Sunday, May 16th: Palacio Headlining The Weekend, After Taking Down Saturday's $100 No Limit Hold'em ($5,000 GTD)

ICYMI: Just one day after we highlighted Pedro Palacio's climb up the leaderboard, he goes out and wins Saturday night's tournament.  The $100 No Limit Hold'em ($5,000 GTD) attracted a total of (169) entries, which are numbers were are used to seeing, giving players a $12,675 prize pool to battle it out for.  A total of (22) players reached the money, with the evening's action concluding in a four-way deal, topped by Palacio.  The tournament win now puts him atop the Player of the Month leaderboard, as he eyes back-to-back monthly wins.  Official results from the tournament are listed below:

1. Pedro Palacio (Coconut Creek, FL) $2,543
2. Stephen Bromfield (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) $2,075
3. Irwin Block (Pompano Beach, FL) $1,883
4. Seth Medoff (Pompano Beach, FL) $1,123
5. Santo Biddix (Hollywood, FL) $610
6. Jason Eurell (Coral Springs, FL) $506
7. Emen Sons (Boynton Beach, FL) $437
8. Maxton Goncalves (Boca Raton, FL) $383
9. Michael Jones (Boca Raton, FL) $333
10. Jesse Koven (Deerfield Beach, FL) $284
11. Ralph Spadafore (Boynton Beach, FL) $284
12. Robert Kessler (Parkland, FL) $284
13. David Coughlin (Lighthouse Point, FL) $240
14. Mark Brannick (Boca Raton, FL) $240
15. Michale Sugg (Boca Raton, FL) $240
16. Andrew Davis (Delray Beach, FL) $200
17. Stuart Wilsker (Delray Beach, FL) $200
18. Roberto Alvarado (Pompano Beach, FL) $200
19. Amin Hosein (Coral Springs, FL) $162
20. Jason Puzacke (Port St. Lucie, FL) $162
21. Craig Caffro (Pompano Beach, FL) $162
22. Jose Rodriguez (Sunrise, FL) $124

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: 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.

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