$350 No Limit Hold’em Level 11: 1,000/2,000/200 Ante Players Remaining: 12/51
Registration in the first of eight starting flights in Event 6 of the Coco Poker Showdown is closed. The opener, expected to be the smallest of the start days, drew an intimate field of 51 entries. They’ll play down to the final five before bagging and tagging set to return for Day 2 Saturday at noon.
One of the notable faces still in action belongs to Joseph Patalano. Patalano bagged a miniature, 2,000-chip stack in Flight A of the $100,000 guaranteed opener. While it didn’t seem like much at the time, it prepped him to earn the bonus payout after bagging the following day’s Flight D as well. Patalano is back at it here in Flight A of Event 6 and hopes to repeat the same feat.
Gracing the table right next door is Event 1 winner David Albertson.
Joseph Patalano (Wellington, Fla.)David Albertson (Coral Springs, Fla.)
Seminole Casino Coconut Creek Coconut Creek, Fla. 2016 Coco Poker Showdown Event #5 $130 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack Entries: 340 Prize Pool: $34,000 January 25, 2016
Event 5 winner, Jorge Rivera (Hollywood, Fla.)
Hollywood’s Jorge Rivera Wins Coco Poker Showdown Deep Stack Event
Coconut Creek, Fla. (January 26, 2016) — The 2016 Coco Poker Showdown schedule features three headline events — the $130, $100,000 guaranteed opener, the $350, $250,000 guaranteed Event 6, and the $1,100, $100,000 guaranteed Main Event. In addition, there was one sleeper in the lineup — yesterday’s Event 5, a $130 no limit hold’em deep stack tournament with a $25,000 guarantee. Nobody knew quite what the reception would be, but when Level 9 expired and registration closed late Monday, the final tally was one everyone was pleased with.
With 340 players, the prize pool bested the guarantee handily before topping out at $34,000. The tremendous field paid the top 36 players and saw its champion, Jorge Rivera, walk with a top prize of nearly $5,000 following a six-way chop.
Surprisingly, the monster field played down to the final table in just about eight hours. Albert Barney held the chip lead as the only player over 1,000,000, but Rivera sat second. Over the course of the next 60 minutes, the field trimmed itself to just six remaining and Rivera’s stack grew to more than 1,400,000. After some deliberation, all six agreed to an ICM chop with a few minor tweaks. Rivera and his chip lead took the tournament’s top spot and earned a $4,910 payday while Barney went down second and scored $4,515.
Rivera is a 38-year-old security director from nearby Hollywood. The win marks his ninth career tournament cash and second victory. His previous title came in a $125 all in or fold tournament at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino.
Joining him in the money in Event 5 were Event 3 runner up Allan Dungo (4th, $3,975), Event 1 Day 2 chip leader Wanlop Phonphornwithoon (9th, $578) and Kevin Chan (12th, $442) who’s in the hunt for the top spot on the points leaderboard.
Event 5 final results:
1st: Jorge Rivera – $4,910 2nd: Albert Barney – $4,515 3rd: Paul Kern – $4,295 4th: Allan Dungo – $3,975 5th: Albert Efremoff – $3,954 6th: Joe Gale – $2,270 7th: Jeff Morrison – $1,105 8th: Ronald Campillo – $799 9th: Wanlop Phonphornwithoon – $578 10th: Bernard Cohen – $442 11th: Luke McIntosh – $442 12th: Kevin Chan – $442 13th: Christian Donahue – $357 14th: Thomas Millward – $357 15th: Nalton Williams – $357 16th: John Amrhein – $306 17th: Vito Polera – $306 18th: Eric Sabido – $306 19th: Diego Mannone – $255 20th: Leonid Goldshteyn – $255 21st: Oscar Rodriguez – $255 22nd: Leroy Jones, Jr. – $255 23rd: David Goldfischer – $255 24th: Jonathan Marks – $255 25th: Oliver Bronfenmajer – $255 26th: Paul Steiner – $255 27th: Jean Chery – $255 28th: Robyn Marshman – $221 29th: John Freidkes – $221 30th: Benjamin Robinson – $221 31st: Seth Gilson – $221 32nd: Carlos Loving – $221 33rd: Scot Hartman – $221 34th: Alex Cohen – $221 35th: Alan Dobrow – $221 36th: Matthew Winslow – $221
The opening flight of Event 6 of the Coco Poker Showdown, a $350 no limit hold’em tournament with a $250,000 guarantee, is off and running. Players begin the tournament — one of the series’ premiere events — with 12,000 chips and will play 20-minute levels throughout Day 1. Late registration/unlimited re-entry is available until the start of Level 10.
$130 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack Level 24: 20,000/40,000/5,000 Ante Players Remaining: 1/340
The Event 5 final table players returned from break and promptly made a six-way deal. After seeing the ICM values, they did some wheeling and dealing of their own. In the end, chip leader Jorge Rivera of Hollywood, Fla. took the tournament’s top spot and earned a $4,996 prize.
A full report will be posted in the morning. In the meantime, here’s a look at the final table results:
1st: Jorge Rivera – $4,910 2nd: Albert Barney – $4,515 3rd: Paul Kern – $4,295 4th: Allan Dungo – $3,975 5th: Albert Efremoff – $3,953 6th: Joe Gale – $2,270 7th: Jeff Morrison – $1,105 8th: Ronald Campillo – $799 9th: Wanlop Phonphornwithoon – $578
Additional results are available in the posts below.
$130 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack Level 21: 10,000/20,000/2,000 Ante Players Remaining: 10/340
From 340 starting, this evening’s $130 no limit hold’em big stack tournament is down to 10 and combined to the unofficial final table. Albert Barney of Avoca, Pa. leads the way comfortably with 1,400,000 of the 5,440,000 chips in play. The next closest stack belongs to Jorge Rivera who claims 805,000.
Each of the remaining 10 players have locked up $442 with the winner earning $9,180.
Seating assignments and chip counts:
Seat 1: Albert Barney – 1,400,000 Seat 2: Allan Dungo – 430,000 Seat 3: Joe Gale – 490,000 Seat 4: Ronald A. Campillo – 354,000 Seat 5: Albert Efremoff – 332,000 Seat 6: Jeff Morrison – 285,000 Seat 7: Bernie Cohen – 278,000 Seat 8: Wonlop Phonphornwithoon – 349,000 Seat 9: Jorge Rivera – 805,000 Seat 10: Paul Kern – 714,000
$130 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack Level 20: 8,000/16,000/2,000 Ante Players Remaining: 18/340
Level 20 is freshly underway and Event 5 is down to the final 18 players. Those still alive include Event 1 fifth-place finisher Kevin Chan, Event 1 Day 2 chip leader Wanlop Phonphornwithoon, bubble burster Joe Gale and Rocco Vito who final tabled today’s noon event before finishing 7th.
Here’s a look at the results to this point:
19th: Diego Mannone – $255 20th: Leonid Goldshteyn – $255 21st: Oscar Rodriguez – $255 22nd: Leroy Jones, Jr. – $255 23rd: David Goldfischer – $255 24th: Jonathan Marks – $255 25th: Oliver Bronfenmajer – $255 26th: Paul Steiner – $255 27th: Jean Chery – $255 28th: Robyn Marshman – $221 29th: John Freidkes – $221 30th: Benjamin Robinson – $221 31st: Seth Gilson – $221 32nd: Carlos Loving – $221 33rd: Scot Hartman – $221 34th: Alex Cohen – $221 35th: Alan Dobrow – $221 36th: Matthew Winslow – $221
$130 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack Level 17: 4,000/8,000/500 Ante Players Remaining: 36/340
Joe Gale’s pocket tens bust Abbey Daniels’ ace-king
With 37 players remaining and only the top 36 finishing in the money, Abbey Daniels raised. Joe Gale moved all in and Daniels called off her remaining stack.
Gale: Daniels:
The board ran out dry and Gale’s tens burst the money bubble. All remaining players have now locked up at least $221 with the tournament’s winner pocketing $9,180.
In addition to scoring the knockout, Gale earned a pot that put him among the chip leaders. He now holds about 300,000.
Registration in the first of eight starting flights in Event 6 of the Coco Poker Showdown is closed. The opener, expected to be the smallest of the start days, drew an intimate field of 51 entries. They’ll play down to the final five before bagging and tagging set to return for Day 2 Saturday at noon.
