bestbet Jacksonville Winter Open $2,000 Main Event
Day 1a Completed
bestbet Jacksonville Winter Open $2,000 Main Event
Day 1a Completed
Day 1a of the 2020 bestbet Jacksonville Winter Open $2,000 Main Event played through its scheduled 14 levels to completion Friday night, drawing 195 entries and ending with 27 players making it through the day. Of those 27, Dustin Holladay was the one to find himself on top of the leader board with a stack of 365,000.
Holladay was one of the 81 players in their seats from the get-go, and he took advantage of a full day at the felt. He chipped up early thereafter and was the first player in the field to reach the 100,000-mark on the day, doing so in Level 6 before the afternoon's second break. He maintained that stack through the next several hours before chipping up to 200,000 and proceeded to put an exclamation mark on the day with a late-night surge to his final total for the night.
Ken Stacy follows in the counts with 361,000, just a hair behind Holladay. Stacy also found a late-night heater that was fueled by a string of knockouts including the likes of Dapo Ajayi and Event #1 winner Huilin Chen. Four more players bagged north of a quarter-million: Scott Stewart (339,000), Christopher Laieta (336,000), Justin Zaki (326,000) and Ricardo Eyzaguirre (281,000).
Others to advance were Pete Theodocion (228,000), Brian Arbaugh (194,000), Taylor Howard (141,000), and David Jackson (125,000). Plenty more players of note were seen throughout the day that did not advance, including Darren Elias, Nick Pupillo, Timothy Miles, Mark Hodge, and Howard Hankin.
All who have did not make it through Day 1a will have another chance to advance on Saturday's Day 1b, the second and final of two starting flights for the Main Event. Just like the first edition, Day 1b will begin at noon and play 14 levels of 40 minutes apiece.
Also just like Day 1a, PokerNews will be on the floor from start to finish bringing you all of the action as it unfolds. See you then!
Complete chip counts have been provided with Dustin Holladay riding a late-night heater to the top of the counts by a narrow margin over Ken Stacy.
An end-of-day recap will come soon. Be sure to stick around.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Dustin Holladay | 365,000 | 156,000 |
Ken Stacy | 361,000 | 113,000 |
Scott Stewart | 339,000 | 68,000 |
Christopher Laieta | 336,000 | 49,000 |
Justin Zaki | 326,000 | -24,000 |
Ricardo Eyzaguirre | 281,000 | 11,000 |
Jason Block | 245,000 | 245,000 |
Ryan McAllister
|
239,000 | 239,000 |
Pete Theodocion | 228,000 | -19,000 |
Paul Petraglia
|
219,000 | 108,000 |
Ian Schmidt | 212,000 | -110,000 |
Brian Arbaugh | 194,000 | 38,000 |
Kelley Slay | 182,000 | 182,000 |
William Davis | 163,000 | 163,000 |
Taylor Howard | 141,000 | 61,000 |
Gregory Fishberg | 140,000 | 140,000 |
David Jackson
|
125,000 | 30,000 |
Tommy Tran
|
111,000 | -20,000 |
Ross Ward | 111,000 | 111,000 |
Erik Gorman | 98,000 | 98,000 |
Steve Rash | 93,000 | 28,000 |
Chad Brown | 90,000 | |
Frank Spaulding
|
76,000 | -19,000 |
Steven Snyder | 72,000 | 72,000 |
Czeslaw Szerszen | 69,000 |
The last three hands were played to their finish in the blink of an eye, with no significant action occurring on any of the four tables in play. Twenty-seven players are in the process of bagging their chips, all of whom have officially advanced to Sunday's Day 2.
Complete chip counts and a recap of the day's action are soon to follow.
Twenty-seven players still remain across four tables and the tournament clock has been stopped. Three more hands will be played to their completion on all remaining tables before bagging and tagging their chips for the evening.
Brian Arbaugh opened the action with a raise to 9,000 under the gun and was three-bet to 26,000 by the cutoff. Action folded around to Tommy Tran in the big blind, and he cold four-bet shoved for 90,000.
Arbaugh went into the tank for 90 seconds and then let his hand go. The cutoff followed suit, congratulating Tran on a well-played hand as he sent his cards to the muck to earn Tran the pot with no runout needed.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Brian Arbaugh | 156,000 | 41,000 |
Tommy Tran
|
131,000 | 51,000 |
Huilin Chen was down to his last 28,000 and open-shoved from the cutoff. Ken Stacy was on the button and called after asking for the amount and receiving confirmation, prompting two quick folds behind to bring about the runout.
Huilin Chen:
Ken Stacy:
Chen quickly rolled over his bullets and Stacy acknowledged, saying that Chen was ahead but that he had "the aces cracker."
The flop certainly gave him a shot, one that would become even more real on the turn after he picked up two pair. Chen was unable to find an ace or counterfeit paired board to reimprove on the river and was eliminated from the tournament, standing up and making his way from the tournament area as the pot was shipped to Stacy.
Twenty-seven players now remain with 25 minutes remaining in the level. The tournament clock will be paused in 15 minutes or two eliminations, whichever comes first.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Ken Stacy | 248,000 | 21,000 |
Huilin Chen
|
Busted |
The bicentennial mark was nearly reached in Wednesday's Event #3: $360 NLH With $100 Bounties, as 196 entries generated a total prize pool of $40,180. When all was said and done, Patrick Michael and Andrew Dykeman agreed to a heads-up chop with Michael taking the top prize of $9,003 and Dykeman earning $7,886.
A trio of Jacksonville residents in Louis De Pasquale, Andrew Simmonds, and Trammell Evans took the next three places, with Lee Pohle, Shane Scorza, and Russell Dugger also making it to the final table. All eight earned at least a four-figure payday for their efforts.
In total, 25 places were paid for the event, with Michael Smith Jr. being the first to make it past the bubble to earn $301 before payouts jumped to $372 and increased every three places until the final table of nine was reached.
Place | Player | Hometown | Prize |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Patrick Michael | Sanford, North Carolina | $9,003* |
2 | Andrew Dykeman | Destin, Florida | $7,886* |
3 | Louis De Pasquale | Jacksonville, Florida | $4,118 |
4 | Andrew Simmonds | Jacksonville, Florida | $2,505 |
5 | Trammell Evans | Jacksonville, Florida | $1,935 |
6 | Lee Pohle | Newland, North Carolina | $1,603 |
7 | Shane Scorza | Tampa, Florida | $1,366 |
8 | Russell Dugger | Brunswick, Georgia | $1,181 |
*Denotes heads-up deal.
Level 14 has just begun, coming with an announcement that it is the final level of the night. With 29 players left, the clock will be stopped at 10 minutes for a yet-to-be-determined number of hands to play to their conclusion; but if four eliminations happen before that, a hard stop will occur should the field reach 25 before the end of the level.
Level: 14
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 4,000