$2,500 No Limit Hold’em Championship Event
Blinds: 1K/2k/300 ante

The early chips counts are in and 2010 WSOP November Niner has jumped into the lead after two levels of play. Preecha Taepakdee has added nicely to his stack with Tim Miles and Abbey Daniels not far behind.

$2,500 No Limit Hold’em Championship Event
Blinds: 800/1.6K/200 ante

Players are off on their first break of the day just as tournament staff broke another table to get to 90 remaining. One of those sent out recently was three-time WSOP Circuit event winner Nancy Birnbaum when her set of Tens could not stand up to Mukul Pahuja’s four-flush with pocket Kings.

Half the players remaining will be happy, the other half not as much. Break time chips counts when they return.

@STAX_Poker busted all in pre flop 1010 vs 77 and kk hit a set kk hits flush on river pic.twitter.com/BAsUGRiYIP

— Nancy Birnbaum (@NancyBirnbaum) October 5, 2014

$2,500 No Limit Hold’em Championship Event
Blinds: 800/1.6k/200 ante

Brian Hastings began the day with just under an average chip stack but things did not go well for the South Florida pro early. He was soon sitting with just two tiny stacks, while enjoying a little NFL action on his mobile device, when he took a shot with .

Dan “Miami Boss” Suied looked him up with before flopping the nut flush to send Hastings out and moving himself up to 230,000.

It hasn’t been a great day for other big names as well. Will Failla, Corey Burbick, and TJ Shulman were also gone before the end of the second level as the field reaches double digits with 99 remaining.

$2,500 No Limit Hold’em Championship Event
Blinds: 800/1.6k/200 ante

$2,500 No Limit Hold’em Championship Event
Blinds: 600/1.2k/200 ante

With such deep stacks, no one is a particular hurry to get frisky in the early goings. Will “The Thrill” Failla is spending his first 30 minutes laughing it up with his tablemates Darryll Fish and Corey Burbick.

There were three quick eliminations at the start to get us down to the lucky 13 tables. Kevin Spires and Event 3 final table player Paul Balzano were early short stacks sent to the rail.

$2,500 No Limit Hold’em Championship Event
Blinds: 600/1.2k/200 ante

Day 2 of the 2014 Coco Poker Open Championship Event is upon us and the entire field will be in the same room for the first time. The tournament drew 419 entrants across three starting flights and 120 players survived to make Day 2.

Only 45 of those players will earn a piece of the $1,000,000 prize pool with a min-cash earning $3,000 and the winner taking home $264,000 some time tomorrow. It will be a long process getting down to the money bubble as the average stack is nearly 60 big blinds deep at the start of the day.

Tim Miles is the leader when they resume play with Preecha Taepakdee not far behind. Other notables returning today include Jason Mercier, Matt Waxman, Dan Suied, John Dolan, Nancy Birnbaum, Mukul Pahuja, Brian Hastings, Darryll Fish, and Noah Schwartz.

Players are taking their seats and unbagging their stacks, tournament staff will pass along the daily devotional of rules before kicking off Day 2.

$300 No Limit Hold’em Seniors Event
Blinds: 25/50

The final event of the 2014 Coco Poker Open is about to get underway and its a little something for the older generation. Event 12 is a $300 No Limit Hold’em tournament open to only those 50 years or older.

It will be a fun tournament to finish up the series as the Championship plays out on one side the room while the Seniors battle it out for the last trophy.

They will start behind 8,000 with 30-minute levels and late registration or re-entry available until the start of Level 7.

$2,500 No Limit Hold’em Championship Event

Seminole Hard Rock Poker presents
Coco Poker Open at Coconut Creek
$200 No Limit Hold’em (Double Stack Turbo)
October 4, 2014

Total Entries: 58
Total Prize Pool: $9,860

The final seven decided they didn’t feel like gambling it up with an average stack of seven big blinds so they chopped the prize money up evenly with each of them collecting $1,409. Jim Frisk had the most chips and was awarded the trophy. Congratulations Jim and the rest of the final seven!

FINAL RESULTS

1st: Jim Frisk $1,409
2nd: Dani Dayan $1,409
3rd: Tom Junkins $1,409
4th: Chris Gatti $1,409
5th: Alex Aldonis $1,409
6th: Todd Newton $1,409
7th: Joseph Patalano $1,409

$2,500 No Limit Hold’em Championship Event

A total of 46 players made it through the day with Tim Miles leading the way with 215,500 in chips making him the overall chip leader heading into Day 2 play. He was followed closely by Preecha Taepakdee who ended with 202,100 chips. The top three was rounded out by Andrew Blake who finished with 177,400.

Notables to make it through included Dan Suied (137,900), Matt Waxman (97,200), and Chris Bolek (50,000). Full chip counts for those that survived are below: