$1,650 Deepest Stack No Limit Hold’em
Level 20: 6,000/12,000/2,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 36/367

Following 10 hands of hand-for-hand play, Raymond Ruszkowski busted 37th in the $1,650 Deepest Event sending the remaining field into the money. On the final hand, Ruszkowski was out of position in a heads-up pot versus Chris Bolek. The flop was . Ruszkowski checked and Bolek bet an unknown amount. After a minute or so, Ruszkowski moved all in for the last of his stack — just over 100,000. Bolek called and the hands were tabled.

Ruszkowski: for top pair
Bolek: for a gutshot straight draw with two overs

The dealer burned and quickly turned the improving Bolek to a pair of kings. Ruszkowski still had outs, but the river wasn’t one of them. He hit the rail 37th, one spot shy of a payday.

Among others, Jessica Dawley, Loni Harwood, Allen Kessler, Ory Hen, Timothy Miles, James Salmon, Steve McKoy and Phil Hui busted shy of the money. The remaining 36 have locked up $3,413 with the tournament’s champion pocketing $148,627, an added $5,250 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship seat and, of course, the Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood guitar trophy.

Prize structure:

1st – $148,627 + SHRPO Seat
2nd – $82,575
3rd – $51,362
4th – $41,288
5th – $32,480
6th – $26,699
7th – $21,470
8th – $16,240
9th – $11,010
10th-12th – $7,157
13th-15th – $5,918
16th-18th – $4,707
19th-27th – $3,854
28th-36th – $3,413

The chip leader for now appears to be Scott Heiligman. Impressively, Heiligman late registered the event this morning, then took a few orbits off before taking his seat to roughly 35,000 chips. In the few levels since, he’s amassed a stack of over 1,500,000.