Steven van Zadelhoff just called us over and gave us a very brief summarization of his double up. Van Zadelhoff got his money in pre flop for 18,000 chips and his pocket aces were up against the jacks of his opponent.
Van Zadelhoff faded the outs of his opponent and he's sitting comfortably on around 42,000 chips.
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17,000
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Dan O'Brien is looking to crawl his way out of a little bit of a hole here at the Hollywood Poker Open Season 4 Championship Event today.
O'Brien was all over Twitter before the NBA Championship offering 2-1 on anyone willing to bet the Golden State Warriors wouldn't beat the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Of course, the Cavs made the biggest comeback in NBA finals history to take the title, winning Game 7 at Golden State after being down 3-1 earlier in the series, and O'Brien took a bit of a bath.
He told PokerNews it was the most he'd lost in a single day betting sports, but since he's really not that heavy a sports better, it didn't hurt too bad.
O'Brien also said he talked about it for a segment on his new Podcast dubbed Fighting Chance. It's an NPR-style pod following he and Cate Hall on their respective journeys through the summer in Vegas as professional poker players, and it was just picked up by iTunes today.
You'll have to listen to find out if talk of O'Brien's Warrior-bet losses are featured on the show, but its a good bet a deep run here in the Hollywood would make the cut.
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Poker pro Brian Mancilla moved to Las Vegas from Southern California just in time to take the early chip lead here in the Hollywood Poker Open Season 4 Championship Event.
He's busted three players so far, getting it up to over 80,000 after getting it in with aces, jacks and combo-draw that got there.
World beater Calvin Anderson is also in the top five, joined by Ryan Van Sanford, who has coolered at least two other players, cracking aces with a flush and a set with a straight.
Rounding out the group leading in Level 3 are the venerable Ari Engel, and Justin Young, on his second bullet.
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81,000 | |
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65,000
40,000
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40,000 |
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63,000 | |
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56,000
31,000
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31,000 |
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52,000
27,000
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27,000 |
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Level: 4
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 25
Brian Mancilla has it up close to 100,000 and is considering bagging up early after being on the right side of a kings over big slick cooler moments ago.
Meanwhile, Chicago's Romy Reyes has turned a seat he won at a Hollywood property in Illinois into a spot among the early leaders as well. Reyes has fought his way up over 80,000 already, finding an ace on the river with 
versus kings, before getting it in with pocket aces over kings.
A few tables over, Brooklyn, NY's James Gettinger called three pot-sized barrels before shoving the river and winning a big hand without showdown. He took the rest of that player's chips getting it in with the over the 
and holding a and later to climb the counts.
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95,000
14,000
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14,000 |
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81,000
81,000
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81,000 |
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80,000
80,000
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80,000 |
Floridian Dustin Murphy flopped top two against the nut flush draw, got it in and held, helping him collect a 40,000-chip pot. But that was just the biggest of a number of hands he's won through the early levels here at the Hollywood Poker Open Season 4 Championship Event.
Murphy has been able to spin it up above 80,000 and into a spot among the leaders closing in on the end of Level 4.
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82,000 |
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25,000 | |
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25,000 | |
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25,000 | |
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25,000 | |
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25,000 | |
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25,000 | |
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25,000 | |
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25,000 | |
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25,000 | |
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25,000 | |
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25,000 | |
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25,000 | |
Level: 5
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 25
Louisiana's Howard Hunt is the first player past the 100,000-chip post and into the lead here at the Hollywood Poker Open Season 4 Championship Event.
He ensured there would be no min-cash for rock Tony Cousineau in this one, busting him a little earlier, and had a smile when asked how that hand went.
"Not good for him," Hunt joked, later acknowledging he'd flopped bottom set against top two pair and held.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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105,000 | |
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Busted |
We just spotted Tobias Peters lingering around, and he explained to us how he lost his stack to Bob Redman. Peters explained how he raised to 750 and Redman three-bet from his left to 3,100. Peters moved all in for 13,000 and Redman made the call.
Peters: 
Redman: 
The board ran out 
and Peters was knocked out.
"I'm gonna take the rest of the day off," Peters said, as he decided against re-entering the tournament.
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