Fun in the Sun Main Event | Structure
$560 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 6: 200/400 with a 50
Entries: 103

It’s early in Level 6 and the $50,000 guarantee is already bested in the Fun in the Sun $560 Main Event. The clock shows 103 to this point with registration and re-entry available until about 4:25pm. Looking back to last year, today’s event is slightly ahead of pace of its predecessor and should best the year-over-year turnout.

Fun in the Sun Main Event | Structure
$560 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 5: 150/300 with a 50
Entries: 87

Registration and re-entry in the Fun in the Sun Main Event is available until about 4:25pm. Until that time, anyone that goes bust can simply head back to the registration desk and get back in the game for another $560. After that time, though, the re-entry period is closed and the field will be final.

Those who find the felt post-4:25pm have another option to scratch the poker itch at the cash tables. Bonus High Hands up to $1,000 kick in at 6pm and are paid every 30 minutes with rollover until midnight.

If tonight’s not the night, tomorrow marks another installment with a little longer window for payouts when they begin at noon and go straight through until a special $2,018 payout at midnight.

Fun in the Sun Main Event | Structure
$560 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 3: 75/150 with a 25
Entries: 70

There’s a been a steady tick up in the entry count since cards went in the air for the Fun in the Sun Main Event just about 45 minutes ago. After kicking off with 30, the field has more than doubled as it just hit the 70 mark. That puts the prize pool at an unofficial $35,000 and the tournament is well on its way to smashing the $50,000 guarantee.

A quick stroll through the tables shows a handful of notables in the game taking a shot at a $560 trophy. Recent Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open Championship winner Michael Newman is joined by World Series of Poker gold bracelet winner Jacquelyn Scott and former November Niner Neil Blumenfield.

Fun in the Sun Main Event | Structure
$560 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 1: 25/50
Entries: 30

The clock strikes 11am in South Florida and the headline event of the 2017 Fun in the Sun Poker Open is underway at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. Recognized as the Main Event, the final tournament of the series is a $560 buy-in no limit hold’em re-entry event. Players take their seats to 20,000 starting chips with 20-minute levels kicking it off before they jump to 30 minutes two hours into the structure.

Here are the details on the event:

• $560 buy-in, $50,000 guaranteed
• 20,000 chips and 20-/30-minute levels
• Registration and re-entry until the start of Level 13 (~4:25pm)
• One-day event structured to play to conclusion
• Structure sheet

Last year’s closer saw a field of 148 entries generate a total prize pool of $74,000. When the dust settled, Yousef Nassr scored an outright win along with $20,428 in prize money.

Link: Yousef Nassr Wins 2016 FITS Main Event for $20K

Updates from this year’s event will be available now through its conclusion in the early morning hours of Sunday. Good luck, players!

11am: Fun in the Sun Main Event ($560 Deep Stack)

• $560 buy-in, $50,000 guaranteed
• 20,000 chips and 20-/30-minute levels
• Registration and re-entry until the start of Level 13 (~4:25pm)
• One-day event
• Structure sheet

2017 Fun in the Sun Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino 
Hollywood, Florida
Event 5
$130 Deep Stack Turbo No Limit Hold’em
Entries: 184
Prize Pool: $18,400
December 29, 2017

Event 5 of the 2017 Fun in the Sun Poker Open was a $130 Deep Stack Turbo tournament with a $15,000 guaranteed prize pool. The event drew 184 entries, generating a prize pool of $18,400. Also on the line was an $1,100 seat to the WPT DeepStacks Hollywood at the 2018 Lucky Hearts Poker Open.

A four-handed deal was reached and chip leading at the time was Dani Dayan, making her the official winner. For Dayan, it marked her first official tournament series win at the Seminole Hard Rock.

*denotes four-handed deal

$130 Deep Stack Turbo (Re-Entry)
Level 25: 25,000/50,000 with a 5,000 ante
Structure | Payouts
Prize Pool: $18,400
Players Remaining: 4/184

The remaining four players agreed to a deal. Here were their chip counts at the time, followed by their subsequent payouts.

Dani Dayan – 1,175,000 (24 bb)
Kevin Dubrocq – 1,100,000 (22 bb)
Matthew Sacks – 710,000 (14 bb)
Morris Bossen – 675,000 (13 bb)

As chip leader,  Dani Dayan is officially the winner of Event 5 of the 2017 Seminole Hard Rock Fun in the Sun Poker Open.

Dani Dayan – $3,205 + $1,100 WPT DeepStacks seat
Kevin Dubrocq – $3,073
Matthew Sacks – $2,390
Morris Bossen – $2,329

A recap of the tournament will be posted later tonight.

$130 Deep Stack Turbo (Re-Entry)
Level 25: 25,000/50,000 with a 5,000 ante
Structure | Payouts
Prize Pool: $18,400
Players Remaining: 4/184

Michael Krumenacker was all in from the button for about 200,000 with against Kevin Dubrocq in the big blind with .

Dubrocq flopped trip sixes, and Krumenacker couldn’t catch up to bust in fifth place.

Kevin Dubrocq – 1,150,000 (29 bb)
Michael Krumenacker – Eliminated in 5th Place ($886)

$130 Deep Stack Turbo (Re-Entry)
Level 24: 20,000/40,000 with a 5,000 ante
Structure | Payouts
Prize Pool: $18,400
Players Remaining: 5/184

Dani Dayan was all in from early position for 495,000 with , racing with Meyer Zana’s from under the gun.

The board came down , giving Dayan a pair of kings to double up.

Zana was left very short stacked and was eliminated shortly thereafter in sixth place.

Dani Dayan – 1,085,000 (26 bb)
Meyer Zana – Eliminated in 6th Place ($734)

$130 Deep Stack Turbo (Re-Entry)
Level 24: 20,000/40,000 with a 5,000 ante
Structure | Payouts
Prize Pool: $18,400
Players Remaining: 6/184

Moises Natanel raised all in for about 250,000 from the button, and Kevin Dubrocq called from the big blind with , leading Natanel’s .

The board came down , giving Dubrocq aces up to eliminate Natanel in seventh place.

Kevin Dubrocq – 800,000 (20 bb)
Moises Natanel – Eliminated in 7th Place ($626)