Season 2 of the Hollywood Poker Open is in its fifth event here at Charles Town. With four events already in the books, let's take a look back at the previous four with a quick snapshot:
All HPO Regional Championship Main Event winners also receive a $2,500 seat to the Hollywood Poker Open Championship at The M Resort Spa Casino Las Vegas in June.
Last summer, Ana Marquez topped a field of 631 to grab the $320,189 first-place prize in the culminating event of Season 1. The Championship Event held a $500,000 guarantee on its head, but that was far exceeded with the prize pool hitting $1,423,062. Much of the same is expected this summer for the event.
The Hollywood Poker Open is fortunate to have experienced Tournament Director Bill Bruce overseeing their operations, and after a quick scan of the stacks in play, so are the 17 runners left in contention.
The average stack at the moment is 84,600 chips, and the blinds are currently set at 1,000/2,000 with a 300 ante.
That means a player holding the average stack has more than 40 big blinds to work with, meaning play is still quite deep and pots can be played without the usual shove-fests seen in tournaments with subpar structures.
Timothy Little opened to 4,500 and saw two players flat the raise, before Eddie Bohrer moved all in over the top for his last 9,300.
Little heaped a stack of orange T1000 chips forward for the isolation reraise, and the flatters folded to oblige.
Showdown:
Little:
Bohrer:
Bohrer was dominated by Little's queen kicker, and he was looking for jacks or some kind of straight to stay alive. When the flop came jack-high, Bohrer found his gin card, and the turn and river failed to change anything. Bohrer doubled through Little to keep himself in contention, while Little dipped a bit below the 100,000 chip mark.
Riding a short stack for much the day, Eddie Bohrer managed to score a double up or two while grinding away, but his run just ended when he ran smack into a pair of aces.
Bohrer open-shoved for his last ten thousand or so, and Rober Walker Jr. reraised to isolate the at risk player. The rest of the table obliged by getting out of the way, and Bohrer flipped up his to find himself crushed by Walker Jr.'s .
The final board rolled out to leave Bohrer with no pair - and no chips. Bohrer finished in 16th place for an impressive run nonetheless.
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to find himself crushed by Walker Jr.'s 
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to leave Bohrer with no pair - and no chips. Bohrer finished in 16th place for an impressive run nonetheless.
