$3,500 WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4: 100/200 with a 25 ante
Flight A Entries: 362

There’s no such thing as an easy table in this field, but a few of them are particularly difficult places to operate this afternoon.

Table 70 is the winner of the informal “toughest table” poll among the reporters and staff. Have a look at the lineup over there:

Seat 1: Michael Laake
Seat 2: Aaron Massey
Seat 3: Brian Altman
Seat 4: Scott Davies
Seat 5: Mukul Pahuja
Seat 6: –empty–
Seat 7: Brad Albrinck
Seat 8: –empty–
Seat 9: Maria Ho

Altman and Albrinck are the two big stacks over there, each working toward 100,000. Ho’s count is the leanest of the bunch, under half a starting stack.

As we type, Seat 6 has been filled. And it hasn’t made things any easier. The new neighbor is Nick Petrangelo, currently the 10th-ranked player in the world according to GPI.