Saturday, March 6th: O'Brien Takes First Place In Friday's $5,000 GTD, With The Train To Value-Town To Depart This Evening!

ICYMI: Last night's $150 No Limit Hold'em ($5,000 GTD) attracted impressive numbers, seeing a total of (112) entries take their seats, over the course of open registration.  While the numbers declined from last week's record-breaking performance, it's important to remember that no event is going to break records each and every time out.  The $12,880 prize pool was still more than double the posted guarantee, and offered some very nice payouts.  The evening's action ended in a chop, which saw Harold O'Brien (Port St. Lucie, FL) take home $3,624.  He also secured 31.51 leaderboard points, which immediately vaults him towards the top of the list.  Official results from the tournament are listed below:

1. Harold O'Brien (Port St. Lucie, FL) $3,624
2. Eric Lerner (Hallandale Beach, FL) $2,624
3. Jairo Velasquez (Sunrise, FL) $1,430
4. Christopher Boegler (Sunrise, FL) $934
5. David Albertson (Margate, FL) $721
6. Willie Wiggins (Pembroke Pines, FL) 4592
7. Patricia Conrad (Delray Beach, FL) $502
8. Jared Weis (Chicago, IL) $438
9. David Levinson (Boca Raton, FL) $386
10. Mohamed Mbaied (Pompano Beach, FL) $341
11. Anthony Talavera (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) $341
12. Joshua Multack (Delray Beach, FL) $341
13. Jonathan Marcu (Boca Raton, FL) $303
14. Cameron Bellami (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) $303

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 a record-breaking (159) entries, and had a prize pool just under $12,000...for a $100 buy-in.  The payouts offered solid returns on investment, with first place taking home $2,338 (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