Championship Event: $3,500 NLHE (Re-entry)

Play concluded with 74 players of the original 182 entrants making it through to Day 2 on Sunday. Jordan Cristos from Palmdale, CA leads the way with 205,200. Other notables making it through include Matt Waxman, Mukul Pahuja, Robert Panitch, Andy Philacheck, Jared Jaffee, Michael Laake, Athanasios Polychronopoulos, Tony Dunst, Justin Laki, Anthony Zinno, Ebony Kenney, Shannon Shorr, and Allen Kessler. Full chip counts can be found below:

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

Blinds 3K/6K Ante 1K

It’s still very even between the three remaining players. Joey Weissman holds the chip lead with 531K. Harrison Gimbel has 454K and Victor Figueroa has 440K. It’s definitely anyone’s game at the present time. They’ll be coming back to blinds of 4K/8K with a 1K ante.

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

Blinds 3K/6K Ante 1K

Harrison Gimbel opened from the small blind to 15K and was called by Joey Weissman out of the big blind. The flop came and a betting war ensued. First Harrison led out for 14K. That was raised by Joey to 32K. Gimbel popped it to 58K which led to another raise from Joey, this time to 86K. Harrison thought for a moment and announced he was all in and was quickly called by Weissman. Gimbel held for top pair with a weak kicker – he was behind by a wide margin as Joey had 8d] for top two pair. The turn and river came and Weissman doubles to 550K while Gimbel falls to 450K. Victor Figueroa is not far behind at 425K.

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

Blinds 3K/6K Ante 1K

We’ve finally lost a person as Chad Eveslage 4 bet shoved against Harrison Gimbel and was dominated when his King-Jack was up against Harrison’s King-Queen. Gimbel’s hand held up and Chad is our 4th place finisher.

Event 9:  $1,650 Six-Max Purple Chip Bounty NLH (Re-entry)

Play is very deliberate. Most hands are taking upwards of 2-3 minutes as the remaining four think through every decision. Approximate chip counts as they play blinds of 3K/6K with a 1K ante are Harrison Gimbel with 550K, Victor Figueroa with 375K, Joey Weissman with 375K and Chad Richard is the short stack with 125K (still over 20 big blinds though).

Championship Event: $3,500 NLHE (Re-entry)

They are under 100 players as they play Level 9. Play will end at the completion of Level 10, which is less than 90 minutes from now. Jordan Cristos continues to lead with 240K but Matt Waxman is nipping at his heels as he has chipped up to 170K.

Event 11: $200 Double Green Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em (Re-entry)

We’re down to 7 in this event playing at blinds of 400/800 with a 100 ante. Jason Bartholomew, winner of Event 1, is among the players still in the running.

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

Blinds 2.5K/5K Ante 500

There isn’t much to report at the present time. The chip stacks are remaining stagnant as they are playing with deep stacks and there haven’t been any big all in confrontations. Action is either typically raise and everyone else folds or raise, 3 bet, fold. We’ll have updated chip stacks on their next break.

$200 Double Green Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em (Re-entry)

We’re down to 10 players in Event 11 but despite being at the final table, there is still a ways to go before they are in the money. There was 30 total entries creating a prize pool of $3,600. Three will get paid with 1st receiving $1,800, 2nd getting $1,080 and 3rd taking home $720.

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.

WPT Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship

Level 8: Blinds 300/600/75 ante
117 players remaining, 47k avg (78 bb)

$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 and called a 65K bet from Figueroa who only had Ace high with on a board. Chip counts on the dinner break are as follows:

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