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

06-24-2016 19:05 UTC-7

Bet Alert: Neuville Enters HPO Championship

Happy_Freaked

Level 7 : 250/500, 50 ante

At age 73 Pierre Neuville's one of the most dedicated and motivated poker players in the world, as he recently laid out a bet for all takers. Neuville offered to put up $50,000 betting on his own Global Poker Index ranking being within the Top 50 at any point between now and June 30th 2017.

As of right now Neuville ranks 94th on the GPI, even though he finished second in a WSOP event for $213,837 just two weeks ago. It will take Neuville a lot more results to get to the Top 50, and right now he's at in the HPO Championship event.

To read all about this bet - and potentially wager against Neuville - read the full article we published earlier right here.

Player	Chips	Progress
Pierre Neuville	25,000

Tags: Pierre Neuville

06-24-2016 19:01 UTC-7

Updated Chip Counts

donpeters

Level 7 : 250/500, 50 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Michael Aron	63,000
Nick Maimone	47,000	-5,000
Sergio Aido	37,000
Brent Hanks	33,000
Chris Johnson	30,000	-2,000
Andrey Pateychuk	28,000	5,000
Mark Herm	26,000
Igor Yaroshevsky	26,000
Sean Jazayeri	25,000
Shankar Pillai	25,000
Tom Kearney	25,000
Artur Koren	24,000
Sam Chartier	23,000
Peter Jetten	23,000	8,000
Tony Dunst	21,000	-4,000
Brendon Rubie	18,000	7,000
Rick Alvarado	Busted

Level: 7

Blinds: 250/500

Ante: 50

06-24-2016 17:33 UTC-7

Everybody Eats

[user127999]

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

The players have been sent off on a 75-minute dinner break with the first six levels of play behind them.

Play will resume at approximately 6:45 p.m. local time in Las Vegas with plans to play five more levels before the day is through.

The board currently reads 253 entries with 180 remaining. Late registration and reentry is still available all day long.

06-24-2016 17:27 UTC-7

Mateos Celebrates Hollywood Style

[user127999]

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

Adrian Mateos won the 2016 World Series of Poker $1,500 Summer Solstice event this afternoon. He bested a field of 1,840 entries and won a first-place prize of $409,171.

He came back from a sizable deficit in heads-up play to collect his second WSOP bracelet, adding to a trophy case that includes both the WSOP Europe Main Event and European Poker Tour Grand Final titles.

So what did the spicy 21-year-old Spanish phenom do to celebrate his latest victory? He hopped in a car, drove over to the M Resort on the other side of town, and late-registered the Hollywood Poker Open Season 4 Championship Event of course.

Mateos made the drive south and just turned up at the tables here moments ago, picking up his 25,000-chip stack and letting it rip.

Player	Chips	Progress
Adrian Mateos	25,000	25,000

Tags: Adrian Mateos

06-24-2016 17:23 UTC-7

Gustavson Sends One Home

Happy_Freaked

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

After a raise to 1,200 we saw former EPT London winner Aaron Gustavson three-bet to put his opponent all in for 6,225 total.

After a while Gustavson's opponent called, and the showdown went as follows.

Gustavson:
Opponent:

The board ran out and Gustavson picked up the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Aaron Gustavson	40,000

Tags: Aaron Gustavson

06-24-2016 17:10 UTC-7

Fielder Catches Fire

[user127999]

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

Iowa's Jeff Fielder has joined the group at the top of the chip counts now after at least one massive hand and a dash of run good.

The big hand saw Fielder make kings full versus nines full and get heaps in on the river.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jeff Fielder	90,000

Tags: Jeff Fielder

06-24-2016 17:10 UTC-7

Updated Chip Counts

Happy_Freaked

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Bryan Moon	78,000	-13,000
Calvin Anderson	66,000	-14,000
Erick Lindgren	60,000	-5,000
Scott Davies	55,000	10,000
Nick Maimone	52,000	-4,000
Andy Spears	31,000	6,000
Andrey Pateychuk	23,000	-2,000
Tony Ruberto	19,000	-6,000
Peter Jetten	15,000	-10,000

06-24-2016 17:09 UTC-7

Updated Chip Counts

donpeters

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Nick Maimone	56,000	32,000
Dylan Linde	40,000	14,000
Thomas Muehloecker	38,000	20,000
John Dolan	35,000
Chris Johnson	32,000	4,500
Michael Rocco	30,000
Michael Benvenuti	22,000	-3,000
Elliot Smith	18,000	-9,000

06-24-2016 16:59 UTC-7

Karrim Eliminated Again

Happy_Freaked

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

It was not a great day for Ahmed Karrim, and just now he's been knocked out again. Karrim informed us that he lost holding pocket jacks versus . The money went in on a flop with two spades, the turn brought the but the knocked the South-African player.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ahmed Karrim	Busted

Tags: Ahem Karrim