Saturday, April 10th: Friday Night Festivities End In Seven-Way Chop, As Players Book Their Trips To Valuetown!

ICYMI: Friday night's $150 No Limit Hold'em ($5,000 GTD) has been one of the more consistent tournaments on the schedule, with prize pools doubling (and tripling) the guarantee each and every week.  Last night's installment saw a total of (148) entries, which equated to a prize pool of $17,020, which was to be spread across (19) pay spots.  Just one day after a tournament gets played down to a winner, we saw one of the larger multi-way chops agreed to in a while.  The final seven players at the final table agreed to a deal, with the official results listed below:

1. Matthew Chrissy (Lighthouse Point, FL) $2,380
2. Erik Bartels (Boca Raton, FL) $1,917
3. Michael Jones (Boca Raton, FL) $1,720
4. Pedro Palacio (Coconut Creek, FL) $1,655
5. Thomas Mucci (Boca Raton, FL) $1,589
6. Matthew Vitale (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) $1,589
7. Patricia Conrad (Delray Beach, FL) $1,520
8. Sergio Amato (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) $760
9. Gregg Weiss (Delray Beach, FL) $470
10. Scott Hecker (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) $408
11. Seth Medoff (Pompano Beach, FL) $408
12. Michael Laufer (Boca Raton, FL) $408
13. Jorge Ricardo (Hialeah, FL) $349
14. Brian Rabinowitz (Tamarac, FL) $349
15. Steven Rosen (Pompano Beach, FL) $349
16. Juan Diego Marsano Brambilla (Lima, Peru) $298
17. Luis Alberto Hurtado (Plant City, FL) $298
18. Jeffrey Cogswell (Boca Raton, FL) $298
19. Donald Williams (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) $255

Tournaments: The train to "value town" departs the station at 6:00pm, when the cards get in the air for the $100 No Limit Hold'em ($5,000 GTD).  Last week's Saturday evening tournament attracted (155) entries, and had a prize pool of $11,625...for a $100 buy-in.  The payouts offered solid returns on investment, with first place taking home $2,116 (as part of a three-way chop).

The tournament is structured with 12,000 unit starting stacks, (20) minute levels, and has registration open through Level 8 (as well as the short break that follows). 

Promotions: From 10:00am (the minute the doors open) until 11:00pm, $300 high hands will be awarded every (30) minutes. These high hands must be aces-full or better, use both hole cards, and be the winning hand (in a pot that has at least $10).  From 11:00pm until close, $100 high hands will be awarded every (30) minutes.

6:00pm: $100 No Limit Hold'em ($5,000 GTD)

• Players start with 12,000 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