We are back underway in the PLO game and the tournament just got a little tougher with the addition of David Shmuel. He’s always mixing it up with the four cards and has the success to prove his skill.
Shmuel has five tournament titles, all of them right here, and two of them are Pot Limit Omaha games. He picked up his second big trophy last August during SHRPO in the $360 Pot Limit Omaha tournament and he finished second in the Limit Omaha 8 game last week.
The back of the Event Center is filling up with PLO players but they are clearing it out at the moment. They hit their first break of the day with more than 80 entries so far with some tough players in action.
They will return, play four more levels, take a break, and close registration at the start of Level 9.
It took a little bit for things to get moving at a decent pace but now we have a steady stream of players getting into the short-handed PLO game.
Phil Hui was among the recent entrants and he’s having himself a nice series so far. Hui final tabled and finished third in the H.O.R.S.E. tournament on Friday then went deep in the Ultimate Re-Entry, going out in 12th place.
There are a lot of players in the Event Center but most of them are grinding the 30-seat guaranteed WPTDeepStacks Main Event satellite but we still have interest in our Pot Limit Omaha trophy event.
We have 30 in the game at the start including Omaha master Joel Harwood. He would be the odds on favorite to make this final table and add some more hardware to his SHRPO Pot Limit Omaha 8 trophy in August.
$360 Eight-Handed Pot Limit Omaha (Re-Entry) Structure Level 1: 50/100
Main Event satellite day is here and the big tournament kicks off tomorrow. But we still have something set up for those who want to win a trophy.
Event 10 is a $360 Pot Limit Omaha tournament that will play on eight-handed tables to help keep the action moving right along. Entrants will sit down to 12,000 starting stacks and all levels will last 30 minutes. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 9 at 4:30pm and they will take a dinner break at 6pm.
Once they return, they will continue playing until we crown our last preliminary event champ.
Players begin with 12,000 in chips and 30-minute levels
Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9
This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
If you only have one day to play satellites into the WPTDeepStacls Lucky Hearts Poker Open Main Event, today should be it. The second of five huge satellites is underway and we are guaranteeing 49 seats combined seats into the $1,000,000 Guarantee Main Event across all five.
The biggest just kicked off with a $140 buy-in and 30 seats guaranteed. Next up is at 3pm with a bigger buy-in but 1-in-5 will win a seat followed by others at 6pm and 8pm. There is something for everyone all day long.
11am – $140 Mega Satellite with 30 seats 3pm – $250 Mega Satellite with 5 seats 6pm – $140 Mega Satellite with 10 seats 8pm – $140 Turbo Satellite with 2 seats
$140 Main Event Satellite (1-in-10)
Players begin with 10,000 in chips and 20-minute levels
Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 10
This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
2019 Lucky Hearts Poker Open Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Florida Event 9 $570 Six-Max NLH (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed Entries: 338 Prize Pool: $169,000 January 15, 2019
David Prociak
David Prociak outlasted a field of 338 entries and a roller-coaster of a final table to win the $570 Six-Max No Limit Hold’em event, earning $33,035 for the title.
Prociak entered this tournament with about $970K in career live tournament earnings, and by winning this event, he officially crossed the $1 million mark.
When the final seven players advanced to the final table, Prociak had the big stack (83 big blinds), but it wasn’t an easy path to the winner’s circle.
There were a couple of bustouts early, and then the final four players battled for nearly two hours, with all four players contending for the chip lead and the short stack at some point.
“I would lose some hands, but I’d always claw back and just accumulate slowly, which was kind of the theme for me at this table,” said Prociak. “Just accumulating chips.”
The final table ended around 3:30 am, and when asked to name a key hand, a very tired Prociak said, “I just remember getting it all in with ace-four vs. ace-queen after an ace-deuce-deuce flop, and we chopped it somehow.” It was a deuce on the river that saved Prociak in that hand, giving both players identical full houses to chop the pot.
After Brian Hastings was eliminated in third place, Saber Hamrouni held a roughly 3-to-2 chip lead over Prociak. But it didn’t take long for Prociak to reverse the chip counts by doubling up within the first 10 minutes of heads-up play. The final hand came a short while later, with Prociak’s holding up against Hamrouni’s to end the tournament.
When Prociak was told that this victory gave him more than a million dollars in career live tournament earnings, he said, “Wow, that’s great! that was definitely a goal.”
Final Table Results:
1st: David Prociak – $33,035 + LHPO trophy 2nd: Saber Hamrouni – $22,865 3rd: Brian Hastings – $16,085 4th: Barry Weprin – $11,510 5th: Raffaello Locatelli – $8,380 6th: Uri Kadosh – $6,210 7th: Richard Leger – $4,685
holding up against Hamrouni’s 
to end the tournament.
, and Prociak won the pot — and the Lucky Hearts Poker Open trophy — with two pair, sixes and deuces.
, Hamrouni bet 200,000, Prociak moved all in, and Hamrouni called with 
for a king-high spade flush draw with two overcards.
for a lower spade flush draw with a pair of threes.
— Hamrouni took the lead with a pair of tens, and Prociak got up, preparing to leave.
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