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

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	-5,000
Sergio Aido	37,000

Brent Hanks	33,000

Chris Johnson	30,000 -2,000	-2,000
Andrey Pateychuk	28,000 5,000	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	8,000
Tony Dunst	21,000 -4,000	-4,000

Brendon Rubie	18,000 7,000	7,000
Rick Alvarado	Busted

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 19:12 UTC-7

Updated Chip Counts

donpeters

Level 7 : 250/500, 50 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Matt Brady	55,000 29,000	29,000
Keith Ferrera	25,000
Thomas Miller	21,000
Mike Sowers	16,000

06-24-2016 19:15 UTC-7

Pflum Booming

[user127999]

Level 7 : 250/500, 50 ante

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
Richard Pflum	95,000

Tags: Richard Pflum

06-24-2016 19:29 UTC-7

To Be Frank

[user127999]

Level 7 : 250/500, 50 ante

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
Frank Williams	120,000 120,000	120,000

Tags: Frank Williams

06-24-2016 19:38 UTC-7

Tough Draw For These Players

Happy_Freaked

Level 7 : 250/500, 50 ante

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
Sergio Aido	36,000 -1,000	-1,000

Bjorn Li	35,000 11,000	11,000
Tony Dunst	24,000 3,000	3,000

Brendon Rubie	17,000 -1,000	-1,000

Tags: Brendon Rubie Sergio Aido Tony Dunst

Level: 8

Blinds: 300/600

Ante: 75

06-24-2016 19:53 UTC-7

Updated Chip Counts

Happy_Freaked

Level 8 : 300/600, 75 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Calvin Anderson	70,000

Nick Maimone	70,000
Atanas Kavrakov	60,000
Peter Jetten	42,000
Jared Hamby	42,000

Connor Drinan	38,000

Igor Yaroshevsky	36,000 10,000	10,000
Erick Lindgren	36,000

Elliot Smith	35,000
Dylan Linde	32,000

Roman Korenev	32,000

Scott Davies	30,000

Artur Koren	28,000
Christopher Frank	27,000
Matt Stout	27,000
Brian Yoon	25,000

Brent Hanks	20,000

Andre Lettau	18,000
Andy Spears	17,000

06-24-2016 19:59 UTC-7

Darnar Perseveres

[user127999]

Level 8 : 300/600, 75 ante

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
Mark Darnar	80,000 80,000	80,000

06-24-2016 20:38 UTC-7

Updated Chip Counts

donpeters

Level 8 : 300/600, 75 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Bryan Moon	95,000 17,000	17,000
Calvin Anderson	92,000 22,000	22,000

Marty Gorenc	86,000 51,000	51,000
Giuseppe Pantaleo	60,000

Connor Drinan	57,000 19,000	19,000

Michael Aron	53,000 -10,000	-10,000
Pierre Neuville	38,000 13,000	13,000
Scott Davies	36,000 6,000	6,000

Erick Lindgren	36,000

Adrian Mateos	34,000 9,000	9,000

Ian O'Hara	25,000
Brent Roberts	24,000
David Tuthill	10,000
Andy Spears	9,000 -8,000	-8,000