$2,500 Championship Event Day 1b | Hollywood Poker Open Season 4 Championship Event

06-24-2016 22:37 UTC-7

Drinan and Anderson Cruising

Happy_Freaked

Level 10 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

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:
Opponent :

The board ran out 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.

Player	Chips	Progress
Connor Drinan	135,000	78,000
Calvin Anderson	65,000	-27,000

Tags: Calvin Anderson Connor Drinan

06-24-2016 22:30 UTC-7

Cuny Leads: Just for the Fun of It

[user127999]

Level 10 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

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.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ray Cuny	191,000

Tags: Ray Cuny

Level: 10

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 100

06-24-2016 22:11 UTC-7

Lindgren Triples, Gorenc's Aces Fall

Happy_Freaked

Level 9 : 400/800, 75 ante

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.

Player	Chips	Progress
Marty Gorenc	80,000	-6,000
Scott Davies	40,000	4,000
Erick Lindgren	23,000	-13,000

Tags: Erick Lindgren Scott Davies

06-24-2016 22:04 UTC-7

More Updated Chip Counts

donpeters

Level 9 : 400/800, 75 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Frank Williams	77,000	-43,000
Justin Zaki	60,000
Keith Ferrera	47,000	22,000
Matt Brady	45,000	-1,000
Lee Childs	26,000	-5,400
Peter Jetten	25,000	25,000
Jared Jaffee	25,000

06-24-2016 21:38 UTC-7

Updated Chip Counts

donpeters

Level 9 : 400/800, 75 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Igor Yaroshevsky	105,000	69,000
Barry Hutter	102,000	102,000
Chris Johnson	100,000	70,000
Alex Lynskey	67,000	67,000
Ankush Mandavia	55,000	55,000
Ryan Welch	52,000	24,000
Sam Chartier	42,000	19,000
Tony Dunst	42,000	18,000
Artur Koren	39,000	11,000
Dan Sindelar	36,000	8,000
Pierre Neuville	35,000	-3,000
Joao Vieira	30,000	30,000
Kane Kalas	28,000	28,000
Jared Hamby	26,000	-16,000
Brent Hanks	25,000	5,000
Mark Herm	25,000	-1,000
Christopher Frank	25,000	-2,000
Sergio Aido	24,000	-12,000
John Dolan	17,000	-18,000
Sean Jazayeri	16,000	-9,000
Brendon Rubie	3,000	-14,000
Peter Jetten	Busted

06-24-2016 21:38 UTC-7

MacPhee Finds Aces, As Linde Expected

Happy_Freaked

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:
Opponent:

The board ran out and MacPhee found himself a double up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Kevin MacPhee	34,000	24,500
Dylan Linde	31,000	-1,000

Tags: Kevin MacPhee Dylan Linde

06-24-2016 21:13 UTC-7

Updated Chip Counts

donpeters

Level 9 : 400/800, 75 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Joe Serock	75,000
Tyler Kenney	65,000	3,000
Michael Sanders	60,000
James Carroll	57,000
Andrey Pateychuk	55,000	27,000
Tommy Vedes	53,000	53,000
Michael Wang	49,000	23,000
Brian Yoon	47,000	22,000
Matt Brady	46,000	-9,000
Thomas Muehloecker	43,000	5,000
Ari Engel	43,000	6,000
Matt Waxman	36,000
Lisa Hamilton	25,000
Ben Zamani	18,000
Michael Benvenuti	17,000	-5,000
Matt Stout	17,000	-10,000
Joseph Cheong	4,000	-32,000

06-24-2016 21:10 UTC-7

Bogert On My Stack and the Lead

[user127999]

Level 9 : 400/800, 75 ante

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