Wai Tung Lo has busted in a three-bet pit with Michael Pedley.
Tung Lo opened to 7,000 and called after Pedley three-bet to 21,000. The flop fanned and Tung Lo check-raised all in for 62,000 after Pedley had continued for 23,000. Call.
Pedley was ahead with versus and stayed that was as the board ran out .
Jan Suchanek check-called a bet of 9,500 on the flop against Manny Stavropoulos. The turn was the , and both players checked to see the land on the river. Suchanek led for 16,000, and Stavropoulos folded.
After entering the day in the lead with 483,900 in chips, Suchanek has picked right back up where he's left off and built up to 780,000 in chips. Stavropoulos began with 231,100 and has slipped back to roughly 170,000.
The Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open (LHPO) returns to Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida, now through Feb. 11, 2015, held in the resort’s ballrooms. The series will feature 21 main events along with several secondary events and qualifiers. The exciting live poker action culminates with the Seminole Hard Rock WPT Lucky Hearts $3 Million Guaranteed Championship beginning Feb. 5-11, with a $3,500 buy-in and three starting flights. The live streamed Championship final table will be held at the resort’s Paradise Live theater in Seminole Paradise.
The annual series kicks-off on Jan. 22 at 11a.m. ET with a four-day $570 buy-in deep-stack no-limit hold'em event featuring a $1 million guaranteed prize pool with six starting flights.
Super Bowl weekend will bring even more action with the WPTDeepStacks (WPTDS), which will kick off its 2015 tour at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. WPTDS is a one-of-a-kind partnership between the world’s most established poker tour, WPT®, and the world’s fastest growing poker tour, DSPT. The $1,100 buy-in, $300,000 Guarantee WPTDeepStacks-Hollywood will start Jan. 29 at 12 p.m. ET in the resort’s ballrooms.
Other highlight tournaments include a $350 buy-in deep-stack no-limit hold'em, $250,000 guarantee with five starting flights, from Jan. 25-28 and a two-day $150 buy-in no-limit hold’em $150,000 guarantee with eight starting flights from Jan. 28-31.
Satellite events for the Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship will be held at the Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood Jan. 22-Feb. 7, 2015.
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Julius Colman is a well-respected lawyer and business man who is also an accomplished poker player with nearly AU$1,000,000 in winnings. On top of it all, he is a noted philanthropist.
After making the final table of the 2007 Aussie Millions — where he ultimately finished in fourth place for AU$500,000 — he donated the entire prize to a school for significantly underprivileged children with a high migrant and refugee population.
His work with the disadvantaged children and communities was recently recognized in a unique way when the Government of Australia when he made the Australia Day Honors list. He was awarded an Order of Australia, called an A.M., and subsequently Crown Melbourne had him kick off the Day 1b festivities. Colman made it all the way to Day 3, but his run came up short of the money.
It happened when Colman got his short stack all in on a flop holding the for middle pair with an open-ended straight draw. It was no good though as his opponent, Isaac Lau, had flopped the nuts with the . The turn gave Colman some life with a flush draw, but the river proved useless.
and Tung Lo check-raised all in for 62,000 after Pedley had continued for 23,000. Call.
versus 
and stayed that was as the board ran out 
.
flop against Manny Stavropoulos. The turn was the 
, and both players checked to see the 
land on the river. Suchanek led for 16,000, and Stavropoulos folded.
to pair Saghabi's kicker.
for middle pair with an open-ended straight draw. It was no good though as his opponent, Isaac Lau, had flopped the nuts with the 
. The 
turn gave Colman some life with a flush draw, but the 
river proved useless.
