$3,500 WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6:  300/500 with a 500 ante
Entries:  383

After a flop of , Marvin Rettenmaier was short stacked and all in under the gun with (seven high), and he needed to improve to stay alive against the (eight high) of Jerry Wong in the big blind.

The turn card was the , and the river card was the . Rettenmaier spiked a six on the river to stay alive and double up in chips.

Marvin Rettenmaier  –  5,500  (11 bb)
Jerry Wong  –  115,000  (230 bb)

The next hand, Patrick Serda raised under the gun to 1,200, Athanasios Polychronopoulos moved all in from middle position for about 10,000, and Ami Alibay called from the hijack. Marvin Rettenmaier called all in from the big blind for 5,000, and Serda folded.

These were their cards in descending order of chip counts:

Ami Alibay:  
Athanasios Polychronopoulos:  
Marvin Rettenmaier:  

The board came — Polychronopoulos turned a gutshot straight draw, but that was as close as anyone go to Alibay, who flopped a set of kings. Alibay knocked out both players just a few minutes before the dinner break.

Ami Alibay  –  80,000  (160 bb)
Athanasios Polychronopoulos  –  Eliminated
Marvin Rettenmaier  –  Eliminated

There will be a 90-minute dinner break after this level (in just a few minutes), and registration remains open with unlimited re-entries until the start of Level 9 (about 9:15 pm). Action will continue tonight until the end of Level 10, around 11:15 pm.