$250 Big Stack (Re-Entry)
$25,000 Guarantee | Structure | Payouts
Prize Pool: $36,750
Level 16: 3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 BB Ante
Players Remaining: 13/175

Gustavo Perla raised to 21,000 from middle position, Paul Smerdon reraised all in for about 98,000 from the hijack, Alexander Michaels reraised all in with a covering stack from the button and Perla folded.

Smerdon:
Michaels:

The board ran out , safe forMichaels to score the elimination.

Alexander Michaels – 370,000 (74 bb)
Paul Smerdon – Eliminated in 14th Place ($696)

Recent Eliminations
15th: Richard Whitebrook – $696
16th: Marc Sacheli – $579
17th: Karin Powsner – $579

$250 Big Stack (Re-Entry)
$25,000 Guarantee | Structure | Payouts
Prize Pool: $36,750
Level 14: 2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 BB Ante
Players Remaining: 17/175

Nancy Thomas raised all in for about 70,000 from middle position and Scott Zukowski called from the button with , leading Thomas’ .

The board came down , giving Zukowski jacks and fours to eliminate Thomas.

Scott Zukowski – 395,000 (99 bb)
Nancy Thomas – Eliminated in 18th Place ($579)

Recent Eliminations
19th: Gary Johnson – $469
20th: Julio Lopez – $469
21st: Alex Ortiz Vazquez – $469
22nd: Vladislav Varlashin – $358

$250 Big Stack (Re-Entry)
$25,000 Guarantee | Structure | Payouts
Prize Pool: $36,750
Level 14: 1,500/3,000 with a 3,000 BB Ante
Players Remaining: 22/175

A player raised all in from middle position for 47,500 and Marc Roth gave him action from the cutoff with , leading his opponent’s .

The board ran out , giving Roth a set of queens to eliminate his opponent on the money bubble.

Marc Roth – 170,000 (57 bb)

$250 Big Stack (Re-Entry)
$25,000 Guarantee | Structure | Payouts
Prize Pool: $36,750
Level 12: 1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 BB Ante
Players Remaining: 34/175

Raminder Singh – 154,000 (77 bb)
Scott Efron – 98,000 (49 bb)
Alexander Michaels – 64,000 (32 bb)
Dimitry Agrachov – 44,000 (22 bb)
Lou Stadler – 41,500 (21 bb)
Nancy Thomas – 28,000 (14 bb)

$250 Big Stack (Re-Entry)
$25,000 Guarantee | Structure
Prize Pool: $36,750
Level 11: 1,000/1,500 with a 1,500 BB Ante
Players Remaining: 43/175

Event 4 of the 2018 Fun in the Sun Poker Open drew 175 entries, generating a prize pool of $36,750.

The top 22 places will be paid, with a min-cash set at $358 and a first-place prize of $9,659.

2018 Fun in the Sun Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino 
Hollywood, Florida
Event 3
$350 Black Chip Bounty NLH (Re-Entry)
Entries: 151
Prize Pool: $30,200
Bounty Prize Pool: $15,100
December 28, 2018

The 2018 Fun in the Sun Poker Open continued on Friday with Event 3, a $350 Black Chip Bounty No-Limit Hold’em tournament. A field of 151 entries created a total prize pool of $45,300, easily surpassing the $25,000 guarantee. Of that prize pool, $15,100 was set aside for bounties. The final four players agreed to a deal, and Dwayne Harrison was the chip leader at the time to officially earn the title of champion.

Residing in Detroit, Michigan, this marks the 49-year-old Harrison’s first career title at the Seminole Hard Rock.

*denotes four-handed deal

$350 Black Chip Bounty NLH (Re-Entry)
$25,000 Guarantee | Structure | Payouts
Prize Pool: $30,200
Bounty Prize Pool: $15,100
Level 19: 5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 BB Ante
Players Remaining: 4/151

The remaining four players agreed to a deal. Here were their chip counts at the time:

Dwayne Harrison – 947,000
Julio Fernandez – 946,000
Michael Newman – 199,000
Dimitriy Agrachov – 172,000

Here were their subsequent payouts:

Dwayne Harrison – $6,064
Julio Fernandez – $6,062
Michael Newman – $3,340
Dimitriy Agrachov – $3,152

As the chip leader, Dwayne Harrison is officially the winner of Event 3 of the 2018 Fun in the Sun.

$350 Black Chip Bounty NLH (Re-Entry)
$25,000 Guarantee | Structure | Payouts
Prize Pool: $30,200
Bounty Prize Pool: $15,100
Level 18: 4,000/8,000 with an 8,000 BB Ante
Players Remaining: 4/151

Dwayne Harrison raised to 25,000 from the button, Georges Boyadjian three-bet to about 110,000 from the big blind and Harrison called.

Boyadjian shoved the flop blind for about 130,000 and it came down . Harrison called with , trailing Boyadjian’s .

The turn was the , giving Harrison a pair of kings to take the lead and he maintained it through the river to eliminate Boyadjian in fifth place.

Dwayne Harrison – 947,000 (118 bb)
Georges Boyadjian – Eliminated in 5th Place ($1,465)

$350 Black Chip Bounty NLH (Re-Entry)
$25,000 Guarantee | Structure | Payouts
Prize Pool: $30,200
Bounty Prize Pool: $15,100
Level 17: 3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 BB Ante
Players Remaining: 5/151

Julio Fernandez raised to 18,000 from under the gun, Michael Newman called from the cutoff and Georges Boyadjian called from the button.

Luis Bastidas reraised all in from the small blind for about 130,000 and Fernandez isolated the pot with a shove of his own for about 700,000.

Fernandez:
Bastidas:

The board came down , safe for Fernandez to eliminate Bastidas in sixth place.

Julio Fernandez – 890,000 (148 bb)
Luis Bastidas – Eliminated in 6th Place ($1,210)