Escalator VII Series Event 2 $250 No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $200,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 9: 500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante Flight A Players Remaining: 78 of 215
Joel Harwood was all in from the big blind for about 14,000 against George Hortelano in the hijack.
Harwood: Hortelano:
The board ran out , giving Hortelano a flush to eliminate Harwood.
George Hortelano – 110,000 (110 bb) Joel Harwood – Eliminated
Escalator VII Series Event 2 $250 No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $200,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 9: 500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante Flight A Players Remaining: 90 of 215
Donny Rubinstein – 108,000 George Hortelano – 90,000 Michael Newman – 72,000 Willie Wiggins – 68,000 Raminder Singh – 44,000 Al Norman – 39,000 Richard Whitebrook – 34,000 Shannon McCloud – 33,000 Corel Theuma – 32,000 Loni Hui – 25,000 Scott Baumstein – 24,000 Dennis Rodriguez – 23,000 Thomas Gari – 18,000 Jonathan Marcu – 14,000 Joel Harwood – 14,000 Scott Zakheim – 13,000
Escalator VII Series Event 2 $250 No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $200,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 9: 500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante Flight A Entries: 215
Flight A of Event 2 of the Escalator VII Series drew 215 entries, about a quarter of the way to reaching the guarantee.
Play in Flight A will continue 27 players remain. As a reminder, players must bag chips in order to cash and advance to Day 2.
Escalator VII Series Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Florida Event 1 $150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guarantee Entries: 1,335 Prize Pool: $156,195 February 8-11, 2023
Registration closed for the first tournament of the Escalator VI Series. The tournament drew 1,335 entries over the six starting flights to turn the $100,000 guarantee into a $156,195 prize pool. The 135 returning Day 2 players will be in the money with $270 locked and the Event 1 champ will earn $25,055.
February is here and that means it is time for the popular Escalator VII Series to get underway. The series features five individual multi-flight tournaments over the next five weekends with money increasing as we move along. We have buy-ins ranging from $150 to $1,700 and a total of $1,500,000 in guarantees for our players!
Event 1 is underway now with the first six starting flights and a $100,000 guaranteed prize pool. Flights will continue through Friday night with survivors returning on Saturday for Day 2.
The buy-ins and prize pools will continue to climb until we hit the biggest during the second weekend of March. Event 5 has a $1,700 buy-in and a huge $500,000 guarantee to bring out the players.
You can find the schedule below and click the link for all Escalator VII structure sheets.
2022 Escalator VI Series Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Florida Event 4 $600 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $400,000 Guaranteed Entries: 1,129 Prize Pool: $592,725 March 2-6, 2022
2022 Escalator VI Series Event 4 Champion Mike Chiappetta
Event 4 of the 2022 Escalator VI Series was a $600 No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry). A field of 1,129 entries generated a prize pool of $592,725, breezing past the $400,000 guarantee.
A three-way deal was reached at the final table and as the chip leader, Mike Chiappetta was the official winner, earning $82,449 for his showing.
This result marks Chiappetta’s largest career score, surpassing his $53,900 payday from Event 31 at the 2022 Lucky Hearts Poker Open.
“I’ve been studying a little more,” Chiappetta said afterward. “Going over certain spots, putting my opponents on ranges, board textures, just taking advantage of good spots.”
The victory puts Chiappetta past the $500K mark in career tournament winnings according to the Hendon Mob poker database.
Chiappetta was the Flight B chip leader and came into Day 2 sitting third in chips overall of the remaining 143 players. By the time the final table was reached, Chiappetta was in the middle of the pack. However, he found a rush and took a comfortable chip lead with six players left. He continued to chip up and eventually, the deal was reached.
“I had stopped playing for a little while, and this year I decided I’d play more. The feel is there and it’s been working out.”