$2,500 No Limit Hold’em Championship Event
Blinds: 300/600/75 Ante

Players are on a 20-minute break while they color up the T25 chips. We’ll have some updated chip counts on the other side of the break.

$200 No Limit Hold’em Double Stack Turbo
Blinds: 800/1.6K Ante 200

Level 12 is underway and there are 54 entrants showing on the tournament clock. Only 20 of those are still playing though and there’s still time to get in the tournament (albeit short-stacked) with over 60% of the field already gone.

$2,500 No Limit Hold’em Championship Event
Blinds: 300/600/75 Ante

There are 90 entrants left in today’s flight out of the original 166 entrants. Among those that are still alive are Lily Kiletto and James Calderaro. The couple has dominated poker tournaments here over the last two years with Kiletto taking second in the 2013 Lucky Hearts Poker Open for $191,880.

She followed that up with a deep run at this years Lucky Hearts Poker Open finishing 19th for $12,139. It would be Calderaro who would win that event and he would take home an impressive $271,103 for that victory.

They weren’t the only notables in the field as players like Chris Bolek, Robert Campbell, Jean Gaspard, Harrison Gimbel, Barry Hutter, Zo Karim, Chance Kornuth, Greg Marcus, Tim Miles, Stuart Paterson, Nick Schwarmann, and Matt Waxman all took part in the poker action at some point today.

$2,500 No Limit Hold’em Championship Event

There was a total of 419 entrants with a prize pool of $1,000,000. First place will take home an impressive $264,000. The top 45 will make the money and a minimum cash will be worth $5,000. Full payouts are listed below:

1st: $264,000
2nd: $155,000
3rd: $100,500
4th: $70,000
5th: $50,500
6th: $40,500
7th: $31,000
8th: $22,000
9th: $16,000
10th-12th: $12,000
13th-15th: $9,500
16th-18th: $8,000
19th-27th: $7,000
28th-36th: $6,000
37th-45th: $5,000

$200 No Limit Hold’em Double Stack Turbo
Blinds: 300/600 Ante 75

Players are on a 15-minute break. There are currently 53 entrants. Registration will be open for another hour once they return from break.

$2,500 No Limit Hold’em Championship Event
Blinds: 250/500/75 Ante

We’re back from dinner with a total of 166 entrants showing on the tournament clock. We’ll post prize pool and payout information as soon as it becomes available. Here’s a look at some chip leader and notable chip counts at the break.

$200 No Limit Hold’em Double Stack Turbo
Blinds: 100/200 Ante 25

They have just completed the first four levels of play and there are currently 41 entrants. There is still plenty of time to come down and register for this fast-paced tournament if you want to take part in the fun.

$2,500 No Limit Hold’em Championship Event

One of the entrants today is a local favorite and hosts a regular tournament in the Stax Poker Lounge. Andy Slater is playing the third flight of the Championship and has been having a good day so far, increasing his starting stack to 27,600 at the dinner break.

Slater is man behind the aptly titled The Andy Slater Show on 940-AM in South Florida talking about all things sports. He’s a popular radio host and enjoys the game of poker, showing his love of the game by also hosting a monthly poker tournament.

The Andy Slater “See You Later” Poker Tournament runs on the second Tuesday of each month with a $94 buy-in, three bounties into the next month’s tournament, and a sweet $200 knockout bounty on the host himself.

$2,500 No Limit Hold’em Championship Event
Blinds: 200/400/50 Ante

Players are off on their 60-minute dinner break with 158 players in the final flight of the Championship. That leaves one hour for anyone to get in the game with a potential overlay.

Staff are counting down chips and we’ll be back with counts.

$200 No Limit Hold’em Double Stack Turbo
Blinds: 25/50

While the rest of the room deals with the final few levels to register for the 2014 Coco Poker Open Championship event, one corner of the room is getting ready to run have No Limit Hold’em turbo fun.

The last “open” event of the series is about to get underway with a $200 buy-in No Limit Hold’em Double Stack Turbo tournament. Players will 12,000 stacks and slick moving 15-minute levels. Players can register or re-enter the tournament until the start of Level 13.