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WPTDS: Returning Day 2 Table and Seat Assignments

January 12, 2020 @ 12:26AM by AlCantHang

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Hollywood
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 16: 2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining: 273 of 1,404

Flight A: 367 Entries; 70 Advanced
Flight C: 417 Entries; 88 Advanced
Flight D: 620 Entries: 115 Advanced
Day 2: Sunday at noon

Table	Seat	First Name	Last Name	Chip Count
5	1	Nick	Ahmadi	92,000
5	2	Peter	Fellows	145,000
5	3	Stanley	Lee	157,000
5	4	James	Calderaro	75,000
5	5	Kareem	Marshall	171,000
5	6	Duane	Felix	138,000
5	7	Ronald	Campillo	75,000
5	8	Juan Pablo	Barbosa	73,000
5	9	Michael	Garcia	262,000
6	1	Filipp	Khavin	180,000
6	2	Anes	Kovacevic	134,000
6	3	Loc	Nguyen	250,000
6	4	Matthew	Smith	87,000
6	5	Shalom	Elharar	143,000
6	6	David	Farber	392,000
6	7	Hank	Sitton	181,000
6	8	Lowell	Kim	181,000
6	9	Timothy	Mulroy	57,000
7	1	Mazouz	Davy	33,000
7	2	Mark	Nahama	130,000
7	3	Gaurav	Krishan	176,000
7	4	Peter	Nigh	112,000
7	5	Dmitry	Shekhter	253,000
7	6	Moshe	Tarich	100,000
7	7	Lou	Ojeda	168,000
7	8	Athanasios	Polychronopoulos	66,000
7	9	Kathy	Liebert	95,000
8	1	Steve	Karp	173,000
8	2	Paul	Mertens	123,000
8	3	Stuart	Paterson	48,000
8	4	Conor	Hannan	58,000
8	5	Jonathan	Ounjian	116,000
8	6	Adam	Templeman	73,000
8	7	Luboslar	Bafia	139,000
8	8	David	Poces	56,000
9	1	Sharman	Olshan	130,000
9	2	Trung	Pham	129,000
9	3	Femi	Fashakin	102,000
9	4	Mark	Dube	35,000
9	5	Peter	Vitantonio	320,000
9	6	Nick	Yunis	426,000
9	7	Ricardo	Eyzaguirre	257,000
9	8	Gil	Nagar	537,000
9	9	John	Keraghan Jr	152,000
10	1	Larry	Hirschfield	113,000
10	2	Nizar	Dajani	54,000
10	3	Charles	Odenz	263,000
10	4	Alain	Candales Falcon	239,000
10	5	Jason	Dollinger	86,000
10	6	Lazaro	Rojas	153,000
10	7	Scott	Fitzhugh	44,000
10	8	David	Ivers	51,000
10	9	Sheddy	Siddiqui	170,000
16	1	Denis	Schneider	111,000
16	2	Lumni	Zhuta	245,000
16	3	Jason	Vanstrom	42,000
16	4	David	Inselberg	75,000
16	5	David	Levi	127,000
16	6	Mark	Amaral	214,000
16	7	Robert	Rosen	101,000
16	8	James	Lillis	45,000
16	9	Ting	Zhou	36,000
17	1	Nancy	Thomas	79,000
17	3	Ken	Einiger	65,000
17	4	Justin	Bianco	101,000
17	5	Jason	Wandling	60,000
17	6	Kharlin	Sued	113,000
17	7	Michael	Larocca	40,000
17	8	Ira	Marcus	141,000
17	9	Robert	Cahill	72,000
18	1	Stephen	Whitaker	72,000
18	2	Debra	Hedgpeth	303,000
18	3	Patrick	Curry	170,000
18	5	Warren	Irvine	194,000
18	6	Raminder	Singh	412,000
18	7	Jennifer	Parker	68,000
18	8	Michael	Scoma	183,000
18	9	Jonathan	Shapiro	434,000
19	1	Scott	Swatscheno	139,000
19	2	Jake	Schwartz	105,000
19	3	Riley	Fuller	47,000
19	4	Andres	Sol Sañudo	162,000
19	5	Zachary	Guerin	199,000
19	6	Christopher	Hughes	58,000
19	7	Robert	Mizrachi	114,000
19	8	Joseph	Rossi	80,000
19	9	Jason	Young	196,000
20	1	Dovid	Lakein	82,000
20	2	Brett	Bader	74,000
20	3	Solange	Lucas	55,000
20	4	Allan	Bieler	188,000
20	5	John	Gorsuch	247,000
20	6	Louise	Francoeur	107,000
20	7	William	Muniz	412,000
20	8	Mauricio	Ameller	120,000
20	9	Eduardo	Garcia Perez	42,000
26	1	Illia	Shtondenko	235,000
26	2	Jason	Thomas	111,000
26	3	Jacob	Naumann	277,000
26	4	Vadims	Ivanovs	133,000
26	5	Luciano	Nardi	103,000
26	6	Lily	Kiletto	59,000
26	7	Roberto	Alberro	144,000
26	8	Paul	Balzano	108,000
26	9	Robert	Pollmeier	271,000
27	1	David	Wolff	181,000
27	2	Alan	Schein	127,000
27	3	Huicun	Qiao	65,000
27	4	Joel	Harwood	130,000
27	5	Robert	Kessler	285,000
27	6	Aaron	Rosenthal	130,000
27	7	Hans	Winzeler	238,000
27	8	Carey	Pickus	137,000
27	9	Harold	Behling	46,000
28	1	Rafay	Asrar	231,000
28	2	Zhen	Cai	237,000
28	3	Eric	Snyder	114,000
28	4	Fikret	Kovac	111,000
28	5	Oscar	Santos	58,000
28	6	Hector	Pacheco	316,000
28	7	Lauri	Saaskilahti	87,000
28	8	Alcides	Gomez	215,000
28	9	David	Frenkel	69,000
29	2	Evan	Teitelbaum	155,000
29	3	Steven	Walters	115,000
29	4	Erik	Greulach	19,000
29	5	Stephen	Leahy	149,000
29	6	Ian	Gillespie	280,000
29	7	Anatoly	Zharnitsky	128,000
29	8	Raymond	Roberty	117,000
29	9	Kenneth	Frey	165,000
30	1	Ido	Ashkenazi	114,000
30	2	Brent	Granda	66,000
30	3	Blake	Napierala	222,000
30	4	Marla	Crumpler	70,000
30	5	Carmela	Jackson	55,000
30	6	Clinton	Keown	51,000
30	7	Scott	Baumstein	86,000
30	8	Thiago	Palmieri Camilo	85,000
30	9	Douglas	Claybrook	46,000
36	1	Travis	Doran	56,000
36	2	Roman	Korenev	60,000
36	3	Jerry	Wong	238,000
36	4	Brandon	Lalloo	185,000
36	5	Zoltan	Czinkota	291,000
36	6	Joseph	Montervino	131,000
36	7	Alberto	Rodriguez	88,000
36	8	Casey	Carroll	305,000
36	9	Kyle-Matthew	Janisse	40,000
37	1	Lenol	Clark Jr	82,000
37	2	Eric	Polirer	59,000
37	3	Scott	Zakheim	66,000
37	4	Nissim	Vaknin	125,000
37	6	Erez	Skolnik	79,000
37	7	Michael	Cervantes	135,000
37	8	Scott	Harwood	46,000
37	9	Jerry	Brown	255,000
38	1	Travis	Jackson	132,000
38	2	Neil	Blumenfield	109,000
38	3	Allyn	Pier	24,000
38	4	Rady	Martinez	181,000
38	5	Evan	Dahl	216,000
38	6	Nancy	Birnbaum	93,000
38	7	Joseph	Hernon	270,000
38	8	Christopher	Perry	306,000
38	9	Charles	Johnson Jr	217,000
39	1	Ian	O'Hara	251,000
39	2	Al	Gomez	235,000
39	3	Justin	Zaki	84,000
39	4	Pasquale	Caiazza	88,000
39	5	Bruno	Fortin	135,000
39	6	Darryll	Fish	196,000
39	7	Victor	Adams	104,000
39	8	Tomas	Soderstrom	319,000
39	9	Jacquelyn	Scott	258,000
40	1	Camilo	Manrique Huizi	74,000
40	2	Bassam	Mourad	163,000
40	3	Carlos	Garcia	282,000
40	4	Rafael	Rodriguez Arango	193,000
40	5	David	Dibernardi	292,000
40	6	Paul	Domb	201,000
40	7	Thomas	Curtis	285,000
40	8	Donys	Agnelli	487,000
40	9	Louis	Leo	46,000
46	1	David	Moses	256,000
46	2	Daniel	Wayson	100,000
46	3	Vitor	Coelho	231,000
46	4	Joseph	Chalbaud	130,000
46	5	Joseph	Mole	260,000
46	6	Howard	Mash	520,000
46	7	Michael	Lind	108,000
46	8	Steven	Rosen	76,000
46	9	Selim	Hamadache	139,000
47	1	John	Pendl	167,000
47	2	Kevin	Buldo	66,000
47	3	David	MacDonald	149,000
47	4	Thomas	Knepp	71,000
47	5	Qasem	Jamhour	207,000
47	6	Marco	Rodriguez	99,000
47	7	Yamac	Akgun	355,000
47	8	Adam	Kemper	117,000
47	9	Michael	Tait	197,000
48	1	Roy	Rubin	157,000
48	2	Eric	Valerio	70,000
48	3	Brian	Metter	112,000
48	4	Glenn	Becker	109,000
48	5	Jack	Shea	137,000
48	6	Ryan	Mickler	186,000
48	7	Carlos	Guerrero	18,000
48	8	Brandon	Caputo	181,000
48	9	Robert	Kostesky	97,000
49	1	Skip	McDonough	210,000
49	2	Gene	Raman	92,000
49	3	Barry	Brown	84,000
49	4	Bradley	Coultas	121,000
49	5	Benjamin	Sriqui	228,000
49	6	Raffaello	Locatelli	165,000
49	7	Albert	Burruano	126,000
49	9	Satyen	Patel	179,000
50	1	Naing	Thu	334,000
50	2	Alexander	Salcedo	529,000
50	3	Gregory	Barba	120,000
50	4	James	Hoeppner	118,000
50	5	Michael	Wadlow	143,000
50	6	Michael	Duek	129,000
50	7	James	Giordano	93,000
50	8	Walter	Bravo	87,000
50	9	Richard	Whitebrook	164,000
56	1	Fabian	Foster	111,000
56	2	Carlos	Loving	52,000
56	3	Richard	Rice	55,000
56	4	Nick	Palma	141,000
56	5	Jordan	Semel	85,000
56	6	Jean-Louis	Santoni	89,000
56	7	Kyle	Kitagawa	264,000
56	8	Jaspal	Brar	215,000
56	9	Jaime	Wiegrefe	95,000
57	1	Francis	Anderson	134,000
57	2	Cero	Zuccarello	171,000
57	3	Claudio	Kalili	313,000
57	4	Jeremy	Dawson	119,000
57	5	Joshua	Palmer	137,000
57	6	Christopher	Frazier	128,000
57	7	Robert	Jonsson	136,000
57	8	Ricardo	Velasco	197,000
57	9	Joseph	Frezza	110,000
58	1	Steven	Cabas	96,000
58	2	Steven	Wilkie	615,000
58	3	Carlos	Bolanos	191,000
58	4	Byron	Schenk	195,000
58	5	Dmitry	Savelyev	124,000
58	6	Jason	Block	308,000
58	7	William	Underdown	208,000
58	8	Jacob	Baumgartner	96,000
58	9	Ofir	Stender	81,000
59	1	Martin	St Amaant	71,000
59	2	Jason	Atherley	174,000
59	3	Paul	Grigsby	508,000
59	4	Miguel	Capriles	75,000
59	5	Sam	Panzica	106,000
59	6	Greg	Levine	287,000
59	7	Massimo	Dirienzo	227,000
59	8	Claudio	Piedrabuena	60,000
59	9	Vadim	Rozin	472,000
60	1	Yossi	Galimidi	117,000
60	2	Christopher	Blik	53,000
60	3	Myles	German	121,000
60	4	Aaron	Olshan	120,000
60	5	Jonathan	Bodden	72,000
60	6	Lakishia	Jefferson	41,000
60	7	Yue	Wang	283,000
60	8	Scott	Arnold	137,000
60	9	Michael	Amato	66,000

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WPTDS Day 1C: Steve Wilkie Leads 115 Survivors with 615K

January 11, 2020 @ 10:58PM by BJ Nemeth

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Hollywood
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 16: 2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Flight C Players Remaining: 115 of 620

Day 1C of WPTDeepStacks Hollywood came to an end with 115 players remaining from today’s field of 620, and the chipleader is Steve Wilkie, who bagged up 615,000 (154 big blinds).

The full list of official chip counts will be posted later tonight, and here is a preview of the top of the leaderboard:

1. Steve Wilkie – 615,000 (154 bb)
2. Gil Nagar – 537,000 (134 bb)
3. Alexander Salcedo – 529,000 (132 bb)

The total field size is 1,404 entries, and the prizepool is worth $1,358,880. The final 176 players will finish in the money, guaranteed at least $1,495 each, and first place is worth $225,717.

There will be 273 players returning for Day 2 tomorrow, which begins at 12:00 noon. Return to SHRPO.com for continuing coverage of WPTDeepStacks Hollywood, along with all of our trophy events from the Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open.

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Event 5: Final Table Begins with Gabriel Ramos in the Lead

January 11, 2020 @ 10:53PM by BJ Nemeth

$400 Big O (Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 18: 3,000/6,000
Players Remaining: 7 of 87

After the elimination of Kevin Love in eighth place, the final seven players redrew for random seats at the Big O final table. Here are their seating assignments and their approximate chip counts:

Seat 1. Barak Zaken – 116,500 (19 bb)
Seat 2. Bobbi Smith – 90,000 (15 bb)
Seat 3. Miami John Cernuto – 192,000 (32 bb)
Seat 4. Edwards Muñiz – 149,500 (25 bb)
Seat 5. Harry Eisenberg – 97,000 (16 bb)
Seat 6. Gabriel Ramos – 205,000 (34 bb)
Seat 7. Claudangelo Beaudouin – 186,500 (31 bb)

And here is the prizepool at stake, along with the players who finished in the money leading up to the final table:

1st: $8,725 + LHPO Trophy
2nd: $5,815
3rd: $3,940
4th: $2,775
5th: $2,025
6th: $1,540
7th: $1,220

8th: Kevin Love – $1,010
9th: Stephen Allen – $870
10th: Joseph Treffiletti – $870
11th: Barry Levy – $790

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WPTDS Day 1C: Vadim Rozin Knocks Out a Player with Kings

January 11, 2020 @ 10:25PM by BJ Nemeth

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Hollywood
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 15: 1,500/3,000 with a 3,000 ante
Flight C Players Remaining: 125 of 620

After a flop of , the player in the small blind got it all in with for a diamond flush draw, and he needed to improve to stay alive against the of Vadim Rozin in late position.

The turn card was the , giving the small blind additional outs with a pair of jacks, but the river card was the . The pocket kings held up for Rozin to win the pot and eliminate his opponent from the tournament.

Vadim Rozin – 420,000 (140 bb)

With about 125 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 149,000 (50 big blinds), and action will continue tonight until the end of this level, around 10:45 pm.

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WPTDS Day 1C: Steve Wilkie Turns a Straight Against Raminder Singh

January 11, 2020 @ 9:56PM by BJ Nemeth

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Hollywood
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 15: 1,500/3,000 with a 3,000 ante
Flight C Players Remaining: 140 of 620

Steve Wilkie vs Raminder Singh — Raminder Singh (right) tanks for a while after Steve Wilkie (left) bet about half of Singh’s remaining stack on the turn.

With the board showing on the turn and about 140K already in the pot, Raminder Singh thought for a while before he checked from the small blind, and then Steve Wilkie bet 70,000 from the hijack.

Singh went into the tank for with about 145K behind, at one point saying, “I’m not going to just call you. I only have two choices,” implying that he would either shove or fold.

After a couple of minutes, Singh apologized to the table for tanking so long, and told them that they could call for a clock with no hard feelings, but nobody did.

Shortly after that, Singh folded, and Wilkie showed 10s for a turned jack-high straight as he took the pot, which put him up near 500K.

Steve Wilkie – 493,500 (165 bb)
Raminder Singh – 145,000 (48 bb)

With about 140 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 133,000 (44 big blinds), and action will continue tonight until the end of Level 15, around 10:45 pm.

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WPTDS Day 1C: Steve Wilkie Leads the Field at the Break with 413,500

January 11, 2020 @ 8:58PM by BJ Nemeth

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Hollywood
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 13: 1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante
Flight C Players Remaining: 189 of 620

The players return from the final break of the day to begin Level 13, with blinds at 1,000-2,000 and a 2,000 ante.

A scan of the field during the break turned up five players with at least 250K in chips, creating an unofficial leaderboard:

1. Steve Wilkie – 413,500 (207 bb)
2. Alexander Salcedo – 356,000 (178 bb)
3. Vadim Rozin – 310,000 (155 bb)
4. Naing Thu – 300,000 (150 bb)
5. Vitor Coelho – 286,500 (143 bb)

With about 189 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 98,500 (49 big blinds), and action will continue tonight until the end of Level 15, around 10:45 pm.

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WPTDS Day 1C: Joshua Poe Runs Kings Into Steve Karp’s Aces

January 11, 2020 @ 8:25PM by BJ Nemeth

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Hollywood
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 12: 800/1,600 with a 1,600 ante
Flight C Players Remaining: 195 of 620

A player raised under the gun to 3,800, Joshua Poe reraised from middle position to 12,000, and Steve Karp cold four-bet from the cutoff to about 25,000.

The original raiser folded, and Poe five-bet all in for about 48,000.

Karp snap-called with , and Poe was visibly tilted as he turned over . Poe needed to improve to stay alive.

The board came 10d , and the pocket aces held up for Karp to win the pot and eliminate Poe from the tournament.

Steve Karp – 120,000 (75 bb)
Joshua Poe – Eliminated

With about 195 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 95,400 (60 big blinds), and action will continue tonight until the end of Level 15, around 10:45 pm.

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WPTDS: Prize Pool and Payouts with $228,717 Up Top

January 11, 2020 @ 8:04PM by BJ Nemeth

2020 Lucky Hearts Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 1
$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Hollywood
$1,000,000 Guaranteed
Entries: 1,404
Prize Pool: $1,361,880
January 9-13, 2020

Registration has closed for Event 1, and after three starting flights there are a total of 1,404 entries, creating a total prizepool worth $1,361,880.

The final 176 players will finish in the money, guaranteed at least $1,495 each, while the final three players will earn $100K+ each, with $228,717 waiting for the champion.

1st: $228,717*
2nd: $159,206
3rd: $103,316
4th: $76,627
5th: $57,739
6th: $46,596
7th: $38,348
8th: $30,276
9th: $22,571
10th-12th: $17,081
13th-15th: $13,235
16th-18th: $10,626
19th-21st: $8,588
22nd-24th: $7,161
25th-27th: $6,074
28th-36th: $5,218
37th-45th: $4,389
46th-54th: $3,805
55th-63rd: $3,397
64th-72nd: $3,125
73rd-81st: $2,962
82nd-90th: $2,799
91st-99th: $2,650
100th-108th: $2,500
109th-117th: $2,364
118th-126th: $2,229
127th-135th: $2,106
136th-144th: $1,984
145th-153rd: $1,862
154th-162nd: $1,739
163rd-171st: $1,617
172nd-176th: $1,495

* First-prize amount includes a $3,000 package for the winner to play in the WPTDeepStacks Championship in April at Thunder Valley Resort & Casino.

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WPTDS Day 1C: Alexander Salcedo and Ofir Stender Lead with 200K+

January 11, 2020 @ 7:20PM by BJ Nemeth

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Hollywood
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 11: 600/1,200 with a 1,200 ante
Flight C Players Remaining: 270 of 620

Shortly before the dinner break, Alexander Salcedo played a huge pot on a board of , where his opponent held for top full house, but Salcedo had to win the pot with quad deuces.

Salcedo is currently up to 270K, and appears to have a solid lead over the rest of the field.

Alexander Salcedo – 270,000 (225 bb)

Another player on the leaderboard is Ofir Stender, who is sitting on a stack of 227,000.

Ofir Stender – 227,000 (189 bb)

With 270 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 68,900 (57 big blinds), and action will continue tonight until the end of Level 15, around 10:45 pm.

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WPTDS Day 1C: Registration Closes with 620 Entries

January 11, 2020 @ 6:45PM by BJ Nemeth

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Hollywood
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 10: 500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Flight C Players Remaining: 320 of 620

Registration has closed, and with 620 entries here today, the total tournament field is a whopping 1,404 entries, which will create a total prizepool worth more than $1.3 million. As soon as the official payouts are released, we will post them here at SHRPO.com.

With about 320 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 58,000 (58 big blinds), and action is scheduled to continue tonight until the end of Level 15 (around 10:45 pm).