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HPO Grantville Regional Championship
Day 1 Completed
2014 Hollywood Poker Open Grantville Regional Event
HPO Grantville Regional Championship
Day: 1
Event Info
2014 Hollywood Poker Open Grantville Regional Event
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$1,629
Prize Pool
$59,873
Total Entries
37
Level
18
Blinds
2,000 / 4,000
Ante
500
Players Left 1 / 37
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Level 12
: 600/1,200, 100 ante
The 2014 Hollywood Poker Open Grantville Regional Championship kicked off their $1,800 buy-in Main Event at the Penn National Race Course in Pennsylvania today. The tournament attracted 37 players, but after 12 one-hour levels of play, just nine remained with Bradley Yazici and his stack of 170,400 leading the way.
The first elimination of the day came in Level 2 (50/100) when Jerry Wagner made it 650 to go preflop and Ernie Lewis made the call. Both players then checked the 
flop, the 
turned, and Wagner bet 2,000. Lewis popped it to 7,000, Wagner called, and the 
completed the board on the river. Wagner then shoved all in and Lewis snap-called off his last 7,000.
Wagner tabled the 
for quads, and a stunned Lewis showed the 
for a flopped Broadway straight. Lewis related his beat to some friends across the room, gathered his things, and then exited the tournament floor. Unfortunately for Wagner, those chips wouldn’t last the night and he busted in Level 8.
As the night progressed plenty of other players found themselves on the rail including Tam Van Tam, Josh Bell, Kathy Clark, Denny Firestone, Joe Paese, Thomas Daubert, Nick Liddell, Maria Krebs, Steven Gurney-Goldman, the father-and-son combo of Bob Marquette Sr. and Robert Marquette Jr, and HPO ambassador and 2003 World Series of Poker Main Event champ Chris Moneymaker.
Moneymaker was crippled in Level 9 (300/600/50) after running into the quads of Vicki Russel. Not long after, Mike Summers opened for 1,300 and Larry Kostelac flatted from the cutoff. After the button folded, Moneymaker moved all in for roughly 10,000, Summers moved all in over the top, and Kostelac folded.
The fan favorite got it in good with 
, but he was racing against the 
of Summers. The flop put a dagger through Moneymaker's heart by delivering Summers an ace, and that was followed by blanks on both the turn and river.
"Good luck guys," the ambassador said before taking his leave from the tournament.
The remaining nine players will return at 1 p.m. local time on Sunday to play down to a winner. Only five will get paid, with the winner receiving $22,752 and a seat into the $2,500 HPO Championship in Vegas this June. Who will it be? Join us then as we bring you all the action and eliminations right here on PokerNews.
Level 12
: 600/1,200, 100 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
170,400
34,600
|
34,600 |
|
156,100
51,100
|
51,100 |
|
118,200
33,800
|
33,800 |
|
88,600
8,600
|
8,600 |
|
68,200
7,200
|
7,200 |
|
55,400
1,400
|
1,400 |
|
46,600
9,900
|
9,900 |
|
|
18,800
8,100
|
8,100 |
|
17,700
3,300
|
3,300 |
Level 12
: 600/1,200, 100 ante
The final nine players are bagging and tagging for the night. We're headed out to grab official counts, so stayed tuned for those as well as a full recap of the Day 1 action.
Level 12
: 600/1,200, 100 ante
With around 10,000 in the pot and a flop of 
, Ken Moore checked from the small blind and Bradley Yazici bet 5,200. Moore sprung to life with a check-raise to 17,000, and Yazici thought for a bit before announcing that he was all in.
"I guess I'm committed," Moore said as he stood and slid forward his remaining chips.
Moore: 
Yazici: 
Moore was left shaking his head after discovering the bad news, and he watched helplessly as the blanked on the turn followed by the 
on the river.
Moore fell in tenth place while Yazici chipped up to over 200K. With less than five minutes remaining on Day 1, he'll no doubt finish as the chip leader.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
205,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
|
Busted |
Level 12
: 600/1,200, 100 ante
Jason Thomas opened for 3,000 under the gun and was met by a three-bet to 8,50 when action reached Chi Do on the button. The blinds folded, Thomas called, and then both players checked the 
flop.
After the dealer burned and turned the 
, Thomas bet 6,000, Do called, and the 
completed the board on the river. Thomas wasted little time in dropping out a bet of 16,000, and Do hit the tank. Eventually he called the clock on himself, and with around 25 seconds remaining he sent his cards to the muck.
Thomas couldn't resist and showed the 
for a bluff.
"I knew it," Do said. "I had ace high."
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
105,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
|
|
61,000
14,000
|
14,000 |
Level 12
: 600/1,200, 100 ante
| Seat | Player | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chi Do | 75,000 |
| 2 | Kenneth "Hockey" Hock | 10,700 |
| 3 | John Kostelac | 152,000 |
| 4 | Jason Thomas | 90,000 |
| 5 | Bradley Yazici | 155,000 |
| 6 | Mike Summers | 80,000 |
| 7 | Fritz Neunkirchner | 21,000 |
| 8 | Vicki Russel | 54,000 |
| 9 | Ken Moore | 50,000 |
| 10 | Peter Kaemmerlen | 56,500 |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
155,000 | |
|
|
152,000
32,000
|
32,000 |
|
|
90,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
|
80,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
|
75,000 | |
|
|
56,500
16,500
|
16,500 |
|
|
54,000
9,000
|
9,000 |
|
|
50,000
3,000
|
3,000 |
|
|
21,000
11,500
|
11,500 |
|
|
10,700
12,300
|
12,300 |
Level 12
: 600/1,200, 100 ante
We missed the action, but we do know that Larry Kostelac was just the victim of a cooler after getting his last 38,000 or so all in preflop with the only to run it into the 
of Chi Do.
Both players were on their feet in anticipation of the flop, which came down 
. Kostelac came up empty, as he would on both the 
turn and 
river.
"Not much you can do there," someone offered Kostelac, who gathered his things and made his way to the exit in 11th place.
The final ten players will now combine down to one table.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
75,000
24,000
|
24,000 |
|
|
Busted |
Level 12
: 600/1,200, 100 ante
In the very next hand after being crippled by Vicki Russel, Xiaowei Lu fell to her.
It happened when Lu moved all in from the hijack and Russel called him from the small blind.
Lu:
Russel:
Russel was well out in front with her queen kicker, and she stayed there as the board ran out 
. Just like that, Lu was bounced from the tournament
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
63,000
17,000
|
17,000 |
|
|
Busted |
Level: 12
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 100
