$240 Omaha 8/Stud 8
Level 1: 50/100 Limits
It’s noon in South Florida and the first non-hold’em event of the #CocoPokerShowdown is officially underway. Event 4, a $240 buy-in Omaha 8/stud 8 tournament with a $10,000 guarantee, features 10,000-chip starting stacks and 20-minute levels. Late registration/unlimited re-entry is available until the start of Level 10. This event is expected to play out in one day.
Good luck, players!
The weekend is behind us and it’s on to Monday at the #CocoPokerShowdown. Here’s a look at the complete Day 5 schedule:
12PM: Event 4 – $240 Omaha 8/Stud 8
6PM: Event 5 – $130 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack
Day 4 of the Coco Poker Showdown at Seminole Casino Coconut Creek has come to a close. Here’s a look at the upcoming schedule for Monday, January 25:
Goodnight and see you in the morning!
Seminole Casino Coconut Creek
Coconut Creek, Fla.
2016 Coco Poker Showdown
Event #3
$80 No Limit Hold’em
Entries: 82
Prize Pool: $5,000
January 24, 2016
Coconut Creek, Fla. (January 25, 2016) — Lou Stadler is the most recent champion of the Coco Poker Showdown. Stadler won Event 3 of the nine-tournament series late Sunday night at Seminole Casino Coconut Creek. An $80 no limit hold’em tournament, Event 3 drew a field of 82 players and yielded a $5,000 prize pool. Stadler’s victory came following a three-way chop. He held the chip lead and went home with $1,329 while Allan Dungo and Gloria Anez earned $1,161 and $909.
“It feels great to actually win something, even if it’s just a small event,” Stadler said. “I’m very, very happy and very honored to be a part of this series and to take one of these down.”
Stadler is 39 years old and resides in Miami. In 1998, he founded the Miami Poker Society, a laid-back bar league aimed at providing a comfortable and fun atmosphere for both new and experienced players. Event 3 marked Stadler’s second career victory and pushed him to over $52,000 in career earnings.
Final results:
1st: Lou Stadler – $1,329
2nd: Allan Dungo – $1,161
3rd: Gloria Anez – $909
4th: Willy Baptiste – $450
5th: Mark Bernstein – $350
6th: Luis Guarda – $275
7th: Iraj Fariab – $225
8th: Jose Miguel Cabrera – $175
9th: Jim Newcomb – $125
$80 No Limit Hold’em
Level 16: 3,000/6,000/500 Ante
Players Remaining: 1/82
Lou Stadler, Allan Dungo and Gloria Anez chopped Event 3 of the Coco Poker Showdown three ways. Stadler held the chip lead and scored $1,329 while Dungo and Anez earned $1,161 and $909 respectively.
A full report on the tournament will be posted shortly. In the meantime, here’s a look at its final results:
1st: Lou Stadler – $1,329
2nd: Allan Dungo – $1,161
3rd: Gloria Anez – $909
4th: Willy Baptiste – $450
5th: Mark Bernstein – $350
6th: Luis Guarda – $275
7th: Iraj Fariab – $225
8th: Jose Miguel Cabrera – $175
9th: Jim Newcomb – $125
$80 No Limit Hold’em
Level 13: 1,500/3,000/200 Ante
Players Remaining: 10/82
Event 3, this evening’s 6 p.m. $80 no limit hold’em tournament, drew 82 players. The prize pool matched the $5,000 guarantee and pays the official, nine-handed final table. The 9th-place finisher earns $125 while the tournament’s champion pockets $1,750.
Full prize structure:
Following just over four hours of play, the field is down to the last 10 players and combined to one table. Willie Baptiste leads the action, but it’s Jim Newcomb who headlines it. After finishing runner up in Event 2 just a few hours ago, Newcomb is back at it in Event 3 and among the final 10 participants. He holds 43,100 chips, about half that of Baptiste’s 110,500 stack.
Seating assignments and chip counts:
Seat 1: Gloria Anez – 52,000
Seat 2: Willie Baptiste – 110,500
Seat 3: Mark Bernstein – 95,600
Seat 4: Robin Resnick – 64,700
Seat 5: Iraj Fariab – 74,200
Seat 6: Jose Cabrera – 65,000
Seat 7: Lou Stadler – 50,900
Seat 8: Jim Newcomb – 43,100
Seat 9: Allan Dungo – 78,400
Seat 10: Luis Garda – 20,300
We will update you again when we have a winner.
Seminole Casino Coconut Creek
Coconut Creek, Fla.
2016 Coco Poker Showdown
Event #1
$130 No Limit Hold’em
Entries: 1,156
Prize Pool: $115,600
January 21-24, 2016
Coconut Creek, Fla. (January 24, 2016) — Event 1 of the 2016 Coco Poker Showdown at Seminole Casino Coconut Creek concluded Sunday night in the newly-opened, first-level poker room. The first of nine events on the series schedule, Event 1, a $130 no limit hold’em tournament, drew a stout field of 1,156 entries. The opener boasted a $100,000 guarantee that was bested during the early stages of the sixth and final starting flight. In the end, the prize pool topped out at $115,600.
Following four days and more than 55 hours of play, David Albertson of Margate, Fla. emerged victorious in a three-way chop. Albertson owned nearly 9,000,000 of the 11,560,000 chips in play three handed. He took the lion’s share of the prize pool while Charlie Overstreet and Eric Riley split the remainder evenly. The deal saw Albertson score $25,225 while Overstreet and Riley earned $14,423 apiece.
Albertson is a 55-year-old contractor. He described himself as a local player who plays all the tournament series at Coconut Creek as well as those at the nearby Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Hollywood. The win marks his third career tournament victory, 39th cash and pushes him to nearly $130,000 in career earnings.
The Coco Poker Showdown runs daily between now and Sunday, January 31. In addition to Event 1, the 11-day series features two other premiere events. The first, a $350 buy-in $250,000 guaranteed no limit hold’em tournament with eight starting flights, begins this Tuesday. The second, the $1,100 buy-in $100,000 guaranteed Championship, kicks off next Saturday.
The complete series schedule and all structure sheets are available under the “Schedule and Structures” tab above.
Event 1 final results:
1st: David Albertson – $25,225
2nd: Charlie Overstreet – $14,423
3rd: Eric Riley – $14,423
4th: Ryan Anderson – $7,283
5th: Kevin Chan – $5,029
6th: Ken Braddock – $3,873
7th: Oneil McCalla – $2,948
8th: Scott Dibenedetto – $2,162
9th: Marc Sacheli – $1,549
10th: Miguel Martinez – $1,110
11th: Bobby Bradley – $1,110
12th: Eric Sabido – $1,110
13th: Tim Kegel – $867
14th: Allan Dungo – $867
15th: Alan Slakman – $867
16th: Jason Talbot – $728
17th: Alfredo Guevara – $728
18th: Joe Marchese – $728
19th: Allan Kruger – $613
20th: Peter Bejusca – $613
21st: Elliott Zaydman – $613
22nd: Karl Lind – $613
23rd: Jason Casten – $613
24th: Trent Trimble – $613
25th: Opal Whitley – $613
26th: David Richard – $613
27th: Chad Graber – $613
28th: Jason Gooch – $520
29th: Paul Shafran – $520
30th: Joaquin Sosa – $520
31st: Demetrius Givens – $520
32nd: Kaitlin Sims – $520
33rd: Joshua Dichkewich – $520
34th: Charbel El Beyrouti – $520
35th: Dolline Willis – $520
36th: Aris Gomez Lopez – $520
37th: Ronaldo Da Costa Filho – $439
38th: Andrew Baars – $439
39th: Robert Aron – $439
40th: Richard Hutchings – $439
41st: Roger Delgaiso – $439
42nd: Adam Barclay – $439
43rd: Jerrold Solov – $439
44th: Morris Heider – $439
45th: Joseph Patalano – $439
46th: Benjamin Brown – $381
47th: Ismael Delgado – $381
48th: Jonathan Levy – $381
49th: Daniel Ortiz – $381
51st: Jimmy John Sandoval – $381
52nd: Steven Frankel – $381
53rd: Steven Rabb – $381
54th: Pedro Palacio – $381
55th: Wanlop Phonphornwithoon – $335
56th: Thomas Hoffman – $335
57th: Barry Clarke – $335
58th: Amir Baron – $335
59th: Nancy Todd – $335
60th: Ilan Hadida – $335
61st: Manuel Soltero Luna – $335
62nd: Lawrence Paden, Sr. – $335
63rd: Courtney Rowe – $335
64th: Denis Cyr – $301
65th: Zoltan Czinkota – $301
66th: Craig Bagon – $301
67th: Paul Nelson – $301
68th: Mor Hadir – $301
69th: Erin Steinberg – $301
70th: Gloria Anez – $301
71st: David Shaw – $301
72nd: Rayden Abreu – $301
73rd: George Duffield – $266
74th: Stephen Greenstein – $266
75th: Isagani Sabino – $266
76th: Joseph Yselonia – $266
77th: William Brooks – $266
78th: Irwin Block – $266
79th: Donovan Walker, Jr. – $266
80th: Edgard Mendes – $266
81st: Eric Rivkin – $266
82nd: Chad Bleznick – $231
83rd: Alex Cohen – $231
84th: Mark Gaudino – $231
85th: olesya Watchorn – $231
86th: Danit Dayan – $231
87th: Marco Chan – $231
88th: Gili Prizament – $231
89th: Lerory Grant – $231
90th: Richard Newton – $231
91st: Paul Balzano – $208
92nd: Arthur Dipofi – $208
93rd: Antonio De Araujo – $208
94th: Stuart Greenbaum – $208
95th: Ishaq Kundawala – $208
96th: Frederick Hall – $208
97th: Charles Dack – $208
98th: Kirk Toney – $208
99th: David Gelley – $208
100th: Victor Golan – $185
101st: Steven Olek – $185
102nd: Arlene Vazquez – $185
103rd: Charles Marik – $185
104th: Joe Patalano – $185 (Multi-stack payout)
$130 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 29: 60,000/120,000/20,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 1/1,156
After Ryan Anderson busted fourth, the remaining three players in Event 1 of the Coco Poker Showdown came to an agreement and chopped the series opener. At the time, David Albertson held nearly 9,000,000 of the 11,560,000 chips in play. He took $2,000 off of first and divided it among Charlie Overstreet and Eric Riley. The final line saw Albertson pocket $25,225 while Overstreet and Riley went home with $14,423.
A full report on the tournament will be available shortly.
Addition final table eliminations:
7th: Oneil McCalla – $2,948
8th: Scott Dibenedetto – $2,162
9th: Marc Sacheli – $1,549
10th: Miguel Martinez – $1,110
$130 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 26: 30,000/60,000/10,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 7/1,156
Action has been fast to start with three players hitting the rail during the first 20 minutes of final table play. The remaining seven are back in their seats following break with Ryan Anderson retaining his chip lead.
Seven-handed chip counts:
Seat 1: Oneil McCalla – 830,000
Seat 2: Kevin Chan – 965,000
Seat 3: Ken Braddock – 1,650,000
Seat 4: Eric Riley – 2,140,000
Seat 5: Ryan Anderson – 3,080,000
Seat 6: Charlie Overstreet – 1,115,000
Seat 7: David Albertson – 1,210,000
Remaining payouts:
1st – $27,225
2nd – $15,992
3rd – $10,853
4th – $7,283
5th – $5,029
6th – $3,873
7th – $2,948
Updated final table results:
8th: Scott Dibenedetto – $2,162
9th: Marc Sacheli – $1,549
10th: Miguel Martinez – $1,110
Seminole Casino Coconut Creek
Coconut Creek, Fla.
2016 Coco Poker Showdown
Event #2
$80 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack Turbo Bounty
Entries: 112
Prize Pool: $4,480
January 24, 2016
Coconut Creek, Fla. (January 24, 2016) — Andres Verona won Event 2 of the Coco Poker Showdown at Seminole Casino Coconut Creek Sunday night. Verona, 27, bested a field of 112 entries in the $80 no limit hold’em deep stack turbo bounty tournament. He owned the chip lead three-handed and went down as the tournament’s champion following an even chop with Jim Newcomb and Genachte Daniel. Verona and Newcomb pocketed $964 while Daniel, the short stack at the time, won $963
“It feels great,” Verona said. “I came here today wanting to ship it. I didn’t care about the money. I was here to ship and that’s what happened.”
Verona’s number one railbird was Kaitlin Sims. “Poker’s dynamic duo”, as Sims described them, made their way to Coconut Creek to play in Event 1, the $100,000 guaranteed series opener. Verona fired two bullets to no avail. Sims, meanwhile, made it to Day 2 on one entry. While Sims was in the process of running deep in Event 1, Verona was building a stack in Event 2. Sims busted 32nd and headed straight to his rail. A mere couple hours later, Verona claimed victory and put an exclamation point on the pair’s trip to Coconut Creek.
Verona is a 27-year-old amateur from Miami.
Event 2 was the second of nine numbered events on the Coco Poker Showdown schedule. The 11-day series runs now through Sunday, January 31st with Event 6, a $350 buy-in $250,000 guaranteed tournament, and the Main Event, an $1,100 buy-in $100,000 guaranteed tournament, headlining the schedule.
Event 2 results:
1st: Andres Verona – $964
2nd: Jim Newcomb – $964
3rd: Genachte Daniel – $963
4th: Frederick Hall – $381
5th: Craig Freeman – $302
6th: Paula Holder – $235
7th: Charles Goodwin – $190
8th: Edgard Mendes – $146
9th: Miguel McKenzie – $101
10th: Michael Sklar – $78
11th: David Maddox – $78
12th: David Longuil – $78
