$2,500 No Limit Hold’em (Single Re-Entry)Level 17: 2,500/5,000 with a 500 ante
Players Remaining: 9 of 150
Average Stack: 333,000 (66 bb) w181j
Staffan Lind opened to 11,000 from the hijack, Ryan Rogers shoved with the bigger stack from the big blind, and Lind called all in for 99,000 with . Rogers trailed with .
The board came down , safe for Lind to score the double.
$2,500 No Limit Hold’em (Single Re-Entry) Level 17: 2,500/5,000 with a 500 ante
Players Remaining: 9 of 150
Average Stack: 333,000 (66 bb)
Krzysztof Stybaniewicz
After a series of raises, Krzysztof Stybaniewicz was all in for about 145,00 from middle position with against Andreas Ioakimides in the big blind with .
The board came down , no help to Stybaniewicz, ending his tournament in 10th place.
Andreas Ioakimides – 660,000 (132 bb)
Krzysztof Stybaniewicz – Eliminated in 10th Place ($6,825)
$2,500 No Limit Hold’em (Single Re-Entry) Level 17: 2,500/5,000 with a 500 ante
Players Remaining: 10 of 150
Average Stack: 300,000 (60 bb)
Ryan Rogers raised to 11,000 from the cutoff, David Diaz three-bet shoved from the button for 78,500, Jake Bazeley called from the small blind, and Rogers folded.
Diaz:
Bazeley:
The board came down , giving Bazeley a set of nines to eliminate Diaz in 11th place.
Jake Bazeley – 420,000 (84 bb)
David Diaz – Eliminated in 11th Place ($6,825)
$2,500 No Limit Hold’em (Single Re-Entry) Level 17: 2,500/5,000 with a 500 ante
Players Remaining: 11 of 150
Average Stack: 272,000 (54 bb)
Lily Kiletto was all in from the cutoff for about 40,000, Alex Foxen was all in from the big blind for about 75,000, and Mukul Pahuja had both players covered from the hijack.
Kiletto:
Foxen:
Pahuja:
The board came down , giving Pahuja a set of tens to score the double elimination.
Mukul Pahuja – 275,000 (55 bb)
Alex Foxen – Eliminated in 12th Place ($6,825)
Lily Kiletto – Eliminated in 13th Place ($5,972)
$2,500 No Limit Hold’em (Single Re-Entry) Level 16: 2,000/4,000 with a 500 ante
Players Remaining: 14 of 150
Average Stack: 214,000 (53 bb)
Yaroslav Nakoechnyy raised from the cutoff, Schahin Ghiai called from the small blind, and Ryan Rogers three-bet to 33,000 from the big blind.
Both opponents called and the flop came down . Ghiai checked to Rogers who continued for 30,000. Nakoechnyy raised to 75,000, Ghiai folded, and Rogers called to see the turn, which he checked.
Nakonechnyy shoved for about 97,000 and Rogers called instantly with , leading Nakonechnyy’s .
The river was the , no help to Nakonechnyy, ending his tournament in 15th place.
Ryan Rogers – 570,000 (142 bb)
Yaroslav Nakonechnyy – Eliminated in 15th Place ($5,972)
Other recent eliminations include Jeff Rodriguez (16th – $5,119), Matthew Wantman (17th – $5,119), and Michael Newman (18th – $5,119).
$2,500 No Limit Hold’em (Single Re-Entry) Level 16: 2,000/4,000 with a 500 ante
Players Remaining: 18 of 150
Zo Kariming 18
Following just over two hours of play Zo Karim was eliminated on the bubble in Event 10, a $2,500 no limit hold’em tournament, leaving the remaining 18 players in the money.
It took about 40 minutes of bubble play and more than 15 hands before Karim got 49,000 in preflop. Andros Ioakimides called and Karim was at risk.
Ioakimides:
Karim:
The runout came and Karim was eliminated shy of the money. The remaining 18 players secured $5,119 with the winner pocketing $98,960. Those still in contention for the event’s top prize include Seminole Hard Rock Poker team Mukul Pahuja and Faraz Jaka, Lily Kiletto, Michael Newman, Jake Bazeley, Alex Foxen and Peter Vitantonio.
Andros Ioakimides – 415,000 (103 bb)
Zo Karim – Eliminated
$2,500 No Limit Hold’em (Single Re-Entry) Level 15: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 ante
Players Remaining: 25 of 150
Average Stack: 120,000 (40 bb)
Lily Kiletto
Event 10 drew a nice group of players to the biggest buy-in tournament on the 2017 Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Heart Poker Open schedule and only 25 of them are still around for Day 2.
The returning players include some top players including Faraz Jaka, Jake Bazeley, Jon Borenstein, Zo Karim, Paul Balzano, Lily Kiletto, and Matthew Wantman. Alex Foxen returns to action after going deep in the WPTDeepStacks Main Event and Joe Harwood will be playing down here while daughter Loni Harwood is in the final 27 of the Main Event.
Only 18 of the 25 will earn some of the prize pool, so they still have a little work ahead of them when they restart at 2pm.
Table 9
Seat 1: Paul Balzano – 97,500 (32 bb)
Seat 2: Faraz Jaka – 126,000 (42 bb)
Seat 3: Zo Karim – 56,000 (18 bb)
Seat 4: Ryan Rogers – 229,000 (76 bb)
Seat 5: Jon Borenstein – 101,000 (33 bb)
Seat 6: Joel Harwood – 32,000 (10 bb)
Seat 7: –empty–
Seat 8: Peter Vitantonio – 56,500 (18 bb)
Seat 9: Rock Cloutier – 110,000 (36 bb)