Friday, February 5th: Familiar Faces Find Themselves Atop Thursday's Tournament Payouts, With The Weekend In Full Swing!

ICYMI: Last night's tournament action got underway at 6:00pm, with the cards in the air for the $150 No Limit Hold'em "Green Chip Bounty" ($5,000 GTD).  We are just a few weeks into this tournament's existence, but it's already become a fan favorite.  Registration for the event closed with a total of (89) entries, and an official prize pool of $5,785 ($4,450 bounty pool).  From the field, (12) players would reach the money, with action playing down to the point when the final table was three-handed.  The remaining players then made a deal, with Zaki Lichaa (Pompano Beach, FL) taking home first place money ($1,506).  Official results from the tournament are listed below:

1. Zaki Lichaa (Pompano Beach, FL) $1,506
2. Darkham Botabayev (Sunny Isles, FL) $1,228
3. Patricia Conrad (Delray Beach, FL) $895
4. Archibald Barrant (Royal Palm Beach, FL) $448
5. John Boddie (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) $347
6. Brian Baris (Tamarac, FL) $275
7. Robert Kessler (Parkland, FL) $231
8. Joseph Kearns (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) $202
9. Vladimir Grechnikov (Coconut Creek, FL) $184
10. Richard Riviello (Penn Yan, NY) $168
11. Celso Leroy (Delray Beach, FL) $156
12. Richard Fleming (Delray Beach, FL) $145

Tournaments: The $150 No Limit Hold'em ($5,000 GTD) headlines today's schedule, with the action getting underway at 6:00pm.  The tournament is structured with 15,000 unit starting stacks, (20) minute levels, and has registration open through Level 8 (and the break that follows).  This particular event is the "Weekend Swing" headliner, attracted fields over (100) entries, and boasting prize pools that consistently surpass the $10,000 mark!

Promotions: With the $300 high hand promotion running Sunday through Thursday, there is a short "break" on Friday and Saturday.  That being said, today's high hand promotion is our "standard," which means $100 high hands will be awarded every (30) minutes.  Qualifying high hands must be aces-full or better, using both hole cards, as one-card high hand no longer qualify.

6:00pm - $150 No Limit Hold'em ($5,000 GTD)

• Players start with 15,000 in tournament chips
• Levels will last (20) minutes 
• Late and re-entries for the first (8) levels
• Alternates and late entries will start with a full stack