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After an early position raise to 1,500, Tyler Kenney, looking every bit like he's about to rob a gas station with a scarf pulled up over his nose and mouth, three-bet to 4,100.
Ari Engel, who just recently turned up to join in the Hollywood Poker Open Season 4 Championship Event Day 1b party, called from the big blind and the original raiser folded. The flop came 
and both players checked. Engel fired 4,000 at the 
turn, but could not shake Kenney. Finally, on the 
river, Engel pushed in a bet of 8,300.
Kenney called, and when Engel showed the 
for two pair, he turned over the 
to chop the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
62,000 | 37,000 |
|
37,000 | 37,000 |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
95,000 | 17,000 |
|
92,000 | 22,000 |
|
86,000 | 51,000 |
|
60,000 | |
|
57,000 | 19,000 |
|
53,000 | -10,000 |
|
38,000 | 13,000 |
|
36,000 | 6,000 |
|
36,000 | |
|
34,000 | 9,000 |
|
25,000 | |
|
24,000 | |
|
10,000 | |
|
9,000 | -8,000 |
Orlando, Florida native Mark Darnar made a fold he now clearly regrets, letting go of a set of queens on a board where the best he could figure, only one hand beat him.
Salt on the wound came in the form of his opponent showing the airball bluff, but Darnar persevered, and it wasn't too long after that he got it in preflop for 80,000, holding the 
versus the 
.
The flush came, but it wasn't the suited hand that got there. Darnar four-flushed on a 
board to take the pot and heal a few of those wounds from the earlier fold.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
80,000 | 80,000 |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
70,000 | |
|
70,000 | |
|
60,000 | |
|
42,000 | |
|
42,000 | |
|
|
38,000 | |
|
36,000 | 10,000 |
|
|
36,000 | |
|
35,000 | |
|
32,000 | |
|
32,000 | |
|
|
30,000 | |
|
28,000 | |
|
27,000 | |
|
27,000 | |
|
25,000 | |
|
20,000 | |
|
18,000 | |
|
|
17,000 |
Level: 8
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 75
The Hollywood Poker Open Championship has a lot of qualifiers in today's field, but as the night goes on more and more pros are showing up. One of the toughest tables in the field right now includes the following players.
Bjorn Li sits in the two-seat and the player from Hong Kong first made name for himself at the 2012 Aussie Millions. Li finished second in the Main Event for $236,779 and has been a regular face on the live circuit ever since. Li was also a part of the Brain vs. Ai heads-up poker challenge with Dong Kim, Doug Polk and Jason Les, in which these four pros battled against poker bot Claudico. In the end Li beat Claudico for the largest amount of the four contestants.
To Li's direct left we've spotted two-time WPT champion Tony Dunst. Dunst is the host of TV segment The Raw Deal on the World Poker Tour, and he finished second in the Aussie Millions Main Event for A$1,000,000.
Brendon Rubie's seated to Dunst's left and he came very close to winning a WSOP bracelet in 2012 when he finished second in the $2,500 4-max tournament to Timothy Adams. Rubie has also won four side events at the Aussie Millions.
Last but not least, Sergio Aido - seventh on the Spanish all-time money list - sits in seat seven at this table. Aido made his mark by winning a WPT National event in Barcelona and a UKIPT in London. Aido's career tournament earnings total $1.1 million.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
36,000 | -1,000 |
|
35,000 | 11,000 |
|
24,000 | 3,000 |
|
17,000 | -1,000 |
Brit Frank Williams is trending upwards.
He managed to pick up queens, and empty the clip all the way through a river ace, getting his heads-up opponent to call off as much as 50 big blinds with eights.
Williams now sits in a comfortable seat among the leaders post-dinner.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
120,000 | 120,000 |
Richard Pflum is one Hollywood Poker Open Season 4 Championship Event qualifier making the most out of his time here in Las Vegas.
He won his seat at the Hollywood property in Lawrenceburg, Indiana and has spun up his starting stack close to 100,000 already.
One if the bigger hands in the Pflum boom saw him empty the clip with big slick unconnected, until he found an ace on the river to get paid off big time.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
95,000 |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
55,000 | 29,000 |
|
25,000 | |
|
21,000 | |
|
16,000 |
