$1,100 Championship
Level 13: 2,000/4,000/400 Ante
Players: 27/161

$1,100 Championship
Level 13: 2,000/4,000/400 Ante
Players: 27/161

Cards are back in the air following the final break of the night. The field is down to 27 and freshly redrawn to the final three tables. Tournament staff has confirmed with us play will conclude following Level 14 (about 11:45 p.m.) or at 10 percent of the starting field (17 players), whichever comes first.

Here’s a look at some of the notable stacks to this point:

• Stu Patterson – 281,000
• Israel DeLaCerda – 277,200
• Marc Medrano – 173,800
• Bruce Snell – 159,600
• John Depersio – 152,600
• Andrew Badecker – 147,100
• Adam Levy – 145,800
• Peter Vitantonio – 133,500
• Timothy Miles – 115,000
• James Newcomb – 111,900

Those to have busted include Phil Hui, David Prociak, Charles Mohler and Michael Cohen.

$1,100 Championship
Level 12: 1,200/2,400/300 Ante
Players: 28/161

Israel Delacerda busted a player in a small, four-way pot that saw his be best on an board. In addition to scoring the knockout, Delacerda raked a small pot that grew his stack to 275,000. He now leads the way with 28 players remaining.

They’ll lose one more player before redrawing to the final three tables.

$130 Pot Limit Omaha/No Limit Hold’em
Level 10: 800/1,600/100 Ante
Players Remaining: 17/53

Tonight’s 6 p.m. $130 pot limit Omaha/no limit hold’em tournament drew a field of 53 entries. The $10,000 prize pool pays the top nine players at least $250. The tournament’s winner, meanwhile, scores $3,500.

Full payout structure:

The clock currently shows 17 players remaining toward the end of Level 10. Among them are Joe Patalano and Miguel Martinez.

A full report will be provided after the tournament’s conclusion.

$1,100 Championship
Level 11: 1,000/2,000/200 Ante
Players: 37/161

There’s a new name atop the Championship chip counts following a duel between Zoltan Czinkota and previous chip leader Charles Mohler. According to Zoltan, he opened the button for 5,500 and Mohler three-bet from the small blind. Zoltan called.

The flop came . Mohler lead for 25,000. Zoltan called.

The turn was the . Mohler checked. Zoltan moved all in and Mohler called.

Zoltan: for top pair and a flush draw
Mohler: for second pair

The board completed with the and Zoltan raked a pot worth about 250,000. He now holds the chip lead.

$1,100 Championship

The $1,100 Coco Poker Showdown Championship drew 161 entries. The $100,000 guarantee was bested to the tune of a $161,000 prize pool. The top 18 players finish in the money earning at least $1,852. Payouts escalate from there before topping out in the form of a $49,905 first prize.

Full prize structure:

2016 Coco Poker Showdown
Seminole Casino Coconut Creek
Coconut Creek, Fla.
Event #8
$1,100 Championship
Entries: 161
Prize Pool: $161,000
January 30-31, 2016

2016 Coco Poker Showdown
Seminole Casino Coconut Creek
Coconut Creek, Fla.
Event #6
$350 No Limit Hold’em
Entries: 721
Prize Pool: $250,000
January 26-30, 2016

Coconut Creek, Fla. (January 30, 2015) — Edward Novak put on a convincing performance in the Coco Poker Showdown $350 buy in Event 6 Saturday night at Seminole Casino Coconut Creek. The 20-year-old newly-turned professional maneuvered through a 721-entry field before winning the event outright, pocketing $63,323 in the process.

“I ran pretty well when we started out,” Novak said of the late stages of play. “I had king-jack. I flopped a straight and held up against a flush draw. After that I clashed with a big stack and made a pretty big hero call with top pair […] I was just cruising. I had half the chips in play and there was no looking back from there — no thoughts of chopping.”

It’s not often poker players sell themselves short, but Novak did just that describing his stack as “half the chips in play”. In fact, Novak claimed nearly 6,000,000 of the roughly 8,700,000 chips in play five-handed. He never faltered en route to a heads up berth versus Fort Lauderdale pro Nancy Birnbaum. Birnbaum was at a severe disadvantage and chipped up only slightly before her pocket fives were bested by Novak’s all in preflop. Birnbaum earned $36,906 for her runner-up finish. The score moved her over $600,000 in career earnings.

“I know [South][Florida] has a lot of good poker and some series were going on. I figured I’d take a trip [to][Coconut][Creek],” Novak, a resident of Simsbury, Conn., said.

Event 6 featured eight starting flights. The 721-entry field came up shy of matching the guarantee, but the property chipped in to get the prize pool to $250,000. All Day 2 players were in the money with notables Ory Hen (44th), Abbey Daniels (36th) and Adam Levy (11th) joining Novak in the money.

At only 20 years old, this marks Novak’s first major tournament score.

“I might have to be now. I don’t know,” Novak laughed when asked if he was a professional poker player.

Event 6 final results:

1st: Edward Novak – $63,323
2nd: Nancy Birnbaum – $36,906
3rd: Mike Chiappetta- $24,131
4th: Kimberly Jones – $16,313
5th: Paul Steiner – $11,438
6th: Andrew Smith – $8,891
7th: Ruben Ybarra – $6,844
8th: Sergio Alves – $5,047
9th: Mark Nahama – $3,547
10th: Sean Anderson – $2,594
11th: Adam Levy – $2,594
12th: Ryan Anderson – $2,594
13th: Steven Cohen – $2,047
14th: Manuel Soltera Luna – $2,047
15th: Gabriel Sack – $2,047
16th: William Handwerker – $1,719
17th: Willy Baptiste – $1,719
18th: Robert Williams – $1,719
19th: Michael Newman – $1,484
20th: Yuan Shen – $1,484
21st: David Barbieri – $1,484
22nd: Raymond Roberty – $1,484
23rd: Elliott Saydman – $1,484
24th: Oneil McCalla – $1,484
25th: David Shaw – $1,484
26th: Steven Jordan – $1,484
27th: Mike Chang – $1,484
28th: Joshua Wasserman – $1,259
29th: Scott Zakheim – $1,259
30th: Luke Doolittle – $1,259
31st: Joseph Patalano – $1,259
32nd: Clinton Bowles – $1,259
33rd: Courtney Rowe – $1,259
34th: Michael Cohen – $1,259
35th: Plamen Stoyanov – $1,259
36th: Abbey Daniels – $1,259
37th: Cory Blum – $1,059
38th: Kevin Almon – $1,059
39th: Scott Wyler – $1,059
40th: Jerry Wong – $1,059
41st: Louis Leo IV – $1,059
42nd: Eric Riley – $1,059
43rd: Giuseppe Lunetto – $1,059
44th: Ory Hen – $1,059
45th: Frank Scala – $1,059
46th: Colny Covington – $934
47th: Jorge Gomez – $934
48th: Scott Efron – $934
49th: Bryan Rodriguez – $934
50th: Zoltan Czinkota – $934
51st: Benjamin Robinson – $934
52nd: Lawrence Paden, Sr. – $934
53rd: Kevin Chan – $934
54th: Darren Stabinski – $934
55th: David Albertson – $834
56th: Robert Midgette – $834
57th: Timothy Shortell – $834
58th: Johnny Tang – $834
59th: Timothy Kegel – $834
60th: Robert Miller – $834
61st: Pedro Palacio – $834
62nd: Michael Merisier – $834
63rd: Edward Medoff – $834
64th: Carlos Loving – $725
65th: Juan Cardona Garcia – $725
66th: Dolphus Powers – $725
67th: William Beasley – $725
68th: Peter Fellows – $725
69th Francois Tremblay – $725

$1,100 Championship
Level 10: 800/1,600/200 Ante
Players: 47/161

Level 10 has nearly expired but not much has changed in regards to the top of the Championship chip counts. With the clock showing 47 remaining of 161 starters, Santana Noronha retains his perch atop the field with 225,000.

Other notables still alive include:

• Charles Mohler – 157,000
• Timothy Miles – 81,000
• Phil Hui – 55,500
• Zoltan Czinkota – 32,000
• Adam Levy – 31,500
• Mike Laake – 29,000
• Peter Vitantonio – 27,000

The prize pool has not been finalized as of yet, but once it is it will be posted here shortly thereafter.

$350  No Limit Hold’em
Level 27: 40,000/80,000/10,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 1/721

Edward Novak of Simsbury, Conn. won Event 6 of the Coco Poker Showdown outright. He outlasted 721 entries in the $350 no limit hold’em tournament to earn $63,323.

A full report on the win will be posted shortly. In the mean time, here’s a look at the tournament’s results:

Additional final table results:

5th: Paul Steiner – $11,438
6th: Andrew Smith – $8,891
7th: Ruben Ybarra – $6,844
8th: Sergio Alves – $5,047
9th: Mark Nahama – $3,547

Additional results available in the posts below

$1,100 Championship
Level 10: 800/1,600/200 Ante
Players: 161 (Registration closed)

Cards are back in the air following the 40-minute dinner break. Registration is closed in the Coco Poker Showdown Championship with the clock reading an unofficial 161 entries.

Complete prize pool information will be posted shortly.