Event #8: $1,600 Mystery Bounty
Day 1a Started
2022 The Lodge Championship Series
Event #8: $1,600 Mystery Bounty
Day: 1a
Event #6: 1M GTD Mystery Bounty Day 1a Starts Today
Welcome to Event #6: 1M GTD Mystery Bounty. Play gets underway with Day 1a at 11 a.m. and will continue through Day 1b which starts at 5 p.m. Full coverage of Day 1a will jump in around 1 p.m. local time.
Players will start with 40,000 chips for the $1,600 buy-in, levels are 40 minutes in length and each flight will conclude when 12% of the field remains. Registration is open through Level 9.
The mystery bounty format was used in Event #5: $600 Mystery Bounty and was a big hit as the entire Lodge Poker Club got involved and invested when the bounties were drawn. This event will boast even larger bounties as they will range from the $1,000 minimum to the $100,000 mega grand prize. The bounties will not come into play until Day 2 however so Day 1 is a table setter day. There will be eight starting flights through four days
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Level: 4
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 400
Level 4 Status
Level 4
: 200/400, 400 ante
Day 1a of the $1,600 Mystery Bounty is on Level 4 with 37 entries so far.
Selected Chip Counts
Level 4
: 200/400, 400 ante
Mahesh Rathi and Michael Jozoff are back on the felt today as they finished third and fourth in last nights respectively in Event #5: $600 Mystery Bounty,
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
53,000 | 53,000 |
|
52,000 | 52,000 |
|
41,000 | |
|
28,000 | 28,000 |
Full Chip Counts of Current Registrants
Level 4
: 200/400, 400 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
135,000 | 135,000 |
|
112,000 | 112,000 |
|
82,000 | 82,000 |
|
77,000 | 77,000 |
|
70,000 | 70,000 |
|
70,000 | 70,000 |
|
|
59,000 | 59,000 |
|
|
55,000 | 55,000 |
|
|
55,000 | 55,000 |
|
55,000 | 55,000 |
|
|
53,000 | 1,000 |
|
45,000 | 45,000 |
|
45,000 | 45,000 |
|
42,000 | 42,000 |
|
42,000 | 42,000 |
|
37,000 | 37,000 |
|
35,000 | 35,000 |
|
|
32,000 | 32,000 |
|
|
28,000 | 28,000 |
|
28,000 | 28,000 |
|
28,000 | 28,000 |
|
24,000 | 24,000 |
|
|
23,000 | 23,000 |
|
23,000 | 23,000 |
|
|
21,000 | 21,000 |
Level: 5
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 600
Jozoff Three-Bet Shoves
Level 5
: 300/600, 600 ante
Action was on the flop as it read 
. From the button, Michael Jozoff bet 10,000. In middle position, Venkat Chivukula raised it up to 22,000. Jozoff then three-bet all in for 76,000.
Chivukula thought for about 20 seconds before the folded to send the pot to Jozoff.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
103,000 | 50,000 |
|
|
70,000 | 15,000 |
Level: 6
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 800
Bocka Gets There
Level 6
: 400/800, 800 ante
The flop read 
with four players in the hand. From the big blind, Youn Noh bet 5,000, a player in early position called. Jeremy Bocka shoved all in for about 26,000 from the hijack, Mahesh Rathi folded the small blind. Noh shoved his larger stack which folded out the early position player.
Bocka had the draw with the 
while Noh had two pair with the 
.
The turn came the 
to connect the flush and the river was the 
to confirm a double for Bocka.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
93,000 | 11,000 |
|
|
63,000 | 18,000 |