$130 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack (Re-Entry)
Level 21: 10,000/20,000/2,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 10/302

Barry Sisselman has a comfortable edge over the field in tonight’s 6pm $130 deep stack. With 10 remaining, he holds 1,500,000 of the 4,832,000 chips in play. If he’s to hang on for the title, he’ll have to make his way through Rob Brown (who’s in the midst of his second final table appearance today) and others.

Here’s a look at the seating assignments with chip counts followed by the remaining payouts:

Seat 1: Blaine McRae – 534,000
Seat 2: Mark Nahama – 560,000
Seat 3: Aaron Klausman – 340,000
Seat 4: Rob Brown – 428,000
Seat 5: Barry Sisselman – 1,500,000
Seat 6: Jeff Burdeen 375,000
Seat 7: Edgardo Rosario – 476,000
Seat 8: Alfred Cotton – 292,000
Seat 9: Adam Romer – 154,000
Seat 10: Paul Oken – 112,000

1st – $8,149
2nd – $4,832
3rd – $3,171
4th – $2,190
5th – $1,616
6th – $1,284
7th – $982
8th – $710
9th – $513

Play is moving fast and the next update will be provided once a winner has been crowned.

$130 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack (Re-Entry)
Level 19: 6,000/12,000/1,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 17/302

Blaine McRae of Fort Lauderdale leads the final 18 players with a stack of 635,000. That figure puts him more than double average which is currently 268,444 good for 22 big blinds.

Play is moving fast and the 10-handed final table is rapidly approaching.

Here’s another round of tournament eliminations:

18th: Chris Lee – $272
19th: Albert Barney – $227
20th: Anthony Bianculli – $227
21st: Thomas Millward – $227
22nd: Scott Rubin – $227
23rd: Nancy Birnbaum – $227
24th: Scott Loiselle – $227
25th: Bienvenido Santiago – $227
26th: Tracy White – $227
27th: Edward Medoff – $227

Additional results are available in the posts below.

$130 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack (Re-Entry)
Level 18: 5,000/10,000/1,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 27/302

28th: Steven Moreno – $196
29th: David McCord – $196
30th: Paul Humphrey – $196
31st: Stephen Greenstein – $196
32nd: Lewis Lurie – $196
33rd: Nicholas Bazos – $196
34th: Richard Coppola – $196
35th: Robert Williams – $196
36th: Robert Kessler – $196

$130 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack (Re-Entry)
Level 16: 3,000/6,000/500 Ante
Players Remaining: 36/302

Hand-for-hand play wasn’t necessary as a few rapid bustouts midway through Level 16 left the field at the final 36 players. Each remaining is assured $196 with the tournament’s champion pocketing $8,149. Complete payouts are available one post below.

Nancy Birnbaum of nearby Fort Lauderdale is one of the more accomplished players still remaining. Birnbaum owns three World Series of Poker Circuit gold rings and more than $620,000 in reported tournament earnings. She’s in good shape in Coco Poker Open Event 2 with a pile of orange 1,000 chips and a stack of gray 5,000’s good for an above holdings.

$130 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack (Re-Entry)
Level 15: 2,500/5,000/500 Ante
Players Remaining: 54/302

After a slight delay, the prize pool has been finalized in tonight’s 6pm $130 deep stack. The event drew a field of 302 entries just creeping over the $30,000 guarantee before topping the prize pool out at $30,200. The top 36 players finish in the money with the 36th-place finisher earning $196. Payouts increase from there and climax in the form of an $8,149 first prize.

Full payouts:

Event #2
$130 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack
Entries: 302
Prize Pool: $30,200
September 21, 2016

Level 15 is freshly underway and the clock shows 54 players remaining.

2016 Coco Poker Open
Seminole Casino Coconut Creek
Coconut Creek, FL
Event #1
$240 Omaha Hi/Low
Entries: 61
Prize Pool: $12,400
September 21, 2016

South Florida regular adds to long track record of Omaha hi/low success.

Claudangelo Beaudouin kicked off the 2016 Coco Poker Open in style Wednesday night winning the series opening event, a $240 Omaha hi/low tournament. Beaudouin dominated nearly every stage of the tournament, masterfully made his way through its 62-entry field and nabbed a $3,100 top prize following a five-way chop.

The impressive performance didn’t come as all that much of a surprise for Beaudouin. His victory Monday night marked his second Omaha hi/low final table appearance at Seminole Casino Coconut Creek this year. His first came in the form of a runner-up finish during January’s Coco Poker Showdown. That tournament was won by eventual Seminole Hard Rock Poker Player of the Year David Prociak. Additionally, Beaudouin won this very event in 2014.

Event 1 began at 12pm and marked the first of 15 primary events during the Coco Poker Open. The series runs through October 2 with the $1,000,000 guaranteed Championship headlining the schedule beginning this Friday, September 23. In addition to a six-figure prize, the winner of that event earns an added seat into next year’s $5,250 buy-in Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship as well as a bundle of points toward the new SHRP Player of the Year race.

Assuming he pulls up a chair, Beaudouin will take a head of steam into the Championship coming off runner-up and two 1st-place finishes in the last two year Seminole Casino Coconut Creek series.

Event 1 final results:

1st: Claudangelo Beaudouin – $3,100
2nd: Mark Belzer – $1,950
3rd: Brian Gelrod – $1,950
4th: David Fleischer – $1,950
5th: Daniel Genachte – $1,218
6th: Aaron Kupin – $744
7th: “Detroit” Al Green – $620
8th: Robert Brown – $496
9th: Brandon Berkenfeld – $372

$240 Omaha High/Low (Re-Entry)
Level 18: 8,000/16,000 Limits
Players Remaining: 6/62

Shortly after the elimination of Aaron Kupin in 6th place, the remaining five players agreed to a chop. Chip leader Claudangelo Beaudouin went home with $3,100 and the title while Mark Belzer, David Fleischer and Brian Gelrod earned $1,950. Short stack Genachte Daniel, meanwhile, pocketed $1,218.

A brief report will be posted shortly.

8th: Robert Brown – $496
9th: Brandon Berkenfeld – $372

$240 Omaha High/Low (Re-Entry)
Level 17: 6,000/12,000 Limits
Players Remaining: 7/62

It took about 90 minutes of play before Iliad Belkin was eliminated in 10th place bursting the bubble and sending the remaining nine players into the money. From there, Brandon Berkenfeld finished 9th for $372 and Robert Brown finished 8th for $496.

With seven players remaining, Claudangelo Beaudouin leads with about 235,000 chips.

$130 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack (Re-Entry)
Level 6: 300/600/75 Ante
Entries: 244

Late registration and unlimited re-entry are available until the start of Level 10 (~9:15pm)  in tonight’s 6pm $130 Deep Stack. As of now, the field sits at 244 entries with 300 needed to make the $30,000 guarantee.

Event 2 Structure Sheet