$570 No Limit Hold’em Double Black Chip Bounty
Level 21: 5,000/10,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 8 of 240
Average Stack: 360,000
We missed the action with the heads-up match between Andre Crooks and Josh Beckley resuming, but Jim Rothlein was eliminated in ninth place for $1,440.
$570 No Limit Hold’em Double Black Chip Bounty
Level 20: 4,000/8,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 9 of 240
Average Stack: 320,000
Evan Teitelbaum moved all in from middle position for 144,000 and was called by Cornel Cimpan from the hijack.
Teitelbaum showed 
and was in trouble against Cimpan’s 
. The board ran out 
and Cimpan’s pair holds up to eliminate Teitelbaum in 10th place.
Cimpan drags the pot and moves over the half million chip mark.
Cornel Cimpan – 570,000
Evan Teitelbaum – Eliminated
$570 No Limit Hold’em Double Black Chip Bounty
Level 20: 4,000/8,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 10 of 240
Average Stack – 288,000
There is a slight break in the action as the final 10 players re-draw for seats at the unofficial final table of 10.
Vimy Ha is leading the field at the outset of the final table with 694,000 in chips. Everybody is guaranteed a cash of at least $936, but they are all within arm’s reach of the $20,160 first place prize.
Here is a look at the seating arrangement and chip counts:
Seat 1: Dalton Mills – 120,000
Seat 2: Jon Brody – 122,000
Seat 3: Vimy Ha – 694,000
Seat 4: Jim Rothlein – 152,000
Seat 5: Pasquale Caiazza – 630,000
Seat 6: Stephen Esposito – 84,000
Seat 7: Ido Ashkenazi – 474,000
Seat 8: Evan Teitelbaum – 121,000
Seat 9: Johanssy Joseph – 144,000
Seat 10: Cornel Cimpan – 317,000
Here are the remaining payouts:
1st: $20,160
2nd: $11,880
3rd: $6,840
4th: $5,544
5th: $4,320
6th: $3,600
7th: $2,850
8th: $2,160
9th: $1,440
10th: $936
$570 Double Black Chip Bounty (Single Re-Entry)
Event 13 had a $50,000 guaranteed prize pool and the 240 entrants easily pushed it over that number. Besides the $200 bounty on every player, they have $72,000 in the regular prize pool with the last 27 getting a piece.
A min-cash is worth $648 and the entire final table is set to earn over $1,000. The winner will take home $20,160 along with the trophy and custom-framed winner’s photo courtesy of Image Masters.
1st: $20,160
2nd: $11,880
3rd: $6,840
4th: $5,544
5th: $4,320
6th: $3,600
7th: $2,850
8th: $2,160
9th: $1,440
10th – 12th: $936
13th – 15th: $792
16th – 18th: $720
19th – 27th: $648
$570 Double Black Chip Bounty (Single Re-Entry)
Level 1: 25/50
We have one new tournament on the schedule today as the 2016 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open closes in on the big events coming up next week. Event 13 is a $570 Black Chip Bounty tournament with a $50,000 guaranteed prize pool and a $200 bounty on each player.
Knock someone out and get two $100 cash chips; it’s possible to profit before reaching the payout portion of the tournament.
Entrants start with 12,000 starting stacks and play 30-minute levels. Late registration is available until the start of Level 9 at 4:30pm but players are limited to a single re-entry if they bust out during that time. This is scheduled as a one-day tournament and will conclude later this evening with our newest champion.