$3,500 WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship $2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 26: 20,000/40,000 with a 5,000 ante Players Remaining: 12 of 911
Cong Pham (left) versus Aleksandr Shevelev (right)
Cong Pham opened to 90,000 from the cutoff and Aleksandr Shevelev three-bet to 250,000 from the button. The blinds released and Pham moved all in for 1,100,000, Shevelev quickly called with a button monster.
Pham: Shevelev:
Pham was in a lot of trouble and he was not bailed out on the board to exit in 13th place.
Aleksandr Shevelev – 5,080,000 (127 bb) Cong Pham – Eliminated in 13th place ($31,989)
$3,500 WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship $2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 26: 20,000/40,000 with a 5,000 ante Players Remaining: 13 of 911
Rainer Kempe
Rainer Kempe was the shortest of the stacks returning for Day 4 and put it in the middle a few times. He was heads up with Nick Schwarmann to the flop and Schwarmann bet enough to put him all in. Kempe called and the hands were tabled.
Schwarmann: Kempe:
Schwarmann was ahead with middle pair and Kempe could not catch up on the turn or river for an early exit.
Nick Schwarmann – 3,965,000 (99 bb) Rainer Kempe – Eliminated in 14th place ($31,989)
$25,500 High Roller No Limit Hold’em $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 16: 6,000/12,000 with a 2,000 ante Players Remaining: 14 of 75
Lander Lijo
Ben Tollerene opened the cutoff to 28,000, and Stefan Schillhabel three-bet to 90,000 on the button. Lander Lijo called all in for 85,000 in the small blind, and Tollerene folded out of the way.
Schillhabel: Lijo:
The flop gave Schillhabel a big lead, and the turn didn’t change much. Lijo was already standing from his chair, but he snapped his finger at the spot where the river card awaited, just for good measure.
Sure enough, the appeared, giving him sixes full and a double-up.
“Whoops,” Lijo said as he sat back down in his seat.
Beginning at 12pm is a unique, one-day $5,000 buy-in with a $250,000 guarantee. Similarly scheduled events during Seminole Hard Rock series have seen big fields generate huge prize pools with six-figure scores to the champs.
Today’s tournament sees players begin with 15,000 chips and they’ll start out to 30-minute levels before they jump to 40 minutes at the final table. Registration and re-entry are available until about 6:40pm.
Here are the details:
12PM: Event 23 – $5,000 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
Players begin with 15,000 in chips
Levels last 30 minutes; Final Table levels last 40 minutes
Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 12
This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
$3,500 WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship $2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Returning to Level 26: 20,000/40,000 with a 5,000 ante Players Remaining: 14 of 911
Aleksandr Shevelev
The penultimate day of the WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship is upon us and we have 14 players remaining with a shot to make it to the live-streamed final table tomorrow.
Aleksandr Shevelev made a late run last night to take the chip lead with WPT DeepStacks Hollywood final table member Ness Reilly not far behind. High roller Rainer Kempe, local favorite Darryll Fish, SHRP trophy winner Mike Chiappetta, November Niner John Dolan, and WPT Champions Club member Andy Frankenberger are only part of the talented crew returning today.
The levels remaining 90 minutes long and they will continue playing until only six players remain. Those players will return tomorrow to play it out for the Championship in front of the WPT live-stream cameras.
Cards go back in the air at noon and we will have all the action.
Table 78 Seat 1: Mike Chiappetta – 1,375,000 (34 bb) Seat 2: Darryll Fish – 2,165,000 (54 bb) Seat 3: Nick Schwarmann – 3,250,000 (81 bb) Seat 4: — Empty — Seat 5: Andy Frankenberger – 1,690,000 (42 bb) Seat 6: Rainer Kempe – 455,000 (11 bb) Seat 7: John Dolan – 2,000,000 (50 bb) Seat 8: Alan Krockey – 2,735,000 (68 bb)
$25,500 High Roller No Limit Hold’em $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 16: 6,000/12,000 with a 2,000 ante Players Remaining: 14 of 75
Yesterday’s Lucky Hearts Poker Open High Roller saw the $25,500 buy-in ponied up a total of 75 times. From those 75 starting entries, just 14 remained following 15 levels of play. Those still in return today at 12pm to compete for a spot among the 11 in-the-money places and a piece of the tournament’s $1,875,000 prize pool.
Justin Bonomo
Leading the way by a margin is Justin Bonomo. Fresh off a third-place finish in the $50,000 buy-in Super High Roller, Bonomo bagged a monster yesterday ultimately taking the overnight chip lead with 1,866,000.
Next up in the counts is none other than Stefan Schillhabel, last week’s Super High Roller champion. Schillhabel sits on 1,083,000 chips and is the only other player over 1,000,000.
Adrian Mateos lost that heads-up match to Schillhabel last week in the $50k, but he might get a shot at redemption today. He begins in third place at the moment.
As mentioned before, only the top 11 spots finish in the money with a min-cash worth $54,375. The winner, meanwhile, earns $556,873 along with the property’s token guitar trophy.
SHRPO.com went down overnight and was operational again as of this morning. Later today, we will provide a backlog of all updates that occurred after midnight including the final details on Event 19 and Event 21 which both finished during the early morning hours.
board to exit in 13th place.
, and McKeehen’s kicker played to earn him the pot.
. and Linde won the pot with a set of aces.
flop and Schwarmann bet enough to put him all in. Kempe called and the hands were tabled.
turn or 
turn didn’t change much. Lijo was already standing from his chair, but he snapped his finger at the spot where the river card awaited, just for good measure.
appeared, giving him sixes full and a double-up.
