$560 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$75,000 Guarantee | Structure | Payouts
Level 22: 10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 BB Ante
Prize Pool: $110,500
Players Remaining: 8 of 221

Efthimios Piperakis raised all in for 130,000 from early position and RIchard Ptasnik called from the big blind.

Piperakis:
Ptasnik:

The board ran out , giving Ptasnik a pair of aces to eliminate Piperakis in ninth place.

Richard Ptasnik – 550,000 (28 bb)
Efthimios Piperakis – Eliminated in 9th Place ($2,635)

$560 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$75,000 Guarantee | Structure | Payouts
Level 21: 10,000/15,000 with a 15,000 BB Ante
Prize Pool: $110,500
Players Remaining: 9 of 221

Michael Newman was all in for about 180,000 from the hijack against Marc Sacheli in the big blind.

Newman:
Sacheli:

The board came down , giving Sacheli kings full of treys to eliminate Newman in 10th place.

Marc Sacheli – 500,000 (33 bb)
Michael Newman – Eliminated in 10th Place ($2,321)

$560 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$75,000 Guarantee | Structure | Payouts
Level 21: 10,000/15,000 with a 15,000 BB Ante
Prize Pool: $110,500
Players Remaining: 10 of 221

Seat 1: Richard Ptasnik – 255,000 (17 bb)
Seat 2: Michael Newman – 165,000 (11 bb)
Seat 3: Alcidez Gomez – 1,530,000 (102 bb)
Seat 4: Efthimios Piperakis – 210,000 (16 bb)
Seat 5: Alex Ortiz Vazquez – 160,000 (11 bb)
Seat 6: Marc Sacheli – 155,000 (10 bb)
Seat 7: David Oshry – 495,000 (33 bb)
Seat 8: George Hortelano – 405,000 (17 bb)
Seat 9: Robert Tannenbaum – 305,000 (20 bb)
Seat 10: Paul Tran-Hau – 750,000 (50 bb)

$560 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$75,000 Guarantee | Structure | Payouts
Level 21: 10,000/15,000 with a 15,000 BB Ante
Prize Pool: $110,500
Players Remaining: 10 of 221

Joseph Duchman raised all in for about 140,000 from the button and Alcides Gomez isolated with a shove of his own from the small blind.

Duchman:
Gomez:

The board came down , no help to Duchman, ending his tournament in 11th place.

Alcides Gomez – 1,530,000 (102 bb)
Joseph Duchman – Eliminated in 11th Place ($2,321)

Eliminated shortly beforehand was Juan Solares Mejia in 12th place for $2,321.

$560 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$75,000 Guarantee | Structure | Payouts
Level 20: 6,000/12,000 with a 12,000 BB Ante
Prize Pool: $110,500
Players Remaining: 12 of 221

Alcides Gomez raised to 28,000 from the hijack, Juan Solares Mejia called from the cutoff, Efthimios Piperakis called from the button, David Oshry called from the small blind and TK Miles called from the big blind.

The flop was and action checked to Gomez who continued for 47,000. Mejia folded, Piperakis called and Oshry folded. Miles check-raised all in for about 270,000, Gomez called and Piperakis folded.

Gomez:
Miles:

Gomez was ahead with a set of fours against Miles’ flush draw.

The turn and river completed the board, further improving Gomez to a full house to eliminate Miles.

Alcides Gomez – 1,200,000(100 bb)
TK Miles – Eliminated in 13th Place ($1,989)

$560 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$75,000 Guarantee | Structure | Payouts
Level 19: 5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 BB Ante
Prize Pool: $110,500
Players Remaining: 17 of 221

Joseph Duchman limps in from under the gun, TK Miles raises all in from the small blind for 68,000 and Duchman calls after a few moments.

Duchman:
Miles:

The board comes down , safe for Miles to double through Duchman.

TK Miles – 156,000 (16 bb)
Joseph Duchman – 190,000 (19 bb)

Recent Eliminations:
18th: Alex Boytan – $1,658
19th: Pierrot Massenat – $1,326

$560 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$75,000 Guarantee | Structure | Payouts
Level 18: 4,000/8,000 with an 8,000 BB Ante
Players Remaining: 19 of 221

20th: Almog Biton – $1,326
21st: Janet Solov – $1,326
22nd: Dmitrii Nazarov – $1,022
23rd: Jorge Gomez – $1,022
24th: Scott Baumstein – $1,022

2018 Fun in the Sun Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino 
Hollywood, Florida
Event 4
$250 Big Stack (Re-Entry)
Entries: 175
Prize Pool: $36,750
December 29, 2018

The 2018 Fun in the Sun Poker Open continued on Saturday with Event 4, a $250 Big Stack (Re-Entry) No-Limit Hold’em tournament. A field of 175 entries created a total prize pool of $36,750, easily topping the $25,000 guarantee. The final three players agreed to a deal, and Jason Prest was the biggest stack of the bunch to officially earn the title of champion.

Residing in Boca Raton, this marks the 44-year-old Prest’s second career title at the Seminole Hard Rock, having won a $560 No-Limit Hold’em event at the 2012 Showdown series.

*denotes three-handed deal

$250 Big Stack (Re-Entry)
$25,000 Guarantee | Structure | Payouts
Prize Pool: $36,750
Level 21: 10,000/15,000 with a 15,000 BB Ante
Players Remaining: 3/175

The remaining three players agreed to a deal. Here were their chip counts at the time:

Jason Prest – 1,305,000 (87 bb)
Alexander Michaels – 875,000 (58 bb)
Julian Durity – 445,000 (30 bb)

Here were their subsequent payouts:

Jason Prest – $8,501
Alexander Michaels – $6,606
Julian Durity – $4,712

As the chip leader, Jason Prest is officially the winner of Event 4 of the 2018 Fun in the Sun.