Event 3: Matt Yorra on the Right Side of Set over Set

$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)

Jorge Gomez raised to 4,200 from middle position and Matt Yorra called from the hijack.

The flop fell Ks9c6h and Gomez continued for 5,000. Yorra called to see the Qh turn where Gomez bet 10,000. Yorra raised all in for 54,200 and Gomez called.

Gomez: 6c6s
Yorra: 9d9h

Both players flopped sets, but Yorra had the better of it. The river was the 2c, safe for Yorra to double up and take the chip lead with 13 players remaining.

Matt Yorra – 120,200 (75 bb)
Jorge Gomez – 48,000 (30 bb)

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