$2,500 Championship Event
Day 1a Started
Hollywood Poker Open Season 4 Championship Event
$2,500 Championship Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Hollywood Poker Open Season 4 Championship Event
Buy-in
$2,500
Prize Pool
$1,477,025
Entries
655
Level
31
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000
Get Ready For The Hollywood Poker Open Championship Event!
The Hollywood Poker Open is back in Las Vegas at the beautiful M Resort Hotel & Casino, and PokerNews is right there with you to provide coverage of their 2016 Championship event.
This $2,500 buy-in no-limit hold'em tournament will have two starting days - starting today with Day 1a - and the final table will ultimately be played on Sunday.
This event gives players the option for unlimited re-entries all the way up until the start of Day 2, and many of the top players in the world are expected to participate in this event.
The HPO Championship event in Las Vegas has been covered on PokerNews since Season 1, when it was Ana Marquez who captured the biggest title of her poker career.
Here's an overview of the three prior HPO Championship Events:
| Year | Name | Entries | First Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Ana Marquez | 631 | $320,189 |
| 2014 | Simon Deadman | 692 | $351,097 |
| 2015 | Keven Stammen | 684 | $347,045 |
Play will commence at 11:00 a.m. local time on every day of play, and PokerNews will provide live coverage all the way throughout the tournament.
Shuffle Up and Deal!
The cards are now in the air for the Hollywood Poker Open Championship event, and a total of 11 levels will be played on Day 1a. There's a 75-minute dinner break planned at the completion of the sixth level.
Plenty of Familiar Faces in the Field
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25,000 |
Young Flops a Flush, Immekus Rivers a Boat
Justin Young has just been knocked out in the first level of the day after flopping a flush verus Nicholas Immekus. Young kicked things off with raise from the button and Immekus three-bet from the small blind to 1,200.
Young came back over the top for 3,600 and Immekus five-bet to 8,200. Young made the call and the flop brought out 
on which Immekus bet, and Young quickly moved all in. Immekus snap-called, and the showdown went as follows.
Young: 
Immekus: 
The turn brought the 
and the river the 
and Immekus hit a full house to knock Young out.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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55,000 | |
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Busted |
More Familiar Faces
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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25,000 | 25,000 |
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25,000 |
Up to 122 Players
The field is up to 122 players with late registrants taking their seats constantly. Late registration will remain open throughout the first two starting days and until the start of Day 2.
Five More Pros Spotted
We just spotted 2016 Aussie Millions winner Ari Engel, 2010 WSOP November Niner Joseph Cheong, 2015 Colossus winner Cord Garcia, and renowned pros Dan O'Brien and Ray Henson.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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25,000 | |
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25,000 |
Photos From The Field
Hooked on Hollywood
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Darryll Fish plays the Hollywood Poker Open Championship every year. Like a lot of players, he says he loves the property at M Luxury Resort Hotel Casino, and finds this tournament the perfect way to get a break from the Rio during the World Series of Poker and still get his grind on.
That notion, and the huge number of qualifiers who come in from across the country year in year out, is clearly the reason this event has become one of the most popular Hold'em events of the summer outside the series.
With two cashes and a final table appearance in two Pot-Limit Omaha events at the WSOP so far this year, Fish will have to adjust back to two-card poker again, but that shouldn't be a problem.
Fish says the beauty of Pot-Limit Omaha tournaments these days is that most of the field doesn't pay attention to basic tournament strategy, and despite the number of qualifiers, that likely won't be the case at here in the Hollywood.
But with $2,265,385 in career tournament earnings mostly built playing Hold'em, Fish should fare just fine and be worth watching as the day moves on.