$1,650 No Limit Hold’em Purple Chip Bounty Level 18: 2,000/4,000 with a 500 ante Remaining Players: 10 of 139 Average Stack: 167,000 (42 big blinds)
Gustavo Moscon doubled up in a recent hand after four-bet shoving for 30,000 with into James Hughes’ . The board ran out , and Moscon’s pair of jacks kept him alive.
Moments later, Joseph Cappello opened to 9,000 under the gun, and Moscon three-bet shoved for 75,000 in the small blind. Cappello called to put him at risk.
Cappello: Moscon:
The board ran out , and Moscon doubled up with a pair of aces.
$1,650 No Limit Hold’em Purple Chip Bounty Level 17: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 ante Remaining Players: 11 of 139 Average Stack: 142,000 (47 big blinds)
Eight of the final 11 players are back in their chairs, and the run the the trophy has begun. Everyone left is guaranteed to earn at least $2,780, with a trophy and a top prize of more than $40,000 awaiting the winner.
$1,650 No Limit Hold’em Purple Chip Bounty Level 17: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 ante Remaining Players: 11 of 139 Average Stack: 142,000 (47 big blinds)
The biggest buy-in tournament played so far in the series is set to return this afternoon with 11 players remaining of the starting 139 entrants. November Niner Joshua Beckley leads the field when they return but there are plenty of top players trying to chase him down for the title.
The tournament quickly surpassed the $100,000 Guarantee and they’re playing for some big money up top plus the $500 bounty they receive for knocking someone out.
They are set to return to action at 2pm and we’ll be following along until we have our next Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown champion.
$1,650 No Limit Hold’em Purple Chip Bounty Level 16: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante Players Registered: 139 Players Remaining: 11
At the completion of 16 levels of play, Day 1 of the $1,650 has come to a close and it is 2015 WSOP Main Event runner-up Josh Beckley that leads the final 11 players.
The remaining players return at 2 p.m. to play down to a winner. Everybody remaining is guaranteed a cash of at least $2,780, but the winner will take home $40,308. For each bounty collected, a player will earn an extra $500 in cash.
Here are a look at the chip counts for the tournament’s final day:
Josh Beckley – 365,500 Jean Gaspard – 237,000 Ian O’Hara – 177,000 Andre Crooks – 168,000 Erik Christensen – 161,500 James Hughes – 143,500 Joseph Cappello – 133,500 Gustavo Moscon – 109,000 Jerry Wong – 61,500 Mohammad Arami – 60,000 Brett Bader – 51,500
$570 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack Re-Entry Level 28: 30,000/60,000 with a 10,000 ante Players Remaining: 32/2,923 Average Stack: 1,825,000 (30 big blinds)
Derek Encenarro moved all in from early position and Chris Blik called from the big blind. Encenarro showed , but was in bad shape against Blik’s .
The dealer quickly ran out a board of and Encenarro rivered a straight to crack Blik’s kings and double up. Blik loses the pot, but is still fairly healthy on chips.
Derek Encenarro – 1,660,000 Chris Blik – 1,950,000
$1,650 No Limit Hold’em Purple Chip Bounty Level 12: 600/1,200 with a 200 ante Players Registered: 139 Players Remaining: 35
With late registration closed in the Purple Chip Bounty in the purple chip bounty event, the field size is finalized the payouts have been released.
There are 139 players in the field and the top 18 players will finish in the money. A min-cash is worth $2,085, but first place will take home $40,308. Each knockout a player earns is also worth $500 each.
$1,650 Purple Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em (Single Re-Entry) Level 5: 75/150 with a 25 Ante Total Entries: 115
We took a peek into the meeting room across the hall to see how they were going and saw they crushed the $100,000 before their first break. Event 12 has a good chance to double up the guarantee before registration closes at the start of Level 11.
Jeffrey Saunders is leading the way at the first break but has a star-studded field trying to catch him.
Top stacks and notable names:
Jeffrey Saunders – 43,200 (288 bb) Gustavo Moscon – 40,350 (269 bb) Zachary Mullenix – 34,350 (229 bb) Scott Efron – 29,900 (199 bb) Jeffrey Trudeau Jr – 22,275 (149 bb) Joshua Beckley – 21,250 (142 bb) Paul Stanechewski – 20,350 (136 bb) Sheddy Siddiqui – 17,000 (113 bb) Harrison Gimbel – 16,825 (112 bb) Neil Blumenfield – 15,025 (100 bb) Scott Zakheim – 14,625 (98 bb) Eli Levy – 12,625 (84 bb) Ray Ruszkowski – 12,600 (84 bb) Brett Bader – 12,600 (84 bb) Erik Christensen – 12,250 (82 bb) John Holley – 12,000 (80 bb) Zo Karim – 11,675 (78 bb) Michael Laake – 11,075 (74 bb) Ryan Dunn – 9,925 (66 bb) Darryll Fish – 8,975 (60 bb) David Prociak – 5,825 (39 bb)
While the ballroom is full with Event 11 players and the Event 9 restart, a big buy-in bounty tournament is kicking off in the meeting room across the hall.
Event 12 is a $1,650 buy-in Purple Chip Bounty tournament with a $100,000 guaranteed prize pool. Each player has a price on their head and they can earn a $500 cash chip for each opponent they knock out.
They begin with 12,000 starting stacks and the first ten levels last 30 minutes each. Late registration will close at the start of Level 11 and they will switch over to 40-minute levels. Players have single re-entry option during that time if they lose their first stack.
This is a two-day tournament and play will conclude at the end of Level 16 with the survivors returning tomorrow at 2pm.
$100,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
Players begin with 12,000 in chips
30-minute Levels 1-10; 40-minute Levels 11+
Late registration/single re-entry available until start of Level 11
Day 1 will end after Level 16 or Tournament Director discretion
2016 Lucky Hearts Poker Open Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Hollywood $570 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Entries: 203 Prize Pool: $101,500 January 19, 2016
Hollywood, Fla. (January 20, 2016) – The penultimate day of the 2016 Lucky Hearts Poker Open saw a familiar face earn a victory as 28-year-old Phillip Hui topped a field of 203 in Event 12, a $570 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry), following a heads-up deal.
Hailing from San Antonio, TX, and now residing in Florida, Hui usually prefers to dabble in mixed games. Still, he’s an accomplished hold’em player as this marked his fifth official no-limit-hold’em tournament victory.
Throughout the series, there has been a mix of events that have seen participants willing and eager to agree to deals and those where deals have been shot down. This one, though, was the former.
“We were pretty close in chips, and I was feeling pretty tired, so I didn’t really feel like playing anymore,” Hui told us after. “He was alright with a deal and I happened to be ahead at the time, so I’ll take it.”