Event 8: Color Up Break/Chip Counts

$300 Seniors (50+) No Limit Hold’em

Blinds 1.5K/3K Ante 500

The remaining 7 players are on a quick 5 minute color up the black 100 chips break. Here is how they are sitting with approximate chip counts:

NameChip Count
Grady Yeager125K
Albert Balayn40K
Bob Chow120K
Bob Vicars50K
Harry Eisenberg100K
Jim Deleo160K
Tim Kegel40K

Event 8: 8th Place, Ted "Papa Bear" Transue – $767

$300 Seniors (50+) No Limit Hold’em

Blinds 1.2K/2.4K Ante 400

With the flop showing 8-7-4, Harry Eisenberg made a bet and Ted Transue moved all in over the top. Eisenberg snap called with pocket Kings that was well ahead of the Ace-7 that Ted held. The turn and river were no help for “Papa Bear” and he is our 8th place finisher.

Papa Bear Ted Transue
Papa Bear Ted Transue

Event 8: 9th Place, Julio Fernandez – $639

$300 Seniors (50+) No Limit Hold’em

Blinds 1.2K/2.4K Ante 400

Julio Fernandez limped in early position and it was folded to Grady Yeager who made it 10K to go. Fernandez moved all in for slightly less than 30K and Grady made the call with QcTc. Fernandez had AsKd. Fernandez was looking good on the 9d8h5s flop but the Qh on the turn changed that. The river was the 5c and Julio is our first player eliminated, finishing in 9th place.

Julio Fernandez
Julio Fernandez

Event 8: Final Nine

$300 Seniors (50+) No Limit Hold’em

Blinds 1K/2K Ante 300

Marty Gorenc was eliminated in 12th place when his Qd6d could not out draw Harry Eisenberg’s pocket Jacks. Luis Santoni was eliminated in 11th place when his pocket 10’s lost to the Ad3s of Ted Transue when an Ace flopped. They merged to one final table of ten and a short stacked Robert Zuckerman was quickly knocked out to give us our final nine.

 

SeatNameChip Count
1Grady Yeager87K
2Albert Balayn95K
3Bob Chow50K
4Bob Vicars65K
5Harry Eisenberg70K
6Julio Fernandez35K
7Ted “Papa Bear” Transue80K
8Jim Deleo130K
9Tim Kegel30K

 

Event 8: Chip Counts

$300 Seniors (50+) No Limit Hold’em

Blinds 1K/2K Ante 300

They have returned from dinner break. Here is how our final 12 look.

 

TableSeatNameChip Count
183Albert Balayn111K
184Bob Vicars41K
185Tim Kegel40K
186Bob Chow55K
188Grady Yeager74K
189Julio Fernandez51K
172Ted “Papa Bear” Transue64K
173Luis Santoni22K
174Robert Zuckerman20K
175Jim Deleo118K
176Marty Gorenc22K
177Harry Eisenberg46K

Event 8: 12 Remain

$300 Seniors (50+) No Limit Hold’em

There are 12 players left in the Seniors NLHE event and they have approximately 15 minutes remaining on their dinner break. We’ll have an updated list of who is left and their approximate chip counts shortly after play resumes. They are 3 away from the money.

Event 8: Prize Pool and Payout Information

$300 Seniors (50+) No Limit Hold’em

There was a total of 82 registered entrants creating a prize pool of $21,320, easily surpassing the $15,000 Guarantee. 9 players will get paid with 1st place taking home $7,250. Full payouts are below:

PlaceWinnings
1st$7,250.00
2nd$4,245.00
3rd$2,771.00
4th$2,025.00
5th$1,513.00
6th$1,172.00
7th$938.00
8th$767.00
9th$639.00

 

Event 6 Winner – Berger

$1,100 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-entry)

Blinds 2k/4k/500 ante

Seth Berger (Woodbury, New York)  $26,520
Seth Berger (Woodbury, New York)
$26,520

After taking the chip lead, Seth Berger grinds down Vlad Varlashin to 140k (35 bb) before the final hand.

Berger: Ad8s
Varlashin: KcQs

Flop: Jd8h4c (Berger, pair of 8s]

Turn: Tc (Varlashin OE)

River: 4s

Berger dodges 14 outs and wins the tournament with a pair of 8s.

“I’m happy to get a win,” says Berger, “I’ve chopped before, but this is my first outright win.”

Berger, who had a second and third place finish at the 2013 WSOP for $620,000, picks up the Lucky Hearts Poker Open trophy and $26,520 for the win.