Championship: Play winding down

WPT Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship

Level 8: Blinds 300/600/75 ante
Entries: 183       Remaining: 108    Average Stack: ~50K (83 big blinds)

There are 108 players remaining and Jordan Cristos (Palmdale, CA) continues to lead the way with just over 200K. Scott Lushing is not too far behind with close to 190K.  They have just over two hours left to play. We’ll have end of day chip counts and who is remaining shortly after play concludes.

Event 9: Dinner Break/Chip Counts

$1,650 Six-Max Purple Chip Bounty NLH (Re-entry)

Blinds 2.5K/5K Ante 500

Players are on a one hour dinner break and will return at approximately 9:25 pm. Shortly before the break Harrison Gimbel picked up over 125K in chips off of then chip leader Victor Figueroa to take over the chip lead. Gimbel hit trip tens on the river with Ts9d and called a 65K bet from Figueroa who only had Ace high with AcKs on a Jc7c2sTdTc board. Chip counts on the dinner break are as follows:

Victor Figueroa – 416K
Chad Richard – 149K
Harrison Gimbel – 492K
Joey Weissman – 368K

Championship: Flight A with 183 Entries, Lushing Leads

WPT Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship

Level 7: Blinds 250/500/75 ante
Entries: 183

Scott Lushing
Scott Lushing

Players are back from dinner break and registration closes with 183 entries. The last player in the field is Farid Jattin (Miami) who just busted the Six-Max and immediately jumps into the Championship Event.

Scott Lushing (Sunrise) is the chip leader with 220k, while Jordan Cristos (Palmdale) is right behind at 210k.

The field will play 4 more levels before bagging and tagging just before midnight.

Jordan Cristos
Jordan Cristos

Event 9: Figueroa doubles through Weissman to take chip lead

$1,650 Six-Max Purple Chip Bounty NLH (Re-entry)

Blinds 2K/4K Ante 500

Victor Figueroa opened under the gun to 9K and was called by Chad Richard on the button. Harrison Gimbel folded out of the small blind and Joey Weissman made it 29K to go. Victor took a few seconds before announcing he was all in. Richard quickly folded and Weissman was quick to call, turned over AhJh. He was behind as Victor had AdKs. The board ran out Tc7d5c5s3h and Joey had to send over 272K in chips to Figueroa. This brought Victor up to just a bit more than 550K while Weissman dipped down to approximately 425K.

Event 9: 5th Place – Raskin

$1,650 Six-Max Purple Chip Bounty NLH (Re-entry)

Blinds 1,500/3k/500 ante

Micah Raskin
Micah Raskin (Old Westbury, NY)
$6,745

Micah Raskin is part of a three-way all-in and a double elimination that lands him in 5th place.

Farid Jattin open shoves 20k (6 bb) when chip leader Joey Weissman moves all in from the button, Raskin makes a tough decision and calls for 160k and his tournament life.

Jattin: 8d5d
Weissman: 7x7x
Raskin: AdJd

The two over cards gives Raskin a slight statistical edge over Weissman, while Jattin needs a lot of help.

Flop: Kc9c6d (Jattin gutter ball draw)

Turn: 2d (Jattin & Raskin, flush draws)

River: 5c

Weissman dodges all the outs and gets the double knockout.

Raskin finishes in 5th place for $6,745 and finishes ahead of Jattin because he started the hand with more chips.

Final Four Chip Counts

Joey Weissman 800k
Harrison Gimbel 320k
Victor Figueroa 150k
Chad Richard 95k

Event 9: 6th Place – Jattin

$1,650 Six-Max Purple Chip Bounty NLH (Re-entry)

Blinds 1,500/3k/500 ante

Farid Jattin (Miami)  $5,225
Farid Jattin (Miami)
$5,225

Farid Jattin suffers a tough beat when his set of 5s are run down by Joey Weissman who hits a set of Aces on the river for a 250k double-up.

The hand leaves Jattin short as he’s then part of a three-way all in with 8d5d  against Joey Weissman 7x7x and Micah Raskin AdJd.

Weissman’s pocket pair holds and he eliminates Raskin and Jattin.

Jattin finishes in 6th place for $5,225 because he began the hand with the fewest chips.

Event 9 Running Updates: Weissman Knocks Out Two

$1,650 Six-Max Purple Chip Bounty NLH (Re-entry)

Blinds 1,500/3k/500 ante
6 players remaining, 350k avg (117 bb)

Joey Weissman has more than half the chips in play with a double-knockout, sending Farid Jattin and Micah Raskin to the rail.

Chip Counts

Joey Weissman 800k
Harrison Gimbel 320k
Victor Figueroa 150k
Chad Richard 95k

Place  Payout

1st $32,300
2nd $18,905
3rd $12,350
4th $9,025
5th Micah Raskin (Old Westbury, NY) $6,745
6th Farid Jattin (Miami) $5,225
7th Seth Berger (Woodbury, NY) $4,180
8th D. Greg Lehn (Plantation) $3,420
9th Jake Schwartz (New York, NY) $2,850

Bubble – Ryan D’Angelo (Brooklyn, NY) $0