$210 No Limit Hold’em Seniors

Level 16: 2,000/4,000/500

We missed the action, but we found Daniel Castillo getting up from his seat and Greg McNealy (pictured) stacking his chips. McNealy recounted the hand for us.

McNealy raised preflop and was called by Castillo. The flop was K-3-4 with two hearts and Castillo moved all in. McNealy called and showed pocket nines. He was up against Castillo’s . The turn was a third nine for McNealy and Castillo missed his flush on the turn and river.

McNealy extends his chip lead on the rest of the field as he chips up to 186,000.

$210 No Limit Hold’em Seniors

Level 16: 2,000/4,000/500

Brenda Lane (pictured) raised on the button to 8,000 before the player in the big blind moved all in. Lane, who had another 9,800 behind, reluctantly called off her stack and was in terrible shape.

Lane showed and was in serious trouble against the big blind’s . The board ran out and Lane went runner-runner two pair to scoop the pot.

“That was my birthday suckout,” said Lane as she was stacking cihps.

Lane increases her stack to 38,000 while her opponent was left with just 4,000.

$210 No Limit Hold’em Seniors

The blinds have been increased to 2,000/4,000 with a 500 ante.

$210 No Limit Hold’em Seniors

Level 15: 1,500/3,000/500

A player moves all in for her last 6,100 from middle position and is called by Bob Christensen (pictured). Action folds to the player on the button, who moves all in for 12,200. Christensen calls and all three hands are turned on their backs.

The middle position player tables , the button shows , and Christensen was behind both players with his .

The dealer brought a gin flop for Christensen as he burned and turned a flop of . The turn is the , giving both of Christensen’s opponent gutshot straight draws, but the river is the and Christensen knocks out two players, while growing his stack to 108,000.

There are now 17 players left and just four spots from the money.

$560 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)  $100,000 Guaranteed

Jim Rumptz – 1st Place

$34,911 & $1,650 Main Event Seat

Jim Rumptz had the chip lead when they got heads-up, 2.7 million to 1 million and it didn’t take long with the blinds at 25k/50k for the chips to get in the middle.

Jim’s A4 was ahead of Ron Puleo’s JT and the Ace-high held up for the win.

Jim started Day 2 6th of 41 returning players, advancing from Flight 3 on Saturday.  Ron Puleo was 4th at the start of the day, advancing from Flight 1 on Friday.

$210 No Limit Hold’em Seniors

Level 15: 1,500/3,000/500

Ron Tosi (pictured) got his last 31,700 into the middle on a flop of against Daniel Castillo.

Tosi showed and was in the lead against Castillo’s . The turn was the and the river is the to keep Tosi’s three jacks in the lead and double him up.

Tos doubles up to just under 70,000, while Castillo slips down to under 100,000.

$560 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Level 27:  Blinds 25k/50k/5k

Ron Puleo

Jim Rumptz opened for 100k on the button and Ron Puleo shoved from the big blind.  Jim called.

Ron

Jim

The board  came 7 5 2 Q K and Jim took the pot with Ace-high.

Ron Puleo finished in 2nd place, earning $20, 443.

Jim Rumptz finished in 1st place, earning $34,911 and a $1,650 seat in the Main Event next week.

$210 No Limit Hold’em Seniors

The blinds have been increased to 1,500/3,000 with a 500 ante. There are 19 players remaining and they are down to the final two tables, just six spots from the money.

$210 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack Turbo

Level 5: 150/300/25

The late registration period is over for Event 4, the $210 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack Turbo. The field size is finalized and the payouts have been released.

54 players have registered for the event and the top six players will receive a payday.

Here are a look at the payouts:

1st – $3,590
2nd – $2,202
3rd – $1,427
4th – $983
5th – $709
6th – $539

$210 No LImit Hold’em Seniors

Level 14: 1,200/2,400/400

A short stacked player moved all in from late position and Donnie McBrayer called from the button. McBrayer tabled pocket kings and was in great shape against his opponent’s pocket queens.

The board ran out clean for McBrayer and he sent his opponent home as we inch closer and closer to the money bubble.