Event 3: Brian Canin Eliminated on the Money Bubble

$350 Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em
Level 13: 800/1,600 with a 200 ante
Players Remaining: 13 of 93
Average Stack: 71,500 (44 bb)

Eric Becks raised to 4,000 from middle position, Brian Canin reraised all in from the cutoff for about 29,500, and Becks called.

Becks: JdJc
Canin: Ac4c

The board ran out 8h7c4h10h10s, not enough help to Canin, locking up the bounty for Becks and making Canin the bubble boy.

Eric Becks – 94,000 (58 bb)
Brian Canin – Eliminated on the money bubble

Event 3: Chip Counts at Dinner Break

$350 Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em
Upcoming Level 13: 800/1,600 with a 200 ante
Players Remaining: 14 of 93
Average Stack: 66,400 (41 bb)

The remaining players are in the midst of a 40-minute dinner break.

Play resumes at about 6:15pm and will continue with hand-for-hand play until the money bubble bursts.

Table 40
Seat 1: Eric Becks – 62,500 (39 bb)
Seat 2: Jeffrey Wilcox – 67,000 (41 bb)
Seat 3: Brian Canin – 24,000 (15 bb)
Seat 4: Nancy Birnbaum – 42,500 (26 bb)
Seat 5: John Rembert – 106,000 (66 bb)
Seat 6: Thomas Cuce – 56,500 (35 bb)
Seat 7: Robert Nielsen – 99,000 (61 bb)
Seat 8:  –empty–
Seat 9:  –empty–

Table 41
Seat 1:  –empty–
Seat 2:  –empty–
Seat 3: Matt Yorra – 42,500 (26 bb)
Seat 4: Steven Richardson – 59,500 (37 bb)
Seat 5: Vincent DeVita – 39,500 (24 bb)
Seat 6: Richard Wetter – 81,000 (50 bb)
Seat 7: Mark Manesh – 72,000 (45 bb)
Seat 8: Leo Birov – 63,000 (39 bb)
Seat 9: Jorge Gomez – 103,000 (64 bb)

Event 3: Registration Closed; Chip Leaders at 2nd Break

$350 Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em
Level 9: 300/600 with a 100 ante
Players Remaining: 31 of 93
Average Stack: 30,000 (50 bb)

Registration has closed and the payouts are being calculated. Here were the chip leaders at the second break, along with a few other stacks in the room:

Richard Wetter – 89,500 (149 bb)
Jorge Gomez – 88,000 (146 bb)
John Rembert – 73,000 (121 bb)
Zoltan Czinkota – 26,000 (43 bb)
Tim Kegel – 25,000 (41 bb)
Nancy Birnbaum – 21,000 (35 bb)
Jeff Kessler – 18,000 (30 bb)
Matt Yorra – 17,000 (28 bb)

Among those who have been eliminated include Joel Harwood, Michael Newman, Dimitry Agrachov, and Jeff Fogel.

Event 3: Jeff Kessler Takes One Out

$350 Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em
Level 7: 200/400 with a 50 ante
Entries: 88

A player in middle position opened to 1,000, the player in the hijack reraised all in for about 4,000, Jeff Kessler four-bet shoved from the cutoff for about 35,000, and the initial raiser folded QsQc face up.

Kessler showed AdQh, racing with the all-in player’s 8h8s.

The board came down As4c3hKhAh, giving Kessler trip aces to score the elimination and collect the knockout bounty.

Jeff Kessler – 41,000 (102 bb)

Event 3: Chip Leaders After 1st Break

$350 Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em
Level 5: 100/200 with a 25 ante
Entries: 80

Here are the chip leaders at the first break, along with a few other stacks in the room:

Robert Nielsen – 33,500 (167 bb)
Dimitry Agrachov – 32,000 (160 bb)
Claudionei Barbosa – 28,000 (140 bb)
Zoltan Czinkota – 28,000 (140 bb)
Jeff Kessler – 26,000 (130 bb)
Nancy Birnbaum -18,000 (90 bb)
Joel Harwood -14,500 (72 bb)
Tim Kegel – 11,500 (57 bb)
Matt Yorra -9,700 (48 bb)
Jeff Fogel -9,500 (47 bb)
Jorge Gomez – 8,000 (40 bb)

Event 3: Shuffle Up and Deal — $30K Guaranteed

$350 Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em
Level 1: 25/50
Entries: 18

The clock strikes 11am in the Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood poker room and cards are in the air for Event 3 of the Fun in the Sun Poker Open. With two tournaments already wrapped, Event 3 is the most recent of eight numbered events. It’s a $350 Black Chip Bounty tournament with $100 payouts set aside for each elimination.

The tournament boasts a $30,000 guarantee and sees players take their seats to 10,000-chip starting stacks. Levels are 30 minutes in duration with the event structured to play out in one day.

Details:

11am: Event 3 – $350 Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em

  • $30,000 guaranteed
  • 10,000 chips, 30-minute levels
  • Late registration and re-entry available until the start of Level 9
  • This is a one-day event
  • Structure sheet

Updates will begin today after the first break.

Fun in the Sun Day 3 Schedule

11am: Event 3 – $350 Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em

  • $30,000 guaranteed
  • 10,000 chips, 30-minute levels
  • Late registration and re-entry available until the start of Level 9
  • This is a one-day event
  • Structure sheet

6pm: Event 4 – $130 Deep Stack Turbo No Limit Hold’em

  • $10,000 guaranteed
  • 20,000 chips, 15-minute levels
  • Late registration and re-entry available until the start of Level 13
  • This is a one-day event
  • Structure sheet

Tournament updates will begin this afternoon.

Complete Series Schedule + Structure Sheets