WPTDS: David Moses Eliminated in 39th Place; Defending Champion Jason Young Out in 38th

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Hollywood
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | StructurePayouts
Level 26:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  35 of 1,404

Jason Young
Defending WPTDeepStacks Hollywood Champion Jason Young

David Moses got it all in preflop for about 675,000 with Jh10h, but he ran into Trung Pham’s AdAc.

The board came 6h5h3d7c8d — Moses flopped a heart flush draw and turned a gutshot straight draw on the board for a possible chop, but the river card missed all of his outs. The pocket aces held up for Pham to win the pot and eliminate Moses in 39th place.

Trung Pham  –  2,125,000  (71 bb)
David Moses  –  Eliminated in 39th Place  ($4,389)

A short while later, Jake Schwartz raised under the gun, Alcides Gomez called UTG+1, and defending champion Jason Young called from the small blind.

The flop came 8x7x3x, and Young moved all in for about 250,000. Schwartz folded, and Gomez called with KxKx. Young turned over 5x5x, and he needed to improve to stay alive.

The turn card was a Jx, the river card was an Ax, and the pocket kings held up for Gomez to win the pot and eliminate Young in 38th place.

Alcides Gomez  –  2,250,000  (75 bb)
Jason Young  –  Eliminated in 38th Place  ($4,389)

Level 25 came to an end, and Level 26 began with increased blinds of 20,000-40,000 and a 40,000 ante. Action will continue tonight until they reach the final nine players for tomorrow afternoon’s WPTDeepStacks final table, which begins at 2:00 pm and will be live-streamed on a 30-minute delay.

WPTDS: Nick Yunis Eliminated in 43rd Place; Sharman Olshan Out 42nd

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Hollywood
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | StructurePayouts
Level 25:  15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante
Players Remaining:  41 of 1,404

Trung Pham
Trung Pham

Nick Yunis was just eliminated when he got it all in from the hijack with AcQs, but ran into two pairs of kings — Trung Pham held KhKc, and Zoltan Czinkota had KsKd.

The board came JhJc7s4s8s, and the kings held up for Pham and Czinkota to chop the pot as they eliminated Yunis in 43rd place.

Trung Pham  –  1,480,000  (49 bb)
Zoltan Czinkota  –  460,000  (15 bb)
Nick Yunis  –  Eliminated in 43rd Place  ($4,389)

Rafael Rodriguez
Rafael Rodriguez

A few minutes later, Zoltan Czinkota limped from the hijack for 30,000, Rafael Rodriguez raised from the cutoff to 85,000, and Sharman Olsham moved all in from the small blind for 365,000.

Czinkota folded, and Rodriguez asked for an exact count and thought for a while before he called with 8s8h. Olsham turned over AcKd, and she needed to improve to stay alive.

The board came 7s6h2c6c2d, and the pocket eights held up for Rodriguez to win the pot and eliminate Olsham in 42nd place.

Rafael Rodriguez  –  2,450,000  (82 bb)
Sharman Olsham  –  Eliminated in 42nd Place  ($4,389)

With 41 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 1,025,000 (34 big blinds), and action will continue tonight until they reach the nine-handed final table.

WPTDS: Nick Palma Wins a Three-Way All-In to Reach 2.2 Million; Joseph Hernon Out 44th

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Hollywood
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | StructurePayouts
Level 25:  15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante
Players Remaining:  43 of 1,404

Nick Palma
Nick Palma

Nick Palma raised under the gun to 65,000, Joseph Hernon called UTG+1, Joseph Bianco called from the button, and Zhen Cai moved all in from the big blind for about 1,275,000.

Palma called all in for 780,000, Hernon called all in for 565,000, and Bianco folded.

These were their cards in descending order of chip counts:

Zhen Cai:  7h7c
Nick Palma:  QsQc
Joseph Hernon:  AdKh

The board came KdQdJc2d9s, and Palma flopped a set of queens to win the entire pot, doubling thru Cai and eliminating Hernon in 44th place.

Nick Palma  –  2,235,000  (75 bb)
Zhen Cai  –  500,000  (17 bb)
Joseph Hernon  –  Eliminated in 44th Place  ($4,389)

With 43 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 980,000 (33 big blinds), and action will continue tonight until they reach the nine-handed final table.

Event 7: Prize Pool and Payouts with $33,516 to the Bounty Champ

$1,700 Purple Chip Bounty (Single Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining:  45 of 109

Registration closed for the Purple Chip Bounty and the numbers were made available. The $1,700 buy-in tournament drew 109 entries to put $111,725 in the normal prize pool and another $54,500 into the bounty prize pool.

The last 14 spots will paid with a min-cash worth $2,626 and the winner will earn $33,516 plus all the bounties they collect.

2020 Lucky Hearts Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 7
$1,700 Purple Chip Bounty (Single Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed
Entries:  109
Prize Pool:  $111,725
Bounty Prize Pool:  $54,500
January 12-13, 2020

1st: $33,516 + LHPO
2nd: $20,669
3rd: $12,401
4th: $8,100
5th: $6,257
6th: $5,139
7th: $4,357
8th: $3,799
9th: $3,352
10th-12th: $2,961
13th-14th: $2,626

WPTDS: Vadim Rozin Leads the Field at Dinner with 2.49 Million, Followed by Edwards Muñiz and Jake Schwartz

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Hollywood
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | StructurePayouts
Level 25:  15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante
Players Remaining:  45 of 1,404

Vadim Rozin
Chipleader Vadim Rozin

A scan of the field during the dinner break turned up 10 players with at least 1.5 million in chips, creating an unofficial leaderboard:

1.  Vadim Rozin  –  2,490,000  (83 bb)
2.  Edwards Muñiz  –  2,225,000  (74 bb)
3.  Jake Schwartz  –  2,180,000  (73 bb)
4.  Aaron Rosenthal  –  2,150,000  (72 bb)
5.  Rafael Rodriguez  –  2,135,000  (71 bb)
6.  Raminder Singh  –  1,850,000  (62 bb)
7.  Claudio Kalili  –  1,780,000  (59 bb)
8.  Yue Wang  –  1,750,000  (58 bb)
9.  Alcides Gomez  –  1,700,000  (57 bb)
10.  Justin Bianco  –  1,575,000  (53 bb)

Action is scheduled to resume at 7:38 pm.

Edwards Muñiz
On his day off yesterday, Edwards Muñiz played Event 5 (Big O) and won it, even though it was his first Omaha tournament.
Jake Schwartz
Jake Schwartz

WPTDS: Recent Eliminations, 46th-79th

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Hollywood
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | StructurePayouts
Level 25:  15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante
Players Remaining:  45 of 1,404

David Farber
51st-Place Finisher David Farber

Here is a list of the players who have recently been eliminated, along with their payouts:

46th:  Lumni Zhuta  –  $3,805
47th:  Allan Bieler  –  $3,805
48th:  Leo Ojeda  –  $3,805
49th:  Jason Dollinger  –  $3,805
50th:  Jason Thomas  –  $3,805
51st:  David Farber  –  $3,805
52nd:  Robert Jonsson  –  $3,805
53rd:  Robert Pollmeier  –  $3,805
54th:  Scott Arnold  –  $3,805

55th:  Steven Cabas  –  $3,397
56th:  David Wolff  –  $3,397
57th:  Huicun Qiao  –  $3,397
58th:  Jonathan Ounjian  –  $3,397
59th:  Richard Whitebrook  –  $3,397
60th:  Steve Wilkie  –  $3,397
61st:  Kevin Buldo  –  $3,397
62nd:  James Hoeppner  –  $3,397
63rd:  Kareem Marshall  –  $3,397

64th:  Martin St. Amaant  –  $3,125
65th:  Jonathan Shapiro  –  $3,125
66th:  Darryll Fish  –  $3,125
67th:  Robert Cahill  –  $3,125
68th:  Jennifer Parker  –  $3,125
69th:  Gil Nagar  –  $3,125
70th:  Tomas Soderstrom  –  $3,125
71st:  Lenol Clark, Jr.  –  $3,125
72nd:  Donys Agnelli  –  $3,125

73rd:  Eric Snyder  –  $2,962
74th:  Paul Domb  –  $2,962
75th:  Robert Kessler  –  $2,962
76th:  Byron Schenk  –  $2,962
77th:  Travis Jackson  –  $2,962
78th:  Robert Kostesky  –  $2,962
79th:  Duane Felix  –  $2,962

Event 7: Last Level to Register

$1,700 Purple Chip Bounty (Single Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8:  400/800 with a 800 ante
Entries:  104

Brett Bader

The Purple Chip Bounty is into its eighth level which means time is running out to join this big game. The tournament blasted its $100,000 guarantee early in the day and there’s a great field of players in the mix.

Among them we found Lily Kiletto, James Calderaro, TK Miles, Sam Panzica, Filipp Khavin, Matthew Smith, current SHRP POY leader David Nathaniel Jr, and former POY Brett Bader.

WPTDS: Final 45 on Dinner Break Until 7:38 pm

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Hollywood
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | StructurePayouts
Level 25:  15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante
Players Remaining:  45 of 1,404

Jason Young
Jason Young

With about three minutes remaining before the dinner break, Lumni Zhuta lost an all-in situation to drop down to 15,000 — a single small blind.

The next hand, Zhuta called all in from the hijack for 15,000, Jason Young raised button to 110,000, and everyone else folded.

Zhuta turned over Qh7c, but he was dominated by Young’s As7h.

The board came Jh5h4cKs7d, and Young won the pot with a pair of sevens and his ace kicker to eliminate Zhuta in 46th place.

Level 24 came to an end, and the players took their one-hour dinner break. With 45 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 935,000 (31 big blinds), and the field is playing down to the nine-handed WPTDeepStacks final table tonight.

Action is scheduled to resume at 7:38 pm.

WPTDS: Larry Hirschfield Doubles Thru David DiBernardi; Steven Cabas Eliminated in 55th Place by Brandon Lalloo

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Hollywood
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | StructurePayouts
Level 24:  15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante
Players Remaining:  53 of 1,404

Larry Hirschfield
Larry Hirschfield

David DiBernardi raised UTG+1 to 60,000, Larry Hirschfield moved all in from the button for 320,000, and DiBernardi called with AcKc. Hirschfield turned over 7s7d, and needed his hand to hold to stay alive.

The board came Qs6h5hJs8d — DiBernardi turned a gutshot straight draw, but improved no further. Hirschfield won the pot with his pocket sevens to double up in chips.

Larry Hirschfield  –  705,000  (28 bb)
David DiBernardi  –  990,000  (40 bb)

Brandon Lalloo
Brandon Lalloo

At Table 8, Steven Cabas moved all in UTG+1 for 145,000, and Brandon Lalloo moved all in over the top from the cutoff for about 450,000 with 6s6h. Cabas turned over AdJc, and needed to improve to stay alive.

The board came 9s9d7d3d5s — Cabas turned a diamond flush draw, but improved no further. Lalloo won the pot with two pair, nines and sixes, to eliminate Cabas in 55th place.

Brandon Lalloo  –  650,000  (26 bb)
Steven Cabas  –  Eliminated in 55th Place  ($3,397)

With 53 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 795,000 (32 big blinds), and the field is playing all the way down to the nine-handed WPTDeepStacks final table tonight. The final table begins tomorrow at 2:00 pm, with the WPT Live Stream beginning at 2:30 pm on a 30-minute delay.

Event 6: Prize Pool and Payouts with $25K to the Winner

$400 Deep Stacks NLH (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 11:  800/1,600 with a 1,600 ante
Players Remaining:  99 of 354

Event 6 clock

While the WPTDeepStacks Hollywood was playing down, the $400 Big Stack NLH tournament blasted expectations. Event 6 had a $50,000 guaranteed prize pool and the 354 entries more than doubled that amount.

They combined to put $120,360 up for grabs, a min-cash is worth $613 while the Event 6 champ walks away with $25,422 and the LHPO trophy.

2020 Lucky Hearts Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 6
$400 Deep Stacks NLH (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed
Entries:  354
Prize Pool:  $120,360
January 12, 2020

1st: $25,422 + LHPO Trophy
2nd: $17,799
3rd: $11,444
4th: $7,450
5th: $5,741
6th: $4,748
7th: $3,984
8th: $3,256
9th: $2,542
10th-12th: $2,142
13th-15th: $1,817
16th-18th: $1,498
19th-21st: $1,252
22nd-24th: $1,017
25th-27th: $876
28th-36th: $739
37th-45th: $613