As told to us by Ross Gottlieb, he won a sizable pot on the last hand before the dinner break to move his stack into six-figure territory. Gottlieb three-bet to 2,200 out of the big blind and found two callers. The flop came and Gottlieb bet 3,500 and found one taker.
The turn was the and with his opponent having approximately 12,000 left in chips, Gottlieb decided to move all in. His opponent made the call with and found out that he would need help as Gottlieb had him outkicked with his . The river blanked out and Gottlieb took down the pot and will go to dinner knowing he is sitting pretty with his 103,000 in chips.
The players are now on a 60-minute dinner break and will return at approximately 7:35 local time. Jay Kelley looks to be the chip leader currently with approximately 90,000 in chips.
Shawn Cunix has taken a hit but is still sitting at more than double the starting stack.
Players have until the end of the dinner break to register. There are currently 124 entrants and 79 players still have stacks sitting in front of them.
With 5,000 in the pot and the board showing , Andrew Jeffrey checked to his opponent who made a bet of 2,700. Jeffrey had his opponent covered and moved all in. To his opponent's credit, he didn't instantly call, but ultimately decided after a minute of thought that he couldn't fold for a flopped set. Jeffrey had him crushed, however, as he had . The table let out a few moans of appreciation for Jeffrey and just as many groans of frustration for his opponent.
"Nothing you could do there," said Jeffrey quietly.
The turn was the and only the case four could change the outcome of the hand. The river was a case card, but it was the case Ace, the to give Jeffrey quads and move his stack to one of the biggest in the room at this point. Jeffrey finished 2nd at a Borgata tournament last September for $66,914 and is hoping to add to that total this weekend.
It's getting close to the end of registration and some players are looking desperately to acquire some chips or go broke so they can rebuy and get a full stack of 20,000. One such player is Nick Guagenti who after losing a flip with against for just under 9,000 in chips, leaving himself severely short-stacked, asked the table "please allow me to rebuy guys."
Moments later, Guagenti would get his wish and was off to the cashier to rebuy.
There are currently 117 entrants and they are about to start Level 6, the last level players can register.
There are an abundance of poker tournaments and tours taking part across the world currently. If you want to play tournament poker, there is probably one (or more) tournaments taking place on any given day. The Hollywood Poker Open ("HPO") is emerging as one of the best poker tours out there.
"We've really made progress in our second season," tournament director Bill Bruce told PokerNews earlier. "We've brought on Chris Moneymaker as our spokesman, brought in PokerNews to provide coverage for our Championship Events, and we have some of the best structures out there, especially for our Championship Events."
Bruce went on to add "the Hollywood Casino is rapidly growing and along with it so will the Hollywood Poker Open. We want to stand out from the other poker tours and establish ourselves as a place where poker players want to play."
The Championship Event for the 2nd season of the HPO will take place in Las Vegas at the beautiful M Resort. This $500,000 Guaranteed tournament will start on June 27th and is open to any one willing to put up the $2,500 entry fee or who has qualified at an HPO event. For more information on that event and everything else related to the HPO, check out their website.
We've had 11 new players take their seats over the course of the last hour. Among them is Michael Scarborough from Cincinnati, Ohio. Scarborough has $384,378 in lifetime winnings including $273,664 for his win at the 2011 Hollywood Poker Open in Lawrenceburg. At that final table, Scarborough had to outlast Erik Seidel, William Reynolds, Tom Marchese, and Ali Eslami to take the title.
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and Gottlieb bet 3,500 and found one taker.
and with his opponent having approximately 12,000 left in chips, Gottlieb decided to move all in. His opponent made the call with 
and found out that he would need help as Gottlieb had him outkicked with his 
. The river blanked out and Gottlieb took down the pot and will go to dinner knowing he is sitting pretty with his 103,000 in chips.
, Andrew Jeffrey checked to his opponent who made a bet of 2,700. Jeffrey had his opponent covered and moved all in. To his opponent's credit, he didn't instantly call, but ultimately decided after a minute of thought that he couldn't fold 
for a flopped set. Jeffrey had him crushed, however, as he had 
. The table let out a few moans of appreciation for Jeffrey and just as many groans of frustration for his opponent.
and only the case four could change the outcome of the hand. The river was a case card, but it was the case Ace, the 
to give Jeffrey quads and move his stack to one of the biggest in the room at this point. Jeffrey finished 2nd at a Borgata tournament last September for $66,914 and is hoping to add to that total this weekend.
