$3,500 WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 3:  100/200 with a 200 ante
Entries: 282

On a flop of with one player already all in action is checked around to the button who bet 4,200. Yulia Lisichkina in the small blind called.

The turn brought the ,  Lisichkina checked and her opponent bet 12,000. Lisichkina thought about it before reshoving for 18,000 more. Her opponent folded.

The river was the . The all in player flipped over [ahac] but was no good against Lisichkina’s [adks].

Yulia Lisichkina – 65,000

$3,500 WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 3:  100/200 with a 200 ante
Entries: 262

Eric Afriat opened to 700 from middle position, Ryan D’Angelo called from late position, as did the small blind.

The flop came , it checked to Afriat who continuation bet 1,200. Both of his opponents folded and Afriat scooped the pot.

Eric Afriat – 38,000

$3,500 WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 3:  100/200 with a 200 ante
Entries: 259

The first break is complete and cards are back in the air after a short introduction from the WPT team.

There were several big stacks in the room but none bigger than Brad Coultas. After two levels, the WSOPC ring winner 3x’d his 40,000 starting stack and sits with 120,000 going into Level 3.

$3,500 WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
End of Level 2:  100/200
Entries: 239

Players are currently on their first fifteen minute break of the day.

$3,500 WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 2:  100/200
Entries: 217

Some people won their way into the Championship via satellite, some bought directly in, but one person is freerolling the tournament.

Jason Young is the reigning Seminole Hard Rock Poker Player of the Year and part of his winner package includes an entry into all major Championships/Main Events throughout the year. He earned his way to the top of the leaderboard thanks to a win in last year’s WPTDeepStacks Hollywood Main Event and followed that up with a WSOP Circuit Coco Main Event final table.

David Nathaniel Jr leads the current POY race and we expect to see him this weekend as he attempts to add more points. This year’s SHRP Player of the Year will earn a prize package worth more than $25,000 with tournament buy-ins and food/hotel comps.

$3,500 WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 2:  100/200
Entries: 216

In a battle of the blinds with the flop reading Femi Fashakin checks to Jonathan Jaffe. Jaffe bet 1,000 into a pot of 1,400. Fashakin raises to 3,700 and Jaffe thought shortly before calling.

Both players checked the on the turn. The river brought the , Fashakin bet 8,500 and Jaffe thought awhile before folding.

Femi Fashakin – 41,000
Jonathan Jaffe – 45,000

$3,500 WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1:  100/100
Entries: 186

As the room fills up a few more notable entrants have taken their seat including WPT DeepStacks Champions Maria Ho and Michael Tureniec and WPT Alpha 8 Champion Noah Schwartz.

$3,500 WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1:  100/100
Entries: 178

The field is filling in quickly as we head towards the afternoon hours and a lot of top players are here early including Seniors Event champ Phil Rigby, Ralph Massey, Aaron Massey, Tony Cousineau, and 2009 WSOP Main Event champ Joe Cada.

A fine turnout so far and we expect many more with registration open until 9:15 pm.

$3,500 WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1:  100/100
Entries: 150

In a battle of the blinds, Darren Elias bet1,200 into a pot of 3,600 on a flop. Paul Snead called.

The turn brought the , Elias checked and Snead bet 5,000. Elias called.

The river was the , Elias checked again and Snead put out a bet of 15,000. Elias thought about it before putting in the calling chips.

Snead tabled and was defeated by Elias’s .

“It was close, one off” Snead said. “You woulda got me” Elias responded.

Darren Elias – 59,000
Paul Snead – 21,000

$3,500 WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1:  100/100

Cards are in the air for Day 1A of the WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.