Event 5: Three Tables Left
$240 Omaha H/L (Re-entry)
Blinds 250/500 Limits 500/1,000
We are down to three tables – 27 players in the Omaha High Low tournament. Only five will get paid so there is still quite a bit of play left before we get to that point. The average stack is just over 14K.
Tweetville
Lucky Hearts Poker Open
Making a run at it @STAX_Poker
— Dolline Willis (@dolline_willis) February 4, 2014
Bagged a measly 34k @STAX_Poker $350/100k. Back tomorrow to 3kbb… yeah. #LFG
— Redlocks (@zachtax) February 4, 2014
Shanked around for a while, managed to bag 122k in @STAX_Poker 350/100k
— Sheddy♣♦ (@Sheddy88) February 3, 2014
My boy Conley Howard doing big thinks right now #poker #luckyheartsopen @STAX_Poker winning a seat into the million pic.twitter.com/XUI8IWFbIn
— WadeMatt (@jimmywadematt) February 3, 2014
Event 4 Day 1B: Underway
$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-entry)
The second flight of Event 4 of the 2014 Lucky Hearts Poker Open is underway at the Pavilion at Seminole Hard Rock in Coconut Creek. This is a $350 No Limit Hold ‘Em tournament consisting of two starting flights and a $100,000 Guaranteed Prize pool. Players start with 20,000 in chips and levels are 30 minutes long. Players can register/re-enter for the first four levels (the cage will close at approximately 9:10 pm for this flight). Day 2 will get underway Tuesday a 1 pm. Just a reminder to players that play and registration is in the Pavilion today, not the STAX Poker Lounge. The Pavilion is located between the 1st Street Deli and the Box Office. The Box Office is where registration will take place.
There are 113 registered entrants thus far as we have just started Level 2.
Event 4: Flight A Chip Counts
$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-entry)
Play Resumes 1 pm Tues
Next Blinds: 1,500/3,000/300 ante
31 players remaining, 92k avg (31 bb)
Position | Name | Chip Count |
1 | Eli | Greenwood | 211,900 |
2 | Paula | Holder | 184,400 |
3 | Louis | Leo IV | 159,300 |
4 | Dimitry | Agrachov | 155,500 |
5 | Kevin | Spires | 152,400 |
6 | Joseph | Gotlieb | 140,000 |
7 | Jorge | Gomez | 122,900 |
8 | Mohammad | Siddiqui | 122,500 |
9 | Allan | Bieler | 113,400 |
10 | Patrick | Heneghan | 102,700 |
11 | Michael | Korovine | 102,300 |
12 | David | Ring | 100,900 |
AVERAGE | STACK | 91,600 | |
13 | Paula | Alibrandi | 91,500 |
14 | Jonah | Miller | 88,000 |
15 | Gary | Levinger | 82,400 |
16 | Greg | Marcus | 78,400 |
17 | Robert | Zuckerman | 78,300 |
18 | James | Louis | 72,000 |
19 | Scott | Baldelli | 67,000 |
20 | Tom | Gleason | 60,500 |
21 | Gary | Kreymer | 59,600 |
22 | Mukul | Pahuja | 58,300 |
23 | Barbara | Cardin | 54,400 |
24 | Ian | O’Hara | 53,500 |
25 | John | Spadavecchia | 52,800 |
26 | Frank | Tighe | 51,300 |
27 | Matt | Vetstein | 49,200 |
28 | Todel | Arnold | 48,900 |
29 | Ira | Marcus | 46,300 |
30 | Leroy | Grant | 41,500 |
31 | Zach | Kessler | 33,700 |
Event 4: Three More Hands
$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-entry)
34 players remaining
Blinds 1,200/2,400/300 ante
The field is playing three more hands before it bags for the night.
Here’s the Flight A photo gallery:
Event 5: Payouts
$240 Omaha H/L (Re-entry)
Entries: 48
Prize Pool: $10,000
Place | Payout |
1st | $4,000 |
2nd | $2,500 |
3rd | $1,600 |
4th | $1,100 |
5th | $800 |
Event 5: Lower 48
$240 Omaha H/L (Re-entry)
48 Entries
Registration is closed as the field chases the $10,000 prize pool.
A look at some of the faces in the field:
Event 4: Hairy Situation
$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-entry)
Blinds 1k/2k/200 ante
38 players remaining, 75k avg (37 bb)

Alibrandi & Wolak
Zach “Red Locks” Kessler (Boca Raton) is all in for a starting stack of 20k and breaths a sigh of relief when there aren’t any callers.
Kessler is smack dab in the middle of three woman and all four are having a good time.
“It’s gotta be the lighting,” says Kessler after being admonished for wondering which of the four as the best red hair.
“It better not be red,” says Marsha Wolak (Fort Lauderdale), “or I’m going back to the salon for a refund.”
The other “red heads” include Paula Alibrandi (Miramar) and Paula Holder (Pompano Beach).
Event 4: Holder Holding Lots of Chips
$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-entry)
Blinds 800/1,600/200 ante
45 players remaining, 63k avg (39 bb)

Paula Holder (Pompano Beach) is now the chip leader and up to 200k (125k), more than three times the chip average.
Previous chip leader Jay Romano (Boca Raton) has hit the rail.
Play continues through Level 14 with bag and tag set for ~6:30 pm.