$570 No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry (Re-Entry) Level 5: 100/200/25 Ante Players: 150 4643q

Gustavo Moscon, who won Event 2 ($570 six-max) earlier this week, sits second in the chip counts as cards are back in the air following the first break of Event 12. Moscon holds 40,875 chips and trails the 43,575 of Michael Dubreuil. The only other player over 40,000, Peter Vitantonio, claims 43,025. Each of these players has more than quadrupled their 10,000-chip starting stack in just four levels of play.

The clock shows 150 ed with late registration/re-entry available until the start of Level 9.

$1,650 No Limit Hold’em Purple Chip Bounty (Re-Entry)
Level 17: 1,500/3,000/500 Ante
Players Remaining: 17
Average Stack: 116,000 (38 bbs)

Edward Gilfillan and Tim Kegel were two of the shortest stacks coming back for Day 2 and both took a failed early shot to double.

Gillfillan moved all-in after an open from Ronald Sullivan and got a call. Gilfillan was ahead with against but Sullivan hit the flop and turned a boat with the to send Gilfillan out in 17th.

Kegel’s bust out hand was more standard, he ran his straight into Raymond Roberty’s to go out in 16th.

$1,650 No Limit Hold’em Purple Chip Bounty (Re-Entry)
Level 17: 1,500/3,000/500 Ante
Players Remaining: 17
Average Stack: 116,000 (38 bbs)

The Purple Chip Bounty tournament had the second biggest buy-in the Lucky Hearts Poker Open schedule and it will take two days to find the champion.

The tournament drew 165 entrants and 17 of them survived the first day and return today to play down to a winner. They moved into the money shortly before they stopped play and everyone is guaranteed at least $2,513. Joey Couden leads the way while Justin Zaki and Edward Gilfillan need to pick up an early double.

They are still deep and will have to work to pick up every purple chip they can get. Players are unbagging their chips and cards will be in the air shortly.

Seat 1: Daren Stabinski – 119,000
Seat 2: Marcus Stein – 132,500
Seat 3: Joe Kuether – 127,000
Seat 4: Greg Baird – 76,500
Seat 5: Abbey Daniels – 33,000
Seat 6: Gaston Miculitzki – 223,500
Seat 7: Joey Couden – 272,500
Seat 8: Jason Wheeler – 132,000
Seat 9: Stephen Diamantas – 117,000

Seat 1: Tim Kegel – 36,500
Seat 2: — empty —
Seat 3: Michael Telker – 86,500
Seat 4: Raymond Roberty – 165,000
Seat 5: Michelle Shah – 127,500
Seat 6: Justin Zaki – 28,500
Seat 7: Ronald Sullivan – 151,000
Seat 8: Timothy Banks – 123,000
Seat 9: Edward Gilfillan – 29,000

Payouts:

1st – $48,574
2nd – $28,475
3rd – $16,750
4th – $13,400
5th – $10,050
6th – $8,375
7th – $6,700
8th – $5,025
9th – $3,769
10th-12th – $3,350
13th-15th – $2,931
17th-18th – $2,513

$570 No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry (Re-Entry)
Level 4: 100/200
Players: 125

With 125 players, today’s $570 no limit hold’em re-entry tournament is over halfway to its $100,000 guarantee. In addition to Seminole Hard Rock Poker team member Matt Affleck and Seminole Hard Rock Tampa ambassador Wally Maddah, the field is headline by 2015 WSOP Main Event third-place finisher Neil Blumenfeld and former WPT Player of the Yearh Joe Serock.

$570 No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry (Re-Entry)
Level 2: 50/100
Players: 86

The field in Event 12 is filling in toward the end of Level 2. The clock shows 86 ed bringing it roughly halfway to the $100,000 guarantee. Timothy Miles is among those trying his luck in one of the last postlims of the series.

Miles has cashed in three of six Championships this year and has hovered around the top of the Player of the Year leaderboard. While this $570 doesn’t count toward POY points, it’s not stopping the Florida pro from looking for an extra little payday. Other pros from the Sunshine State among the field include Steve Karp, Peter Vitantonio and Nancy Birnbaum.

$570 No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry (Re-Entry)
Level 1: 25/50

The clock struck noon and Event 12 of the 2016 Lucky Hearts Poker Open is freshly underway. Players start the $570 no limit hold’em re-entry tournament with 10,000 chips and will play 30-minute levels throughout. With a $100,000 guarantee, the event needs to see at least 200 entries take to the felt to hit the targeted prize pool.

Here’s a closer look at how it will play out:

• $100,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 10,000 in tournament chips and 30-minute levels
• Late registration/re-entry available until the start of Level 9
• Tournament is structured to play out in one day
• Event 12 Structure Sheet

Good luck, players!

$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

COMBINED CHIP COUNTS THROUGH FLIGHT D

$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 1: 25/50

Flight E of Event 8, a $150 no limit hold’em re-entry tournament with a $100,000 guarantee, is underway. As of now, the combined Flight ABCD field stands at 808 entries with 99 having punched their ticket to Day 2. Today’s Flight E and tonight’s 6 p.m. Flight F round out the starting days.

COMBINED CHIP COUNTS THROUGH FLIGHT D

Here’s a closer look at Flight E’s schedule of play:

11AM: Event 8 Day 1E – $150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

• $100,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 10,000 in tournament chips and 30-minute levels
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9
• Day 1 will end after Level 14 or Tournament Director discretion
• Event 8 Structure Sheet
• We will touch base with you after registration closes and the field is finalized.

Good luck, players!

2016 Lucky Hearts Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino
Event 9
$2,650 No Limit Hold’em (Single Re-Entry)
Total Entries: 185
Prize Pool: $500,000
January 17-19, 2016

The biggest buy-in event of the 2016 Lucky Hearts Poker Open delivered an excellent final table, with over $25,000,000 in career poker tournament winnings between the nine players. When it was all said and done, 29-year-old Ryan Dunn was the last man standing after a grueling 10-hour final table and three-hour heads-up duel.

An environmental business owner, Dunn plays poker recreationally. He final tabled the WPT bestbet Bounty Scramble in November, finishing in fifth place for just more than $90,000. However, following that close call and a few other smaller results, Dunn was determined to emerge from this difficult field and final table victorious.

“I wanted to get over the hump and stick to my guns. You don’t get this kind of opportunity that often – to play heads up for a lot of money, especially in this tough of a field,” Dunn told us afterward. “When I got to heads up (despite railbirds for both players relentlessly urging both players to make a deal), I just decided let’s do this. I knew it would just feel so much better really winning this, and fortunately I did.”

Final Table Results
1st: Ryan Dunn (Tallahassee, FL) – $140,000
2nd: Charbel Azzi (Methuen, MA) – $82,500
3rd: Bryan Piccioli (Allegany, NY) – $47,500
4th: Jack Duong (South Plainfield, NJ) – $38,500
5th: Michael Laake (Punta Gorda, FL) – $30,000
6th: Sam Panzica (Saline, MI) – $25,000
7th: Aaron Massey (Elmwood Park, IL) – $20,000
8th: Hans Winzeler (Miami, FL) – $15,000
9th: Jonathan Duhamel (Boucherville, Quebec, Canada) – $10,000

Full results available from our friends at TheHendonMob.com.