Sunday, February 28th: The Record Numbers Continue, Isle Casino Pompano Park Is "The" Place For Daily Tournament Poker!

ICYMI: With the weekly tournament schedule growing larger, the competition for "best event of the week" continues to play out.  For a long time, is was Friday night's $150 No Limit Hold'em ($5,000 GTD), but Saturday night has seemed to find itself atop the pedestal.  Last night's installment attracted a total of (159) entries, a number that no tournament has reached, since the poker room re-opened.  The $11,925 was to be paid out across (20) spots, with action playing down to three-handed play.  A deal would be agreed to, with Marx Martin (Hollywood, FL) taking home first place money ($2,338).  Official results from the tournament are listed below:

1. Max Martin (Hollywood, FL) $2,338
2. Ryan Detombeur (Oakland Park, FL) $2,314
3. Martin Borras (Pompano Beach, FL) $1,860
4. Carlos Vazquez (West Palm Beach, FL) $745
5. Roberto Desogos (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) $575
6. Christopher Boegler (Sunrise, FL) $477
7. Alfred Berchielli (Boynton Beach, FL) $414
8. Danny Blackburn (Deerfield Beach, FL) $372
9. William Romano (West Palm Beach, FL) $321
10. Peter Degirlamo (Royal Palm Beach, FL) $280
11. Raymond Tucker (Tequesta, FL) $280
12. Michael Sherbondy (Pompano Beach, FL) $280
13. Seth Medoff (Pompano Beach, FL) $241
14. Matthew Chrissy (Lighthouse Point, FL) $241
15. David Levy (Pompano Beach, FL) $241
16. Mitchell Silver (Boynton Beach, FL) $204
17. Vladimir Grechikon (Coconut Creek, FL) $204
18. Chad Graber (Palm Beach Gardens, FL) $204
19. Thomas Gray (Bradenton, FL) $167
20. Patrick Ianott (Rome, NY) $167

Tournaments: The action for the $130 No Limit Hold'em "Monster Stack" ($3,000 GTD) gets underway at 3:00pm, with another great crowd expected.  The tournament is structured with 20,000 unit starting stacks, (20) minute levels, and has registration open through Level 8 (and the break that follows).  Results from the event will be posted tomorrow morning, in Monday's blog update.

Promotions: One of the changes in the promotional calendar for January, was the addition of $300 high hands on Sunday. From 11:00am to 11:00pm, players will be vying for those $300 bonus payments every (30) minutes.  Those qualifying high hands must be aces-full or better, using both hole cards (one card high hands no longer qualify).

3:00pm: $130 No Limit Hold'em "Monster Stack" ($3,000 GTD)

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