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It should have been the win which set him up for life, but for Glenn Chorny it turned out to be a completely different kind of ‘set-up’, one which cost him over $1million of his $3million EPT win from 2008.
Now the Canadian pro is heading to the courts hoping to win back the cash which he paid to Philippe Rouas and the Frenchman’s ill-fated Poker World Society Inc.
Chorny hit the headlines when landed the massive 1st prize at the 2008 Monte Carlo Grand Final of the European Poker Tour - $3,196,354 – defeating the likes of Luca Pagano, Antonio Esfandiari and Joe Hachem along the way.
However within a year, and despite some good results in further events, Chorny had been talked into investing in Rouas’ grand plans for a social media poker site – PokerBattle.com – described as a “lifestyle, retail and gaming brand.”
The Frenchman’s offer of 10% of the company (with Rouas boasting of $2million a day profits) for a 7-figure investment must have appeared very appealing to Chorny – with the likes of Chris Ferguson, David Benyamin and the Mizrachi brothers appearing at a ‘launch party’ in Cannes at the Partouche Poker Tour along with media attention from all the biggest poker sites and magazines.
Rouas’ plans included a series of Poker Battles to promote the site, with several big-name pros as ‘Warriors’, the likes of Chino Rheem and Noah Schwartz joining the Mizrachis and others.
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As Chorny was to find out though, the website and poker community plans of Rouas were to come to nothing, leaving the Canadian $1million out of pocket. His lawsuit, filed this week in Marion Superior Court in Indianapolis, seeks to claw back his investment after alleging years of run-arounds by the Frenchman – whose company is apparently is still registered in his name today.
According to Chorny, he was eventually told by Rouas that the company had been sold for $2.5million in 2015 and he would receive his 10% share of that, but he claims he has never received a cent of the money and has subsequently discovered that Poker World Society “ceased operations in late 2009 or early 2010,” according to court documents.
Rouas has had success at the poker table – some $400,000 in tournament earnings – but has also been in trouble off the felt several times. He lost a judgment against Bob Evans Farms in 1997, a Coca-Cola distributor while Rouas was in charge of a packaged meat business, which cost him a $740,000 judgement.
Three years later he filed for bankruptcy after another online venture, Anebel.com, failed to work out.
Chorny’s lawsuit in the Marion County Superior Court will be heard by Superior Court Judge Cynthia Ayers and the case reconvenes on September 1 in Indianapolis.
2021 Lucky Hearts Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 1
$600 Deep Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry Per Flight)
$300,000 Guaranteed
Entries: 3,004
Prize Pool: $1,577,100
January 14-17, 2021
The much-anticipated return of a big poker series to South Florida began on January 14 and the opening tournament of the 2021 Lucky Hearts Poker Open was everything we hoped it would be. Event 1 drew more than 3,000 entries and Tampa regular Fernando Rodriguez outlasted them all to book a $205,000 win.
Players were eager to come out and play live poker in a safe and sound environment. The $600 buy-in Deep Stack tournament had six starting flights that combined to put 3,004 entries in the field. The $300,000 guarantee was bested before Flight B even started and they pushed the prize pool up to $1,577,100 by the time registration closed Saturday evening.
Rodriguez came into Day 2 with the third biggest stack among the 375 returners and only had a few problems along the way.
“I lost a couple bad hands but I got moved to a new table.” Rodriguez said of his run. “They didn’t know me and I didn’t tilt or make bad plays. It was good from then.”
Rodriguez had a clear lead at the end of Day 2 when nine players advanced to a bonus day of poker. He was joined by fellow Tampa Poker regular Peter Walsworth and Fabian Foster with the biggest stacks and all three would be there at the end.
Walsworth was in control to start the final table and quickly amassed a huge stack. But those chips did not last after a series of tough hands while Scott Blackman built a stack and Jason Johnson stayed alive with a handful of nice doubles.
Rodriguez regained the lead in a big way when he sent both Walsworth and Johnson out within a few minutes. Those two hands left only three players in the tournament and Rodriguez holding the lion’s share of the chips. They worked out a deal to divide up the remaining prize pool with Foster earning $143,355 for third place, Blackman $200,000 for second, and Rodriguez took home $205,000 along with the LHPO trophy.
“It feels really great,” Rodriguez said. “I said I’d be back here and here I am.”
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This is the first Hollywood win for Rodriguez and the biggest score of his career. He is a familiar face in our sister room in Tampa and his previous best cash was a fourth-place finish in the 2020 Tampa Winter Poker Open Main Event in December.
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“I’m going to play everything,” Rodriguez laughed when asked about his plans for the series. “I want to play everything I can.”
Final table results:
1st: Fernando Rodriguez – $205,000 + LHPO Trophy *
2nd: Scott Blackman – $200,000 *
3rd: Fabian Foster – $143,366 *
4th: Jason Johnson – $86,047
5th: Peter Walsworth – $63,762
6th: Jesse Lott – $46,877
7th: Brandon Navarrete – $34,557