Event 11: Chiappetta Bubbles

$560 Buy-In Double Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em Freeze-Out
Level 16: 1500/3K/ 500 ante

It may have taken a long time to burst the bubble from 13 to 12 players but they got there in a hurry once they returned from break.

Michael Chiappetta was contemplating his action with the board reading TcTd3c when he finally decided to move all-in. Ilias Liapis called about as quickly as possible.

Chiappetta picked up AxAx on the money bubble but they were in a lot of trouble against Liapis’ flopped full house with 3h3d. There was no help for Chiappetta on the 8d turn or 5h river to make him the unlucky bubble boy.

Liapis picked up another $200 bounty and all players are now in the money.

Michael Chiappetta

Event 11: Bubble won’t burst

$560 Buy-In Double Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em Freeze-Out
Level 16: 1500/3K/ 500 ante

Players are now on their 15 minute break. They are at 13 players, with 12 getting paid, and have been for the past hour. The closest we got to an elimination was when Bernard Lubitz went all in for his last 7300 and was looked up by Mike Chiapetta.

Lubitz: JsJh
Chiapetta: JcKh

The board didn’t burst the money bubble as it came 3d10h6d5h8s and Lubitz doubled up.

As players return from break, they’ll be moving onto Level 16 of play.

Event 12: Chip Counts in the Mix

$2,200 Buy-In Eight Game Mix

Level 5:  Limits 250/500

Here are the break-time chip counts and seating for the full field in this 8-game mix event.

Table 63

  1. John Thrower 20,475
  2. Huck Seed 15,000
  3. Michael Wang 19,050
  4. Robert Campbell 18,550
  5. Paul Dlugozima 9,300
  6. Benjamin Yogel 13,574

Table 64

  1. Robert Mackie 13,950
  2. Miami John Cernuto 17,700
  3. Christoph Haller 22,100
  4. Daniel Weinman 12,800
  5. John Racener 13,975
  6. Shirley Rosario 3,725

Table 72

  1. Nicholas Kost 6,225
  2. Jared Jaffee 19,100
  3. Steven Wolansky 23,325
  4. Brandon Delnano
  5. Harold Klein 9,700
  6. Brian Mizok 17,600

Event 8: Wolak on the Rail

$560 Buy-In Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 24: 12k/24k/4k ante

It was a little shocking to see Marsha Wolak standing on the rail. She had a ton of chips before dinner, and they were still sitting there, so it was worth an investigation.

Turns out the WSOP bracelet winner called an all-in with AxQx on the button then excitedly tabled her hand. There was one problem, the blinds still had to act. Wolak won the hand to move her up near 800,000 but she was issued a one orbit penalty for exposing her hand.

Wolak was ok with it though, she won the big hand and will come back with a comfy stack.

Marsha Wolak on the rail
Marsha Wolak on the rail

Event 10: Jack “The Snake” Deutsch Takes Down H.O.R.S.E Tourney ($5,479), Nancy Cope 2nd ($3,077)

$250 Buy-In H.O.R.S.E.
Level 25: 30000/60000 Limits

After a two and a half hour heads-up match, Jack Deutsch finally outlasted Nancy Cope to take the Event 10 H.O.R.S.E title and the $5,479 first place prize.

After getting Cope down to around 60,000 chips, Pope held off elimination five times before the final Omaha 8 hand.

Deutsch: Qs5c4h3h
Cope: KsKd6c2h

Cope had the early lead on the 2d6sJh flop. The 8d give Deutsch the low and a shot at the scoop. Deutsch screamed with joy as the 5d hit on the river giving him a six-high straight and the low to close out the tournament.

With that, “The Snake” picks up the title, the beautiful Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open trophy and a custom framed 16×20 photograph provided by IMPDI along with $5,479.

14SHRPO Event 10 Jack Deutsh

Jack Deutsch (Staten Island, NY) – $5,479

And Nancy Cope finishes as our runner-up in a great match and takes home $3,077. Congratulations to both players on an outstanding tournament!

Nancy Cope

Nancy Cope (Miami Springs, FL) – $3,077

Event 8: Post-Dinner Action

$560 Buy-In Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 24: 12k/24k/4k ante

Players have returned from their dinner refreshed and ready to get chips moving. The tournament will now play down to a winner, or come to a halt at 3am, whichever comes first.

Event 12: World Champion in the Mix

$2,200 Buy-In Eight Game Mix

Level 5:  Limits 250/500

Huck Seed
Huck Seed

Registration has closed with the start of Level 15.  There were (unofficially) 18 entrants and the last one in was a late-arriving Huck Seed, the 1996 WSOP Main Event Champion.  He’s got more than $7.6 million in reported tournament earnings.

He’s also got a total of four WSOP bracelets, two for Razz and one for PLO, so he’s proven himself in the other games in this mix as well.

Event 11: Bubble Approaching

$560 Buy-In Double Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em Freeze-Out
Level 13: 800/1600/ 200 ante

We’re down to 15 players out of the 122 that started, so 3 more bustouts to go until we make the money in today’s Bounty tournament.

Here’s a reminder of what their eyes are on:

1st – $12,079
2nd – $6,844
3rd – $4,538
4th – $3,257
5th – $2,379
6th – $1,830
7th – $1,427
8th – $1,061
9th – $878
10th – $769
11th – $769
12th – $769

Event 10: Still Duking It Out

$250 Buy-In H.O.R.S.E.
Level 23: 15000/30000 Limits

It has been a see-saw battle between Nancy Cope and Jack Deutsch for the Event 10 title.

Earlier Deutsch won two huge hands to take a commanding chip lead including a Razz hand where Cope took a stab jack-high and missed leaving Deutsch in a spot to wrap it up.

But Cope slowly fought her way back hand by hand and in a stunning comeback has re-taken the lead.  In another Razz hand showing trip 10’s, Cope hit on the river to pick a ten-low to Deutsch’s jack-low to turn it around.

Chip counts:

Cope: 422,000
Deutsch: 318,000