WPTDeepStacks Day 1C: Shuffle Up and Deal

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks NLH (Single Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1: 25/50
Flight C Entries: 134 (Total Entries: 912)

Tony Burns (right), Sam Carioti (middle) and Andrea Johnson

WPT Director of Global Tour Management Sam Carioti kicked off Flight C of the WPTDeepStacks opener moments ago alongside Tournament Director Tony Burns and Royal Flush Girl Andrea Johnson.

WPTDeepStacks Day 1C: Making a Million

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks NLH (Single Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1: 25/50

The $1 Million Guarantee WPTDeepStacks event is playing on the front end of the 2018 Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open schedule this year but that hasn’t slowed down the crowd. The tournament drew 778 entries through the first two flights and now it’s time for the last one to kick off.

The big opening event needs only 253 entries today to make the seven-digit mark and we expect to get there early. They’ll continue to build the prize pool with one of the biggest fields the WPTDeepStack tour will see this year.

We have 142 players who have already booked their way into Day 2 on Sunday and everyone is chasing Maksim Rozenfeld’s 402,000 stack at the top of the chip counts after two flights.

Each player will sit down to a 25,000 starting stack and the tournament plays 40-minute levels throughout. Late registration is available until the start of Level 10 at 6:30 pm after the dinner break and they are restricted to one re-entry if they bust out today. Flight C will continue to play down through 15 levels and all survivors will join up tomorrow for Day 2.

Action gets started at the top of the hour and we will continue to bring all the action along the way.

WPTDeepStacks counts through Flight B

  • $1,000,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
  • Players begin with 25,000 in chips and 40-minute levels
  • Late registration available until start of Level 10
  • Single re-entry allowed per flight
  • Day 1 will end after Level 15 or Tournament Director discretion
  • WPTDeepStacks Structure Sheet

LHPO Day 3 Schedule

Primary Event Schedule

11AM: Day 1C – $1,100 WPTDeepStacks NLH (Single Re-Entry)

  • $1,000,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
  • Players begin with 25,000 in chips and 40-minute levels
  • Late registration available until start of Level 10
  • Single re-entry allowed per flight
  • Day 1 will end after Level 15 or Tournament Director discretion
  • WPTDeepStacks Structure Sheet

5PM: Event 4 – $570 Turbo No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

  • Players begin with 12,000 in chips and 15-minute levels
  • Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 8
  • This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
  • Event 4 Structure Sheet

Secondary and Satellite Schedule

9AM: Event 37 – $140 Turbo Satellite to WPTDeepStacks Event (1-in-10)

  • 2 seats guaranteed into the $1,000,000 GTD WPTDeepStacks
  • Players begin with 8,000 in chips and 15-minute levels
  • Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9
  • Satellite will be held in the Poker Room
  • This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
  • Event 37 Structure Sheet

6PM: Event 38 – $200 Double Green Chip Bounty NLH (Re-Entry)

  • Players begin with 10,000 in chips and 20-minute levels
  • Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 7
  • This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
  • Event 38 Structure Sheet

8PM: Event 39 – $200 Turbo Satellite to Event 6 (1-in-10)

  • 2 seats guaranteed into the $100,000 GTD Purple Chip Bounty
  • Players begin with 8,000 in chips and 15-minute levels
  • Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9
  • This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
  • Event 39 Structure Sheet

Players are encouraged to park in Seminole Way Garage for easy, covered access to the tournament area and poker room
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LHPO Day 2 Comes to a Close

Friday’s Lucky Hearts Poker Open play has come to a close. Here’s a look at what’s in store for Saturday:

  • 9AM: Event 37 – $140 Turbo Satellite to WPTDeepStacks Event (1-in-10)
  • 11AM: Day 1C – $1,100 WPTDeepStacks NLH (Single Re-Entry)
  • 5PM: Event 4 – $570 Turbo No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
  • 6PM: Event 38 – $200 Double Green Chip Bounty NLH (Re-Entry)
  • 8PM: Event 39 – $200 Turbo Satellite to Event 6 (1-in-10)

Complete Series Schedule and Structures

WPTDeepStacks: Chip Counts Through Flight B

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks NLH (Single Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Returning to Level 16: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 ante
Players Remaining: 142 of 778

Flight A: 369 Entries, 68 Advanced
Flight B: 409 Entries, 74 Advanced
Flight C: Saturday at 11am
Day 2: Sunday at Noon

RankFirst NameLast NameChip Count
1MaksimRozenfeld402,000
2JorgeGomez360,500
3ItzhakDickstein341,000
4RajVohra331,500
5JuanMartinez325,000
6DavidPoces319,500
7DaniDayan301,000
8DavidProciak295,000
9WendyFreedman294,000
10JustinHarvell292,500
11CharlesAlexander280,500
12JamesGilbert280,000
13SethGilson272,500
14RyanMcKnight248,500
15YousefNassr248,500
16JessyAlech236,500
17ZacharyDonovan236,500
18AlbertoRodriguez233,000
19RudyMamo231,000
20LuisArias225,500
21CraigWitz220,000
22CharlesLilly217,500
23KevinDeng217,000
24DantonioBrown215,000
25JordanSchneider207,500
26JaimeWiegrefe201,000
27Bruce HarveyFreedman200,500
28MichaelAron198,000
29JohnathonGilliam193,000
30FilippKhavin190,000
31ArtemZverkhovskyy190,000
32LoniHarwood189,000
33MatthewZarcadoolas188,000
34MichaelRusso187,500
35RobertoBendeck184,500
36HansBrown182,000
37JeffRodriguez179,000
38MatthewGreenberg177,000
39TarkAbboud174,500
40JakeSchwartz173,000
41JohnBinns173,000
42VittorioMaraone172,000
43AngelHamm170,000
44GiuseppeRuvolo169,000
45JoshHillock168,000
46BryceMcVay165,000
47KathyLiebert161,500
48CliffordMermell157,500
49MarcLevy157,500
50SamPanzica155,000
51KyleCarino153,000
52SeanRemz151,500
53CraigHogan150,000
54DustinKary149,000
55QasemJamhour148,500
56TuanPhan148,000
57RichardRice142,500
58JohnSpadavecchia142,000
59LukeMcIntosh141,500
60JackRolnitzky137,000
61IvanColes137,000
62AndrewHawkins136,000
63ShawnNguyen135,000
64AlGomez135,000
65JasonWandling134,000
66JoseMontes133,500
67BryanRosen130,500
68YvonneMcQuillan129,500
69MichaelGarcia129,000
70SebastianSoares127,500
71KenBruno122,500
72JacobSnider120,000
73DennisDelgado118,500
74ChadEveslage117,500
75EdMcPike116,000
76JoeCorpus112,500
77AustinPeck108,500
78MannyMinaya107,500
79DavidHass107,000
80TimReilly106,500
81CharlesGomez106,000
82JamesKirvin105,000
83StuartPaterson104,000
84NicholasMann102,000
85AJKelsall100,000
86JackShea99,000
87PeterNigh96,000
88GiovanniAbate95,000
89CarloRodriguez94,000
90DJSwatscheno94,000
91PeterVitantonio93,500
92CypronKerr91,500
93BrandonLulov91,500
94AaronRosenthal91,000
95DarrenRabinowitz91,000
96NicholasMahabee90,000
97CarlosRevilla88,000
98ThomasFoley87,500
99JamesGiordano87,000
100DerrickSimon85,500
101MatthewYorra83,000
102DavidZaldiuar82,500
103JeremyGoureau81,500
104DavidShmuel80,500
105MichaelLaRocca80,000
106TonyUtnage80,000
107IsmailPatel78,500
108AllanBieler77,000
109LazaroRodriguez77,000
110DarenStabinski75,500
111GregBarba75,000
112RobertHodson70,200
113RandySpain70,000
114EduardoBenitez67,000
115DylanDrazen67,000
116TommyMacey66,000
117MichaelHarley65,000
118OmarYates65,000
119MarcSchiller60,000
120AndrewDakoski59,000
121MiguelCapriles59,000
122GlennBruce58,000
123GilbertWhorrie56,500
124DanAssor56,000
125MattHumphrey52,500
126DrewJohnson51,000
127SteveKarp50,000
128ErrolRosen49,500
129PatrickEskandar48,000
130ScottLevitt45,000
131MartinMagal44,500
132RamonMiquel44,000
133GaryBlais43,500
134JamesWhitlow42,000
135JohnCofhlin40,000
136PasqualeCalabria39,000
137MichaelTait39,000
138JeffSilverstein37,500
139EdwardHan37,000
140MarkWiser29,000
141JosephFrezza11,500
142KenO'Donnell11,000

WPTDeepStacks Day 1B: Maksim Rozenfled Takes Overall Lead

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks NLH (Single Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
End of Level 15: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante
Flight B Players Remaining: 74 of 409

Maksim Rozenfeld

Play has come to an end for the second flight of the $1 Million Guarantee WPTDeepStacks event and we have a new leader. Maksim Rozenfeld was off the radar for most of the day but he got our attention with his big castle before too long.

He bagged up 402,000 to take the overall lead with 74 players advancing to Day 2, joining the 68 from Flight A. Also advancing we Loni Harwood, Sam Panzica, Tim Reilly, Stuart Paterson, and Darren Rabinowitz.

A combined 142 are moving on to Day 2 with one more big flight to go on Saturday.

Full chip counts will be published as soon as they are available.

Top ten Flight B stacks:

  1. Maksim Rozenfeld – 402,000
  2. David Poces – 319,500
  3. Wendy Freedman – 294,000
  4. Charles Alexander – 280,500
  5. Ryan McKnight – 248,500
  6. Yousef Nassr – 248,500
  7. Jessy Alech – 236,500
  8. Zachary Donovan – 236,500
  9. Alberto Rodriguez – 233,000
  10. Craig Witz  – 220,000

Seniors: Ira Schwartz Wins Seniors Event Following Five-Way Chop

2018 Lucky Hearts Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino 
Hollywood, Florida
Event 3
$300 Seniors 50+ No Limit Hold’em
Entries: 162
Prize Pool: $41,310
January 12, 2018

2018 LHPO Seniors Event champion Ira Schwartz

The WPTDeepStacks event drew a huge field in the ballroom but that didn’t stop our older players from piling into the meeting room to create a great field of their own. The Seniors Event drew 162 entries and produced a tough final table that saw SHRP regular Ira Schwartz walk away with the trophy.

Those 162 entries more than doubled the turnout in this event during last year’s Lucky Hearts Poker Open. They combined to create a prize pool over $40,000 with 21 players taking home some cash when they were through.

The stacks were deep and they had plenty of time to make their moves. The knockouts were slow in coming until they reached the money bubble after the dinner break. Then it only took one round of hand-for-hand action to burst the bubble and begin the process of paying out the prize pool.

Once they reached the final table ten, tournament staff moved them into the ballroom to play it out.

That table included players with several major SHRP series titles including Haim Toorgeman, Tim Kegel, and 2015 SHRP Player of the Year Ory Hen. John Gordon owns a WSOP Circuit ring and Brad “The Kid” Bargman was happy to be the youngest at the final table at the sprite age of 50 years old.

They were also a group of friends that enjoyed their time playing against each other and the final table had a nice rail cheering them along.

Carlos Cuevas began the final table with the shortest stack and he was unable to run up his five big blinds to exit in tenth place. Kegel followed in ninth place followed by Oscar Trestini in eighth. Fariborz Zojaji and John Gordon gave it a good fight but they hit the payout desk to leave only five left for the title.

Schwartz began the final table with the chip lead and was still out front when the five remaining players decided to chop up the remaining prize pool. Schwartz took the title and trophy as the chip leader and they all had a good laugh when the tournament was complete.

“I’m glad they decided to chop,” Schwartz laughed. “I’m so tired that I think I started seeing double at the end.”

Tournament Director Tony Burns came over to congratulate our Seniors Event champ and noted the Schwartz is one of the nicest players we see on a regular basis.

Congrats to Ira and good luck during the rest of the series.

Seniors Event results:

1st: Ira Schwartz – $6,624 + Trophy*
2nd: Brad Bargman – $6,570*
3rd: Sandy Tabin – $5,625*
4th: Ory Hen – $5,255*
5th: Haim Toorgeman – $2,910*
6th: John Gordon – $1,650
7th: Fariborz Zojaji – $1,429
8th: Oscar Trestini – $1,260
9th: Tim Kegel – $1,098
10th: Carlos Cuevas – $950
11th: Harry Eisenberg – $950
12th: Larry Paden – $950
13th: Sherriee Williams – $806
14th: Dean Rutledge – $806
15th: Robert Holcepl – $806
16th: Ronald Magers – $669
17th: Stephen Leahy – $669
18th: Juri Zaprudnov – $669
19th: Arlene Vazquez – $538
20th: Dennis Koltun – $538
21st: Gary Blais – $538
* – denotes a five-way deal

WPTDeepStack Day 1B: Last Level

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks NLH (Single Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 14: 1,000/2,000 with a 300 ante
Flight B Players Remaining: 99 of 409

Craig Witz

Flight B has reached the last level of the day as the field drops under 100 players remaining. They’ll finish up this up and those with chips will bag up for Day 2 on Sunday.

Craig Witz is doing well tonight and he’s on a freeroll. He told us he was a stunt double, most notably for Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and he was put into the WPTDeepStacks event by his talent agency. Witz is hovering around 200,000 so he’s looking good for a Day 2 return.

WPTDeepStacks Day 1B: Jack Shea Triples; Paul Balzano Eliminated

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks NLH (Single Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 14: 1,000/2,000 with a 300 ante
Flight B Players Remaining: 117 of 409

Jack Shea

We heard a ruckus from one of the tables in the front of the ballroom and we found a three-way all in pot with similar stacks. Jack Shea was all in for 27,300  with the best hand holding 9h9c against Paul Balzano’s QsJs and another player’s QdTd.

Balzano was in a tough spot with one of his queens out of the deck but Shea took a commanding lead on the Ks9d7h flop. There were two baby gutshot draw out there but Shea dodged the 4c turn and Ac river for the triple.

One player was eliminated and Balzano was left with a single 100 ante chip in the big blind. One player raised to isolate and Balzano was actually ahead with Ks8d against Qc7s for the tiny quintuple-up.

Balzano hit the 8s6h6d flop but his opponent picked up an open-ended straight draw on the 5h turn. The table was having a good laugh and they had a mini-explosion when the 9s river finished the straight to send Balzano out.

Paul Balzano

Seniors: Final Table Set

$300 Seniors 50+ No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 18: 2,500/5,000 with a 500 ante | Payouts
Players Remaining: 10 of 162

The huge Seniors field took its time but they finally made it down to a final table. The ten remaining players moved across the hall from the meeting room and are set to play down to the Seniors event champ.

The final table is packed with a lot of talent including regular Haim Toorgeman, Oscar Trestini, Ira Schwartz, Tim Kegel, and 2015 SHRP Player of the Year Ory Hen.

Seat 1: Sandy Tabin – 79,500 (16 bb)
Seat 2: Haim Toorgeman – 87,000 (17 bb)
Seat 3: Ory Hen – 203,000 (41 bb)
Seat 4: Carlos Cuevas – 25,000 (5 bb)
Seat 5: Fariborz Zojaji – 240,000 (48 bb)
Seat 6: Oscar Trestini – 123,500 (25 bb)
Seat 7: Jon Gordon – 245,000 (49 bb)
Seat 8: Ira Schwartz – 275,000 (55 bb)
Seat 9: Tim Kegel – 115,000 (23 bb)
Seat 10: Bradley “The Kid” Bargman – 207,500 (42 bb)

Remaining payouts:

1st: $10,981 + Trophy
2nd: $7,194
3rd: $4,238
4th: $2,580
5th: $1,991
6th: $1,650
7th: $1,429
8th: $1,260
9th: $1,098
10th: $950