Event 2 (Day 1)
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Structure Sheet
End of Level 14: Blinds 1500/2500/2500
Entries: 1,073
Remaining: 161
Average Chips: 166,000
AZ – Artim Zhuta – had led nearly all night, but it all it means now is a healthy 495,000 for day 2.
It was Neal Liptak who pulled off a big win at the end, trapping with the aces to felt his opponent, on a move with 
and nearly double to the chip lead.
Liptak bags 572,000 for the chip lead after day 1.
Great run all day for Zhuta.
Rafael Reis snuck in quietly, just as the champ hinted he would.
Eric Rivera celebrates winning an all-in in the final three hands to make day 2. He cracks AK with 67dd.
Maurice Hawkins bagged 247,000, Ylon Schwartz 257,000, Dan Walsh a healthy 352,000, and Julio Clavell took 340,000.
Legend Victor Ramdin bagged 193,500, but took an astounding 13 or 14 bounties.
Offical counts and seating will be posted when available.
Day 2 play begins at noon Saturday the 19th.
Payouts
- $80,137
- 48,158
- 29,143
- 24,407
- 20,036
- 16,211
- 12,932
- 9,836
- 6,739
- – 12. 4,371 13. – 15. 3,096 16. – 18. 2,004 19. – 27. 1,639 28. – 36. 1,421 37. – 45. 1,275 46. – 54. 1,129 55. – 63. 1,020 64. – 72. 911 73. – 81. 838 82. – 90. 765 91. – 100. 729
Good luck!
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Structure Sheet
Level 12: Blinds 800/1500/1500
Entries: 1,073
Remaining: 310
Average Chips: 86,000
Level 12 is winding down, but Mike McGuinness is simply up and down.
Mike McGuinness at ease. Mike Nihill, who ran up a stack in Event 1, is doing well, here with 250,000 as he receives the pitch from the dealer.
McGuinness first threatens to, then surpasses AZ for the chip lead, shooting up to up to 440,000 earlier in 12.
However, he’s taken a hit and appear to be around 350,000. In one hand he’s allowed the turn and river by a short stack, but is somehow waiting with check backs.
No such bad luck for AZ, meanwhile, who is setting the pace with 450,000 as we move to 1000/2000.
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Structure Sheet
Level 12: Blinds 800/1500/1500
Entries: 1,073
Remaining: 310
Average Chips: 86,000
Post registration, the stacks simply have to combine, that’s how it works.
Dominic Picinic has held steady with 270,000, but the new number to shoot for is over 400,000.
Chip leader AZ celebrates having 430,000. Ylon doesn’t look quite as excited for him.
Frank Brannan on 14 has over 330,000.
McGuinness has 300,000 now, as well.
Julio Clavell just dipped back under 300,000.
Fun Leaders: Mark Osborne, center, winning with nines is just too much for some guys to handle.
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Structure Sheet
Level 11: Blinds 600/1200/1200
Entries: 1,073
Remaining: 350
Average Chips: 76,000
Players are returning from a short break now. The floor is reminding players that there is a penalty for not leaving at least one bounty chip on their stack.
Before the break, action on 35 was hot. Sal B. talked politics while Corbin Avery tried “not to go there.” Martin Matranca gave up what looked like two kings on an ace high flop, and had to sweat out a series of checks to see if he had folded right, if cautiously, multiway.
Sal “Make Tournament Registration Great Again” Busacca and the player known as Z.
Z went out to Matranca, who got a bounty and some chips back when his 
valued Z’s deuces.
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Structure Sheet
Level 10: Blinds 500/1000/1000
Entries: 1,073
Remaining: 410
Average Chips: 65,000
While Dominic Picinic has been steadily climbing, Anish Grover on outer table 42 has been gathering as well.
He just passed 250,00 with a loose but necessary call, taking a tournament life.
Grover has one of the biggest stacks so far. Here he’s lost in thought, and time is called in a dramatic flop pause.
Anish had isolated a limp from the field at 4/8 to 3200, and got a call. He put out a big cbet on a dangerous 
of 6,000, clearly looking for a fold.
Instead, his opponent stuck in a check-raise all in to 22,800. Anish decided he was priced in against draws – and did have a gutter – with 
.
However, after he made the call, his opponent revealed the trap, 
for a likely double.
The deck disagreed, a ten on the river brought the straight and the bounty to Grover.
Mike McGuinness, always in a hurry, has 200,000 now, too.
Mike is on Maurice Hawkins’ table. The Hawk is doing well, with over 170,000, and is very likely to clash with the active and unafraid McGuinness.
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Structure Sheet
Level 9: Blinds 400/800/800
Entries: 1,073
Remaining: 478
Average Chips: 54,000
Registration is complete, and with 1,073 entries, our event has very nearly matched the BWPO18 Bounty Deep Stack.
Action on 13: Fishberg and Dowling watch Funaro, right, turn over his hand – drawing dead.
It’s all BWPO regs on 13. In this hand, Frank Funaro gets trapped and doubles up a shortie on the turn, 
forming top pair good kicker, but completely crushed by top two.
Left with just 11,000, Frank seems to catch a break with and able to get action multiway. However, Soukha Kachittavong gets the pot when 
hits the turn. Frank is out.
Soukha, now with Frank’s bounty chip in front of him, pulls back his bet as the dealer assembles the rest of his pot.
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Structure Sheet
End of Level 8: Blinds 300/600/600
Entries: 1,018
We close out level 8 and head to dinner. Picinic continues to lead with 220,000, neatly stacked on 24.
Registration is still open – players have until the end of the hour long dinner to get back in.
A new big stack joins Liptak and Testa: Jason Cohen just hit 200,000 on table 4.
The Hawk helps distribute the Din Cashes.
We return at 8:35 pm.
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Level 8: Blinds 300/600/600
Entries: 988
We are into the last level of re-entry.
Big stacks are closing on 200,000, which was first broken by Dominic Picinic. 160,000 for Neal Liptak on 27.
Mike Testa has 170,000 on table 21.
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Structure Sheet
Level 7: Blinds 300/500/500
Entries: 929
Men the Master check shoves into the button and examines his cards, all while using chopsticks to finish off his sandwich.
No call – Men’s TPTK is not challenged.
Nearby, disbelief: Greg C., standing at left, had gotten it in good on the queen high flop with those kings. The table discusses what they saw…
…as Wooyang Lin, now completely nonplussed, had called it off with bottom underpair, doubling through Greg spectacularly when the inevitable deuce on the river filled him up. Joseph Fragale, right, looks like he’s still trying to figure out the hand.
Greg is now in the red zone but alive, as he covered Wooyang.
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Structure Sheet
End of Level 6: Blinds 200/400/400
Entries: 871
We take up coverage of the Black Chip Bounty here in level 6. The guarantee has been easily met with two levels of registration to go here in a packed Event Center.
Dominic Picinic, on table 24, is one of the biggest stacks with just over 150,000.
The biggest stacks are over 130,000, with Picinic likely the leader at the moment. Several players seem to have captured at least three bounties so far.
We resume in fifteen.