2018 Escalator Series (Week 3)
$350 Buy-In, $300,000 Guaranteed
Level 22: 8,000/16,000 with a 2,000 ante
Players Remaining: 45 of 1,435 | Structure | Payouts

Level 22 is freshly underway and it’s Ronald Campillo that leads the field with only five tables (45 players) left. Campillo has healthy holdings of 1,400,000 and is one of only two players in seven figures.

Ronald Campillo – 1,400,000 (87 bb)

2018 Escalator Series (Week 3)
$350 Buy-In, $300,000 Guaranteed
Level 21: 6,000/12,000 with a 2,000 ante
Players Remaining: 48 of 1,435 | Structure | Payouts

There was heads-up action in a raised pot between Idris Ambraisse and a lone opponent. The flop fell . Ambraisse’s opponent lead and Ambraisse called. The turn was the and both players checked. The river completed the board and Ambraisse’s opponent checked. Ambraisse bet and the opponent reluctantly called.

Ambraisse: for a rivered straight

The opponent was second best and Ambraisse took the pot. The hand moved him further over the 1,000,000 mark as he secured his spot among the chip leaders.

Idris Ambraisse – 1,200,000 (100 bb)

2018 Escalator Series (Week 3)
$350 Buy-In, $300,000 Guaranteed
Heading to Level 21: 6,000/12,000 with a 2,000 ante
Players Remaining: 58 of 1,435 | Structure | Payouts

Here’s another round of results as players are in the midst of their second break of the day:

59th: Bebert Benhamo – $1,020
60th: Adam Ross – $1,020
61st: Loc Nguyen – $1,020
62nd: Ross Corless – $1,020
63rd: Shariff Nassar – $1,020
64th: Michael Fryett – $871
65th: William Farnan – $871
66th: Charles Horton – $871
67th: Chas Samuel – $871
68th: Paul Balzano – $871
69th: Scott Efron – $871
70th: Nicolas Yunis – $871
71st: John Dermody – $871
72nd: Haim Nagar – $871
73rd: Jordan Keller – $790
74th: Michael Newman – $790
75th: Kenneth Bruno – $790
76th: Roberto Martelo – $790
77th: Adam Koppel – $790
78th: Quyen Hoang – $790
79th: Brian Appel – $790
80th: Andre Rakusa – $790
81st: Alexander Ruth – $790
82nd: Anthony Perrotta – $744
83rd: Bryan Reinsel – $744
84th: Joshua Robins – $744
85th: Christian Rodriguez – $744
86th: Thomas Schlesinger – $744
87th: Paulius Bikus – $744
88th: Juan Rodraguez – $744
89th: Vincent Spadavecchia – $744
90th: Shawn Defoe – $744
91st: Eduardo Kock – $710
92nd: Stephen Novak – $710
93rd: Brian Eisenberg – $710
94th: Frederico Dabus – $710
95th: Michael Mizrachi – $710
96th: Justin Harvell – $710
97th: Marvin Young – $710
98th: Rafael Calero – $710
99th: Andrew Dakoski – $710
100th: Juan Peralta – $710
101st: Dennis Rodriguez – $680
102nd: Colby Covington – $680
103rd: Marc Anderson – $680
104th: Richard Leger – $680

Additional results are available in the posts below.

Beginning at 4pm was a $390 buy-in satellite into the $3,000,000 guaranteed televised WPT Poker Showdown Championship. The satellite boasts two seats guaranteed and the clock shows 16 players in the game at present. Registration and re-entry is available until about 7:30pm.

Structure Sheet

2018 Escalator Series (Week 3)
$350 Buy-In, $300,000 Guaranteed
Level 20: 5,000/10,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 67 of 1,435 | Structure | Payouts

Down to his last 31,000 South Florida’s Paul Balzano open-shoved  under the gun. It folded all the way around to the big blidn, Georges Boyadjian.

“Do you want action?” Boyadjian asked. “I haven’t looked.”

Balzano called for action and got it as Boyadjian plopped a lone 25,000 chip in the middle signifying a call.

Balzano:
Boyadjian:

Runout:

Boyadjina paired the flop giving Balzano a sweat. The turn was a blank, but the river gave Boyadjian trips and Balzano was dealt a brutal beat to bust in 68th place.

Georges Boyadjian – 500,000 (50 bb)
Paul Balzano – Eliminated in 68th place ($871)

2018 Escalator Series (Week 3)
$350 Buy-In, $300,000 Guaranteed
Level 19: 4,000/8,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 81 of 1,435 | Structure | Payouts

Francis Margaglione recently called a 16,000-chip raise preflop. The was a 20,000-chip C-bet on the flop and Margaglione called that, too. On the turn, Margaglione was the aggressor betting 100,000 after his opponent checked. The opponent took some time, but folded. Margaglione took a small pot and continued his upward Day 2 trend.

Margaglione is a three-time Seminole Hard Rock champion and eyes a fourth title here in the Escalator $350. He claims 805,000 chips good for one of the biggest stacks in the room.

Francis Margaglione – 805,000 (100 bb)

The property’s Hot Seat Sundays promo is underway at the cash tables for any Escalator players that find the felt. Its set to pay $500 to random winners every hour between now and 8:15pm.

Full details on Hot Seat Sundays and a look at all other Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood poker promos are available HERE.

2018 Escalator Series (Week 3)
$350 Buy-In, $300,000 Guaranteed
Level 18: 3,000/6,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 104 of 1,435 | Structure | Payouts

Here’s a look at the updated results at the start of Level 18:

105th: Shadrach Samuel Tercy – $680
106th: Steve Karp – $680
107th: Witold Wasik – $680
108th: Bran Crudden – $680
109th: Haim Toorgeman – $680
110th: Dylan Drazen – $680
111th: Robert Kessler – $654
112th: Vitaly Chaika – $654
113th: Jonathan Williams – $654
114th: Marcus Stein – $654
115th: Joseph Rahman – $654
116th: Edgar Varas – $654
117th: Scott Zakheim – $654
118th: Francisco Castillo – $654
119th: Steven Bennett – $654
120th: Chad Freedman – $654
121st: Randy Burstein – $637
122nd: Antonio Colon – $637
123rd: Blake Kouwenhoven – $637
124th: Michael Kopjanski – $637
125th: Vito Polera – $637
126th: Ievgenii Geletek – $637
127th: Anthony Astarita – $637
128th: Sheldon Gross – $637
129th: Eric Mutschler – $637
130th: Brent Philbin – $637
131st: Nicolas Nieto – $629
132nd: Peter Chin – $629
133rd: Tomislav Krizanic – $629
134th: Adam Reitoral – $629
135th: Christopher Brown – $629
136th: Rayme Silvestre – $629
137th: Nissim Gozlan – $629
138th: Antonio Albanes – $629
T139th: Lawrence Klur – $315
T139th: Kharlin Sued – $315
T140th: Lee Cain – $314
T140th: Wlidir Guerra – $314

2018 Escalator Series (Week 3)
$350 Buy-In, $300,000 Guaranteed
Heading to Level 18: 3,000/6,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 108 of 1,435 | Structure | Payouts

Michael Graffeo began Day 2 near the top of the counts (second) and stayed there throughout the first two hours of the restart. To start the day, he claimed 332,500 chips but he’s nearly doubled his holdings and now sits on about 640,000 on first break.

Cards go back in the air shortly with blinds of 2,500/5,000 and a 500 ante. Graffeo holds one of the largest stacks in the room.

No stranger to the chip lead, Graffeo won the 2017 Lucky Hearts Poker Open WPTDeepStacks Main Event right here in Hollywood.

Michael Graffeo – 640,000 (106 bb)

2018 Escalator Series (Week 3)
$350 Buy-In, $300,000 Guaranteed
Level 17: 2,500/5,000 with a 500 ante
Players Remaining: 117 of 1,435 | Structure | Payout

Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi recently flexed some muscle betting the last of his opponent’s 132,000-chip stack preflop. Mizrachi was caught with versus . An runout smacked the opponent and Mizrachi shipped a six-figure pot across the table.

Michael Mizrachi – 100,000 (20 bb)