$400 Limit Omaha 8 (Re-Entry)
$25,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 23:  10,000/25,000
Players Remaining:  1 of 88

After the elimination of Claudangelo Beaudouin in third place, David Shmuel and Yuval Bronshtein agreed to an even chop of the remaining prizepool. These were their official chip counts:

David Shmuel  –  615,000  (25 bb)
Yuval Bronshtein  –  440,000  (18 bb)

As chipleader, Shmuel was declared the winner, receiving the trophy and the title.

Stay tuned for a recap, which will be posted later tonight.

1st:  David Shmuel  –  $7,742 + LHPO Trophy
2nd:  Yuval Bronshtein  –  $7,741
3rd:  Claudangelo Beaudouin  –  $3,628
4th:  Peter Dirksen  –  $2,453
5th:  Bob Mangino  –  $1,870
6th:  Chuck Jacoby  –  $1,496
7th:  Bryce Fox  –  $1,242
8th:  Lazaro Rodriguez  –  $1,047
9th:  Ricardo Quintero  –  $965
10th:  Michael Marx  –  $898
11th:  George Fountoulakis  –  $838

$400 Limit Omaha 8 (Re-Entry)
$25,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 23:  10,000/25,000
Players Remaining:  2 of 88

With the final board showing , Claudangelo Beaudouin got it all in for his last 45,000 against Yuval Bronshtein. “Full house,” said Beaudouin, but Bronshtein quickly replied, “Quads.”

Yuval Bronshtein:    (quad fives)
Claudangelo Beaudouin:    (top full house, tens full of fives)

Bronshtein won the pot with his quad fives to eliminate Beaudouin in third place.

Claudangelo Beaudouin  –  Eliminated in 3rd Place  ($3,628)

Here are the official chip counts for heads-up play, followed by the remaining prizepool:

David Shmuel  –  615,000  (25 bb)
Yuval Bronshtein  –  440,000  (18 bb)

1st:  $9,649 + LHPO Trophy
2nd:  $5,834

$400 Limit Omaha 8 (Re-Entry)
$25,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 23:  10,000/25,000
Players Remaining:  3 of 88

With the board showing on the turn and roughly 150K already in the pot, Peter Dirksen got it all in for his last 30,000 against Claudangelo Beaudouin, who had him barely covered.

Claudangelo Beaudouin:    (pair of tens, flush draw, straight draw, 8-7 low draw)
Peter Dirksen:    (pair of deuces, 6-4 low draw)

The river card paired the board with the , negating any possible lows. Beaudouin won the pot with a higher two pair, tens and fours, to eliminate Dirksen in fourth place.

Claudangelo Beaudouin  –  235,000  (9 bb)
Peter Dirksen  –  Eliminated in 4th Place  ($1,870)

With three players remaining, the average chip stack is about 350,000 (14 big blinds), and the next player to be eliminated will receive $3,628.

$400 Limit Omaha 8 (Re-Entry)
$25,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 23:  10,000/25,000
Players Remaining:  4 of 88

Bob Mangino was short-stacked and all in from the small blind against Peter Dirksen in the big blind, who barely had him covered.

Peter Dirksen:  
Bob Mangino:  

The board came , and with no qualifying lows, Mangino’s two pair (kings and sixes) wasn’t enough to survive against Dirksen’s rivered trip threes. Mangino was eliminated in fifth place.

Peter Dirksen  –  80,000  (3 bb)
Bob Mangino  –  Eliminated in 5th Place  ($1,870)

With four players remaining, the average chip stack is about 265,000 (11 big blinds), and the next player to be eliminated will receive $2,453.

$400 Limit Omaha 8 (Re-Entry)
$25,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 23:  10,000/25,000
Players Remaining:  5 of 88

Chuck Jacoby moved all in under the gun for 35,000, David Shmuel called from the small blind, and Claudangelo Beaudouin called from the big blind.

Shmuel and Beaudouin checked all the way down on a board of , and all three players turned over their cards.

David Shmuel:    (king-high flush)
Claudangelo Beaudouin:    (ten-high flush)
Chuck Jacoby:    (jack-high straight)

Nobody had a qualifying low, so Shmuel won the entire pot with his king-high flush to eliminate Jacoby in sixth place.

Beaudouin said, “This is why I hate checking down. I flopped a straight and had blockers, but let you get there.”

David Shmuel  –  435,000  (17 bb)
Claudangelo Beaudouin  –  205,000  (8 bb)
Chuck Jacoby  –  Eliminated in 6th Place  ($1,496)

With five players remaining, the average chip stack is about 210,000 (8 big blinds), and the next player to be eliminated will receive $1,870.

$400 Limit Omaha 8 (Re-Entry)
$25,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 22:  10,000/20,000
Players Remaining:  6 of 88

The final table for Omaha 8 is down to the final seven players, after the eliminations of Ricardo Quintero in 9th place, followed by Lazaro Rodriguez in 8th place.

8th:  Lazaro Rodriguez  –  $1,047
9th:  Ricardo Quintero  –  $965

There was a three-way all-in preflop situation, with Bryce Fox as the short stack, Chuck Jacoby as the mid stack, and Peter Dirksen covering them both.

Peter Dirksen:  
Chuck Jacoby:  
Bryce Fox:  

The board came , and Jacoby flopped a club flush to win the high side, and his 3-2 gave him the low to scoop the entire pot, doubling thru Dirksen and eliminating Fox in seventh place.

Chuck Jacoby  –  80,000  (4 bb)
Peter Dirksen  –  110,000  (6 bb)
Bryce Fox  –  Eliminated in 7th Place  ($1,242)

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Hollywood
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 16:  2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining:  70 of 367

Flight A: 367 Entries; 70 Advanced
Flight C: Friday at 11 am
Flight D: Saturday at 11 am
Day 2: Sunday at noon

$400 Limit Omaha 8 (Re-Entry)
$25,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 19:  4,000/8,000
Players Remaining:  9 of 88

After the elimination of Michael Marx in 10th place, the final nine players redraw for random seats at the final table. Here are their seating assignments and their approximate chip counts:

Seat 1.  Ricardo Quintero  –  31,000  (4 bb)
Seat 2.  Peter Dirksen  –  149,000  (19 bb)
Seat 3.  Bryce Fox  –  47,000  (6 bb)
Seat 4.  Yuval Bronshtein  –  130,000  (16 bb)
Seat 5.  David Shmuel  –  185,000  (23 bb)
Seat 6.  Lazaro Rodriguez  –  50,000  (6 bb)
Seat 7.  Claudangelo Beaudouin  –  284,000  (36 bb)
Seat 8.  Chuck Jacoby  –  80,000  (10 bb)
Seat 9.  Bob Mangino  –  101,000  (13 bb)

And here are the players who finished in the money leading up to the final table:

10th:  Michael Marx  –  $898
11th:  George Fountoulakis  –  $838

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Hollywood
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 16:  2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Flight A Players Remaining:  70 of 367

Day 1A of WPTDeepStacks Hollywood comes to an end with 70 players remaining (from a field of 367), and the chipleader is Howard Mash, who bagged up 520,000 (130 big blinds) after eliminating 2018 WPTDS Hollywood champion Scott Baumstein in the final minutes of the night.

The full list of official chip counts will be posted later tonight, but here is a preview of the top of the leaderboard:

1.  Howard Mash  –  520,000  (130 bb)
2.  Paul Grigsby  –  508,000  (127 bb)
3.  Jonathan Shapiro  –  434,000  (109 bb)
4.  Nick Yunis  –  426,000  (107 bb)

Day 1B begins tomorrow at 11:00 am, and once again, you’ll be able to find updates right here at SHRPO.com.

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Hollywood
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 15:  1,500/3,000 with a 3,000 ante
Flight A Players Remaining:  70 of 367

In the final minutes of the last level of the night, Howard Mash raised from the small blind to 12,500, 2018 WPTDS Hollywood champion Scott Baumstein moved all in from the big blind for about 57,000, and Mash called with .

Baumstein turned over , and he needed his hand to hold to stay alive.

The board came , and Mash paired his king on the flop, turned two pair, and rivered a full house to win the pot and eliminate Baumstein from Day 1A.

Howard Mash  –  503,000  (168 bb)

A few minutes later, Mash won the last hand of the night to finish with 520K.

Howard Mash  –  520,000  (173 bb)

Stay tuned for an end of day recap.