$240 Omaha High/Low
Limits: 600/1.2K

The 39 remaining players in the Omaha/8 event are sitting back down after their nice little dinner break. Only 9 of those players will be happy when they make the money later this evening.

Top counts at break:

$250 No Limit Hold’em Heads Up
Blinds: 150/300

One of the most popular tournaments on the schedule is about to get underway when the card fly with the $250 buy-in No Limit Hold’em Heads Up event. The tournament is capped at 64 players with no late registration or re-entry available. Players can get their money to the desk by 6pm or miss out on the fun.

Players are given deep 20,000 stacks at the start of the first round and they will battle their opponent until one players has them all. The winner will move on while the loser will be watching from the rail.

Tournament staff are giving directions to both dealers and players before cards are in the air. Someone will be a Heads Up champion before the night is done.

$240 Omaha High/Low
Limits: 500/1K

There are still five tables remaining, or just under 45 players, in the $240 Omaha/8 tournament at the end of Level 8 and they are off on a 45-minute dinner break.

Update chip counts to come.

Seminole Hard Rock Poker presents
Coco Poker Open at Coconut Creek
$250 No Limit Hold’em Black Chip Bounty
September 30 – October 1, 2014

Total Entries: 122
Total Prize Pool: $27,090

Recap:
The fifth event of the 2014 Coco Poker Open drew a nice crowd of players looking to capture the title but also knock a few opponents out along the way. After 22 levels of play, local grinder Richard Kessler was the last player standing when he picked up a couple of bounties to go with $4,684 he earned for the title.

The tournament featured a $25,000 guaranteed prize pool and they exceeded that number to pay out $27,090 to the players. Each player had $100 of their buy-in on their heads in the form of a knock out bounty, this added incentive kept the aggression high throughout the tournament.

The event was initially scheduled to play down to a winner in one day but the size of the field meant the final nine players would return for an extra day of action. Local Steven Bennett began the restart with the chip lead and they lost several players in a hurry.

Andres Morals, Linroy Freeman, and Paul Steiner all began the day with shorter stacks but were unable to find a way to give themselves a change at the title. Paula Alibrandi sat back and let that trio hit the payout desk before she finally dropped out in 4th spot.

Man Le, Richard Kessler, and Bennett traded the lead after a long three-handed process but Bennett was finally able to knock out his nemesis. They heads up battle also went back and forth before Bennett took a stand with but could not beat the of Kessler.

Richard Kessler earned the biggest tournament cash of his career and his first since a final table finish during the 2014 WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open.

Results:

$250 No Limit Hold’em Black Chip Bounty
Blinds: 8k/16k/2k ante

Richard Kessler doubled into the chip lead shortly after the start of heads up play but they were soon in a dead heat as Steven “Mike” Bennett chipped back up.

The two played small ball for nearly an hour without either taking a big advantage until the final hand put the tournament to bed.

Bennett was all-in with after saying he couldn’t fold an Ace at that point and Kessler was a big favorite with . The took away one of Bennett’s outs before the turn left him drawing dead.

The two could have battled for a long time but they were done after four hours of final table action. Bennett takes home $2,696 for his efforts but he knows he could have won it all earlier. Kessler earned $4,684 for the win, his biggest tournament cash to date.

$250 No Limit Hold’em Black Chip Bounty
Blinds: 8k/16k/2k ante

$240 Omaha High/Low
Limits: 400/800

Players in the Omaha/8 event are in no hurry to run out the door. They took off on their second break of the day and 63 of the starting 77 are still in the game. Elon Diamond leads the way but it’s still anyone’s game.

$250 No Limit Hold’em Black Chip Bounty
Blinds: 5k/10k/1k ante

Two hands into heads up play and there was a quick momentum switch. Richard Kessler and Steven Bennett were playing it slow until the board read . Kessler immediately moved all-in to really make Bennett think.

He talked through the hand and decided Kessler didn’t have an Ace and called with but found out he was wrong when Kessler tabled . The river was a blank to put Kessler in the lead.

Richard Kessler – 460,000
Steven Bennett – 306,000

$250 No Limit Hold’em Black Chip Bounty
Blinds: 5k/10k/1k ante

Man Le took two hands before getting his stack in the middle. The Richard Kessler double left him as the shortest stack and he moved all-in for his final 95,000 on the flop. He was behind with against Steven Bennett’s .

Bennett has been unable to take Le out on several occasions but did just that when the board finished . Le was gone in 3rd place for $1,774 while Bennett moved further into the lead.

$250 No Limit Hold’em Black Chip Bounty
Blinds: 3k/6k/1k ante

All three players pushed chips around the table in a series of big hands. Each took their time atop the leaderboard with a significant double up but we almost had a winner in one huge hand.

Steven Bennett opened the action to 24,000 on the button and Richard Kessler called in the small blind. Man Le responded with a three-bet to 40,000 from the small blind and Bennett called the bet. Kessler went from a caller to a raiser when he shoved all-in for less than 100,000 which prompted Le to moved all-in over the top.

Bennett was conflicted and finally folded face up then cursed his play when Kessler showed and Le . Le hit the flop but Kessler came from behind with the turn. Kessler doubled once again on the river to get back in it.

They decided on an impromptu 10-minute break and will return shortly.

Steven Bennett – 403,000
Richard Kessler – 257,000
Man Le – 114,000