Canterberry Poker League · Tournament #114

Brig Coupe’s Second, and Last Month’s Winner Goes Out First

Five and a half hours, the longest night of the season, and Scott Dishong reached a final two forty-nine months after his last win.

Seventeen players took five hours and thirty-two minutes to sort out, the longest tournament of the season, and Brig Coupe won it with four knockouts for $175. It is his second Canterberry Poker League win, twenty-nine months after the first.

He got there through an eighteen-minute heads-up match against Scott Dishong, who took $110 for second. Skippy has four league wins but none since August 2015, forty-nine months ago.

Juan Lopez was third for $70 — his fourth cash in eight league tournaments, and still no win. Dale Ellicott took fourth and $50 with two knockouts, a second money finish in a row, and Charlie Drotar completed the money in fifth for $30.

Where the money went

The undercard

Dawn Bjork won last month six years to the day after her previous one. This month she was the first player out, after an hour and thirty-one minutes, knocked out by Jason Dailey — who then finished sixth and bubbled.

Jeff Reichwein came sixteenth of seventeen, which ends a run of three straight cashes and does not cost him the lead.

The bigger picture

Four tournaments, four different winners. Between them Lee Ugarte, Duane Barone, Dawn Bjork and Brig hold nineteen league wins — and not one of the four had won a tournament in the eleven months before this season started.

Jeff Reichwein leads on 60 points from four starts, two ahead of Brig, who has played three. Five players sit inside five points of the top.

Canterberry Poker League #114 — Friday, September 20, 2019. 17 entrants, five paid from a $435 prize pool. Points shown are the league standings after four tournaments of the 2019-20 season, best six scores counting.