$150 No Limit Hold’em

Earning $1,007
15 Marian Dumitrescu

Earning $673
16 Charles Lebowitz
17 Paul Disciullo
18 John Simcox

Earning $566
19 Jeffrey Trudeau
20 Juan Martell
21 Oscar Lindo
22 Joe Noel
23 Jennifer Welch
24 Steven Patterson
25 Steven Bennett
26 William Brown
27 Timothy Deacon

Earning $491
28 Craig Comerford
29 Mark Altomare
30 Perry Cervera
31 Victor Moler
32 Christopher Carlson
33 Elie Elmakdissi
34 Marvin Karlins
35 James Browning Jr
36 Troy Throop

Earning $428
37 Trevor Samuels
38 Vontz Burke
39 Matthew Trizis
40 Miguel Rumie
41 Jerry Prieto
42 Kostas Papastavrov
43 Kirk Rossetter
44 Celso Vieira
45 Darius Carson

Earning $365
46 Randall Ball
47 Brenda Lane-Worley
48 Marc Davis
49Jermaine Phang
50 Michael Buzzetto
51 Nicholas Conant
52 Gregory Aumann
53 Samuel Medina Jr
54 Brett Berarducci

$150 No Limit Hold’em

End of Level 24:  Blinds 15k/30k/4k ante

Only 14 players remained when the dinner bell rang.  They’re off for one hour away from the grind and play will resume at about 8pm.

Here’s the lineup with chip counts:

Table 1
1 Cris Tuchman 560k
2 Anthony Lee 610k
3 Oliver Arcand 640k
4 Jim Gibson 84k
5 –
6 Francis Ennis 140k
7 –
8 Jacqueline Patman 893k
9 Mohamed Maghraoui 867k

Table 2
1 –
2 Jacob Naumann 1.33 million
3 Manny Minaya 3.738 million
4 Garth Fudens 1.24 million
5 –
6 Blake Vita 514k
7 Rodrigo Debrassi 1.106 million
8 Chad Hana 766k
9 Woodrow Pass 845k

$560 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed

Level 1: Blinds 25/50

The second of six starting flights has begun for the half-million guaranteed $560 Deep Stack event.

The Rockin’ Poolside Tournament area, just outside Rise Kitchen & Bakery, makes the perfect location to do battle for the big bucks

Players began with 25,000 chips and Day 1 levels are 40 minutes long.  They’ll play 12 levels before bagging up for the night (about 4am).

Late registration and re-entry are available until the start of level 7 (about 11:30pm).

$150 No Limit Hold’em

Level 24:  Blinds 15k/30k/4k ante

With 11 minutes remaining in the level, they reached 18 players and did another redraw for the final two tables.

They’ll take a dinner break at the end of this level, so we’ll get updated chip counts then.

$150 No Limit Hold’em

Level 23:  Blinds 12k/24k/3k ante

They reached the final 27, um, 26 players and did a redraw for the final three tables. 

Then there was a flurry of bustouts too fast to follow.

The biggest hand came with three players all in on a flop of .  Joe Noel had the shortest stack and held for the open-ended straight draw.  Jennifer Welch held for top pair.  Manny Minaya had the big stack and held for two pair.

The last two fell and changed nothing.  Manny scooped both pots, busting both opponents.  He chipped up to about 2.5 million.

Joe finished 23rd and Jennifer finished 22nd (both earn $566).

$150 No Limit Hold’em

Level 23:  Blinds 12k/24k/3k ante

During the previous level, Troy Throop got his chips in the middle pre-flop holding pocket Kings.  Steven Bennett looked him up with pocket 7s.

The board ran out J 8 7 5 A and Steven flopped a set to take the pot.  Troy busted out in 36th place.

Steven chipped up to ~900k.

$150 No Limit Hold’em

Level 22:  Blinds 10k/20k/3k ante

39 players remain and are back on the felt following a break.  Average stack is 340k.

Here’s how they stack up:

Manny Minaya 1.114 million
Garth Fudens 1.058 million
Jeffrey Trudeau 1.056 million
Marian Dumitrescu 584,000
Steven Bennett 539,000
Jennifer Welch 505,000
Francis Ennis 457,000
Oscar Lindo 447,000
Blake Vita 437,000
Paul Dissciullo 417,000
Perry Cervera 354,000
Jacob Naumann 347,000
Joseph Noel 343,000
Woodrow Pass 324,000
Craig Comerford 304,000

Everyone else is below 300k.

$150 No Limit Hold’em

Earning $321
55 Duane DeKeyser
56 Greg McNealy
57 Jacqulyn Kagan
58 Chastity Baur
59 Avery Cole
60 Edward Gibbs
61 Robert Krantz
62 Richard Hope
63 Paul Stanechewski

Earning $293
64 Judith Arnold
65 Jeremiah Bobo
66 Andrew Butte
67 Kaleb Hanshaw
68 Ricardo Menda
69 Mark Shulla
70 Clyde Swanson
71 Daniel Barnes
72 Nicholas Visconti

Earning $27173 James Powell
74 Alicia Mohammed
75 Parish Dechalus
76 Quyen Hoang
77 David Bechtel
78 Aaron Young
79 Norbert Kara
80 Tim Dallman
81 Lee Mendoza

$150 No Limit Hold’em

Level 21:  Blinds 8k/16k/2k ante

On the turn, the board read and Randall Ball got all his chips in the middle in a huge pot against Manny Minaya.

Randall held for a flush draw, but it was no good against Manny’s for top pair with nut flush draw.  Randall was drawing dead and the river was the inconsequential .  Randall hit the rail in 46th place.

With this monster pot, Manny Minaya chipped up to 1.06 million and is the first player to reach the million-chip-mark.

$150 No Limit Hold’em

Level 21:  Blinds 8k/16k/2k ante

Before the blinds went up:

Marc Davis shoved and got looked up by seat 8 holding AJ.  Marc’s K9 suited needed help, but the board fell J 8 5 8 9 and it was not enough.  After shipping the double across the felt, Marc was left short.

He was all-in on the next hand for 28k.  Marian Dumitresca called, then Vontz Burke re-shoved from he small blind for 103k.  Marian folded what he said was .

Vontz:

Marc:

Board:

Burke’s Aces held up and he more than doubled up, busting Marc in 48th place in the process.