Level: 17
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 10,000
2023 Bar Poker Open Florida World Championship
$365 BPO Florida Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1a
2023 Bar Poker Open Florida World Championship
Buy-in
$365
Prize Pool
$122,688
Entries
426
Level
30
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
300,000
Entries
281
Players Left
29
Final Break of the Day?
Level 16
: Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante
Just 40 players remain as the next break of the day has arrived.
With 29 players making the money and advancing to Day 2, this may well be the final break of the day, as 11 eliminations in two hours is well within the realm of possibility.
BPO Player Profile: Bob Carswell
Level 16
: Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante
While he calls himself an "Average Joe" (or Average Bob) in the poker world, Brooklyn native Bob Carswell, representing New York Free Poker has quite the poker tale to tell.
Diagnosed with dyslexia when he was a child, Carswell found a love of mind games and math, discovering poker at a later age which fell perfectly into his wheelhouse.
"I still can't spell worth a s***," joked Carswell, telling PokerNews that the math and psychology of poker is what drew him to the game about 15 years ago.
Carswell made his first trip to the World Series of Poker this summer, originally intending to play the Main Event as a bucket list item. Instead, he bought into several smaller events, including his first, the $500 Salute to Warriors event.
He fired two bullets in the tournament, bricking both, but said it was the greatest time of his life. That high would quickly be topped though by winning a Daily Deepstack the very next day for over $40,000!
Carswell still chose not to play the Main Event last summer, but says he'll definitely be playing it in 2024, and in the meantime loves playing in the Bar Poker Open.
Some Late Faces in the Field
Level: 16
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 8,000
Giglio Passes Wunderlich's Test
Level 15
: Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante
With about 50,000 in the middle on a flop of 7♠6♠5♠, Jodie Wunderlich moved all in for just over 100,000 in the hijack. After some thought, she got called by Thomas Giglio in the cutoff.
Jodie Wunderlich: A♥5♥
Thomas Giglio: 4♠4♣
Wunderlich had the best of it with a pair of fives, but she'd need to fade Giglio's straight and flush draws.
The turn 2♠ immediately hit Giglio to give him the winning flush, with the river A♣ pouring a bit of salt into Wunderlich's wounds as she was eliminated from the tournament.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
460,000
140,000
|
140,000 |
|
|
Busted |
Leaders of the Final Fifty
Level 15
: Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
464,000
372,000
|
372,000 |
|
||
|
460,000 | |
|
395,000
65,000
|
65,000 |
|
320,000 | |
|
|
320,000 | |
|
288,000
135,000
|
135,000 |
|
|
253,000 | |
Level: 15
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 6,000
Skelly Eliminates Tima
Level 14
: Blinds 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante
Samantha Skelly raised to 25,000 under the gun and got called by Marc Tima on the button, committing almost his entire stack.
On the A♣Q♠2♦ flop, Tima committed his final 10,000 chips after Skelly moved all in.
Marc Tima: K♠K♦
Samantha Skelly: A♠J♥
Skelly had outflopped Tima's kings, and after the 10♥6♠ runout, she had eliminated him from the tournament.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
124,000
82,000
|
82,000 |
|
|
Busted |
Charity Series of Poker "Folding for the Families" Takes Place Sunday at BPO Florida World Championship
Level 14
: 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante
One of the highlights of the weekend's events here at the Bar Poker Open Florida World Championship is the Charity Series of Poker (CSOP) Celebrity Charity tournament taking place Sunday night here at the Palm Beach Kennel Club.
"Folding for the Families" will be the 56th CSOP event in its history, with all public donations going to benefit Folded Flag, a non-profit organization dedicated to honoring the U.S. military by aiding the families of fallen servicemen and women with financial support for continued education.
The event comes with a $5,000 first prize, along with other final table and silent auction prizes, plus several player bounties including Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi.
The event gets underway at 3:30 p.m. ET for a cocktail reception, followed by cards in the air at 5 p.m.
The $150 buy-in gets you into the reception as well as your tournament entry. For those just wishing to come to the cocktail reception, the cost of that is $75.
The tournament buy-in gets players 10,000 chips to start. Unlimited $50 rebuys for another 10,000 chips are available until the start of Level 9, so long as a player is below their original starting stack. In the break before the end of registration, a $50 add-on for an additional 20,000 chips is available.
If you're in the South Florida area and haven't already headed to the Palm Beach Kennel Club for the Bar Poker Open Florida World Championship, this is a great opportunity to play some poker for a great cause and have an incredible time in one of the most fun and entertaining tournament settings you could ask for.