$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 28: 30,000/50,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining: 10 of 1,239

Event 9 dropped down to the final table ten with a few seconds before the next break. They redraw for seats and are about to get cards back in the air.

Seat 1: Andrew Thompson – 670,000 (13 bb)
Seat 2: Marcello Bellizzi – 930,000 (19 bb)
Seat 3: Jordan Meltzer – 1,740,000 (35 bb)
Seat 4: Frankie Flowers – 1,585,000 (32 bb)
Seat 5: Matthew Yorra – 245,000 (5 bb)
Seat 6: Nicholas Mahabee – 2,470,000 (49 bb)
Seat 7: Voitto Rintala – 1,380,000 (28 bb)
Seat 8: Mark Nahamn – 175,000 (4 bb)
Seat 9: Bill Fanman – 1,775,000 (36 bb)
Seat 10: Homero Molina – 1,390,000 (28 bb)

1st: $37,565
2nd: $21,782
3rd: $14,273
4th: $9,590
5th: $6,691
6th: $5,204
7th: $4,014
8th: $2,974
9th: $2,082
10th: $1,487

$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 27: 25,000/50,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining: 12 of 1,239

There continued to be a long string off all-ins called at the last two tables but most resulted in double ups. Frankie Flowers did some heavy lifting of his own.

Yigal Hen open/shoved for 360,000 and Flowers called next to act. Song Kim moved all-in over the top for 385,000 and the big blind went into the tank. After he released, Flowers quickly called.

Flowers:
Hen:
Kim:

Flowers was dominating for the double KO and made it happen as the dealer spread the sweat-free board to get them two steps closer to the final table.

Frankie Flowers – 1,750,000 (35 bb)
Song Kim – Eliminated in 13th place ($1,189)
Yigal Hen – Eliminated in 14th place ($1,189)

$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 25: 15,000/30,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining: 18 of 1,239

The dinner break must have woken some players up because they mixed it up in a hurry. Event 9 dropped four players in ten minutes to get them down to 18.

Tournament staff paused the clock to redraw the last two tables.

19th: Matthew Gallen – $877
20th: Washington Gavilanes – $877
21st: Michael Marks – $877
22nd: Bradley Young – $877

$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 25: 15,000/30,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining: 22 of 1,239

The 22 remaining Event 9 players are now in The Poker Room and set to play down to the final table then they’ll find the next LHPO champion.

$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 24: 12,000/24,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining: 22 of 1,239

The 22 remaining players in Event 9 are now on a 60-minute dinner break to unwind. While they are gone, their seats will be relocated to The Poker Room to play out the rest of the tournament.

23rd: Kevin Blewitt – $877
24th: Jonathan Booker – $877
25th: Michael Spiegel – $877
26th: Juan Rodriguez – $877
27th: Antony Vidmer – $877
28th: Louis Leo IV – $743
29th: Andrew Lanoue – $743
30th: Cornelius Rogers – $743
31st: Aldring Gomez Torres – $743
32nd: Jean Bissereth – $743

$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 22: 8,000/16,000 with a 2,000 ante
Players Remaining: 33 of 1,239

Event 9 is down under 36 players leaving the last four tables in the ballroom. They’ll play here until the dinner break at 6:30pm and everyone remaining will be relocated to The Poker Room for the duration.

33rd: Luis Arguello – $743
34th: Ed Medoff – $743
35th: Luke Poljak – $743
36th: Deborah Dana – $743
37th: Arif Amirali – $624
38th: Vincent Spadavecchia – $624
39th: Eli Levy – $624
40th: Gustavo Vazquez – $624
41st: Alicia Goldstein – $624
42nd: Gudmundur Sigurjonsson – $624
43rd: Jake Dollinger – $624
44th: Jeff Rodriguez – $624
45th: Robert Womack – $624
46th: James Jones – $550
47th: Scott McInnis – $550
48th: Veronica Rivera – $550
49th: Diana Dinser – $550

$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 20: 5,000/10,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 44 of 1,239

Event 9 is quickly down to five tables not long after making the money with 72 remaining. They are moving right along and the stacks are building with some big local names hanging at the top.

Our chip leader (above) wishes to remain anonymous at the moment and his 700,000 is being chased down my Michael Foley.

Top stacks and notables:

Anonymouse – 700,000 (58 bb)
Michael Foley – 657,000 (55 bb)
Bill Farnan – 640,000 (53 bb)
Michael Marks – 545,000 (45 bb)
Marcello Bellizzi – 520,000 (43 bb)
Jordan Meltzer – 520,000 (43 bb)
Carlo Rodriguez – 425,000 (35 bb)
Eli Levy – 403,000 (34 bb)
Frankie Flowers – 235,000 (20 bb)
Paul Balzano – 230,000 (19 bb)
Al Gomez – 218,000 (18 bb)
Jake Dollinger – 179,000 (15 bb)

$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 20: 5,000/10,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 49 of 1,239

Once Event 9 hit the money, they wasted no time mixing it up for a double or payout. It was a steady pace to the cage and included Marty Robbins, Ariel Rosello, Brian Phillis, and Seminole Hard Rock Tampa poker ambassador Wally Maddah.

They will go on another 15-minute break after this level and we’ll take a look for some of the big movers.

50th: Ariel Rosello – $550
51st: Adam Perez – $550
52nd: Roman Pshekhonov – $550
53rd: Giovanni Sigurta – $550
54th: Austin Rattet – $550
55th: Robert Levin – $491
56th: Marty Robbins – $491
57th: Brian O’Keefe – $491
58th: Brian Phillis – $491
59th: Jami Kopacz – $491
60th: Benjamin Sriqui – $491
61st: Robert Blankenship – $491
62nd: Wally Maddah – $491
63rd: Sean Anderson – $491
64th: Paulette Pipitone – $431
65th: Gaston Miculitzki – $431
66th: Alex Faynshteyn – $431
67th: Thomas Gari – $431
68th: Evan Lash – $431
69th: Robert Smith – $431
70th: Lazaro Ruiz – $431
71st: Enrique Perez – $431
72nd: Kenneth Bruno – $431

$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 18: 3,000/6,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 72 of 1,239

Event 9 played one bubble hand before the break and two more after before they dropped down to 72 players. On the second hand, Arif Amirali moved all-in over the top from the button after the cutoff open/shoved for 79,000.

The move caused Ariel Rosello to fold queens and Amirali was ahead for the knockout. Once all action was complete on the other tables, the hands were flipped up.

Amirali:
Opponent:

Amirali needed to dodge the over card and diamonds and managed it on the board to put Event 9 in the money.

$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Returning to Level 18: 3,000/6,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 73 of 1,239

Event 9 hit the money bubble portion of the tournament shortly before the first break and they played one round of hand-for-hand action before leaving for 15-minute one from the money

Shortly before the bubble, former SHRP champ Nicholas Mahabee was on the wrong end of a 3% runner-runner bad beat. He was in the big blind against Paul Balzano and Alicia Goldstein to the flop.

Goldstein and Mahabee got their chips in the middle with Goldstein at risk and a huge underdog.

Goldstein:
Mahabee:

Mahabee’s flopped flush was a 97% favorite to knock out Goldstein but that wouldn’t make for an interesting hand. The turn gave Goldstein a set of kings and the board paired the river for the runner-runner full house win.