$2,500 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1: 100/100
Entrants: 53
Among those in the field at the start of play include WSOP Main Event Winner Jonathan Duhamel, Carlos Rodriguez, Nashaat Antonious, Max Young, Chris Kennedy and Athanasios Polychronopoulos.
$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Main Event
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 20: 5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining: 154 of 1,634
Justin Donato put his 135,000 stack in the middle from early position and Todd Altinbas called all in for less (122,000). It folded around to Rex Clinkscales in the big blind and he called with a bigger stack monster.
Clinkscales: 
Donato: 
Altinbas: 
Clinkscales had both players dominated and barely broke a sweat on the 
board to send two players out while building his stack.
Rex Clinkscales – 592,000 (59 bb)
Justin Donato – Eliminated in 155th place ($2,025)
Todd Altinbas – Eliminated in 156th place ($2,025)
$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Main Event
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 19: 4,000/8,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining: 154 of 1,634
Eddy Sabat opened to 17,000 from under the gun and early position shoved for 85,000. Sabat called with and was flipping against his opponent’s 
.
The board came 
and his opponent flopped an ace to double through Sabat.
Shortly after a Sabat called all in for 26,000 against his opponents under the gun 56,000 shove.
Sabat held 
and was in the lead against 
. The lead was short-lived as the flop came 
.
The turn, changed nothing, but the river brought the 
and Sabat spiked a two-outer to stay alive.
Eddy Sabat – 75,000 (9 bb)
$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Main Event
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 19: 4,000/8,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining: 189 of 1,634
The first round of eliminations went down quickly after the money bubble and they’ve had two pay jumps since. Notable among those hitting the payout desk were Yigal Hen, Luke Vrabel, and Kevin Blewitt. Ultimate Re-Entry third-place finisher Jeff Colpitts survived the money bubble with 12,000 on the button and slid into the money.
190th: Marc Duquette – $1,740
191st: Daniel Silva – $1,740
192nd: Antonio Arencibia Monduy – $1,740
193rd: William Handwerker – $1,740
194th: Edward Mallon – $1,740
195th: Steven McNally – $1,740
196th: Thang Phu – $1,740
197th: Stanley Sanders – $1,740
198th: Yigal Hen – $1,740
199th: Kevin Blewitt – $1,695
200th: Jordan Kasimow – $1,695
201st: Danielle Salters – $1,695
202nd: Luke Vrabel – $1,695
203rd: Ismael Cabrera – $1,695
204th: Michael Morton – $1,695
205th: Jeffrey Colpitts – $1,695
$2,500 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1: 100/100
They are cruising along in Day 2 of the WPTDeepStacks Main Event but we have a big tournament for those who fell short. Event 21 has the biggest buy-in of the series and it should draw some of our best players.
It is a $2,500 No Limit Hold’em tournament with a $300,000 guaranteed prize pool and two-day format. Players begin with 20,000 stacks and all Day 1 levels last 40 minutes. There is a one-hour dinner break at 9:30pm and late registration/re-entry will close when they return.
Day 1 will come to an end after Level 14 and survivors will advance to Day 2 on Monday afternoon.
$360 Big O (Re-Entry)
Structure
Level 1: 50/100
We loaded up the Lucky Hearts Poker Open series with plenty of non-hold’em games and today is a recent addition to our regular schedules. Big O is a flavor of Omaha that has become popular and we’ll have a champion in the game later this evening.
Big O is Pot Limit Omaha 8 with five hole cards instead of the normal four, boosting draws and pots.
Each entrant will start with 12,000 stacks and all levels will last 30 minutes from start to finish. Late registration and re-entries are open until the start of Level 9 at 7:30pm. From there they will continue to work their way down to a winner and next LHPO champion.
$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Main Event
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 19: 4,000/8,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining: 189 of 1,634
Steve Karp opened from under the gun and both blinds called. The flop came 
, the small blind led, the big blind and Karp both called.
The turn brought the 
, the small blind bet 20,000 and the big blind called. Karp raised to 65,000 and only the big blind called.
The river was the 
, big blind checked and Karp bet 71,000. The big blind check-shoved for 110,000 and Karp snap called.
Karp turned over 
for a set of queens and was good against his opponent’s 
.
Steve Karp – 400,000 (50 bb)
$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Main Event
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 18: 3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Players Remaining: 205 of 1,634
Tournament staff paused the clock with the field two away from the money to begin hand-for-hand play. Nothing exciting on the first hand but there were two all-ins called on the second.
On Table 6, Jeff Niedelman and Skip McDonough were in the blinds and McDonough had his last 144,000 in the middle at risk.
Niedelman: 
McDonough: 
“It’s not even suited!” McDonough joked.
He had an over, missed the 
flop, and Niedelman improved on the turn. Any heart or queen would save McDonough but the sent him out on the bubble.
Jeff Niedelman – 510,000 (85 bb)
Skip McDonough – Eliminated
On Table 28, another battle of the blinds saw Matthew Smith heads up to the 
flop. The small blind checked, Smith put her all-in for 53,000 and the bet was called.
Smith: 
Opponent: 
The eights were ahead but she needed to fade Smith’s open-ended straight draw and over card. The turn changed nothing but the 
river completed the straight to send two players out and put the rest of the field in the money.
Matthew Smith – 220,000 (37 bb)
$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Main Event
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 18: 3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Players Remaining: 216 of 1,634
In a battle of the blinds, Juan Garcia moved all in from the small blind after the flop. Todd Altinbas called from the big blind with the bigger stack.
Garcia:
Altinbas: 
Garcia was in trouble with top two against Altinbas’ flopped flush but Garcia found good news on the turn to improve to a full house. Altinbas had two straight flush outs but the river sent the double to Garcia.
Juan Garcia – 310,000 (52 bb)
Todd Altinbas – 84,000 (14 bb)