BERLIN â Northwoods Casino has announced the standing poker champions for 2021 thus far.
Among the long list of players who placed in the weekly poker tournaments, a handful of poker enthusiasts emerged as front-runners in each monthâs Tournament of Champions in January, February and March.
The standings represent the first place winners for qualifying games in December, January, February and March: January, Clifford Hudon; February, Jun Jun Law-As; March, Ron Pryor Sr.; April, Bryan Hood.
Although poker tournaments are held regularly, these championship games are typically played on the first Saturday of the month and are by invitation only.
To qualify for the Tournament of Champions, a player must place in a paying position in at least one game during the prior month.
As a luthier, he spends from 150 to 200 hours making each guitar.
âIt all depends on the level of detail and decoration that a person wants,â Dease said. âCertain models require additional bending of the wood.â
He has completed his 19th guitar and is working on Nos. 20-24.
Dease lives in Advance with his wife, Jamie, and their infant daughter. He has been a pastor at Macedonia Moravian Church since 2016.
He started building guitars in 2014, a few years after inheriting a workshop of machinery and tools when his maternal grandfather, Everette Edwards, died in 2008. The shop machinery, hand tools, clamps and some toolboxes were a gift from his grandmother, Ethelene Edwards of Winston-Salem.