$1,650 Six-Max Purple Chip Bounty NLH (Re-entry)
Blinds 1k/2k/300 ante
Greg Lehn took a big hit at the start of Day 2 play when his pocket Aces were cracked by Chad Richard’s set of 7s.
On his final hand, Len’s T-8 is ahead of Seth Berger’s 9-6 until a 9 hits the river.
“Same ole, same ole,” says Lehn who plays a lot of his poker at Hard Rock Hollywood.
WPT Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship
Level 5: 150/300/50 ante
Entries: 166
Dimas Martinez (Atlanta, GA) is the second stack we’ve seen at more than 100k. His 120k (400 bb) is slightly ahead of Mike Lewin (Delray Beach) who’s at 110k.
Tweets
Just landed in Ft. Lauderdale for @WPT. Amazing how quickly I go from craving warmth to craving air conditioning.
— Andy Frankenberger (@AMFrankenberger) February 7, 2014
Thanks @NancyBirnbaum. Saw that some guy named Blanda Sees said he’s playing Main @STAX_Poker cuz of soft S Fl players. Hahaha — Abbey Daniels (@abbeydaniels1) February 7, 2014
On my way to play day 1A of #WPTLuckyHearts at @STAX_Poker and look, I’m on time. #whoamikidding #lateperusual @WPTLiveUpdates
— Ebony Kenney (@Ebony_Kenney) February 7, 2014
*Hard Rock Poker File Photo
$1,650 Six-Max Purple Chip Bounty NLH (Re-entry)
Blinds 800/1,600/200 ante
8 players remaining, 143k avg (89 bb)
On a flop of T-T-5, Jake Schwartz gets his last 90k all in against Harrison Gimbel and is in bad shape.
Schwartz: JT
Gimbel: AT
Both players flop trips with Gimbel holding the better kicker.
Schwartz doesn’t improve and finishes in 9th place for $2,850.
$1,650 Six-Max Purple Chip Bounty NLH (Re-entry)
Blinds 800/1,600/200 ante
Harrison Gimbel raises preflop and gets calls from Micah Raskin and Ryan D’Angelo.
Flop: 
All three players check
Turn: 
D’Angelo bets 17k, Gimbel folds and Raskin calls.
River: 
D’Angelo moves all in for 30k and Raskin snap calls.
D’Angelo 
flush
Raskin 
full house
“Congratulations guys, you’re all in the money,” laments D’Angelo who busts on the bubble in 10th place.
The final 9 players earn a min cash of $2,850 as they play for the $32,300 top prize.
WPT Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship
Blinds 100/200/25 ante
Entries: 159
Michael Lewin (Delray Beach) is the early chip leader with 110k.
Big Stacks
Michael Lewin 110k
Ben Tarzia 66k
Jordan Cristos 59k
Mukul Pahuja 47k
Byron Kaverman 44k
Allen Kessler 41k
$1,650 Six-Max Purple Chip Bounty NLH (Re-entry)
Blinds 800/1,600 ante 200
10 players remaining, 114k avg (71 bb)
Play resumes hand-for-hand on the money bubble.
Chip Counts
Joey Weissman 243,100
Micah Raskin 232,200
Harrison Gimbel 226,900
Farid Jattin 172,100
Jake Schwartz 148,500
Seth Berger 139,800
Victor Figueroa 79,800
D. Greg Lehn 72,200
Ryan D’Angelo 58,200
Chad Richard 53,300
Prize Pool
Place-Payout
1st $32,300.00
2nd $18,905.00
3rd $12,350.00
4th $9,025.00
5th $6,745.00
6th $5,225.00
7th $4,180.00
8th $3,420.00
9th $2,850.00
WPT Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship
Level3: Blinds 75/150/25 ante
Entries: 151
If they build a Mount Rushmore of Stax Lounge poker players, Jules Zwail (Tamarac) would be the first face carved into the side of Coconut Creek.
“I was born into poker and I’ll die out of it,” says the 93-year-old Stax mainstay.
Zwail calls him self a “snow bird,” who spends 8 months a year in Florida to get away from the Oceanside, NY cold.
“When I get back, the first place I go is to the poker room to see what games are going,” laughs Zwail, who earned a $2,000 bonus for logging 300+ cash hours, the most during last year’s promotional month.
Zwail is playing in the Lucky Hearts Championship Event and paid only $60 for his seat after winning a satellite into one of the Mega Satellites, a two-step process into Day 1A of the WPT.
“I’ve played every game conceivable,” says the retired NYPD officer who proudly shows off his ID badge. “I once saved a guy off the Brooklyn Bridge.”
Zwail is hovering around the 30k starting stack and has a great perspective on the game.
“I let the chips fall where they may and if they’re near me, so be it.”
And Zwail adds that if he gets a piece of the $1 Million Guaranteed prize pool that he’ll be sure to take care of his Stax Poker Lounge dealers who he considers family.
WPT Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship
Level 3: Blinds 75/150/25 ante
Entries: 142
Players are back from their first break of the day. A look at some Twitter traffic:
Lucky Hearts WPT at @STAX_Poker. 30k starting down to 12k. Byron Kaverman knows how to put chips in the pot better than most.
— Adam Levy (@Roothlus) February 7, 2014
Just regd the @STAX_Poker WPT ME – Didn’t get a very good table draw – @gostatego3 is right.
— Stewart Newman (@stnewman) February 7, 2014
Day 1a of #WPTcoconutcreek @STAX_Poker with @ChancesCards @szakheim at the table
— Darryll Fish (@DarryllFish) February 7, 2014
WPT Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship
Level 2: Blinds 75/150
Entries: 130
While the WPT Live Stream doesn’t take place until the final table, the World Poker Tour may want to set up the equipment now on Table 6.
It will take some time to compile the list of live and online accomplishments, so for now we’ll let you know that this table is stacked.
Jesse Cohen (Ardmore, PA) says “I don’t know the order, but I hope it (the table) breaks first.”
Seat-Name
1 -Open-
2 Jared Jaffee
3 Orlando Lorenzo
4 Joe McKeehen
5 Ryan Fair
6 Andy Pham
7 George Dolofan
8 Jesse Cohen
9 Eric Blair
WPT Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship
Level 1: Blinds 50/100
Entries: 114
Some of the familiar faces in the field:
Jesse Cohen
Tony Dunst
Fred Goldberg
Jared Jaffee
Byron Kaverman
Allen Kessler
Chance Kornuth
Alan Kraut
Michael Laake
Sonny Lee
Dimas Martinez
Aaron Massey
Joe McKeehen
Robert “Uncle Krunk” Panitch
David Paredes
Andy Pham
Jamie Rosen
TJ Shulman
John Spadavecchia
Michael Tait
Anthony Zinno