Friday, August 6th: Darkhan Botabayev Returns To A Familiar Place, With $1,000 "Highest Hand" Promotion From 10:00AM-12:00PM!!!

ICYMI: Last night saw the first installment of the $180 No Limit Hold'em "Double Green Chip Bounty" ($5,000 GTD), with the increased buy-in offering an even healthier prize pool.  Registration for the tournament closed with (104) entries, and an official prize pool of $9,464 ($5,200 bounty pool).  A total of (13) players were scheduled to reach the money, with many focused on earning as many leaderboard points as possible.  The results were full of familiar names to the tournament scene at the Isle Casino Pompano Park, including Rick Kalgstein, Pedro Palacio, Karen Duffy, and Robert Kessler.  When the final table reached heads-up play, the remaining pair agreed to a deal, with Darkhan Botabayev (Sunny Isles, FL) taking home first place money (and 29.24 leaderboard points).  Official results from the tournament are listed below, with an updated leaderboard to be posted on the blog at 11:00am this morning:

1. Darkhan Botabayev (Sunny Isles, FL) $2,661
2. Brandon Woodburn (Coconut Creek, FL) $2,000
3. Anthony Close (West Palm Beach, FL) $1,088
4. Robert Kessler (Parkland, FL) $710
5. Elias Nassif (Davie, FL) $554
6. Karen Duffy (Pompano Beach, FL) $442
7. Pedro Palacio (Coconut Creek, FL) $376
8. Kevin Dubrocq (Hialeah, FL) $327
9. Marc Roth (Plantation, FL) $289
10. Jonathan Gordon (Coral Springs, FL) $260
11. David Inselberg (Boca Raton, FL) $260
12. Rick Kalgstein (Sunrise, FL) $260
13. Michael Laufer (Boca Raton, FL) $237

Tournaments: With the arrival of the weekend, comes the $160 No Limit Hold'em ($5,000 GTD)...the tournament that started this incredible tournament resurgence at the Isle Casino Pompano Park poker room.  The cards get in the air at 6:00pm, with players sitting down to starting stacks of 15,000.  Levels will last (20) minutes throughout the evening, with registration open through Level 8 (and the break that follows).

Promotions: From 10:00am (the minute the doors open) to 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).  The 11:00pm-Close period will then see $100 high hands awarded every (30) minutes.

In addition to the high hands, there is a "bonus" promotion in place, which offers $1,000 to the highest hand from the 10:00am-12:00pm time period.  If a player makes a straight flush in the 10:00am-10:30am qualifying period, and that is the best qualifying high hand from 10:00am-12:00pm, they will earn an extra $1,000 (in addition to the $300 they were awarded for the half-hour time period).

6:00pm - $160 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