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
1EliGreenwood211,900
2PaulaHolder184,400
3LouisLeo IV159,300
4DimitryAgrachov155,500
5KevinSpires152,400
6Joseph Gotlieb140,000
7JorgeGomez122,900
8MohammadSiddiqui122,500
9Allan Bieler113,400
10PatrickHeneghan102,700
11MichaelKorovine102,300
12David Ring100,900
AVERAGESTACK91,600
13PaulaAlibrandi91,500
14JonahMiller88,000
15GaryLevinger82,400
16Greg Marcus78,400
17RobertZuckerman78,300
18JamesLouis72,000
19ScottBaldelli67,000
20Tom Gleason60,500
21GaryKreymer59,600
22MukulPahuja58,300
23BarbaraCardin54,400
24IanO’Hara53,500
25JohnSpadavecchia52,800
26FrankTighe51,300
27MattVetstein49,200
28Todel Arnold48,900
29IraMarcus46,300
30LeroyGrant41,500
31Zach Kessler33,700

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)

(l-r) Holder, Kessler,
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
Paula Holder

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.

Event 5: Usual Suspects

$240 Omaha H/L (Re-entry)

Limits 150/300
47 entries

Wachtel, Event 2 Winner
Wachtel, Event 2 Winner

Many of the players from the Event 2 PLO final table are back at Seminole Casino Coconut Creek, including winner Robert Wachtel (Atlanta, GA) who earned the trophy and $3,612.

Also in the field is Michael Moed (4th), Joey Prosper (5th), Greg Masterson (6th) and Ron Halperin (7th).

Registration closes at ~4:10 pm

Event 4: Recent Casualties

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-entry)

Next Blinds: 400/800/100 ante
90 players remaining, 32k avg (40 bb)

Eli Greenwood
Eli Gotta Have Hearts

“Would you please put out a different card,” says Elliott “Comrade” Zaydman when a heart hits the river to give Eli Greenwood the winning flush.

Zaydman, who finished fourth for $21,246 in Event 1, was ahead with with Ax 9x against Greenwood’s Kh Th, but his day comes to an end.

“We’ll see,” he says about taking another crack at this $100,000 Guaranteed prize pool in tonight’s 7 pm Flight B.

Also on the rail is David Jackson (Chicago, IL) who was part of the 5-way chop in Event 3 for $3,340.

Players are on the 10 minute color-up break.

Event 4: Big Stacks at 100k+

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-entry)

Blinds 300/600/75 ante
90 players remaining, 32k avg (55 bb)

Jay Romano
Jay Romano

Jay Romano (Boca Raton) is one of the early chip leaders at 132k, while Jorge Gomez (Plantation) is also on the table with 115k.

Players will finishing this level, then take a 10 minute color-up break at 3:12 pm

***3:05 pm Update***

Romano & Gomez’s table has broken

Event 4: Friendly Faces

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-entry)

250/500/50 ante
99 players remaining, 29k avg (57 bb)

Some of the familiar faces who entered today’s event:

Norman Ketchum (WSOP bracelet)*
Marsha Wolak (WSOP bracelet)
Mukul Pahuja ($1.9 million live tournament earnings)
Ari Engel ($1.4 million live tournament earnings)*
Wendy Freedman ($355,000 live tournament earnings)*
Angelo Miele (Event 1, 3rd place)*
Elliott Zaydman (Event 1, 4th place)
David Jackson (Event 3, 5-way chop)

*Eliminated