2014 RRPO Live Updates

Event 2: Turtle Crawl

$300 Big Stack Pot Limit Omaha (Re-Entry)
Level 15: 2,000/4,000

After blasting down from 10 players to the money bubble, the seven remaining players slowed down to buck the usual post-dinner madness and went the entire first level back with only one all-in called.

That ended with Ken Bruno and David White chopping a pot with Aces for an anticlimactic hand.

Blinds are up but might be in for the long haul but the average stack is now holding just over 20 big blinds.

Event 1: Checking in on Flight B

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 5: Blinds 150/300/25 ante

While we focus on the Event 2 Pot Limit Omaha final table, Flight B of Event 1 has built up to 225 entrants as they head off on their firs break.

A quick walk through the field found some Seminole Hard Rock poker regulars including Robert Campbell, Paula Barros, Michael Ortiz, and former WPT Player of the Year Mukul Pahuja.

Event 2: Dinner Break on the Bubble

$300 Big Stack Pot Limit Omaha (Re-Entry)
Level 13: Blinds 1,200/2,400

There was no slowing down the final table even with the money bubble approaching.

It was three-handed to the 6c4h2h flop with Marc Kropf (Miami, FL) already all-in when Bruce Freedman (Plantation, FL) also moved all-in. Ken Bruno (Lake Worth, FL) had them both covered and called to put them both at risk.

Bruno: AcAhTc2c
Freedman: KcKh3d2s
Kropf: QsJhJd4s

“I thought I had the nuts,” Freedman stated incorrectly.

The turn/river finished 8dTh to send the entire pot to Bruno, knock two players out, and put the tournament on the money bubble.

The remaining six players are off on a quick, 30-minute dinner break before returning to find a champion.

Event 1: Flight A Tweets

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Remember to include #SHRPO in your Tweets!  Some end of night Tweets from the Flight A crowd:

Event 2: Final Table Time

$300 Big Stack Pot Limit Omaha (Re-Entry)

Level 13:  Blinds 1,200/2,400

They reached the final ten players, then drew for seats and moved to the final table.  Soon after play resumed, Zack Milchman (Del Ray, FL) got his short-stack in against Ken Bruno and was busted, bringing them down to nine players.  Only the final six will get paid, so there’s still a ways to go.

Here are the final 9 with rough chip counts:

Seat  Player  (Hometown)  Chips

  1. Bruce Freedman (Plantation, FL) 24k
  2. Don Todd (Davie, FL) 35k
  3. Matthew Lombardi (Long Island, NY) 180k
  4. Joey Prosper (Miami, FL) 58k
  5. John Brennan (Parrish, FL) 152k
  6. David White (Boca Raton, FL) 40k
  7. Ken Bruno (Lake Worth, FL) 64k
  8. Marc Kropf (Miami, FL) 35k
  9. Kevin Spires (W Palm Beach, FL)  88k

Average stack is ~73k.

They’ll finish level 13, then take a dinner break.

Event 1: Flight A Going in the Bag

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 14:  Blinds 1,200/2,400/400 ante

Flight A of Event 1 has come to a close as players get the last four hands out of the way. Unofficially there are 65 players surviving from the starting of the 336 who started.

Nissin Vaknin appears to be the end of flight leader but we will have all the numbers once staff have them crunched. Among those 65 survives were Tristan Wade, Angel Vu, and Errol Massey but Marsha Wolak and Zach Kessler will have to wait for another shot.

Event 1: Flight A Approaching the End

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Level 14:  Blinds 1,200/2,400/400 ante

The last level of the night is underway.  At the conclusion of level14, the remaining players will bag up their chips for the night.  Fewer than 72 players remain of the 336 that entered this flight.

Players who bag chips are not allowed to play any subsequent flights.  If a player still has chips at the end of level 14, they can forfeit their chips if they want to try again.

Event 1: Vaknin Still Leads Flight A

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Level 13:  Blinds 1k/2k/300 ante

Nissin Vaknin is still the chip leader and he has distanced himself from the field.  He’s up to about 325k.

He’s also sharing the felt with WSOP-E Bracelet winner Tristan Wade.  Tristan recently shipped 25,500 to the player on his right when his KcQc failed to improve against his opponent’s pocket 8s.

Tristan is still in fine shape, sitting behind about 150k.

Event 1: Flight B Underway

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Level 1:  Blinds 25/50

Cards are in the air for the second of six starting flights of Event 1!

Players began with 20,000 chips and all Day 1 levels are 30 minutes long.  They’ll play 14 levels, then bag up for the night about 1:45am.

Players who busted out of Flight A may enter this flight and re-enter as many times as they like until registration closes at the start of level 9 (about 10:30pm).