$560 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Blinds 250/500/50 ante
130 players remaining, 31k avg (62 bb)

“This is the best part of my day by far,” says David Shaw (Boca Raton), as he wraps up his massage moments after being knocked out of Flight D.

Shaw says his downfall came when he hit a set of Queens on the turn, but it gave his opponent, who was holding , a flush. “That cost me 60k,” he says, “I had built up a pretty good stack.”

His consolation prize comes in a 2 1/2 hour massage from Lisa, one of Coconut Creek’s Massage Therapists. “I’m a machine,” she says while working out Shaw’s kinks.

Shaw is strictly a tournament player who comes to Stax Poker Lounge, “when they have a good series.”

$560 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Day 2 – Saturday 1 pm
Next Blinds: 1,500/3,000/300 ante

 $560 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Blinds 150/300/25 ante
162 Entries

@strizis Yes-will you you then. Nice series they are running. Great staff, blog, dealers, massage people and service!!!! @STAX_Poker

— Marsha Wolak (@marshawolak) January 31, 2014

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$560 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Blinds 150/300/25 ante
162 Entries

The largest flight to date brings 162 entries into the Stax Poker Lounge, setting the four flight total at 474 entries.

*Flights A-C

$560 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Blinds 100/200/25 ante
134 entries

Level 4 is underway, the last level to register and re-enter. The cage closes at ~1:10 pm.

$560 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Blinds 50/100
80 Entries

Bullet #2 in this $560 300k @STAX_Poker

— Ryan Gianquitti (@quitti33) January 31, 2014

Here we go!! @STAX_Poker @WPT Start the grind..# READY!

— FPrunrrunr (@FPrunrrunr) January 31, 2014

$560 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Blinds 50/100
42 Entries

The fourth of five flights of the $300,000 Guaranteed prize pool is underway in this opening event of the Lucky Hearts Poker Open.

Marcel Martinez (Miami) is the first player to take his seat and says it’s his first trip to Coconut Creek.

“I try to play as much as I can,” says Martinez who’s in the beer industry. “Distribution and some consumption,” he smiles. “I came for the guarantee.”

Players start with 25k in chips and levels are 30 minutes each.

Registration and re-entry is open for four levels with the cage closing at ~1:10 pm.

$560 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Day 2 Blinds 1,500/3,000/200 ante
42 players remaining, 126k avg (42 bb)

Position-Name-Chip Count

1 MICHAEL LAAKE 292,600 (98 bb)
2 JONATHAN WOLFF 278,700
3 JON BRODY 268,100
4 ENRIQUE ROMAN 255,600
5 JAIME RUBINSTERN 250,800
6 ROBERT MILLER 218,600
7 MATTHEW ELSARELLI 208,900
8 BRUCE REID 203,100
9 JOHN UTLEY 186,900
10 CYNTHIA RADNOVICH 174,100
11 JOHN KLEIN 165,300
12 AHGELO MIELEJL 158,300
13 PIERROT MASSENAT 155,000
14 SHIRAAZ ALI 153,300
15 JOHN MILLER 151,400
16 BRIAN WILSON 148,000
17 PATRICK HENEGHAN 134,600
18 COURTLAND TUYMAN 134,500
19 DIMITRY AGRACHOV 131,500
20 GREGG JAFFY 131,200
21 LUKE BRERETON 131,000
AVERAGE STACK 126,200 (42 bb)
22 MATTHEW VETSEIN 119,100
23 JORGE GOMEZ 113,000
24 DAVID WOLFF 91,500
25 PAULA ALIBRANDI 83,200
26 ADAM CHIPIUK 79,300
27 NANCY THOMAS 78,100
28 BRIAN APPELL 77,500
29 RANDALL COHEN 67,900
30 CHRISTOPHER ASARO 67,400
31 MARINA KOLES 66,900
32 MIGUEL CHAJTUR 63,000
33 DARRYLL FISH 61,100
34 SALVATORE LAROSA 60,100
35 JUAN PERALTA 60,000
36 TODD ARNOLD 54,000
37 DANIEL MOTHA 47,200
38 SHELDON GROSS 47,000
39 MICHAEL HOEBORN 40,000
40 MARSHA WOLAK 38,800
41 STEVE RAEMAN 32,500
42 TERRY MOORE 21,000 (7 bb)

$560 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Level 14 Complete: Day 2 Blinds 1,500/3,000/300 ante
24 players remaining, 107k avg (37 bb)

After an action packed final two levels, 24 players survived Flight B and advanced to Saturday’s Day 2 of the kickoff event of the Lucky Hearts Poker Open.

“It was the most bizarre hour of poker I’ve ever seen,” said WSOP bracelet holder Brian Wilson (Cape Coral), who single-handedly took out chip leader Nigel Murray (Miami Gardens) in the span of three big hands.

Wilson bagged 148k for a top ten stack (7th), but was well behind end of flight chip leader Jon Brody (Davie), who finished with 268k (89 bb). “It’s Day 1, it means nothing,” said Brody, who knows there’s a lot of poker left in this $300,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool that features a total of five flights.

After the final break of the day, Murray was up to 155k, but sent a 68k double-up to Wilson when Wilson’s K-2 flopped two pairs and rivered a full house against Murray’s A-9.

“It’s poker,” said Murray, who walked away dejected after seeing his A-Q lose to Wilson’s Q-3 for another 44k before finally being knocked out.

The flights second biggest stack belongs to Enrique Roman (Davenport) with 266k, followed by Cynthia Radnovich (Pompono Beach) who is third with 174k.

“This room is awesome,” said Wilson, who’s playing in the Stax Poker Lounge for the first time. “The staff is great and the service is out of this world.”

Wilson, who won his bracelet in a 2005 PLO event, added, “when there’s good value I’ll travel anywhere. That’s why I wanted to check this room out.”

Marsha Wolak (Fort Lauderdale), another WSOP bracelet winner (2011 Ladies Event), bagged a short stack of 39k (13 bb) and is currently 40th out of 42 players who have advanced to Day 2.

The two big stacks from Flight A, Michael Laake (293k) and Jonathan Wolff (279k) are still the overall chip leaders, while Brody is third overall.

The remaining players will wait for the final three flights (7 pm Thurs, 11 am & 7 pm Fri) to see where they stack up heading into Day 2.

 $560 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)