$1,100 Platinum Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Prize Pool: $372,480 | Structure | Payouts Level 24: 50,000/100,000 with a 100,000 ante Players Remaining: 16 of 384
Juan Mubarak
Chad Roedersheimer raised from the cutoff to 210,000, and Juan Mubarak called from the big blind.
Mubarak checked in the dark before the flop came , and Roedersheimer checked behind.
The turn card was the , Mubarak bet 310,000, Roedersheimer moved all in, and Mubarak called all in for 2,115,000 with for a set of fours. Roedersheimer turned over for a pair of jacks, and he is drawing dead.
The meaningless river card was the , and Mubarak won the pot with his set of fours to double up in chips.
Juan Mubarak – 4,800,000 (48 bb) Chad Roedersheimer – 4,075,000 (41 bb)
With 16 players remaining from a field of 384, the average chip stack is around 2,400,000 (24 big blinds). The remaining players are guaranteed at least $4,360 each.
$1,100 Platinum Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Prize Pool: $372,480 | Structure | Payouts Level 24: 50,000/100,000 with a 100,000 ante Players Remaining: 16 of 384
Kevin MacDonald
With only two short stacks behind, Tanupat Punjarojanakul moved all in from the button, and Kevin MacDonald called all in from the big blind for 825,000 with .
Punjarojanakul turned over , and MacDonald needed his hand to hold to stay alive.
The board came , and MacDonald paired his jack on the flop and won the pot with two pair to double up in chips.
With 16 players remaining from a field of 384, the average chip stack is around 2,400,000 (24 big blinds). The remaining players are guaranteed at least $4,360 each.
$1,100 Platinum Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Prize Pool: $372,480 | Structure | Payouts Level 24: 50,000/100,000 with a 100,000 ante Players Remaining: 16 of 384
Dessiree Bennett
Juan Mubarak raised under the gun to 250,000, Chris Da-Silva called UTG+1, and Dessiree Bennett moved all in from middle position for 1,660,000. Mubarak thought for a while before he folded, and Da-Silva tanked for a long time before he called with .
Bennett turned over , and needed it to hold to stay alive.
The board came , and the pocket kings held up for Bennett to win the pot and double up in chips.
With 16 players remaining from a field of 384, the average chip stack is around 2,400,000 (24 big blinds). The remaining players are guaranteed at least $4,360 each.
$1,100 Platinum Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Prize Pool: $372,480 | Structure | Payouts Level 24: 50,000/100,000 with a 100,000 ante Players Remaining: 16 of 384
Brent Hoover
After a flop of , Dessiree Bennett checked from the big blind, and Chad Roedersheimer bet 425,000. Brent Hoover called from the button, and Bennett folded.
The turn card was the , Roedersheimer moved all in, and Hoover called all in for about 700,000 with for a pair of aces.
But Roedersheimer turned over for a pair of aces with a higher kicker, and Hoover needed a jack on the river to stay alive.
The river card was the , and Roedersheimer won the pot with his higher kicker to eliminate Hoover in 17th place.
Chad Roedersheimer – 5,250,000 (53 bb) Brent Hoover – Eliminated in 17th Place ($4,360)
With 16 players remaining from a field of 384, the average chip stack is around 2,400,000 (24 big blinds). The remaining players are guaranteed at least $4,360 each.
18th: Zachary Fischer – $4,360 19th: Patrick Steele – $4,360
20th: Ramon Martinez – $3,580 21st: David D’Alessandro – $3,580 22nd: Nick Yunis – $3,580 23rd: Karanvir Singh – $3,580
24th: Thomas Taylor – $2,920 25th: Deborah Zwanka – $2,920 26th: Frederic Normand – $2,920 27th: Semsettin Ilyas – $2,920
With 17 players remaining from a field of 384, the average chip stack is around 2,260,000 (23 big blinds). The remaining players are guaranteed at least $4,360 each.
Chris Da-Silva is second in chips with 3,985,000 (40 big blinds).
$1,100 Platinum Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Prize Pool: $372,480 | Structure | Payouts Level 21: 25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante Players Remaining: 27 of 384
James Calderaro finished in 30th place
The fast action continued after the break, the field dropped to 27 players, and that triggered the three-table redraw. Here’s a look at the lineup and we will update counts once they are settled.
Table 6 Seat 1: Nick Yunis Seat 2: David D’Alessandro Seat 3: Ramon Martinez Seat 4: Karanvir Singh Seat 5: Brent Hoover Seat 6: Tanupat Punjarojanakul Seat 7: Marcus Stein Seat 8: Chris Da-Silva Seat 9: Jessica Cai
Table 7 Seat 1: Patrick Steele Seat 2: Nancy Birnbaum Seat 3: James Wiley Seat 4: Frederic Normand Seat 5: Samuel Kim Seat 6: Sebastian Toro Henao Seat 7: Sean Byars Seat 8: Kevin MacDonald Seat 9: Juan Mubarak
Table 8 Seat 1: Chad Roedersheimer Seat 2: Zachary Fischer Seat 3: Anibal Pabon Seat 4: Semsettin Ilyas Seat 5: Deborah Zwanka Seat 6: Thomas Taylor Seat 7: Steve Blackmon Seat 8: Dessiree Bennett Seat 9: Wayne Leonard
28th: Grant Wang – $2,920 29th: David Castranova – $2,920 30th: James Calderaro – $2,920 31st: Eldo Rodriguez – $2,920
$1,100 Platinum Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Prize Pool: $372,480 | Structure | Payouts Level 21: 25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante Players Remaining: 31 of 384
Manny Minaya finished in 37th place
After a fast first hour of action, the field was sent on their first break with 31 players remaining.
32nd: Yury Parad – $2,320 33rd: Daniel Vranich – $2,320 34th: Reynel Hernandez – $2,320 35th: Scott Heiligman – $2,320 36th: Simon Auerbacher – $2,320 37th: Manny Minaya – $2,320 38th: David Smeeth – $2,320 39th: Dorian Rios – $2,320
40th: Ross Fischer – $1,940 41st: Daniel Pearlman – $1,940 42nd: Steve Yagudaev – $1,940 43rd: Brian Barros – $1,940 44th: Igor Tretyakov – $1,940 45th: Scott Baumstein – $1,940
46th: Pasquale Caiazza – $1,940 47th: Ginold Rendel – $1,940 48th: Bradley Smith – $1,940 49th: Pablo Valdivieso – $1,940
$1,100 Platinum Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Prize Pool: $372,480 | Structure | Payouts Level 19: 15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante Players Remaining: 49 of 384
The first-ever Platinum Stack event drew 384 entries over two starting flights of the $1,100 buy-in tournament, turning the $250,000 guarantee into a prize pool worth $372,480 and 49 players return today at 1 pm to play down to a champ.