$350 Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em
Level 5: 100/200 with a 25 ante
Entries: 80

Here are the chip leaders at the first break, along with a few other stacks in the room:

Robert Nielsen – 33,500 (167 bb)
Dimitry Agrachov – 32,000 (160 bb)
Claudionei Barbosa – 28,000 (140 bb)
Zoltan Czinkota – 28,000 (140 bb)
Jeff Kessler – 26,000 (130 bb)
Nancy Birnbaum -18,000 (90 bb)
Joel Harwood -14,500 (72 bb)
Tim Kegel – 11,500 (57 bb)
Matt Yorra -9,700 (48 bb)
Jeff Fogel -9,500 (47 bb)
Jorge Gomez – 8,000 (40 bb)

$350 Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em
Level 1: 25/50
Entries: 18

The clock strikes 11am in the Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood poker room and cards are in the air for Event 3 of the Fun in the Sun Poker Open. With two tournaments already wrapped, Event 3 is the most recent of eight numbered events. It’s a $350 Black Chip Bounty tournament with $100 payouts set aside for each elimination.

The tournament boasts a $30,000 guarantee and sees players take their seats to 10,000-chip starting stacks. Levels are 30 minutes in duration with the event structured to play out in one day.

Details:

11am: Event 3 – $350 Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em

• $30,000 guaranteed
• 10,000 chips, 30-minute levels
• Late registration and re-entry available until the start of Level 9
• This is a one-day event
• Structure sheet

Updates will begin today after the first break.

11am: Event 3 – $350 Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em

• $30,000 guaranteed
• 10,000 chips, 30-minute levels
• Late registration and re-entry available until the start of Level 9
• This is a one-day event
• Structure sheet

6pm: Event 4 – $130 Deep Stack Turbo No Limit Hold’em

• $10,000 guaranteed
• 20,000 chips, 15-minute levels
• Late registration and re-entry available until the start of Level 13
• This is a one-day event
• Structure sheet

Tournament updates will begin this afternoon.

Complete Series Schedule + Structure Sheets

2016 Fun in the Sun
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino
Hollywood, FL
$250 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em
Entries: 517
Prize Pool: $108,570
December 26-27, 2016

Brent Philbin won the opening event of the Fun in the Sun at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood on Tuesday evening. Philbin emerged victorious from a field of 517 entries in the series’ $250 buy-in, $50,000 guaranteed prize pool kickoff event. The prize pool was more than doubled in the end, and Philbin won the lion’s share of it after a three-handed deal earned him $20,817.

Philbin is 32 years old and resides in Fort Myers, Florida. The victory marks his first at the Seminole Hard Rock and moves him just below $200,000 in career tournament earnings.

*denotes three-handed deal

2016 Fun in the Sun
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino
Hollywood, FL
$130 Deep Stack Turbo No Limit Hold’em
Entries: 137
Prize Pool: $13,700
December 27, 2016

*denotes six-handed deal

$130 Deep Stack Turbo No Limit Hold’em
Entries: 137

$250 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em (re-entry)
Level 27: 25,000/50,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining:  3 of 517
Average Stack: 2,585,000 (51 bb)

After a chip count, the remaining three players quickly agreed to an ICM deal. Here were their chip counts and the resulting payouts:

Brent Philbin – 4,115,000 (82 bb) – $20,817
Roberto Bendeck – 2,635,000 (52 bb) – $17,970
Charlamagne Benjamin – 1,025,000 (20 bb) – $13,218

A full recap of the event will be posted later tonight.

$250 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em (re-entry)
Level 27: 25,000/50,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining:  3 of 517
Average Stack: 2,585,000 (51 bb)

Raffaello Lactotelli raised to 125,000 from under the gun and Brent Philbin called from the button.

The flop fell and Lacotelli continued for 175,000. Philbin called to see the turn and Lacotelli bet about 500,000. Philbin raised all in with a covering stack and Lacotelli called all in for about 1,050,000.

Lacotelli:
Philbin:

Philbin led with with trip tens and held up through the river to eliminate Lacotelli in fourth place.

Brent Philbin – 4,115,000 (82 bb)
Raffaello Lacotelli – Eliminated in 4th Place ($7,763)

$250 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em (re-entry)
Level 27: 25,000/50,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining:  4 of 517
Average Stack: 1,940,000 (48 bb)

Peter Petakus raised all in for his remaining 70,000 from the cutoff and Roberto Bendeck isolated the action with a raise from the button.

Petakus:
Bendeck:

The board ran out , giving Bendeck aces and kings to score the elimination.

Roberto Bendeck – 3,080,000 (61 bb)
Peter Petakus – Eliminated in 5th Place ($6,080)

$250 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em (re-entry)
Level 26: 20,000/40,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining:  5 of 517
Average Stack: 1,550,000 (38 bb)

Charlemagne Benjamin limped in from the cutoff, Peter Petakus followed suit from the button, Roberto Bendeck completed his small blind, and Nashaat Antonious checked his option.

The flop came down and Bendeck checked to Antonious who bet 100,000. Only Bendeck called to see the turn, which he checked. Antonious bet 150,000, Bendeck check-raised to 425,000, and Antonious called. The river was the and Bendeck shoved for effectively 750,000. Antonious called after about 5 seconds.

Bendeck tabled for trip kings, besting Antonious’ to win the pot and eliminate Antonious in sixth place.

Roberto Bendeck – 2,900,000 (72 bb)
Nashaat Antonious – Eliminated in 6th Place ($4,994)