Saturday, April 15, 2017

Saturday, April 15th: Friday Night Was "Ladies Night," Two Tournament Slate

ICYMI: It was all about the ladies in last night's tournament ($150 No Limit Hold'em $100,000 GTD), as Jane Forsythe (West Palm Beach, FL) and Erin Coley (Lake Worth, FL) chopped up the event.  A total of (77) entries made up the $10,000 prize pool, with eight spots getting paid...$360 for a min-cash and $3,500 up top.  A couple of Isle tournament poker notables were at the final table, but couldn't come between the destiny that was the heads up deal that occurred:
  1. Jane Forsythe (West Palm Beach, FL) $2,795
  2. Erin Coley (Lake Worth, FL) $2,795
  3. Dylan Drazen (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) $1,370
  4. Jeffrey Liu (Coconut Creek, FL) $970
  5. Edgar Mendes (Deerfield Beach, FL) $720
  6. Hugh Coley (Lake Worth, FL) $550
  7. Mark Shupienis (Stuart, FL) $440
  8. Seymour Weiner (Boca Raton, FL) $360
It should be noted that this is the second time in a week that a "family" combo has reached the final table of one of the weekly events (Eric and Hugh Coley).


Tournaments: Two tournaments make up today's schedule, the first of which gets underway at 11:00am ($100 No Limit Hold'em w/ $25 Bounties $3,000 GTD).  The event would be considered a "Big Stack Turbo," as players sit down to starting stacks of 18,000, and play levels of (15) minutes throughout.  The real headliner comes later in the day (6:00pm), as the $120 No Limit Hold'em $8,000 GTD begins.

Promotions: The high hand promotions take another "breather" today, between yesterday's (11) hours worth of "turbo" high hands, tomorrow's (7) hours of $300 high hands (awarded every 15 minutes).  The "standard high hand" procedure is in place, awarded prizes to qualifying high hands every (30) minutes (with rollovers).

11:00am - $100 No Limit Hold'em "Big Stack Turbo" w/ $25 Bounties ($3,000 GTD):


- Players will begin with a 18,000 starting stack
- Late and re-entries for the first (10) levels
- Option player "add-on" at the end of Level 10 ($25 for 10,000 tournament chips), with 100% of the "add-on" going to the prize pool 
- Levels are (15) minutes in length


6:oopm - $120 No Limit Hold'em "New Monster Stack" ($8,000 GTD):

- Players will start with 25,000 in tournament chips 
- Late and re-entries for the first (8) levels
- Alternates and re-entries will start with a full stack
- Levels are (20) minutes in length (Levels 1-8), transitioning to (25) minutes Levels 9+)