$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $300,000 Guaranteed | Payouts Level 20: 4,000/8,000 with a 1,000 Ante Players Remaining: 78 of 1,207
Herbert Woodbery
Your new chip leader in Event 2 of the WSOP Circuit at Seminole Casino Coconut Creek is Herbert Woodbery. Woodbery started the day with a top-10 stack and has doubled up and then some since that time. Currently midway through Level 20, Woodbery’s stack totals 860,000 and he leads the field by a margin.
$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $300,000 Guaranteed | Payouts Level 19: 3,000/6,000 with a 1,000 Ante Players Remaining: 88 of 1,207
Jonathan Marks
Jonathan Marks recently got his last 48,000 in the pot preflop and spiked a set against the start-of-day chip leader AJ Gambino. Marks got the full double and crossed into six figures while Gambino’s stack took a small hit.
Since play restarted about two hours ago, a number of big stacks are emerging while Gambino has taken about 100,000-chip hit.
Jonathan Marks – 112,000 (18 bb) AJ Gamino – 365,000 (60 bb)
$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $300,000 Guaranteed | Payouts Level 18: 2,500/5,000 with a 500 Ante Players Remaining: 115 of 1,207
Ronald Levy
The flop was and Ofer Peleg was heads up and all-in with way the best of it. Peleg, who was the at-risk player, held for top set while his opponent, Ronald Levy, owned for top-top.
The turn fell the giving Levy outs to Broadway, but it was still a longshot. The river changed that, though, with lightening striking and Levy completing runner-runner for Broadway. Peleg was left speechless eliminated while Levy stacked an unlikely pot and shot toward the top of the counts.
Ronald Levy – 465,000 (93 bb) Ofer Peleg – Eliminated
$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $300,000 Guaranteed | Payouts Level 17: 2,000/4,000 with a 500 Ante Players Remaining: 119 of 1,207
Lou Stadler watches the runout with his tournament life on the line
Lou Stadler was down to 64,500 and got all-in holding against David Inselberg’s . Stadler was at risk, but faded the runout and even improved to a set. Inselberg’s ace-king high was no good and he shipped a double across the table to Stadler.
$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $300,000 Guaranteed | Payouts Level 17: 2,000/4,000 with a 500 Ante Players Remaining: 135 of 1,207
Bill Farnan
With 136 players remaining less than 15 minutes into the restart, Bill Farnan picked up and had the last roughly 29,000 chips of shortstack Rafael Ramos at risk in the middle. Ramos held and was racing for his tournament life.
Runout:
Farnan’s pair held and Ramos was eliminated in 136th place bursting the bubble and sending the final 135 players into the money.
Among those to bust shy of the money was Kevin Chan.
Bill Farnan – 300,000 (75 bb) Rafael Ramos – Eliminated on the bubble Kevin Chan – Eliminated
$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $300,000 Guaranteed | Payouts Level 16: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 Ante Players Remaining: 143 of 1,207
From 1,207 starting, just 143 remain in the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek $400 re-entry event. The tournament easily surpassed the $300,000 guarantee with the prize pool ultimately topping out at $398,310. We’re close to the money, with only the top 135 earning a payday. A min-cash awards $593 while the tournament champion pockets $70,718, a gold ring and 50 points toward the Casino Championship.
Leading the way to start Day 2 is AJ Gambino. Gambino has had success in South Florida including a tournament win in Hollywood. Others hanging around toward the top of the counts include Herbert Woodberry, Zoltan Czinkota and Joshua Beckley.
Updates will be available throughout the day right here at SeminoleCoconutCreekPoker.com.
$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $300,000 Guaranteed | Payouts Return to Level 16: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 Ante Players Remaining: 143 of 1,207
AJ Gambino
All four flights of WSOP Circuit Event 2 are complete and the tournament drew a total of 1,207 entries to easily surpass its $300,000 guaranteed prize pool.
Of those starting entries, we have 143 players returning for Day 2 with AJ Gambino leading them all. Dennis Rodriguez is the only other player over 400,000 at the restart but there are plenty of tough players trying to chase them both down.
The tournament will pay out the last 135 spots so the money bubble will get there in a hurry with the top prize of more than $70,000 along with the WSOP Circuit ring awaiting the winner.
Cards go back in the air at noon in The Pavilion with 4 minutes and 46 remaining in Level 16. Blinds will run for 30 minutes each until Level 23 when they increase to 45 minutes for the duration.