$560 Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em / PLO (Re-Entry)
Level 10: 500/1,000/100 ante

The final board read and the hand for Gregg Fund was in a Pot Limit Omaha pot. The cards of Timothy Vukson (pictured above) were mucked and he was eliminated from the tournament in 10th place. The money bubble has now burst and each player remaining will take home at least $648 in prize money.

$560 Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em / PLO (Re-Entry)
Level 10: 500/1,000/100 ante

Gregg Fund bet 18,000 in late position in a Pot Limit Omaha hand with the flop reading and Victor Figueroa raised all in for 31,900 on the hijack. Fund called and they flipped over their cards.

Figueroa:
Fund:

Turn and River:

Figueroa won the hand to double up and survive with over 80,000 and Fund dropped to 105,000 after the hand.

$560 Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em / PLO (Re-Entry)
Level 10: 500/1,000/100 ante

The unofficial final table of ten is seated in Event 6 at SHRPO. The top 9 will get paid in the tournament. Here is a look at how they’re seated.

Seat 1: Tuan Pham
Seat 2: Timothy Vukson
Seat 3: Michael Wang
Seat 4: Gregg Fund
Seat 5: Victor Figueroa
Seat 6: Brad Young
Seat 7: Kevin Ho
Seat 8: Robert Campbell
Seat 9: Mark Provenzano
Seat 10: Joe Mobley

$560 Black Chip Bount No Limit Hold’em / PLO (Re-Entry)
Level 9: 400/800

Event 6 wasted no time getting down to the money bubble, PLO has the effect on players.

Matt Stout made his first appearance at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open last night with the intention of playing this event, then ended up finishing with a top stack in Event 5. He was a late reg today but sent the tournament to the money bubble courtesy of Robert Campbell.

In PLO, Stout opened for a pot-sized bet of and Campbell followed up with a small raise. Action folded around to Stout and he quickly moved all-in with and Campbell called with .

Stout was looking good for the double up until Campbell nailed the flop leaving Stout looking for running miracle cards. The wasn’t a card he needed and Stout was drawing dead to go out in 11th spot.

There was a redraw at the unofficial final table where nine would make the money and one would be unhappy.

$560 Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em / PLO (Re-Entry)
Level 7: 200/400

Event 6 is flying and there are now just 12 players remaining from the 54 that entered the tournament. Familiar faces still in the hunt include Matt Stout, Victor Figueroa, Robert Campbell, and Michael Wang. “Miami” John Cernuto was recently eliminated from the tournament.

Stay tuned for updates, we will bring you final table coverage when they reach the final nine.

$560 Black Chip Bount No Limit Hold’em / PLO (Re-Entry)
Level 7: 200/400

Registration has closed for Event 6 and the final tally is 54 players with $100 coming out of each buy-in for knockout bounties. Just 21 players remain and we are waiting on the official payout numbers.

$560 Black Chip Bount No Limit Hold’em / PLO (Re-Entry)
Level 5: 100/200

Bradley Young was the beneficiary of a timely river on the last hand at Table 57 while the rest of the field was on break. He was all-in against the 1-seat and Dimas Martinez after Martinez flopped the nut straight in PLO. Young was on a heart draw and missed the turn before hitting the river. He knocked one out for a bounty and moved up to 30,925 going off to a shortened break.

“I flopped the nuts,” Martinez told the room, “How did I lose?”

“That’s a silly question in PLO,” TJ Shulman laughed.

Top five break-time chip counts:

Michael Wang – 52,950
Wade Walker – 42,600
Kevin Ho – 35,875
Bradley Young – 30,925
Robert Campbell – 28,975

$560 Black Chip Bount No Limit Hold’em / PLO (Re-Entry)
Level 4: 100/200

It’s a slow start to Event 6 but the players are starting to join quickly as the first break approaches. The clock shows 46 registered and they’ve been joined by Matt Stout, TJ Shulman, and Dimas Martinez fresh from busting out of Event 5.

Chip count updates coming when they return from break.

$560 Black Chip Bount No Limit Hold’em / PLO (Re-Entry)
Level 1: 25/50

Event 6 has one of the more popular formats of the series with something for all tastes. It is a mix of No Limit Hold’em and Pot Limit Omaha with a $100 bounty on each player. Everybody loves No Limit Hold’em, PLO brings out the action junkies, and the bounty bonus encourages a little more gamble than most tournaments.

Players begin with 12,000 stacks and 30-minute levels until the registration/re-entry period ends at the start of Level 7. They will switch to 40-minute levels at that point then play down to a winner.

The half-and-half event will be based on the number of hands played with the game switching from NLH to PLO and back again every nine hands.

Cards are in the air and we will be here all day with live updates.