$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Main Event
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 16: 2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Flight B Players Remaining: 177 of 943

There were another 499 entries on Day 1B, creating a tournament total of 943 and counting. There were 85 who bagged up chips on Day 1A and another 92 who survived Day 1B.

Here are the official chip counts for all 177 survivors heading to Day 2 so far, with an average chip count around 160,000 (40 big blinds):

Flight A: 444 Entries; 85 Advanced
Flight B: 499 Entries; 92 Advanced
Flight C: Saturday at noon
Day 2: Sunday at noon

2019 Lucky Hearts Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 15
$360 Six-Max Pot Limit Omaha 8 (Single Re-Entry)
Entries:  45
Prize Pool:  $13,500
January 18, 2019

Brad Albrinck defeated David To in a heads-up battle to win the $360 Six-Max Pot Limit Omaha 8 event, earning $4,635. It was an impressive comeback for Albrinck, who began the final table with the second shortest chip stack, worth only 13 big blinds at the time.

There were 45 entries in this event, which started at 3:00 pm with Day 1B of the Main Event playing out in the background.

Albrinck has more than $1.1 million in career live tournament earnings, and this is his second trophy from the Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood. At last year’s Lucky Hearts Poker Open, Albrinck won the $360 No Limit Hold’em Black Chip Bounty event to win $6,100.

Final Results:

1st:  Brad Albrinck  –  $4,635 + LHPO Trophy
2nd:  David To  –  $3,040
3rd:  Erik Nomberg  –  $2,020
4th:  Heriberto Ferreyra  –  $1,355
5th:  Robert Wachtel  –  $925
6th:  Lars Johannsson  –  $635
7th:  Robert Oxenberg  –  $445
8th:  Kevin Sherrill  –  $445

2019 Lucky Hearts Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 14
$570 Pot Limit Omaha 8 (Re-Entry)
Entries:  40
Prize Pool:  $20,000
January 18, 2019

With Day 1B of the Main Event playing out in the background, Shawn Nguyen outlasted a field of 40 entries in $570 Pot Limit Omaha 8 to win $8,200.

This is the second PLO-8 trophy that Nguyen has won here at the Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood in just the past two months. Nguyen’s other PLO-8 victory came during the Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open, when he won $360 Pot Limit Omaha 8 to earn $8,471.

Nguyen also picked up the biggest score of his career here; he finished fourth at the televised final table of the 2015 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown, earning $323,500.

Final Results:

1st:  Shawn Nguyen  –  $8,200 + LHPO trophy
2nd:  Sean Legendre  –  $5,000
3rd:  Daniel Vitiello  –  $3,000
4th:  Zachary Milchman  –  $2,200
5th:  George Linkenback  –  $1,600

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Main Event
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 16: 2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Flight B Players Remaining: 92 of 499

Day 1B comes to an end with 92 survivors, and Nate Fair bagged the chip lead after winning a huge pot in the final minutes of the day.

The full list of official chip counts will be posted later tonight, but here are the chipleaders:

1.  Nate Fair  –  547,000  (137 bb)
2.  Kevin Chan  –  473,000  (118 bb)
3.  Matthew Zarcadoolas  –  370,000  (93 bb)
4.  Gustavo Lopez  –  347,000  (87 bb)
5.  Yaroslav Nakonechnyy  –  345,000  (86 bb)
6.  Joe Druetto  –  310,000  (78 bb)

Day 1C begins tomorrow (Saturday) at 12:00 noon, and Day 2 begins Sunday at 12:00 noon.

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Main Event
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 15: 1,500/3,000 with a 3,000 ante
Flight B Players Remaining: 99 of 499

In the final minutes of Day 1B, Nate Fair raised under the gun to 7,000, Matthew Bretzfield reraised from middle position to 21,000, and Fair called.

The flop came , Fair checked, Bretzfield bet, and Fair check-raised to 65,000. Bretzfield called.

The turn card was the , Fair bet 55,000, and Bretzfield thought for a while before he called.

The river card was the , and Fair moved all in for 130,000. Bretzfield tanked for a long time until Fair called for a clock, and as the timer ticked down, Bretzfield called.

Fair turned over for two pair, aces and threes, and Bretzfield threw his cards into the muck. Fair won the pot to double up into the chip lead with about 550K.

Nate Fair  –  550,000  (183 bb)

The next hand, Bretzfield got it all in with , but ran into the cutoff’s . Bretzfield never caught up, and he was eliminated from Day 1B.

Matthew Bretzfield  –  Eliminated

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Main Event
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 15: 1,500/3,000 with a 3,000 ante
Flight B Players Remaining: 110 of 499

A.J. Gambino raised under the gun, the UTG+1 player called, and Ory Hen moved all in from middle position for 57,000. Gambino called, and the UTG+1 player folded.

Hen turned over , and he needed his hand to hold to stay alive against Gambino’s .

The board came , and the pocket kings held up for Hen to win the pot with a full house and double up in chips.

Ory Hen  –  128,000  (43 bb)
A.J. Gambino  –  163,000  (54 bb)

After a flop of , Evan Teitelbaum was all in from the small blind for about 68,000 with , but he needed to improve to stay alive against Jon Turner’s .

The turn card was the , the river card was the , and Turner won the pot with his pocket jacks to eliminate Teitelbaum from Day 1B.

Jon Turner  –  285,000  (95 bb)
Evan Teitelbaum  –  Eliminated

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Main Event
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 14: 1,500/2,500 with a 2,500 ante
Flight B Players Remaining: 126 of 499

There appear to be four players with at least 300K right now, and all three are fairly close in chips. Two of them knocked out a player in the past 10 minutes:

Three players check the flop to see a board of on the turn. The big blind checks, Jon Turner checks from the hijack, and Joe Druetto bets 12,000 from the button. The player in the big blind moved all in for about 40,000, and Turner folded.

Druetto called, and the big blind turned over for a pair of jacks with an open-ended straight draw. But Druetto turned over for a pair of jacks with a higher kicker, and the big blind needed to improve to stay alive.

The river card paired the board with the , and Druetto won the pot with trip jacks and an ace kicker to eliminate the player in the big blind from Day 1B.

Joe Druetto  –  320,000  (128 bb)

After a flop of , Malachi Wiggs was all in from the small blind for 58,000 with (pair of jacks), but he needed to improve to stay alive against the of Yaroslav Nakonechnyy in middle position.

The turn card was the , the river card was the , and Nakonechnyy won the pot with two pair, aces and kings, to eliminate Wiggs from Day 1B.

Yaroslav Nakonechnyy  –  335,000  (134 bb)
Malachi Wiggs  –  Eliminated

And here are some of the big stacks in the field as we head into the final level of the night:

1.  Yaroslav Nakonechnyy  –  335,000  (134 bb)
2.  Joseph Cheong  –  325,000  (130 bb)
3.  Joe Druetto  –  320,000  (128 bb)
4.  Julius Bikus  –  315,000  (126 bb)

Matthew Bretzfield  –  279,000  (112 bb)
Jon Turner  –  255,000  (102 bb)

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Main Event
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 13: 1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante
Flight B Players Remaining: 153 of 499

The Day 1B chip lead has recently changed hands, as Paulius Bikus is now sitting on a stack of 345K, the biggest in the room.

Paulius Bikus  –  345,000  (173 bb)

At Table 15, with the final board showing and about 70K already in the pot, Anthony Hu was all in from the cutoff for 67,000.

His under-the-gun opponent (with about 100K in his stack) tanked for a very long time before he called with for two pair, kings and sixes.

But Hu turned over to win the pot with trip sixes and double up in chips.

Anthony Hu  –  205,000  (103 bb)

With 153 players remaining in the field, the average chip stack is about 98,000 (49 big blinds). Action will continue tonight until the end of Level 15, shortly before midnight.

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Main Event
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 13: 1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante
Flight B Players Remaining: 162 of 499

The main event players return from their last break of the day to begin Level 13, with increased blinds of 1,000-2,000 and a big-blind ante of 2,000.

With 162 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 92,500 (46 big blinds).

A scan of the field during the break turned up three players with at least 240K in chips, creating an unofficial leaderboard:

1.  Joe Druetto  –  314,000  (157 bb)
2.  Joanna Skrukkerud  –  249,000  (125 bb)
3.  Cangir Elcin  –  240,500  (120 bb)

$360 Six-Max Pot Limit Omaha 8 (Single Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 11: 800/1,600
Players Remaining: 7 of 45

Shortly after bursting the Money Bubble (the final eight finish in the money), the Six-Max Pot Limit Omaha 8 event has reached its final table. David To has a huge chip lead with 181,100, followed by Robert Wachtel, who is second in chips with 112K.

Here is the final table lineup, followed by the remaining prizepool:

Seat 1.  Oscar Johansson  –  46,800  (29 bb)
Seat 2.  Robert Oxenberg  –  16,800  (11 bb)
Seat 3.  Robert Wachtel  –  112,000  (70 bb)
Seat 4.  David To  –  181,100  (113 bb)
Seat 5.  Bradford Albrinck  –  20,000  (13 bb)
Seat 6.  Heriberto Ferreyra  –  67,300  (42 bb)
Seat 7.  Erik Nomberg  –  100,000  (63 bb)

1st:  $4,635 + LHPO Trophy
2nd:  $3,040
3rd:  $2,020
4th:  $1,355
5th:  $925
6th:  $635
7th:  $445

We will provide the tournament results along with a final report and winner photo when the event ends.