The first Friday of the 2020 Lucky Hearts Poker Open produced another big field for opening WPTDeepStacks event and we awarded two more LHPO trophies.
Keeping with the trend of diverse poker varieties, Event 3 was a $400 H.O.R.S.E. game with five different games played throughout the tournament.
It produced a talented final table that included Carey Pickus, Corey Zeidman, and Georges Boyadjian along with David Shmuel following up on his Event 2 win. Shmuel missed on his fifth career SHRP Hollywood trophy and Harold Klein took the title after a heads-up deal with Stephen Reid.
Event 3 results:
1st: Harold Klein – $7,268 + LHPO Trophy*
2nd: Stephen Reid – $5,627*
3rd: David Shmuel – $3,440
4th: Georges Boyadjian – $2,390
5th: Benjamin Matthews – $1,735
6th: Cory Zeidman – $1,315
7th: Adam Zeltser – $1,050
8th: Carey Pickus – $880
9th: Charles Mayes – $775
* – denotes results of a heads-up deal
The second new tournament of the day was a huge night time event. The $150 Big Stack tournament drew 365 entries to easily beat the $30,000 guaranteed prize pool.
Frederic Konowitz flew in from France on Friday and walked away with the title along with the added $1,100 WPTDeepStacks seat added to first place. He took home $8,001 after a heads-up deal with SHRP favorite Steven Moreno.
Final Table Results:
1st: Frederic Konowitz – $8,001 + LHPO Trophy*
2nd: Steven Moreno – $7,633*
3rd: Faris Qumsieh – $4,140
4th: Nick Ahmadi – $2,709
5th: Ricardo Velasco – $2,087
6th: Anthony Moreda – $1,726
7th: Elizabeth Hagensick – $1,448
8th: Igor Evseev – $1,183
9th: Joseph Patalano – $920
* – denotes results of a heads-up deal
The second of three starting flights of the $1,000,000 guarantee WPTDeepStacks event drew 365 entries to push the combined total to 784. Edwards Muniz bagged the biggest stack with 412,000 but that number was short of Howard Mash’s overall lead of 520,000.
Top ten counts so far:
- Howard Mash – 520,000
- Paul Grigsby – 508,000
- Jonathan Shapiro – 434,000
- Nick Yunis – 426,000
- Edwards Muniz – 412,000
- David Farber – 392,000
- Hector Pacheco – 316,000
- Casey Carroll – 305,000
- Debra Hedgpeth – 303,000
- David DiBernardi – 292,000
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