$560 No Limit Hold’Em (Re-entry)

$560 No Limit Hold’Em (Re-entry)

WPT Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship

The remaining 74 players are on a 75 minute dinner break (return at approximately 9 pm). The average stack is 168K and they will be returning to blinds of 1.5K/3K (56 big blinds).

Julius Zwail, our friendly 94 year old retired NY police officer, has sadly been eliminated at the hands of John DiBella when his pocket Aces were behind DiBella’s Q-4 on a Q-8-2-4 board. Others joining Julius on the rail include Dan Heimiller, Harrison Gimbel, Darryl Fish, and Mike Linster.

Among those still in the running are players like Anthony Zinno who just doubled up with A-T against A-Q when he got it all in on an A-T-6 flop and it held. Local boy Mukul Pahuja also is sitting pretty after getting paid off on a 80K+ river bet with a full house. They are joined by notables and locals such as Ian O’Hara, Ryan D’Angelo, Joey Weissman, Matt Waxman, Ronit Chamani, Corrie Wunstel, Lily Kiletto, John Holley,  Shannon Shorr, Justin Zaki, Keven Stammen, Jess Cohen, Brett Bader, Tony Cousineau, and Ronnie Bardah.

Local boy Michael Laake is currently sitting on top of the leader board with over 600K in chips.

*** – Seminole Hard Rock Poker archived photo

$150 No Limit Hold ‘Em (Re-entry)

Blinds 75/150

The last event of the 2014 Lucky Hearts Poker Open is underway. It’s a small field thus far with 22 registered entrants. Registration will be open for approximately one hour.

$560 No Limit Hold’Em (Re-entry)

Blinds 1.2K/2.4K Ante 400

There are still five players remaining. Here are updated chip counts for the five:

Ronny Beda – 175K
Shana Matthews – 125K
Malik Khan – 45K
Jermaine Phang – 90K
Howard Hobbs – 50K

$200 Double Stack Turbo No Limit Hold’em (Re-entry)

Blinds 12k/24k/4k ante
10 players remaining, 363k avg (15 bb)

Seat-Name-Chip Count

1 Tsion Vazana 65k
2 Robert Zuckerman 970k
3 Oniel McCalla 233k
4 Michael Kasten 657k
5 James Miller 324k
6 Jose Rodriguez 230k
7 Vince Simonelli 140k
8 Steven McKoy 665k
9 Eric Piderit 317k
10 Stuart Marshak 171k

Place    Payout

1st    $10,955
2nd    $6,425
3rd    $4,155
4th    $2,644
5th    $1,888
6th    $1,624
7th    $1,246
8th    $907
9th    $868

$200 Double Stack Turbo No Limit Hold’em (Re-entry)

WPT Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship

Blinds 1,200/2,400/400 ante
90 players remaining, 138k avg (58 bb)

First hand back from break get in 43k with 1010 vs AA ..and smashed a 10 piece mcNugget for 95k stack ..blinds 1-2k

— Ronnie Bardah (@RonnieBardah) February 9, 2014

Big Stacks

Michael Lewin 460,000
Shannon Shorr 365,000
Michael Laake 352,000
Athanasios Polychronopoulos 340,000
Jordan Cristos 320,000
Ronnie Bardah 305,000

$200 Double Stack Turbo No Limit Hold’em (Re-entry)

$200 Double Stack Turbo No Limit Hold’em (Re-entry)

Blinds 5k/10k/1k ante
27 players remaining, 134k avg (13 bb)

The turbo tournament blitzes through the field and the final 27 players are in the money.

Evan Kochav (Jersey City, NJ) is the clear chip leader with 675k. Just after the bubble breaks he knocks out two players with AK as players continue to drop like flies.

“I haven’t lost a pot all day, says Kochtav