 players remaining in the WSOP Main Event. It was good to see women poker players build on their 2012 success at the WSOP.

For one thing, you’re not giving away information when you snap-fold pre-flop with a deuce-five offsuit, so just look at your cards and muck them. Additionally, you don’t have to pretend that every-single-time you get your hand caught in the cookie jar you actually have a tough fold to make; go ahead and pretend you’re making a difficult lay-down from time-to-time, but please don’t do it every single time.

Imagine a catcher who framed every single pitch for the umpire no matter how badly it misses the plate. It would drive you nuts right? Actually, it would probably lead to riots in stands. Well, this is exactly what this unnecessary tanking in poker is doing. To be honest, it’s actually worse than framing every pitch; for some players it’s more like a pitcher throwing over to first base five times in between each pitch when nobody is on base!

What aggravates the most about this is that virtually every hand –before you’ve even had a chance to collect your hole cards—the dealer is pointing at you or saying it’s on you, but after you look at your hole-cards you can basically take as much as time as your heart desires to act on your hand. It seems counterintuitive, we are rushing each player along when everyone has something to do –from collecting their cards to peeking at them if they desire—but when only a single person has an action to make we all get to sit there with our thumbs up our ass while they count to 30 before mucking their Jack-Deuce.

It seems as though poker players of the Internet generation have lost their way when it comes to creating a friendly, accommodating, atmosphere. In some ways it’s simply not their fault since they’ve never had to keep a game going, and know very little about the lean years –the term Prop Players come to mind—and why it’s sometimes more important to make the game fun and inviting, even if it means you might just possibly be giving off the slightest little piece of usable information to players who have 10,000 hands logged with you.

I’m not asking for a shot clock or anything of that nature; more so I want poker players to be aware that what they think is helping their bottom line (it may add a very minimal amount if looked at in a vacuum) is probably costing them a ton of money in the long-run by turning off potential players.

Like last year’s bill, the “Internet Poker Freedom Act” (you just got to love Congress and their way with words) is seeking to carve out online poker from online gambling, creating an opportunity to license and regulate online poker rooms while at the same time strengthening restrictions on other forms of online gambling, most notably UIGEA.

Here are some of the other parts of the IFPA worth mentioning:

• The bill contains a “Bad Actors” clause, shutting out any poker sites that have operated in the US since the passage of UIGEA for five years
• States that do not wish to participate can opt-out of the IFPA
• States that have passed Internet gaming laws prior to IFPA will not fall under IFPA, nor will Internet lotteries
• The bill also covers the usual Underage and Problem Gambling, US servers, and other requirements
• In order to receive a license under IFPA operators must adhere to a number of regulations and meet the approval of the to-be-created “Office of Internet Poker Oversight”

You can read the full 110-page bill here, or if you want to avoid having your head explode I suggest the following Cliffs/Highlights proffered by two of the best in the business when it comes to poker legislation:

• Barton Introduces the Internet Poker Freedom Act by Chris Grove
• Poker Freedom Act Details by John Mehaffy

Representative Barton has been at the forefront of the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) lobbying efforts in Congress since Republicans came into power in 2010 and then PPA darling Barney Frank (D-MA) lost his committee chair, and ability to set the agenda for, the House Financial Services Committee. Frank had been doing most of the leg work for online poker efforts at the federal level, but with the ultra-conservative Spenser Bacchus (R-AL) now heading the Financial Services Committee an online poker bill would never see the light of day.

Representative Barton sits on the House Energy and Commerce Committee which would also play a role in online poker oversight (the Energy and Commerce Committee deals with telecom and inter-state commerce), and therefore allows him to introduce a bill of this sort.

With his run in the Poker players Championship Ashton was appearing at his fourth final table of the 2013 WSOP, and already had a 2^nd and a 3^rd place finish to his credit (along with a 7^th place showing) before winning the Poker Players Championship on Thursday night. Overall, Ashton has seven Top 10 finishes over the last three years at the WSOP.

The victory also propelled Ashton to the top of the WSOP Player of the Year race, jumping over Daniel Negreanu and David “Bakes” Baker, and over the magical 500-point threshold needed to win the award (the Main Event winner receives 500 points):

1. Matthew Ashton — 649.75
2. Daniel Negreanu — 475.84
3. David (Bakes) Baker — 475.35
4. Donald Nguyen — 466.13
5. Marco Johnson — 439.38
6. Tom Schneider — 438.51
7. Chris Klodnicki — 400.80
8. Jared Hamby — 395.73
9. Anthony Gregg — 390.00
10. Steve Sung — 369.50

*Leader-board powered by BLUFF Magazine

Ashton also became the youngest winner of the Poker Players Championship at 25, and was the first non-US player to win the tournament. Ashton now joins the following list of players to have won the tournament, and since 2008 hoist the Chip Reese Memorial Trophy:

• 2012: Mike Mizrachi
• 2011: Brian Rast
• 2010: Mike Mizrachi
• 2009: David Bach
• 2008: Scotty Nguyen
• 2007: David “Chip” Reese

The Poker Players Championship saw a bit of resurgence this year, as the tournament attracted the biggest field since 2008 (which was the largest in the seven year history of the tournament), pulling in 132 entries, a huge jump from last year’s 108, and just 16 off the all-time mark of 148.

• 2013: 132 players
• 2012: 108 players
• 2011: 128 players
• 2010: 116 players
• 2009: 95 players
• 2008: 148 players
• 2007: 143 players

Here is a look at the final table payouts from the tournament:

1. Matthew Ashton – $1,774,089
2. Don Nguyen – $1,096,254
3. John Hennigan – $686,568
4. David Benyamine – $497,122
5. George Danzer – $388,523
6. Minh Ly – $309,830
7. Mike Wattel – $251,602
8. Jonathan Duhamel – $207,630

*Resources: www.wsop.com, www.thehendonmob.com, www.wikipedia.org

While you can conceivably nominate anyone you like, there are certain restrictions on who can eventually become one of the official nominees –who will then be voted on by a preselected panel that includes poker media and the living Hall of Fame members. The criterion for selection includes:

• A player must have played poker against acknowledged top competition
• Played for high stakes
• Be a minimum of 40 years old at time of nomination
• Played consistently well, gaining the respect of peers
• Stood the test of time
• Or, for non-players, contributed to the overall growth and success of the game of poker, with indelible positive and lasting results.

You can make your nomination for the 2013 Poker Hall of Fame here: http://www.wsop.com/phof/

Last year saw the induction of Eric Drache and Sailor Roberts made the cut, and the recent trend has been toward older players and pioneers, with Linda Johnson and Mike Sexton added to the Poker Hall of Fame rolls in 2011.

My list hasn’t changed very much from last year (since none of my choices were inducted) but I have removed some of the younger players who are eligible that I feel can wait their turn, so here are my Top 10 picks for the 2013 Poker Hall of Fame:

1. Barry Shulman
2. Terry Rogers
3. Marcel Luske
4. Nolan Dalla
5. Jack McClelland
6. John Duthie
7. Mike Caro
8. Titanic Thompson
9. Andy Glazer
10. James McManus

Some other deserving people include Carlos Mortensen, Jennifer Harman, Ted Forrest, David Sklansky, Antanas “Tony G” Guoga, Gabe Kaplan, Lucy Rockah, Lee Jones, Al Alvarez, Bob Stupak, Bruno Fitoussi, and David Chiu.

And here is a look at the current members of the Poker Hall of Fame:

• Johnny Moss
• Nick “The Greek” Dandolos
• Felton “Corky” McCorquodale
• Red Winn
• Sid Wyman
• James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok
• Edmond Hoyle
• Blondie Forbes
• Bill Boyd
• Tom Abdo
• Joe Bernstein
• Murph Harrold
• Red Hodges
• Henry Green
• Walter Clyde “Puggy” Pearson
• Doyle “Texas Dolly” Brunson
• Jack “Treetop” Straus
• Fred “Sarge” Ferris
• Benny Binion
• David “Chip” Reese
• Thomas “Amarillo Slim” Preston
• Jack Keller
• Julius Oral Popwell
• Roger Moore
• Stu “The Kid” Ungar
• Lyle Berman
• Johnny “The Orient Express” Chan
• Bobby “The Owl” Baldwin
• Berry Johnston
• Jack Binion
• Crandell “Dandy” Addington
• T.J. Cloutier
• Billy Baxter
• Barbara Enright
• Phil Hellmuth
• Dewey Tomko
• Henry Orenstein
• Mike Sexton
• Dan Harrington
• Erik Seidel
• Linda Johnson
• Barry Greenstein
• Eric Drache
• Brian “Sailor” Roberts

According to the original post by 2+2 Moderator Bobo Fett:

… We are going to split this forum into two. We will have a forum for those seeking stakes – this will remain a free forum. We will also have a forum for offering stakes, which will become a paid forum.

Basically 2+2 will start charging major stakers in poker who are looking to attract clients to their stable. These staking sites have become the norm in poker over the past four or five years, and now instead of trying to police threads created by these staking groups 2+2 will basically allow them to do what they need to do in terms of advertising their staking groups to bring in new players along with the following benefits according to the post:

• Full commercial site names, links, etc., will be permitted.
• Anyone with a paid thread will be able to have a “See my staking forum thread” undertitle.

It should be noted that players looking to sell shares of themselves or find a backer will still be able to do so free of charge on 2+2; the change is aimed at staking groups who up to this point, have been for all intents and purposes advertising their product on 2+2 free of charge.

According to Bobo Fett’s post, pricing for a thread in the Staking Forum will be:

• 1 month – $150
• 3 months – $400
• 6 months – $600
• 12 months – $1,000

It will be interesting to see if the decision by 2+2 pays off for them (It should be pointed out that they have been offering this service –which has others plenty of money over the years– for free up until now) or if the stakers move on to other forums or find other ways to bring in new recruits.

Staking has become big business in the poker world since a few pioneers (most notably Cliff “JohnnyBax” Josephy and Eric “Sheets” Haber) realized that the current staking model, which was usually a 100% stake for 50% of the profits, was foolish. Since the mid-2000’s staking deals have tipped more and more in favor of the backer, and with all of the hard-luck cases, up-and-coming players, and external forces like Black Friday, there is never a shortage of players looking to be put into tournaments, regardless of the split in profits.

One player threatening Volpe is Daniel Negreanu, who has had a lackluster WSOP in his own right, while other challengers have also emerged like Steve “zugwatt” Silverman and even a resurgent Erick Lindgren. In fact, the race is so tight on Bluff that a mere21 points separates the Top 5, which should make for one of the most interesting finishes to a POY race in recent memory.

In addition to the Player of the Year races, there is also the World Series of Poker Player of the Year leader-board which is now starting to come into focus with less than 10 events still to be played (along with the WSOP Europe series as well). We’ll get you updated on all four of these leader-boards below: Here is a look at the current POY races:

Bluff Magazine 2013 Player of the Year leader-board (accurate as of 7/1/2013):

1. Daniel Negreanu – 670.36 points
2. Paul Volpe – 668.07 points
3. Steve Silverman – 652.86 points
4. Scott Seiver – 652,57 points
5. Mike Watson – 649.04 points
6. Aaron Lim – 606.65 points
7. Dimitar Danchev – 578.55 points
8. Erick Lindgren – 576.88 points
9. Blake Bohn – 575.30 points
10. Ole Schemion – 556.20 points

Cardplayer Magazine 2013 Player of the Year leader-board (accurate as of 7/1/2013):

1. Paul Volpe — 3,530 points
2. Daniel Negreanu – 3,198 points
3. Steve O’Dwyer – 2,848 points
4. Erick Lindgren — 2,800 points
5. Dimitar Danchev — 2,676 points
6. Jason Duval — 2,386 points
7. Anthony Gregg – 2,330 points
8. Kevin Eyster – 2,280 points
9. Michael Watson – 2,224 points
10. Martin Finger – 2,168 points

Global Poker Index 2013 Player of the Year leader-board (accurate as of 7/1/2013):

1. Paul Volpe – 767.76 points
2. Steven Silverman – 670.01 points
3. Daniel Negreanu – 656.41 points
4. Ole Schemion – 651.74 points
5. Igor Kurganov – 617.18 points
6. Michael Watson – 579.07 points
7. Scott Seiver – 569.77 points
8. Daniel Shak – 568.57 points
9. Sorel Mizzi – 564.45 points
10. Jason Mercier – 564.05 points

All three ranking systems use a different criterion to determine the Player of the Year:

• Cardplayer Magazine focuses on a player’s results over the course of the entire calendar year.
• Bluff Magazine takes into account a player’s results from the previous calendar year (weighted at about 50% of the current year)
• The Global Poker Index uses a players top cashes from different quarters of the year only, all other results are discounted

http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-players/player-of-the-year/%20

http://www.bluff.com/poker-player-of-the-year

http://www.globalpokerindex.com/player-of-the-year/

WSOP Player of the Year Leader-Board (accurate as of July 1, 2013):

1. David (Bakes) Baker — 475.35 points
2. Daniel Negreanu — 470.53 points
3. Tom Schneider — 438.51 points
4. Marco Johnson — 430.63 points
5. Chris Klodnicki — 400.80 points
6. Anthony Gregg — 390.00 points
7. Jared Hamby — 368.73 points
8. Daniel Kelly — 344.70 points
9. Jason Duval — 328.85 points
10. Mark Radoja — 327.75 points