2019 LHPO Live Updates

Event 1: Chip Counts Through Flight E

January 12, 2019 @ 9:45PM by BJ Nemeth

$360 Ultimate Re-Entry
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 17: 4,000/8,000 with an 8,000 ante
Players Remaining: 230 of 2,560

Flight A: 483 Entries; 48 Advanced
Flight B: 417 Entries; 41 Advanced; 5 Multi-Stack Payouts
Flight C: 528 Entries; 52 Advanced, 5 Multi-Stack Payouts
Flight D: 457 Entries, 45 Advanced, 4 Multi-Stack Payouts
Flight E: 675 Entries, 67 Advanced, 9 Multi-Stack Payouts
Flight F: Saturday at 5pm
Flight G: Sunday at 11am
Flight H: Sunday at 5pm
Day 2: Monday at 1pm

Multi-Stack Payouts (23):

Stephen Ibrahim (3)
David Nathaniel, Jr. (2)
Donald Maloney, Jr. (2)
David Bradshaw, Jr.
Landon Brown
Ismael Cabrera
Massimo Dirienzo
Michael Dudik
Cangir Elcin
Frankie Flowers
Brian Hastings
Solange Lucas
Oniel McCalla
Jose Reyes
Sean Shah
Raminder Singh
Courtland Twyman
Jason Young
Matthew Zarcadoolas

RANK	FIRST NAME	LAST NAME	CHIP COUNT	FLIGHT
1	Frank	Flowers	578,500	B
2	Bret	Grebow	557,500	A
3	Alejandro	Funes	544,000	E
4	Rayden	Abreu	535,500	B
5	Brian	Hastings	517,000	D
6	Emory	Oese-Siegel	497,500	D
7	Paulius	Bikus	497,000	C
8	Jacob	Naumann	493,000	C
9	Constantinos	Liapis	447,500	B
10	Ginold	Cham	446,000	B
11	James	Salmon III	429,500	A
12	Dejan	Petkovic	388,500	A
13	Sheldon	Gross	382,000	C
14	Greg	Rosen	381,000	E
15	Jason	Ibrahim	372,000	E
16	Cesar	Mendoza Gomez	371,500	B
17	Jason	Young	361,000	A
18	Jose	Reyes	336,000	C
19	Stephen	Ibrahim	331,000	E
20	Daniel	Eichhorn	328,500	E
21	Raminder	Singh	322,000	C
22	David	Bradshaw, Jr.	317,000	A
23	Michael	Dudik	308,000	C
24	Landon	Brown	305,500	D
25	Michael	Newman	303,500	E
26	Truyen	Nguyen	300,000	E
27	Thomas	Bielecky	298,000	C
28	David	Hass	294,500	E
29	Jose	Gonzalez Portela	292,500	E
30	Paul	Pantoja	292,500	A
31	Noel	Atherley	284,000	E
32	Nagui	Yassa	278,500	E
33	Timothy	Marcus	254,500	E
34	Anthony	Aldrich	247,000	D
35	Andrew	Zhu	246,000	D
36	Kyle	Carino	243,000	A
37	Josef	Schmalzbauer	242,000	E
38	Francis	Margaglione	241,500	D
39	Robert	Transue	240,000	D
40	Matthew	Humphrey	239,500	A
41	Scott	Robbins	239,000	E
42	David	Nathaniel, Jr.	238,500	C
43	David	Pain	238,500	C
44	Jonathan	Sanchez	235,500	B
45	Eric	Tuan	235,000	D
46	John	Miller	231,000	E
47	Fernando	Pages	231,000	E
48	Matthew	Silva	230,000	D
49	Jack	Rolnitzky	226,500	E
50	Anthony	Stampalia	224,500	C
51	Courtland	Twyman	222,500	C
52	Tomislav	Krizanic	222,000	C
53	Lawrence	Mazauskas	222,000	C
54	Matthew	White	222,000	B
55	Charles	Gomez	218,500	D
56	Marvin	Tulloch	216,000	E
57	Anthony	Utnage	215,000	D
58	Gheorghe	Pop	214,500	C
59	Paul	Domb	213,500	A
60	Antonio	Delacruz	212,000	B
61	Mehdi	Belhassan	211,000	D
62	Jeffrey	Boden	203,500	A
63	Sebastian	Kos	202,500	E
64	Staffan	Lind	202,500	D
65	Igor	Evseev	200,500	B
66	Anthony	Cuffari	196,000	D
67	Joseph	Levitt	196,000	D
68	Borja	Iglesias Jato	195,000	D
69	Carlos	Guerrero	194,000	E
70	Peter	Jacobson	191,500	C
71	Mathieu	Gaudette	191,000	B
72	Raymond	Millard	188,500	C
73	Alexandre	Henry	188,000	D
74	Floyd	Mcmurry	181,000	D
75	Justin	Levy	180,500	C
76	Arie	Ben-mayor	179,500	E
77	Michael	Merisier	178,000	A
78	Eric	Kolodny	177,500	C
79	Ian	Holt	177,000	C
80	Norman	Zapczynski	174,500	A
81	Louis	Pearce	173,500	E
82	Lawrence	Klur	169,000	B
83	Luke	Owens	166,500	A
84	Michel	Dubreuil	165,500	A
85	Angel	Bracho	165,000	B
86	Perry	Shiao	164,000	D
87	Yannick	Tessier	164,000	B
88	Daniel	Couzens	162,500	B
89	Carlos	Loving	162,500	E
90	Ismael	Cabrera	161,500	C
91	Luis	Mantilla	160,000	A
92	Richard	Katz	158,500	A
93	David	Shmuel	154,000	B
94	Christopher	Smallwood	153,500	B
95	Rafael	De Lima	151,000	C
96	Richard	Leger	151,000	E
97	Carmine	Floreno	150,000	D
98	Oniel	Mccalla	150,000	B
99	David	Inselberg	148,500	E
100	Alexander	Step	147,500	E
101	Daniel	Quesada	146,000	C
102	Juan	Rodriguez	146,000	E
103	Steven	Anderson	145,500	E
104	Femi	Fashakin	145,500	E
105	Cangir	Elcin	142,500	A
106	Jerome	Neloms	140,000	D
107	Michael	Gilfedder	139,000	E
108	Alex	Faynshteyn	138,000	C
109	Vadim	Rozin	136,000	E
110	Charles	Simon	134,500	D
111	Dafney	Adisson	134,000	D
112	Scott	Sommer	131,500	D
113	Rene	Esquivel	130,000	C
114	James	Hamburger	129,500	A
115	Sergio	Braga	127,500	D
116	Samir	Desai	127,000	C
117	James	Rovezzi	127,000	C
118	Kevin	Glenn	126,000	C
119	Eric	Snyder	125,000	C
120	Brian	Gelrod	121,000	B
121	Alvaro	Perez Garcia	121,000	B
122	William	Valladares Hurtado	121,000	D
123	Kenneth	Bruno	120,500	A
124	Matan	Yehudai	120,000	B
125	Donald	Williams	117,500	A
126	Massimo	Dirienzo	115,000	E
127	Alfredo	Fernandez	114,000	D
128	Curtis	King	112,000	E
129	Edward	Mallon	112,000	E
130	Willie	Wiggins	111,500	A
131	Sean	Harper	111,000	E
132	Daniel	Navarrete	109,000	A
133	Gary	Kreymer	108,500	E
134	Agustin	Perez Cortes	108,500	D
135	Marcin	Plewinski	108,000	B
136	Mark	Wiser	108,000	C
137	Prashray	Rai	105,500	C
138	Scott	Zakheim	105,000	A
139	Stuart	Paterson	104,500	A
140	Frederico	Dabus	104,000	B
141	John	Holley III	101,500	D
142	Sebastian	Gallego	101,000	A
143	George	Mazauskas	100,000	C
144	John	Spadavecchia	100,000	C
145	Nicholas	Rascona	99,000	E
146	Michael	Loynd	98,500	A
147	Benjamin	Keathley	96,500	E
148	Gary	Haimon	95,500	E
149	Jason	Hopkins	94,000	A
150	Justin	Obront	93,000	A
151	Alexandre	Arsenault	92,500	E
152	Maurice	Lightner	92,500	B
153	Richard	Whitebrook	92,000	A
154	Gregory	Kolo	91,000	B
155	Jonathan	Turner	91,000	E
156	Jean-luc	Docquier	90,000	E
157	Michael	Ortiz	89,500	B
158	Gregory	Fishberg	88,000	D
159	Fariborz	Zojaji	88,000	D
160	Marc	Sacheli	87,000	E
161	Henry	Billete	83,000	D
162	Lazaro	Dubrocq	83,000	C
163	Anthony	Carbone	81,000	B
164	Joviel	Gonzalez	81,000	C
165	Evgeniy	Catane	80,500	B
166	Philip	Consolo	79,000	C
167	Jorge	Ramirez	76,500	B
168	Christopher	Wiggins	76,500	E
169	Victor	Merkel	76,000	E
170	Eric	La Neve	75,500	E
171	Fred	Li	73,000	A
172	Carlos	Torres Vazquez	73,000	D
173	Matthew	Zarcadoolas	72,000	A
174	Mark	Smyrski	71,500	D
175	Walid	Maddah	70,000	E
176	Peter	Wynne II	69,000	E
177	David John	Milbrand	67,000	C
178	Nader	Bahhur	66,000	D
179	Nancy	Birnbaum	64,500	D
180	Kimberley	Kusser	64,500	A
181	Yves	Bohemier	64,000	C
182	Isaac	Kratcham	61,500	A
183	Marc	Alan	61,000	A
184	Sergio	Giha	61,000	E
185	Samuel	Borger	60,500	D
186	James	Gibson	59,000	C
187	Jason	Squillace	58,500	B
188	Brian	Guzman	58,000	A
189	Scott	Jordan	58,000	B
190	Jonathan	Shapiro	57,000	A
191	Daniel	Chess	55,000	A
192	Solange	Lucas	54,000	E
193	Charles	Lilly	53,000	B
194	Donald	Maloney, Jr.	53,000	D
195	Joshua	Duvdivani	51,000	D
196	Tracy	Scala	50,500	A
197	Dagoberto	Rios	50,000	C
198	Jay	Convente	49,000	A
199	Kimmo	Soronen	49,000	E
200	Ross	Willner	49,000	C
201	Zoltan	Czinkota	46,500	E
202	Raffaello	Locatelli	46,000	E
203	Jonathan	Dobson	45,000	B
204	John	Dermody	44,000	E
205	Syed	Shah	43,500	A
206	Philippe	Knapic	42,000	C
207	Luciano	Nardi	42,000	B
208	Washington	Gavilanes	41,500	E
209	Mark	Proman	41,000	E
210	Wayne	Kaufman	40,500	D
211	Richard	Davis	40,000	C
212	Frank	Muir	40,000	D
213	Steven	Carswell	39,500	E
214	Stanley	Grandon	39,500	E
215	Kevin	Scarola	34,500	C
216	Hagai	Stein	34,000	A
217	Glen	Gruner	33,000	E
218	Gil	Aboodi	32,000	A
219	Yuan	Shen	31,500	C
220	Andrew	Frier	31,000	B
221	Marc	Saia	31,000	D
222	Michael	Monaco	21,000	C
223	Nashaat	Antonious	19,000	E
224	Jack	Shea	18,000	B
225	Leonardo	Clavel	17,000	D
226	Neal	Corcoran	16,000	A
227	Jorge	Soto	16,000	A
228	Jaime	Wiegrefe	13,000	E
229	Antonio	Arencibia Monduy	10,500	B
230	Bill	Oderat	8,500	C

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Event 4: Final Table Set for $360 Pot Limit Omaha 8

January 12, 2019 @ 9:24PM by BJ Nemeth

$360 Pot Limit Omaha 8 (Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 14: 1,500/3,000
Players Remaining 10 of 86

Final Table - Event 4 — Final Table – Event 4

After the elimination of Matthew Kaplan in 11th place, the final 10 players had a redraw for random seats at the final table. Here are their approximate chip counts:

Seat 1. Michael Cuevas – 78,300 (26 bb)
Seat 2. Gabriel Ramos – 55,000 (18 bb)
Seat 3. Shannon Kelly – 67,800 (23 bb)
Seat 4. Sean Remz – 116,700 (39 bb)
Seat 5. Matt Bianchini – 45,600 (15 bb)
Seat 6. Andrew Woodmancey – 220,000 (73 bb)
Seat 7. Robert Wachtel – 97,000 (32 bb)
Seat 8. Mark Threadgill – 59,500 (20 bb)
Seat 9. Fabian Alberto Mayorga – 208,200 (69 bb)
Seat 10. Andrea Mastrogiovanni – 120,000 (40 bb)

And here is the prizepool, which is paying 11 spots:

1st: $8,320 + LHPO trophy
2nd: $5,031
3rd: $3,128
4th: $2,116
5th: $1,613
6th: $1,290
7th: $1,071
8th: $903
9th: $832
10th: $774
11th: Matthew Kaplan – $722

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Event 1 Flight E: Alejandro Funes Finishes with 544K to Lead 67 Survivors

January 12, 2019 @ 8:57PM by BJ Nemeth

$360 Ultimate Re-Entry
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 17: 4,000/8,000 with an 8,000 ante
Flight E Players Remaining: 67 of 675

Flight E came to an end with 67 players advancing to Day 2, and action ended with less than five minutes remaining in Level 17.

The full list of official chip counts will be posted later tonight, but here’s the top seven chip stacks (everyone with at least 300K) from Flight E:

1. Alejandro Funes – 544,000 (68 bb)
2. Greg Rosen – 381,000 (48 bb)
3. Jason Ibrahim – 372,000 (47 bb)
4. Stephen Ibrahim – 331,000 (41 bb)
5. Daniel Eichhorn – 328,500 (41 bb)
6. Michael Newman – 303,500 (38 bb)
7. Truyen Nguyen – 300,000 (38 bb)

Incredibly, Stephen Ibrahim has survived four of the first five starting flights, and he’s received $2,500 for each chip stack after the first — $7,500, plus whatever he makes with his largest stack (331,000) that survived to Day 2.

The surviving players are all guaranteed at least $700 for a min-cash on Day 2, though the full prizepool won’t be available until registration has closed in all eight starting flights.

The final two starting flights will be held tomorrow (Sunday), with Flight G beginning at 11:00 am (registration open until 5:45 pm), and Flight H beginning at 5:00 pm (registration open until 11:45 pm).

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Event 1 Flight E: Alejandro Funes Knocks Out the Bubble Player to End Flight E

January 12, 2019 @ 8:48PM by BJ Nemeth

$360 Ultimate Re-Entry
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 17: 4,000/8,000 with an 8,000 ante
Flight E Players Remaining: 67 of 675

Alejandro Funes Knocks Out the Bubble — Alejandro Funes (left) knocked out the unfortunate bubble finisher (right).

After an elimination dropped the field down to 68 players, Tournament Director Tony Burns announced that all tables should finish the hands in progress before hand-for-hand play could begin for the end-of-day Money Bubble.

But one of the tables had already begun a hand taht would lead to an all-in situation.

Chipleader Alejandro Funes raised from the cutoff to 18,000, the player on the button moved all in for 115,000, and Funes tanked for a while before he called with .

The player on the button turned over , and was dominated as he faced elimination on the Money Bubble.

The board came 10s — the player on the button flopped a gutshot straight draw, but improved no further. Funes won the pot with a pair of aces to eliminate his opponent, catapult above 500K, and burst the Money Bubble, bringing Flight E to a conclusion.

Alejandro Funes – 544,000

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Event 1 Flight E: Nearing the End-of-Day Money Bubble

January 12, 2019 @ 7:48PM by BJ Nemeth

$360 Ultimate Re-Entry
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 17: 4,000/8,000 with an 8,000 ante
Flight E Players Remaining: 72 of 675

With 72 players remaining, Flight E is just five eliminations away from the money as they go on their break. As soon as they reach the final 68, they will begin hand-for-hand play on the Money Bubble, which is also the end-of-day bubble.

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Event 1 Flight F: Chuck Polania Leads the Field at the Break with 68K

January 12, 2019 @ 7:32PM by BJ Nemeth

$360 Ultimate Re-Entry
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5: 200/300 with a 300 ante
Flight F Entries: 332

A scan of the field during the first break turned up 11 players with at least 45K in chips, and three with at least 50K in chips, creating an unofficial leaderboard:

1. Chuck Polania – 68,500 (228 bb)
2. Sheldon Gross – 61,300 (204 bb)
3. Mirco Scharen – 55,000 (183 bb)

Registration remains open with unlimited re-entries until the beginning of Level 13, around 11:45 pm.

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Ladies Event: Prize Pool and Payouts

January 12, 2019 @ 6:47PM by AlCantHang

$250 Ladies No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$10,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 11: 1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante
Players Remaining: 24 of 76

Registration closed on the Ladies Event and it was a great turnout. The tournament had a $10,000 guaranteed prize pool and the 76 entries easily surpassed it. They combined to create a prize pool worth $15,960 and the last ten spots will earn some money.

A min-cash is worth $479 while the winner takes home $5,394 plus the LHPO trophy, custom-framed winner’s photo courtesy of Image Masters, a vacation package at Hard Rock Atlantic City, and a $1,100 seat into the $1,000,000 Guarantee WPTDeepStacks Main Event.

2019 Lucky Hearts Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 5
$250 Ladies No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Entries: 76
Prize Pool: $15,960
January 12, 2019

1st: $5,394 + Main Event seat and Hard Rock AC package
2nd: $3,112
3rd: $1,947
4th: $1,317
5th: $998
6th: $798
7th: $718
8th: $638
9th: $559
10th: $479

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Event 1 Flight E: Registration Closed with 675 Entries

January 12, 2019 @ 6:22PM by AlCantHang

$360 Ultimate Re-Entry
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 14: 1,500/3,000 with a 3,000 ante
Flight E Entries: 675

Registration closed on the fifth of eight flights in the Ultimate Re-Entry event and it drew a whopping 675 entries on a Saturday afternoon, the biggest of the tournament so far. The combined total is up to 2,560 with three huge flights to go.

Day/Time	Flight	Entries	Advanced	Multi-Stacks
Thursday at 11am	A	483	48	—
Thursday at 5pm	B	417	36	5
Friday at 11am	C	528	47	5
Friday at 5pm	D	457	41	4
Saturday at 11am	E	675	TBD	TBD
Saturday at 5pm	F	—	—	—
Sunday at 11am	G	—	—	—
Sunday at 5pm	H	—	—	—
Total		2,560	172	14

Ultimate Re-Entry counts through Flight D

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Ladies Event: Last Level to Register

January 12, 2019 @ 6:04PM by AlCantHang

$250 Ladies No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$10,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9: 600/1,200 with a 1,200 ante
Entries: 72

Nancy Thomas (left) and Sachi Botner (right)

The Ladies Event is into the ninth level of the day and time is running out to get into the action. We have 72 entries so far, a great turnout for the special event.

Sachi Botner looks like the current leader with 65,000 and she has some competition on her right in Nancy Thomas. She picked up the biggest score of her career in the same event as the previously mentioned Jerry Wong. Thomas made the first Ultimate Re-Entry final table in 2017 and finished second for nearly $110,000.

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Event 1 Flight E: Closing Registration

January 12, 2019 @ 5:41PM by AlCantHang

$360 Ultimate Re-Entry
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 12: 800/1,600 with a 1,600 ante
Flight E Entries: 674

They are running out the clock in Level 12 and players will take another break once it hits zero. Registration will close on Flight E when they return and the 674 we have already is a big number.

It includes former November Niner Jerry Wong, the first ever Ultimate Re-Entry champ. We first ran this format during the 2017 Lucky Hearts Poker Open and it drew 4,756 entries for the second biggest field in Florida poker history. Wong dominated late and took home a quarter of a million dollars in a four-way deal.

Of course for Wong, that wasn’t close to his biggest score. That would be his eighth-place finish at the 2016 WSOP Main Event final table for $1.1 million.