$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)

Blinds 100/200

Play has just moved into the 4th level meaning there is approximately 40 minutes left until registration closes. There are currently 88 registered entrants for this flight. Among those in the field are Ronnie Bardah and Abbey Daniels – the two are seated across from one another at the same table. Bardah has a piece of tissue stuck to his face right beneath his nose. “I cut myself shaving,” he explained. “It won’t stop bleeding.” Daniels, not knowing Bardah, tweeted about it:

Some guy at my table has a bloody tissue stuffed up his nose. Anything in the rules about that?

— Abbey Daniels (@abbeydaniels1) January 31, 2014

TDA rules apparently do not have any bloody nose penalties so Bardah is safe for now.

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

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

Play has started in the 3rd flight of Event 1 and there are 51 registered entrants taking part thus far. That number will surely rise as people come in late or re-enter after getting unlucky. We’ll have some photos and names coming soon.

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

Blinds 1,200/2,400/300 ante
30 players remaining,  86k avg (36 bb)

We caught this hand before the last break when a player named Brian or Bryan, who says “you’ll have to guess,” is the victim of a brutal run out, while Randy Cohen (Naples), just missed taking down a 150k side pot

It’s a four way all-in and Brian (we’re guessing) has the lead:

Brian: AA
Randy Cohen: QQ
Shelly Gross (Pembroke Pines) 99
John Smith (Park City, UT): 77

Flop: A K J (Brian, set)
Turn: Q (Cohen, set)
River: T

The straight on the board means it’s a 4-way chop.

“I dodged a big one there,” says Gross, who, along with Cohen started the hand with ~90k.

“It is what it is,” says Cohen, who was poised for a huge side pot until the river.

Brian, who had 19k, moves all in two hands later with AJ, but doesn’t improve against Gross’ AK for the knockout.  John Smith, whose 15k was the short stack, like Gross, gets new life.

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

Blinds 1k/2k/200 ante
35 players remaining, 74k avg (37 bb)

Nigel Murray (Miami Gardens) has a hard time explaining the hand, but the bottom line is that his 7-2 is best for a 100k+ pot which helped him into the chip lead.

“We both missed our flush,” says Murray who is now up to 155k, after making the call on a board of Q-9-2-K-6 for a winning pair of 2s.

Another big stack belongs to Dimitry Agrachov (Weston) who peaked at 145k, but is now down to 125k.

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

Blinds 1k/2k/200 ante
40 players remaining, 64k avg (32 bb)

As the final four tables return from the last break of the day, players are glad Rebecca, Maria & Angel are there to quench their thirsts.

There’s one more hour of play before the Flight B bag and tag.

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

Blinds 600/1,200/200 ante
54 players remaining, 48k avg (40 bb)

It’s been a few years since he’s been in the limelight, but people in this part of Florida may know Bobby Bradley’s name.

The Wellington native was a Major League Baseball first round pick (Pittsburgh, 1999), but arm injuries derailed his pitching career and he turned to his second love, golf.  Bradley’s strength is off the tee and he’s turned that ability into a second career.

“I was at the Michael J. Fox outing, but it got rained out,” says Bradley, “so I drove 235 miles to get here.”

Bradley helps foundations raise money as an entertainer at charity events. He works with Charity Golf International and according to its website, Bradley’s has “generated over $1,000,000 in donations for various charities around the United States and Canada.”

“I’ve always played poker,” says Bradley, who was recently knocked out of Flight B, “this is great. I play when I can.”

Bradley is a 7-time RE/MAX World Long Drive Finalist with a longest competition drive measuring 440 yards. His breath taking drives are always a hit at charity events including at last year’s Ron Jaworski Celebrity Golf Challenge.

“It’s great to help raise money and be around good people,” says Bradley, who went toe-to-toe off the tee with Super Bowl MVP Joe Flacco at Jaworski’s event which you can see here.

“I told him you’re not an athlete, you’re a quarterback,” laughs Bradley, “but neither am I, I was a pitcher.”

Bradley bolted after busting today, no word if he’ll return for another shot at the $300,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool.