Event #14: $600 Lone Star Surprise Bounty II | Lone Star Poker Series Champions Social

04-24-2021 17:15 UTC-6

Player	Chips	Progress
Rob Valden	480,000 10,000	10,000
Jim Echiverri	250,000 196,000	196,000
Linh Dinh	105,000 25,000	25,000
Roy Choi	40,000 60,000	60,000
Logan Hewett	35,000 75,000	75,000

Valden Building Large Stack

Jeff McMillan

Level 11 (1,500/3,000/3,000)

Rob Valden has been on fire for the past few levels and added another bounty to his clutches after he flopped a flush with the to overcome the pocket queens of Kenneth Po.

The turn and river did not help Po and Valden added even more chips to his surging stack

Player	Chips	Progress
Rob Valden	470,000 170,000	170,000
Kenneth Po	Busted

Tags: Rob Valden Kenneth Po

04-24-2021 16:47 UTC-6

A Look at the Lone Star Poker Series Winners

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Jeff McMillan

Date	Buy-in	Tournament	Entries	Prize Pool	Winner	Prize
Sunday, April 18	$215	Event #1: Spring Series Kick-Off	409	$150,000	Gerald Stogner	$23,742
Sunday, April 18	$400	Event #2: $15K Deepstack Almost Freeze Out	38	$15,000	Nick Chin	$3,634
Monday, April 19	$400	Event #3: NLH Senior's Event	27	$10,000	Scott Sanford	$3,500
Monday, April19	$400	Event #4: Manic Monday Double Stack Turbo	29	$10,000	Giovanni Musachio	$3,300
Monday, April 19	$400	Event #5: Limit Horse Deeper Stack Turbo	28	$10,000	Dean Joe	$3,049
Tuesday, April 20	$500	Event #6: Limit Omaha 8 Championshio	24	$10,200	Pedro Rios	$4,080
Tuesday, April 20	$400	Event #7: NLH 6 Max	26	$10,000	Kevin Kaylor	$4,000
Wednesday, April 21	$400	Event #8: The Monster NLH	110	$35,750	Mark Cortez	$10,010
Wednesday, April 21	$400	Event #9: Big Bet 8 Game Mix	27	$8,000	Bryan Evans	$3,510
Thursday, April 22	$400	Event #10: NLH Black Chip Bounty	39	$15,000	Derek Norman	$3,885
Thursday, April 22	$600	Event #11: Spring Series PLO Championship	96	$48,960	David O'Brien	$9,874
Friday, April 23	$400	Event #12: The Ultimate Monster NLH	102	$33,150	Pedro Rios	$9,447
Friday, April 23	$400	Event #13: Pot Limit Big O	32	$10,400	Nick Chin	$3,700

04-24-2021 16:34 UTC-6

Batinga Busted

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Jeff McMillan

Level 10 (1,000/2,000/2,000)

Ed Batinga and Andy Johnson were involved in a big all-in with the chip stacks very close.

Johnson had the against the of Batinga.

The flop basically sewed it up for Batinga as it came down , the turn was the and the river came the to knock Batinga down to only 5,000.

His $300 VIP bounty was collected a couple of hands later by Stephen Hart.

Player	Chips	Progress
Andy Johnson	135,000 135,000	135,000
Stephen Hart	90,000 35,000	35,000
Ed Batinga	Busted

Tags: Ed Batinga Stephen Hart

04-24-2021 16:03 UTC-6

Player	Chips	Progress
Rob Valden	300,000 160,000	160,000
Garrett Jones	175,000 10,000	10,000
Ed Batinga	145,000 5,000	5,000
Loi Nguyen	130,000 85,000	85,000
Esirigho Otite	130,000 130,000	130,000
Linh Dinh	130,000 75,000	75,000
Stephen Hart	125,000 5,000	5,000
Deanna Johnson	120,000
James Duke	120,000 85,000	85,000
Logan Hewett	110,000 20,000	20,000
Roy Choi	100,000 45,000	45,000
Meraf Haile	75,000 75,000	75,000
Isaac Trumbo	45,000 30,000	30,000
Don Iyengar	40,000 45,000	45,000
Kenneth Po	25,000 27,000	27,000
Kim Stone	18,000 22,000	22,000
Jeff Platt	Busted

Break Time

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Jeff McMillan

The remaining 35 players are now on a 20-minute break.

04-24-2021 15:26 UTC-6

Jones Collects Elusive $1,000 Bounty

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Jeff McMillan

The lone $1,000 bounty is now off the board in Level 8 of the Lone Star Surprise Bounty with Houston native Garrett Jones being the lucky recipient after he eliminated a player.

The two $500 bounties have also been collected and are off the board. Six $200 bounties are still out there as well as 11 of the VIP bounties.

Player	Chips	Progress
Garrett Jones	165,000 165,000	165,000

04-24-2021 15:06 UTC-6

Nick Chin Wins Event #13: Pot Limit Big O

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Jeff McMillan

Nick Chin won his second event of the Lone Star Poker Series after taking down Event #13: Pot Limit Big O for $3,700 after a chop heads up with Conrad Higgs late on Friday night. The tournament attracted 32 entries and had a prizepool of $10,400

Chin also won Event #2: Deep Stack Almost Freeze Out last Sunday for $3,634

1	Nick Chin	$3,700
2	Conrad Higgs	$3,008
3	Benjamin Perez	$1,876
4	Corey Bradford	$1,356
5	Jacob Seale	$400

04-24-2021 14:42 UTC-6

Level 7 Chip Counts

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Jeff McMillan

Player	Chips	Progress
Ed Batinga	140,000 80,000	80,000
Rob Valden	140,000 140,000	140,000
Logan Hewett	130,000 75,000	75,000
Stephen Hart	120,000 120,000	120,000
Jason Fitzpatrick	110,000 110,000	110,000
Don Iyengar	85,000 30,000	30,000
Jeff Platt	60,000 10,000	10,000
Linh Dinh	55,000 10,000	10,000
Jim Echiverri	54,000 16,000	16,000
Kenneth Po	52,000 52,000	52,000
Kim Stone	40,000 75,000	75,000
Isaac Trumbo	15,000 5,000	5,000

04-24-2021 14:26 UTC-6

Lone Star Bounty Payouts

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Jeff McMillan

Registration has ended with 93 total entries to create a prizepool of $47,430. The top 12 places will be paid and the winner will take home the grand prize of $13,518

1st: $13,518
2nd: $8,775
3rd: $6,403
4th: $4,269
5th: $3,439
6th: $2,727
7th: $2,134
8th: $1,660
9th: $1,304
10-12th: $1,067