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Event 8: Day 2 Chip Counts 1c4h22

$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Players Remaining: 157/1,324 6r3b3e

Rank FIRST NAME LAST NAME CHIP COUNT
1 SERGIO Alves 275,000
2 Luigi APREDA 248,000
3 Carlos Cruz 239,000
4 SCOTT VETTER 212,000
5 DAVID JOHNSON 199,500
6 ROBERT BANKS 194,500
7 ELIOT IMHOFF 177,500
8 ABBEY DANIELS 173,500
9 MICHELE FACEY 173,500
10 JOSHUA SMITH 170,000
11 Delia KILER 167,000
12 CHRISTIAN ROJAS 166,500
13 PEDRO PALACIO 164,500
14 RAFAEL RAMOS 155,000
15 BRITT HEATH 150,000
16 NATANEL COHEN MOISES 149,000
17 CORREA GREGORIO 144,500
18 SCOTT MCINNIS 141,000
19 Kishor Bhakta 140,000
20 JOHN CUMMINGS 139,000
21 Scott Efron 138,000
22 Elliot ZAYDMAN 138,000
23 XIAOYAN WANG 134,500
24 MARK KOTTLER 132,000
25 Farid DHANANI 130,500
26 HONG VIEN 128,000
27 SUNNY BHAKTA 127,500
28 ALEX COHEN 127,000
29 PHILLIP DRIGANT 126,500
30 Gene OLEARY 125,500
31 MANFRED ROSENOW 124,000
32 Eric SMITH 123,000
33 JORGE BELAVAL 121,500
34 ERIC WARD 120,000
35 WALID MADDAH 118,500
36 JOSH TZUR 116,000
37 ALAN FRANCO 115,000
38 Gedas BERTULIS 114,000
39 Alon MESSICA 112,500
40 NANCY BIRNBAUM 109,500
41 JESUS ROSADO 108,500
42 JOSEPH FRANCHINO 108,000
43 MARIO DOUCET 107,500
44 LAUREN FAILLA 106,500
45 ARNALDO ALZUALDE 106,500
46 LISA TEEBAGY 105,500
47 JOSHUA WASSERMAN 105,000
48 BUTCHIE MITCHELL 104,000
49 MICHAEL MERISIER 102,000
50 IRWIN BLOCK 101,000
51 BRUNO FORTIN 101,000
52 GABRIEL SACK 96,000
53 VITALY CHAIKA 95,500
54 LOUISE JEAN 94,500
55 EVAN LASH 93,500
56 Bryan MUNOZ 93,000
57 Barry Tucker 93,000
58 Wayne STEELE 92,000
59 DEBBIE DANA 91,500
60 Matthew Zarcadoolas 91,500
61 MICHAEL EDDY 91,000
62 BLAIR MILLER 90,000
63 VENDEL JOHNSON 90,000
64 GUSTAVO MOSCON 88,000
65 Jorge CHAVEZ 86,500
66 ANDREW DEL RIO 85,000
67 CARLO RODRIGUEZ 84,200
68 CARLOS FERNANDEZ 84,000
69 ANTHONY BALGOBIN 82,000
70 ONEIL MC CALLA 82,000
71 CARLOS TORRES VAZQUEZ 80,500
72 MANUEL SOLTERO LUNA 80,500
73 ELI MATH 80,000
74 CHARLEMAGNE BENJAMIN 80,000
75 ADAM HOROWITZ 79,500
76 Jack Shea 79,000
77 WILLIAM SMITH 78,000
78 JOHN REDLITZ 77,500
79 JORGE RIBEIRO 77,500
80 ZOLTAN CZINKOTA 77,000
81 JOSEPH MONTERVINO 75,500
82 JERAM CAPINPIN 75,500
83 CHARLES RIZZO III 74,500
84 KENNETH BRUNO 73,500
85 CHRISTINA TORCH 73,000
86 Rafael CARRERO 72,500
87 CHARLES ST-CYR 71,000
88 Richard Whitebrook 69,500
89 GIL MORGENSZTERN 69,500
90 ROBERTO RODRIGUES 67,500
91 Robert CULBERTSON 67,500
92 LAWRENCE PADEN SR 66,600
93 LEROY JONES JR 66,500
94 BRIAN OKEEFE 66,000
95 BENJAMIN SRIQUI 66,000
96 ARTHUR HOLMES 65,500
97 ROBERT NIELSEN 65,000
98 JORDAN MELTZER 64,500
99 Eric LEFF 63,500
100 DAVID PRICE 63,000
101 HALLIE TUITE 62,000
102 DOUGLAS CHAN 62,000
103 Paul LENTZ 61,000
104 JAMES LEHMAN 59,500
105 BRIAN DUNN 58,500
106 Anthony Migliore 57,500
107 ROBERT WILLIAMS 56,000
108 STEVEN WEINTRAUB 55,500
109 ARIEL ROSELLO QUINTANA 53,000
110 Keith WAGNER 52,500
111 EDWARD MEDOFF 52,000
112 JAY KLITZNER 51,000
113 MARCELO Bellizzi 51,000
114 CLAUDIO PIEDRABUENA 50,500
115 PATRICIA BASILIO 49,500
116 ERIC RIVKIN 48,500
117 MICHAEL Stolic 48,500
118 ADAM WAGNER 48,000
119 FREDERICO SAVIO DABUS 48,000
120 Joanne Bogan 44,000
121 JORGE VALDES 41,500
122 JOSE ALMEIDA 41,000
123 MIGUEL MCDONALD 40,000
124 GLENN MENNE 40,000
125 SCOTT MICHENER 40,000
126 Adewale ADEYEMI 39,000
127 JEFFREY DOAN 38,000
128 TIMOTHY CONN 37,500
129 MARCO RODRIGUEZ 35,000
130 GREGG BLOOM 34,500
131 JULIO SANCHEZ 34,500
132 DEREK ECENARRO 34,000
133 TIMOTHY HARTMANN 34,000
134 IGOR MITREVSKI 32,000
135 MORRIS HEIDER 31,000
136 MARTHA DAJER-RODRIGUEZ 30,500
137 SEBASTIAN SANCHEZ 29,500
138 alain alvarado 27,500
139 EBRAHIM FIGUEROA 26,500
140 REGINA PORTELLA CASSAB 26,500
141 FRANK HAGAN 26,000
142 MICHAEL GARCELL 26,000
143 LEANNE GELB 25,500
144 MIGUEL MUNOZ 25,000
145 EDINA PANTINCHIN 24,000
146 STEVEN LIPKINS 23,000
147 ERICA HITE 23,000
148 Donovan WALKER JR 22,500
149 HENRI Azoulay 20,400
150 HILARY FREEMAN 20,000
151 Paula Barros 18,000
152 ARTHUR DIPOFI 18,000
153 VINNY Puleo 17,000
154 DAVID DUBIN 16,500
155 Robert TRANSUE 15,000
156 BRIAN GELROD 13,000
157 CHARLES CAMPOS 5,500
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Event 12: Phillip Hui Wins After Heads-Up Deal 5s5c1n

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

Phillip Hui (Tamarac, FL)

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.”

Final Table Results
*denotes heads-up deal

1st: Phillip Hui  (Tamarac, FL) – $24,159*
2nd: Zoltan Czinkota (Davie, FL) – $21,000*
3rd: Britt Heath (Wilmington, NC) – $9,643
4th: Richard Meyer (Roscommon, MI) – $7,816
5th: Marc Sacheli (Miami, FL) – $6,090
6th: Miguel Hernandez-Alpizar (Miami Lakes, FL) – $5,075
7th: Eli Levy (Miami, FL)– $4,060
8th: Richard Katz (Pittsburgh, PA) – $3,045
9th: Seth Gilson (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) – $2,030

Full results available from our friends at TheHendonMob.com.

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Event 13: William Kopp Wins After Five-Way Deal 403p4t

2016 Lucky Hearts Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Hollywood
$1,650 Pot-Limit Omaha (Re-Entry)
Entries: 45
Prize Pool: $67,500
January 19, 2016

William Kopp (Brecksville, OH)

What was supposed to be a two-day event has wrapped in one as the remaining five players in Event 13 agreed to a deal. As chip leader, William Kopp was declared the official winner.

“This is only my second event of the series. I cashed in the Main Event and I wasn’t even planning on playing today, but I took a look at the field and figured I’d just hop in,” Kopp told us afterward. “I want to play golf tomorrow, so I was fine accepting a deal and wrapping it up tonight.”

Kopp, who resides in Brecksville, OH, is 25 years old. This marks his 30th tournament cash and second victory. He owns more than $200,000 in career earnings.

Here are the payouts reflecting the deal:

1st: William Kopp (Brecksville, OH) – $19,000
2nd: Petko Tsakov (Provincetown, MA) – $15,000
3rd: Nikolai Sears (Davidsburg, MI) – $13,000
4th: Eric Penner (West Palm Beach, FL) – $10,500
5th: Harry Thomas (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) – $10,000

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Event 12: We Have a Deal! 6r6v6h

$570 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Entries: 203

Following Britt Heath’s elimination in third place for $9,643, Phillip Hui and Zoltan Czinkota quickly agreed to a deal. Hui earned the official victory as chip leader.

Final Table Results:
*denotes heads-up deal

1st: Phillip Hui  (Tamarac, FL) – $24,159*
2nd: Zoltan Czinkota (Davie, FL) – $21,000*
3rd: Britt Heath (Wilmington, NC) – $9,643
4th: Richard Meyer (Roscommon, MI) – $7,816
5th: Marc Sacheli (Miami, FL) – $6,090
6th: Miguel Hernandez-Alpizar (Miami Lakes, FL) – $5,075
7th: Eli Levy (Miami, FL)– $4,060
8th: Richard Katz (Pittsburgh, PA) – $3,045
9th: Seth Gilson (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) – $2,030

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Event 12: Richard Meyer Eliminated in 4th Place ($7,816) 3x6v5j

$570 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 23: 8,000/16,000/2,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 3/203
Average Stack: 508,000 (32 bb)

Richard Meyer raised to 50,000 from under the gun, Phil Hui three-bet to 150,000 form the small blind, Meyer four-bet shoved for about 460,000 and Hui called.

Meyer: Ac10s
Hui: JcJs

The board came down KsJhJd5hKc, giving Hui quad jacks to eliminate Meyer in fourth place.

Phil Hui – 1,190,000 (74 bb)
Richard Meyer – Eliminated in 4th Place ($7,816)

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Event 12: Marc Sacheli Eliminated in 5th Place ($6,090) 2u34b

$570 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 21: 5,000/10,000/1,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 4/203
Average Stack: 508,000 (51 bb)

Phil Hui raised to 20,000 from the cutoff, Marc Sacheli three-bet shoved for 95,000 from the button and Hui called.

Hui: 9d8d
Sacheli: 2s2c

The board came down 10h8h3s4h6s, giving Hui a pair of eights to eliminate Sacheli in fifth place.

Marc Sacheli – Eliminated in 5th Place ($6,090)

Here are the approximate chip counts after the hand:

Zoltan Czinkota – 315,000 (32 bb)
Richard Meyer – 310,000 (31 bb)
Britt Heath – 805,000 (81 bb)
Phil Hui – 600,000 (60 bb)

1st – $28,411
2nd – $16,748
3rd – $9,643
4th – $7,816

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Event 8: Payouts Set 674a3n

$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Total Entries: 1,324
Prize Pool: $158,880

 Flight Total Entries Advanced
Flight A – Sun, 11 a.m. 170 22
Flight B – Sun, 6 p.m. 199 22
Flight C – Mon, 11 a.m. 157 18
Flight D – Mon, 6 p.m. 282 37
Flight E – Tues, 11 a.m. 189  25
Flight F – Tues, 6 p.m.  327  TBD
Updated Totals  1,324  124

1st: $39,485
2nd: $22,879
3rd: $15,173
4th: $10,168
5th: $7,070
6th: $5,481
7th: $4,210
8th: $3,098
9th: $2,161
10-12th: $1,557
13-15th: $1,239
16-18th: $1,049
19-27th: $890
28-36th: $763
37-45th: $636
46-54th: $556
55-63rd: $493
64-72nd: $445
73-81st: $397

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Event 12: Miguel Hernandez-Alpizar Eliminated in 6th Place ($5,075) 5j1y73

$570 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 21: 5,000/10,000/1,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 5/203
Average Stack: 406,000 (41 bb)

Richard Meyer raised to 40,000 from under the gun, Miguel Hernandez-Alpizar reraised all in from the next seat for 56,000 and Meyer called.

Meyer: KdKc
Hernandez-Alpizar: KsJh

The board came down Qs3d2h4d5c, no help to Hernandez-Alpizar, ending his tournament in sixth place for $5,075.

Richard Meyer – 280,000 (28 bb)
Miguel Hernandez-Alpizar – Eliminated in 6th Place ($5,075)

Recent Eliminations: Eli Levy (7th – $4,060), Richard Katz (8th – $3,045), Seth Gilson (9th – $2,030)

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Event 12: Final Table Lineup 5g1z54

$570 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 20: 4,000/8,000/1,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 9/203
Average Stack: 226,000 (28 bb)

Seat 1. Zoltan Czinkota – 390,000 (49 bb)
Seat 2. Seth Gilson – 58,000 (7 bb)
Seat 3. Richard Meyer – 190,000 (24 bb)
Seat 4. Miguel Hernandez-Alpizar – 95,000 (12 bb)
Seat 5. Britt Heath – 320,000 (40 bb)
Seat 6. Phillip Hui – 505,000 (63 bb)
Seat 7. Marc Sacheli – 135,000 (17 bb)
Seat 8. Richard Katz – 28,000 (4 bb)
Seat 9. Eli Levy – 225,000 (28 bb)

Recent Eliminations: Jorge Gomez (10th – $1,320), Joseph Levitt (11th – $1,320), Manuel Soltero Luna (12th – $1,320), Sasidhar Bobba (13th – $1,117), Philip Consolo (14th – $1,117)

1st – $28,411
2nd – $16,748
3rd – $9,643
4th – $7,816
5th – $6,090
6th – $5,075
7th – $4,060
8th – $3,045
9th – $2,030

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Event 12: Final 14 Players 18406q

$570 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 19: 3,000/6,000/1,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 14/203
Average Stack: 145,000 (24 bb)

Table 1
Seat 1. Miguel Hernandez-Alpizar – 67,000 (11 bb)
Seat 2. Sasidhar Bobba – 65,000 (11 bb)
Seat 3.
Seat 4. Seth Gilson – 43,000 (7 bb)
Seat 5. Phillip Hui – 405,000 (68 bb)
Seat 6. Marc Sacheli – 170,000 (28 bb)
Seat 7.
Seat 8. Britt Heath – 275,000 (46 bb)
Seat 9. Joseph Levitt – 95,000 (16 bb)

Table 2
Seat 1.
Seat 2. Jorge Gomez – 230,000 (38 bb)
Seat 3. Zoltan Czinkota – 80,000 (13 bb)
Seat 4. Phlip Consolo – 60,000 (10 bb)
Seat 5. Richard Katz – 75,000 (13 bb)
Seat 6. Manuel Soltero Luna – 80,000 (13 bb)
Seat 7.
Seat 8. Eli Levy – 190,000 (32 bb)
Seat 9. Richard Meyer – 150,000 (25 bb)

1st – $28,411
2nd – $16,748
3rd – $9,643
4th – $7,816
5th – $6,090
6th – $5,075
7th – $4,060
8th – $3,045
9th – $2,030
10th-12th- $1,320
13th-14th – $1,117