It was no huge pot by any means but Nissim Vaknin eliminated a short stack on table one with . More importantly, the board ran out and gave him a royal flush!
The registration is closed and all entries have been verified. There were a total of 4,496 entries, which has generated a prize pool of $4,046,400. The top 468 spots will get paid at least $1,780 and the winner takes home stunning $637,539. The full payout confirmation will be available shortly under the payout tab.
On an additional note, the event has raised astonishing $499,056 for the One Drop charity thanks to the $111 contribution per entry.
Sorry bout that but I had to use the pun. The young Brit Simon Deadman, who took down the 2014 Hollywood Poker Open Championship Event a few days ago, was walking out of the tournament area. The seat of David Boyaciyan on table one was also occupied by another player as well.
The bronze section of the Brasilia Room is slowly closing all tables and moving players to other tournament areas as apparently another tournament is about to start over there. Below we have some assorted chip counts. The Pavilion Room is already empty and the same will soon apply to Amazon Purple as well.
In the first hand, Keven Stammen was all in preflop with against and the board left with with only two big blinds. They would be gone one hand later with against the of Maurice Hawkins after an ace immediately appeared on the flop.
Maurice Hawkins called a raise of Domantas Klimciauskas with and spiked trips on the flop. Throughout all streets he got value from his opponent, who improved on the turn with and paid off the 10,000 river bet from Hawkins.
Louis Laxineta and Ari Engel were involved in a pot with a short stack all in and at risk. Engel reshoved to get Laxineta out of the way and then turned over the . The short stack had but Engel rivered the nut flush on a board.