Hollywood Poker Open Season 4 Championship Event

$2,500 Championship Event
Day: 1b
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Event Info
Hollywood Poker Open Season 4 Championship Event
Final Results
Winner
Prize
$297,644
Event Info
Buy-in
$2,500
Prize Pool
$1,477,025
Total Entries
655
Level Info
Level
31
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000
Players Left 1 / 655
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Drinan and Anderson Cruising

Remko Rinkema
Remko Rinkema
Level 10 : 500/1,000, 100 ante
Calvin Anderson
Calvin Anderson

Connor Drinan and Calvin Anderson are having a fun night of poker action, and at their table it almost sounds like a homegame with the amount of banter that's going on.

Just now Anderson limped under the gun and the player two to his left moved all in for 8,000 chips. The action folded to Drinan who tanked for a bit and said, "I fold, but I want to keep these cards here to show later."

The dealer didn't allow Drinan to keep his cards, and they were mucked, and Anderson called the shove.

Anderson: {A-Clubs}{K-Spades}
Opponent :{K-Diamonds}{J-Hearts}

The board ran out {Q-Hearts}{5-Hearts}{6-Spades}{5-Diamonds}{4-Clubs} and Anderson won the pot.

"Full house!" Drinan yelled, as he claimed to have folded pocket fours.

"You believe me, Cal?" Drinan yelled.

"I believe you," Anderson smiled.

Tags: Calvin AndersonConnor Drinan

Cuny Leads: Just for the Fun of It

Level 10 : 500/1,000, 100 ante
Ray Cuny
Ray Cuny

Ninety-one-year-old Ray Cuny is living out a poker dream.

Deep on Day 1b of the Hollywood Poker Open Season 4 Championship Event, he's got almost 200,000 in chips, and has been hanging with pros and other players not just half his age, but many less than a third.

The Aurora, Illinois resident is a regular player at the Hollywood property in nearby Joliet, and qualified for the championship through an event there.

Cuny's family, whose been on the rail following him all day, says he's played cards since he was a kid, and when he's on the felt, he's so focused on the game, the troubles of everyday life seem to just melt away.

Cuny's troubles include a very serious medical condition. He was recently diagnosed with bladder cancer, but hasn't even given his condition a second thought, enjoying the camaraderie and good old fashioned fun at the Hollywood Poker Open tables today.

Plus, all the pots he's won on the way to a chip lead heading into the flight's last two levels haven't hurt either. Cuny's family says he's just playing for fun, but we can all agree on one thing, winning adds a whole lot more of it.

Tags: Ray Cuny

Level: 10

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 100

Lindgren Triples, Gorenc's Aces Fall

Remko Rinkema
Remko Rinkema
Level 9 : 400/800, 75 ante
Erick Lindgren
Erick Lindgren

Marty Gorenc just called us over to inform us of a hand he lost on which Erick Lindgren tripled his stack.

Gorenc explained how Lindgren moved all in for his last 8,500 and he moved all in over the top, after which Scott Davies called all in.

Gorenc showed aces, Davies tabled ace-king and Lindgren showed pocket nines. The board brought a nine and Lindgren tripled up, leaving Davies with 40,000, and Gorenc with 80,000 after winning a big side pot.

Tags: Erick LindgrenScott Davies

More Updated Chip Counts

Donnie Peters
Donnie Peters
Level 9 : 400/800, 75 ante

Updated Chip Counts

Donnie Peters
Donnie Peters
Level 9 : 400/800, 75 ante

MacPhee Finds Aces, As Linde Expected

Remko Rinkema
Remko Rinkema
Level 9 : 400/800, 75 ante

"He just wins," Dylan Linde said, right before Kevin MacPhee did exactly what his friend said.

Flash back a few minutes, when we spotted the two best friends from Coeur d'Alena, Idaho sitting side-by-side.

Linde (ImaLucSac) and MacPhee (ImaLuckSac) are very successful players both online and live, but we were curious to see who's been doing better versus the other.

"He beats me all the time," Linde said with a smile, as he wasn't involved in the hand that was ongoing.

"Lifetime he's busted me a lot more than I busted him, especially in live tournaments," Linde added.

MacPhee, who has $5.4 million in live tournament earnings, had his breakout score in 2010 when he won EPT Berlin for a cool million euros. Since then MacPhee has won a WSOP bracelet in 2015 for $490,800, and the WSOPE Main Event for $1,001,577.

"He just wins," Linde then added, right after the following hand.

MacPhee raised to 1,500. The action folded to the player in the big blind, and he three-bet. MacPhee moved all in for 16,100 and he was called right away.

MacPhee: {A-Diamonds}{A-Clubs}
Opponent: {J-Spades}{J-Hearts}

The board ran out {Q-Hearts}{10-Spades}{3-Diamonds}{6-Hearts}{9-Spades} and MacPhee found himself a double up.

Tags: Kevin MacPheeDylan Linde

Updated Chip Counts

Donnie Peters
Donnie Peters
Level 9 : 400/800, 75 ante

Bogert On My Stack and the Lead

Level 9 : 400/800, 75 ante
Cory Bogert
Cory Bogert

Cory Bogert has been climbing the chip counts all day long, and using the PokerNews My Stack App to update us all the whole way.

He's got the chip lead now, heading into the last three levels of the night, proving once and for all that May Stack App users clearly run better than anyone else.

The real truth is that Bogert came back from the dinner break already stacked, and managed to get on the right side of a kings over queens cooler, calling a five-bet shove and holding to really push his stack up to stratospheric levels.

He's now on 145,000 and planning to continue to update the My Stack App as that number rises.

Tags: Cory Bogert

Level: 9

Blinds: 400/800

Ante: 75

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