WPT Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship

Blinds 500/1,000 Ante 100

There is a little more than 30 minutes left in this level with just over 100 players remaining as play winds down for the night. We will have full chip counts of players remaining shortly after play concludes. Seating assignments for Day 2 will be posted early morning at approximately 10-11 am. Play will resume at 1 pm tomorrow. Joey Weissman is continuing his hot Lucky Hearts Poker Open run as he has taken the chip lead for today’s flight with over 160K in chips. His foe in last night’s tournament, Harrison Gimbel, is also sitting pretty with over 100K in chips. Chance Kornuth is not far behind and last year’s runner up Lily Kiletto is also among the chip leaders.

$560 No Limit Hold’Em (Re-entry)

There were 48 entrants which meant there was an overlay and the prize pool is the $30,000 Guaranteed by the Lucky Hearts Poker Open. Five will get paid with first place taking home $11,400. Payouts are as follows:

WPT Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship

There were a total of 415 entrants creating a prize pool of $1,348,750. 1st place will receive $271,103 (entry into the WPT Championship Event at Borgata will be deducted from this amount) and 54 places will be paid. Full payouts are listed below:

$560 No Limit Hold’Em (Re-entry)

Blinds 100/200 Ante 25

There is still time to register for this event and there’s still quite the overlay as there are only 28 entrants thus far. Will Failla knows a good thing when he sees one as he’s joined the tournament to take his shot. There’s approximately one hour left to register.

WPT Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship

Blinds 250/500 Ante 75

Bill Blanda came in talking a big game and left in much the same way. “I knew I was ahead but that kid is catching everything,” said Blanda after Chance Kornuth hit a flush to knock out Blanda. Kornuth continues to add to his chip lead as he is approaching 200K in chips early in this evening session.

Seth Berger got lucky, and then unlucky, and was eliminated. He got it all in on a 9 high flop with another player holding pocket 10’s.  His foe had pocket Queens. Berger would hit a ten on the turn to take the lead but a Queen on the river would have his opponent jumping out of his chair yelling “Yes baby!” in excitement while a quiet Berger stood up, grabbed his things, and headed out of the tournament area.

There was a total of 233 entrants – 144 remain. We will have the prize pool and payout information as soon as they become available.

WPT Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship

Here are some tweets from players battling it out here today at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Coconut Creek:

Got crushed by @Blizair1 all day, then lost a flip to bust just in time to buyin again #luckynumberthree

— Darryll Fish (@DarryllFish) February 8, 2014

Pretty comical, QQ<JJ ai, then Shawn Cunix raise/calls 28cc to bust me. Fourth bullet commencing.

— Adam Levy (@Roothlus) February 8, 2014

41,350 on dinner break. 250/500 75 next

— Harrison Gimbel (@Harrison_Gimbel) February 8, 2014

70k on dinner of this 3.5k at creek.

— Brayden Fritzshall (@BRAYD3N) February 8, 2014

Had no intention of playing Lucky Hearts but here i am. Chipped up to 65k then lost 20k on last hand b4 dinner. My AK vs. @RonnieBardah AA.

— Abbey Daniels (@abbeydaniels1) February 8, 2014

96k on dinner. 250/500 #WPTcreek

— Joey Weissman (@JoeyWeissman) February 8, 2014

33,725 stack on dinner break. Real happy about it considering where I was at today. On team one bullet

— Seth Berger (@youngseth4) February 8, 2014

On dinner break in this wpt. Have more chips than I purchased which is a great feeling!!

— Chance Kornuth (@ChancesCards) February 8, 2014

$560 No Limit Hold’Em (Re-entry)

Blinds 50/100

There are currently 16 entrants in this $30,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool event meaning we’re well short of the guarantee at this point. There is still plenty of time to register if you want to take part as registration is open for the first 6 levels (approximately 10:15-10:20 pm). Among those playing currently is Jermaine Phang who has two wins at the 2014 Lucky Hearts Poker Open and sits atop our Tournament Leader Board.

Structure Sheet

WPT Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship

Level 6: 200/400/50 ante
Flight B Entries: 221 (403 total)

As the clock winds towards dinner break, the total entries is now more than 400, easily topping the 369 from last year’s Lucky Heart Poker Open.

The field breaks for dinner at 6:27 pm before taking a 75 minute break.  Registration is open through the break with the cage closing at ~7:40 pm

Some familiar faces in the field:

WPT Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship

Level 5: Blinds 150/300/50 ante
Entries: 200 entries (382 total)

In cash games it’s customary to tip the dealer after winning a pot, and you’ll often hear the phrase “red bird down,” when a red $5 casino chip is dropped into the toke box.

It’s something that doesn’t happen in tournament play because the betting units have no cash value, but Will “the Poker Monkey” Souther (Biloxi, MS) is looking to change that.

@stax_poker @wpt Fellow players: Starting something new today. Tipping $5 after every dealer pushes out in tourney. Feel free to join in!

— Will Souther (@ThePokerMonkey) February 8, 2014

Souther is a circuit grinder who has $650,000 in career tournament earnings and happily creating good will with the hard working dealers.

WPT Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship

Level 5:  150/300/50 ante
Flight B Entries: 198 (380 total)

Victor Figueroa (Miami) is the early chip leader with 80k.

Figueroa is keeping up the momentum from his third place finish in Event 9 (Six-Max Purple Chip Bounty) for $12,350.

Early Big Stacks

Victor Figueroa 80k
Steven Levy 67k
Noah Schwartz 60k
Blake Purvis 56k
Chance Kornuth 53k
Ronnie Bardah 50k