$100 Deep Stack Turbo Bounty Level 19: 6,000/12,000/1,000 Ante Players Remaining: 10/103
Brandon Kalgstein
Following the elimination of Jesse Catronio in 12th place ($130) and Jeffrey Davidson in 11th place ($130), today’s 12pm $100 deep stack turbo bounty is down to the final 10 players and combined to one table. Leading the way with a stack of 413,000 is Brandon Kalgstein of Sunrise.
Here’s a look at the 10-handed final table seating assignments along with chip counts and the remaining payouts:
$100 Deep Stack Turbo Bounty Level 14: 2,000/4,000/400 Ante Players Remaining: 31/103
Registration is closed in Event 6, today’s 12pm $100 buy-in deep stack turbo bounty, and the prize pool is finalized. The 103-entry field came up just shy of meeting the event’s guarantee putting the prize pool at an even $10,000 which includes all $25 bounties. The top 12 players head home with a payday of at least $130. Payouts escalate from there and top out in the form of a $2,450 1st-place prize.
Full prize structure:
2016 Coco Poker Open Seminole Casino Coconut Creek Coconut Creek, FL Event #6 $100 Deep Stack Turbo Bounty Entries: 103 Prize Pool: $10,000 September 25, 2016
The clock currently shows 31 players remaining toward the middle of Level 14. We will provide another update when the event reaches the 10-handed final table.
$100 Deep Stack Turbo Bounty Level 1: 50/100 Players: 42
Event 6 of the 2016 Coco Poker Open at Seminole Casino Coconut Creek is off and running. The tournament is a $100 deep stack turbo bounty and sees its players take their seats to 16,000-chip starting stacks and log 15-minute levels throughout. All bounties award a $25 prize.
Here’s a look at the details:
12PM: Event 6 – $100 Deep Stack Turbo Bounty
$10,000 guaranteed prize pool
Players begin with 16,000 in tournament chips and 15-minute levels
Late registration re/entry available until the start of Level 13
Tournament plays until completion or Tournament Director discretion
The headliner of the day’s action is the Championship restart at 1pm. While that will take much of our blogging attention, we’ll keep an eye on the bounty and provide prize pool information, final table chip counts as well as a winner’s photo and final results.
2016 Coco Poker Showdown Seminole Casino Coconut Creek Coconut Creek, Fla. Event #6 $350 No Limit Hold’em Entries: 721 Prize Pool: $250,000 January 26-30, 2016
Event 6 winner Edward Novak
Coconut Creek, Fla. (January 30, 2015) — Edward Novak put on a convincing performance in the Coco Poker Showdown $350 buy in Event 6 Saturday night at Seminole Casino Coconut Creek. The 20-year-old newly-turned professional maneuvered through a 721-entry field before winning the event outright, pocketing $63,323 in the process.
“I ran pretty well when we started out,” Novak said of the late stages of play. “I had king-jack. I flopped a straight and held up against a flush draw. After that I clashed with a big stack and made a pretty big hero call with top pair […] I was just cruising. I had half the chips in play and there was no looking back from there — no thoughts of chopping.”
It’s not often poker players sell themselves short, but Novak did just that describing his stack as “half the chips in play”. In fact, Novak claimed nearly 6,000,000 of the roughly 8,700,000 chips in play five-handed. He never faltered en route to a heads up berth versus Fort Lauderdale pro Nancy Birnbaum. Birnbaum was at a severe disadvantage and chipped up only slightly before her pocket fives were bested by Novak’s all in preflop. Birnbaum earned $36,906 for her runner-up finish. The score moved her over $600,000 in career earnings.
“I know [South][Florida] has a lot of good poker and some series were going on. I figured I’d take a trip [to][Coconut][Creek],” Novak, a resident of Simsbury, Conn., said.
Event 6 featured eight starting flights. The 721-entry field came up shy of matching the guarantee, but the property chipped in to get the prize pool to $250,000. All Day 2 players were in the money with notables Ory Hen (44th), Abbey Daniels (36th) and Adam Levy (11th) joining Novak in the money.
At only 20 years old, this marks Novak’s first major tournament score.
“I might have to be now. I don’t know,” Novak laughed when asked if he was a professional poker player.
Event 6 final results:
1st: Edward Novak – $63,323 2nd: Nancy Birnbaum – $36,906 3rd: Mike Chiappetta- $24,131 4th: Kimberly Jones – $16,313 5th: Paul Steiner – $11,438 6th: Andrew Smith – $8,891 7th: Ruben Ybarra – $6,844 8th: Sergio Alves – $5,047 9th: Mark Nahama – $3,547 10th: Sean Anderson – $2,594 11th: Adam Levy – $2,594 12th: Ryan Anderson – $2,594 13th: Steven Cohen – $2,047 14th: Manuel Soltera Luna – $2,047 15th: Gabriel Sack – $2,047 16th: William Handwerker – $1,719 17th: Willy Baptiste – $1,719 18th: Robert Williams – $1,719 19th: Michael Newman – $1,484 20th: Yuan Shen – $1,484 21st: David Barbieri – $1,484 22nd: Raymond Roberty – $1,484 23rd: Elliott Saydman – $1,484 24th: Oneil McCalla – $1,484 25th: David Shaw – $1,484 26th: Steven Jordan – $1,484 27th: Mike Chang – $1,484 28th: Joshua Wasserman – $1,259 29th: Scott Zakheim – $1,259 30th: Luke Doolittle – $1,259 31st: Joseph Patalano – $1,259 32nd: Clinton Bowles – $1,259 33rd: Courtney Rowe – $1,259 34th: Michael Cohen – $1,259 35th: Plamen Stoyanov – $1,259 36th: Abbey Daniels – $1,259 37th: Cory Blum – $1,059 38th: Kevin Almon – $1,059 39th: Scott Wyler – $1,059 40th: Jerry Wong – $1,059 41st: Louis Leo IV – $1,059 42nd: Eric Riley – $1,059 43rd: Giuseppe Lunetto – $1,059 44th: Ory Hen – $1,059 45th: Frank Scala – $1,059 46th: Colny Covington – $934 47th: Jorge Gomez – $934 48th: Scott Efron – $934 49th: Bryan Rodriguez – $934 50th: Zoltan Czinkota – $934 51st: Benjamin Robinson – $934 52nd: Lawrence Paden, Sr. – $934 53rd: Kevin Chan – $934 54th: Darren Stabinski – $934 55th: David Albertson – $834 56th: Robert Midgette – $834 57th: Timothy Shortell – $834 58th: Johnny Tang – $834 59th: Timothy Kegel – $834 60th: Robert Miller – $834 61st: Pedro Palacio – $834 62nd: Michael Merisier – $834 63rd: Edward Medoff – $834 64th: Carlos Loving – $725 65th: Juan Cardona Garcia – $725 66th: Dolphus Powers – $725 67th: William Beasley – $725 68th: Peter Fellows – $725 69th Francois Tremblay – $725
$350 No Limit Hold’em Level 27: 40,000/80,000/10,000 Ante Players Remaining: 1/721
Event 6 winner Edward Novak ($63,323)
Edward Novak of Simsbury, Conn. won Event 6 of the Coco Poker Showdown outright. He outlasted 721 entries in the $350 no limit hold’em tournament to earn $63,323.
A full report on the win will be posted shortly. In the mean time, here’s a look at the tournament’s results:
$350 No Limit Hold’em Level 23: 15,000/30,000/3,000 Ante Players Remaining: 9/721
Following the back-to-back eliminations of Adam Levy 11th and Sean Anderson 10th, the Event 6 restart is down to the final nine players and consolidated to one table.
Out in front of the final playing session is Ruben Ybarra. He holds 1,773,000 chips and leads second place Edward Novak, Nancy Birnbaum and others.
The remaining 10 players are now on a 40-minute dinner break. Cards go back in the air at roughly 6:15 p.m.
Seating assignments and chip counts:
Seat 1: Kimberly Jones – 416,000 Seat 2: Nancy Birnbaum – 1,250,000 Seat 3: Sergio Alves – 809,000 Seat 4: Paul Steiner – 523,000 Seat 5: Mike Chiappetta – 1,104,000 Seat 6: Edward Novak – 1,450,000 Seat 7: Mark Nahama – 650,000 Seat 8: Ruben Ybarra – 1,773,000 Seat 9: Andrew Smith – 710,000
$350 No Limit Hold’em Level 18: 5,000/10,000/1,000 Ante Players Remaining: 36/721
Cards are back in the air following the second break of the day in the Event 6 restart. With just 36 remaining, Steve Cohen from New York City appears to hold the chip lead with about 620,000.
All remaining players are assured $1,259.
Updated results:
37th: Cory Blum – $1,059 38th: Kevin Almon – $1,059 39th: Scott Wyler – $1,059 40th: Jerry Wong – $1,059 41st: Louis Leo IV – $1,059 42nd: Eric Riley – $1,059 43rd: Giuseppe Lunetto – $1,059 44th: Ory Hen – $1,059 45th:Frank Scala – $1,059 46th: Colny Covington – $934 47th: Jorge Gomez – $934 48th: Scott Efron – $934 49th: Bryan Rodriguez – $934 50th: Zoltan Czinkota – $934 51st: Benjamin Robinson – $934 52nd: Lawrence Paden, Sr. – $934 53rd: Kevin Chan – $934 54th: Darren Stabinski – $934 55th: David Albertson – $834 56th: Robert Midgette – $834 57th: Timothy Shortell – $834 58th: Johnny Tang – $834 59th: Timothy Kegel – $834 60th: Robert Miller – $834 61st: Pedro Palacio – $834 62nd: Michael Merisier – $834 63rd: Edward Medoff – $834 64th: Carlos Loving – $725 65th: Juan Cardona Garcia – $725 66th: Dolphus Powers – $725 67th: William Beasley – $725 68th: Peter Fellows – $725 69th Francois Tremblay – $725
Now, a week later, the pair shares a table again deep in the Event 6 restart. Anderson again holds the advantage and appears to be one of the tournament’s chip leaders with just under 400,000 in chips.
all in preflop. Birnbaum earned $36,906 for her runner-up finish. The score moved her over $600,000 in career earnings.
