$1,650 Purple Chip County No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guarantee | Structure | Payouts Level 17: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 ante Players Remaining: 10 of 105
A short-stacked Anton Wigg raised all in for about 15,000 from the hijack, Ken Ray called from the button, and Johanssy Joseph called from the big blind.
Joseph and Ray proceeded to check until the river of an board where Ray isolated the pot with for a pair of aces. Wigg couldn’t beat it with , and he was eliminated in 11th place.
Ken Ray – 197,500 (66 bb) Anton Wigg – Eliminated in 11th Place ($2,783)
$1,650 Purple Chip County No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guarantee | Structure | Payouts Level 17: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 ante Players Remaining: 11 of 105
Derek Bowers raised to 7,000 from the hijack, Arkadiy Tsinis three-bet shoved from the cutoff for 57,000, and Bowers called.
Bowers: Tsinis:
The board came down , no help to Tsinis, ending his tournament in 12th place.
Derek Bowers – 365,000 (121 bb) Arkadiy Tsinis – Eliminated in 12th Place ($2,783)
$1,650 Purple Chip County No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guarantee | Structure | Payouts Upcoming Level 17: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 ante Regular Prize Pool: $105,000 Bounty Prize Pool: $52,500 Players Remaining: 12 of 105
Day 2 of Event 11, the $1,650 Purple Chip County No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry), is set to get underway at 2 p.m. 12 players remain from the starting field of 105 entries, and Derek Bowers commands the biggest stack of the bunch.
$1,650 Purple Chip County No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guarantee | Structure Returning to Level 17: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 ante Players Remaining: 12 of 105
The $1,650 no limit hold’em purple chip bounty made the money in the last level of the day and then lost two players before completing the scheduled 16 levels of play and bagged up for the night.
The 105-entry field was trimmed down to 12 by the night’s end and Derek Bowers bagged a massive chip lead on the verge of the final table.
He’s the only player above the 300,000-chip mark and has over 100,000 more than Alexandre Caperonis, who will start Day 2 second in chips with 204,500.
Top pro Phil Laak is also still in the hunt for a bounty title. Arguably the most accomplished player in the field sits right in the middle of the pack with 85,500. Anton Wigg, who won the WSOP Circuit high roller event here last month brings up the bottom of the chip counts.
The cards get back in air for this event on Monday at 2 p.m. Everybody is guaranteed $2,783 and the winner, who will be crowned Monday evening, will take home $31,497.
$1,650 Purple Chip County No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guarantee | Structure Level 12: 500/1,000 with a 100 ante Total Entries: 105
After the 30-minute dinner break, registration closed on the $1,650 Purple Chip Bounty event with 105 entries surpassing the $100,000 guarantee prize pool.
They put $105,000 in the regular prize pool along with $52,500 distributed in the form of $500 player bounties. The last 14 players will earn a piece of the regular prize pool with a min-cash walking away with $2,468 and the Purple Chip Bounty champ taking home $31,497 along with the RRPO trophy.
2017 Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Florida Event 11 $1,650 Purple Chip County No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Entries: 105 Regular Prize Pool: $105,000 Bounty Prize Pool: $52,500 November 26-27, 2017
$1,650 Purple Chip County No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guarantee | Structure Level 9: 250/500 with a 75 ante Entries: 100
The Purple Chip Bounty field has returned from their second break of the day and Alexandre Caperonis has set himself apart from the rest. His mountain of chips stood out among the rest and he returned to a very healthy 110,000.
Miguel Capriles and Brandon Caputo sit with 75,000 with former RRPO trophy winner Nick Pupillo in the fourth spot.
They will play out two more levels before taking a 30-minute dinner break with registration closing afterward.
$1,650 Purple Chip County No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guarantee | Structure Level 4: 75/150 Entries: 75
With 75 entries midway through Level 4, the $100,000 guarantee in the $1,650 Purple Chip Bounty is well bested. The prize pool sits at an unofficial $112,500, $37,500 of which is in bounties. By the time registration closes (roughly 9pm) we expect both those figures to climb comfortably higher.
Here’s a look at some of the players who have gotten in the action since we last touched base:
$1,650 Purple Chip County No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guarantee | Structure Level 2: 50/75 Entries: 52
The Purple Chip Bounty is off to a strong start in the meeting rooms across the hall. Barely 30 minutes in to the day, the clock shows over 50 entries all but assuring the six-figure guarantee to be met.
A quick stroll through the tournament area reveals a number of notables in the action. Among them, Seminole Hard Rock Poker team member Matt Affleck and Paul Balzano.
Affleck claims more than $2,600,000 in tournament earnings including a $500,000 score in the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event. Balzano, meanwhile, sits on over $1,200,000 in earnings which is inclusive of five titles that came right here at the Seminole Hard Rock.