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.
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 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.
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!
There were about 6,000 in the pot on a river and Alex Rocha was faced with a bet of 3,200. He tanked for a good minute before making the call and got shown for the flush. Rocha is still among the biggest stacks on the second starting flight though.
Once Gerald Karlic gets chips, he is usually a huge threat for all opponents and seemingly is at it again. The board was already complete and the Austrian simply put his opponent all in. The latter ended up folding and Karlic is building a tower of chips.