Big Stax VII (Big Stax 300): Final Results

Big Stax VII
July 31-August 4, 2014

Big Stax 300 - $300 + 30 No Limit Hold'em
$150,000 Guarantee

Total Entries: 1,848
Total Prize Fund: $524,162

Final Results:

Place	Player Name		Prize
1	Scott	Blackman	$108,035
2	Michael	Jelaso	$64,936
3	Frederick	Ferrell	$33,516
4	Jose	Montes	$23,042
5	Sergio	Loureiro	$17,805
6	Dan	Wach	$13,616
7	Richard	Guadagnino	$10,474
8	Dennis	Thurman	$8,012
9	Craig	Lozak	$6,284
10	Kevin	Tran	$4,608
11	William	Strong	$4,608
12	A	Nonymous	$4,608
13	Stephen	Press	$4,189
14	Juan	Valdez	$4,189
15	Joseph	Nichols	$4,189
16	Sean	Wright	$3,823
17	Jeffrey	Spence	$3,823
18	Justin	Liberto	$3,823
19	David	Kim	$3,456
20	Daniel	Chan	$3,456
21	Charles	Urrutia	$3,456
22	Robert	Sembler	$3,037
23	Adam	Sanders	$3,037
24	Michael	Azzaro	$3,307
25	Horatio	Hu	$2,618
26	Edward	Blount	$2,618
27	Trevor	Savage	$2,618
28	Richard	Lipson	$2,252
29	Alan	Kraut	$2,252
30	Joshua	Lehrman	$2,252
31	David	Heck	$2,252
32	Hermenegildo	Trillo	$2,252
33	James	Nguyen	$2,252
34	Neal	Gay	$2,252
35	Brian	Santiago	$2,252
36	Tony	Cheng	$2,252
37	Chris	Curtin	$1,938
38	Anthony	Garofalo	$1,938
39	John	Disante	$1,938
40	Jesse	Mercado	$1,938
41	Vincent	Caesar	$1,938
42	Jamie	Kerstetter	$1,938
43	Kenneth	Goodkind	$1,938
44	Robert	Paventi	$1,938
45	Armine	Mandjian	$1,938
46	Bartholomew	Golik	$1,676
47	Michael	Marder	$1,676
48	Andrew	Lydon	$1,676
49	Alek	Givotovsky	$1,676
50	Sean	Wallace	$1,676
51	Dominick	Giovanniello	$1,676
52	Timothy	Cook	$1,676
53	Andrew	Mullens	$1,676
54	Patrick	Chan	$1,676
55	Joseph	Mancini	$1,676
56	Anthony	Arnieri	$1,414
57	Jeremy	Hendricks	$1,414
58	Byung	Yoo	$1,414
59	Tam	Le	$1,414
60	Dennis	Lisovskiy	$1,414
61	Anthony	DeNicco	$1,414
62	Jeremy	Brown	$1,414
63	Matteo	Menna	$1,414
64	Joshua	Albright	$1,152
65	Terrence	Marchio	$1,152
66	Ferdinand	Chong	$1,152
67	Matthew	Giametta	$1,152
68	Jamar	Ross	$1,152
69	Joe	Reddick	$1,152
70	Sing	Cen	$1,152
71	John	Broetz	$1,152
72	Hal	Neeman	$1,152
73	Trevor	Deeter	$995
74	Alex	Queen	$995
75	Joseph	Mosca	$995
76	David	Reilly	$995
77	Shane	Clements	$995
78	Brent	Baumeister	$995
79	Tim	Bryan	$995
80	Ken	Silberstein	$995
81	Joe	McKeehen	$995
82	Jonathan	Borenstein	$943
83	Anna	Khait	$943
84	Richard	Rodrigo	$943
85	Richard	Devivo	$943
86	Kent	Wuethrich	$943
87	Paul	Antzoulis	$943
88	John	Banh	$943
89	Duane	McCrory	$943
90	Deding	Xu	$943
91	Gretchen	Sonne	$843
92	Chris	Csik	$843
93	Adam	Lagreca	$843
94	Eugene	Gorelik	$843
95	Mike	Linster	$843
96	Rocco	Luciano	$843
97	Robert	Murphy	$843
98	Jay	Frey	$843
99	Kevin	Johnson	$843
100	Tim	Little	$843
101	Stephen	Ricchini	$843
102	Christopher	Horter	$843
103	David	Pollack	$843
104	Jason	Rivkin	$843
105	Christopher	Palmieri	$843
106	Joe	Wertz	$843
107	Milton	Jaffee	$843
108	Adir	Davidov	$843
109	Ray	Ross	$790
110	Milos	Scekic	$790
111	Anthony	Tonzelli	$790
112	Frank	Ingardia	$790
113	Segui	Cecoltan	$790
114	Jesse	Willgruber	$790
115	Glenn	Macartney	$790
116	Ragavan	Thiagarajah	$790
117	Joe	Palma	$790
118	Tuan	Vuong	$790
119	Gianni	Arcuri	$790
120	Derek	Staib	$790
121	Bryant	Dewayne	$790
122	Glenn	Brechemin	$790
123	Ahmad	Azmi	$790
124	Joseph	Agron	$790
125	Colbert	Silva	$790
126	Christopher	Larrea	$790
127	James	Ingram	$790
128	Scott	Blumstein	$790
129	Bo	Toft	$790
130	Anirban	Roy	$790
131	Joakim	Brochard	$790
132	David	Wheeler	$790
133	Vincent	Napolitano	$790
134	Scott	Blumenfeld	$790
135	Mike	Cannon	$790
136	Nikola	Curanovic	$790
137	Bharatkhu	Ramanna	$790
138	Philip	Glass	$790
139	Justin	Dodds	$790
140	Rocardo	Franco	$790
141	Criag	Mason	$790
142	Daniel	Dizenzo	$790
143	Kyle	Norton	$790
144	Jaosn	Oury	$790
145	Steven	Krasner	$685
146	Michael	Reno	$685
147	Russell	Bisker	$685
148	Qi	Ha	$685
149	Ariel	Albillia	$685
150	Venkata	Potluri	$685
151	James	Reilly	$685
152	Robert	O'Rourke	$685
153	Anthony	Velocci	$685
154	Todor	Blazevski	$685
155	Anthony	Anatasi	$685
156	Andrew	Zhu	$685
157	Bryant	Garrett	$685
158	Brittany	Paige	$685
159	Gene	Raman	$685
160	Pearson	Potter	$685
161	John	Robinson	$685
162	Adam	Hueber	$685
163	Vito	Sparacio	$685
164	Scott	Fitz-Gerald	$685
165	Tim	Ward	$685
166	Deeneash	Krishnanand	$685
167	Antonio	Schiro	$685
168	Kirkor	Tekneci	$685
169	Patrick	Halter	$685
170	Alex	Rocha	$685
171	Philip	Marino	$685
172	Brian	Nuegeboren	$685
173	Lewis	Saxon	$685
174	Cary	Poulos	$685
175	Bill	Sanford	$685
176	Maurice	Lightner	$685
177	DeeAngelo	Seng	$685
178	Jeff	Wicker	$685
179	Nicholas	Marino	$685
180	Steven	Juricek	$685
181	Jake	Perry	$685
182	Matthew	Silberzweig	$685
183	Anthony	Potis	$685
184	Dominic	Lopresti	$685
185	Eric	Orstein	$685
186	Sarah	Mihalik	$685
187	Jacob	Neff	$685
188	Mohammed	Farah	$685
189	Luis	Rodriguez	$685
190	Dan	Sewnig	$685
191	Steven	Efferin	$685
192	Yuriy	Kalantarov	$685
193	Joshua	Gilkerson	$685
194	Hee Jong	Im	$685
195	William	Pastorick	$685
196	Jon	Peterson	$685
197	Joseph	Montervino	$685

Big Stax VII ($340 Limit Omaha 8B): Final Results

Big Stax VII
August 4, 2014

$340 Limit Omaha Hi/Lo 8B

Total Entries: 99
Total Prize Fund: $28,809

Final Results:

Place	Player Name	Hometown	Prize
1	Nicholas Kost	Chicago, IL	$9,219
2	Jason Rivkin	Bensalem, PA	$6,050
3	Mike Matheny	Mason, MI	$3,601
4	Erving Edelman	Bloomfield, NJ	$2,593
5	Joel Frank	Rocky Hill, NJ	$2,161
6	Donald Jacoby	Philadelphia, PA	$1,729
7	Blake Kantor	Fort Lee, NJ	$1,440
8	Daniel Hofer	Ossining, NY	$1,152
9	Michael Drabot	Riverside, NJ	$864

Big Stax 300 (Day 3): 1st Place - Blackman ($108,035)

Level 36 (Blinds 300,000/600,000/100,000)
Players Remaining: 1
Chip Average: 55,000,000

Scott Blackman (Egg Harbor Twp., NJ)

Big Stax 300 (Day 3): 2nd Place - Jelaso ($64,936)

Level 36 (Blinds 300,000/600,000/100,000)
Players Remaining: 1
Chip Average: 55,000,000

Mike Jelaso (Long Beach, NY)

Big Stax 300 (Day 3): 3rd Place - Ferrell ($33,516)

Level 35 (Blinds 250,000/500,000/50,000)
Players Remaining: 2
Chip Average: 27,500,000

Frederick Ferrell (South Philadelphia, PA)

Big Stax 300 (Day 3): 4th Place - Montes ($23,042)

Level 34 (Blinds 200,000/400,0000/50,000)
Players Remaing: 3
Chip Average: 1,848

Jose Montes (Bronx, NY)

Just busted 4th my aj vs ak sb vs bb thanks for the sweats!
— Jose Montes (@suganills) August 5, 2014

Big Stax 300 (Day 3): Break Time/Updated Chip Counts

Level 33 (Blinds 150,000/300,000/50,000)
Players Remaining: 4
Chip Average: 13,900,000

Players are headed on a (10) minute break and will return to blinds of 150,000/300,000/50,000 in Level 33.  Here are the up to the moment chip counts:

1. Scott Blackman - 14,000,000
2. Frederick Ferrell - 13,600,000
3. Jose Montes - 9,200,000
4. Michael Jelaso - 16,700,000

Big Stax 300 (Day 3): Ferrell Joins The Fun

Level 32 (Blinds 100,000/200,000/25,000)
Players Remaining: 4
Chip Average: 13,900,000

After Scott Blackman opened the button, Frederick Ferrell three-bet out of the small blind to 950,000.  Blackman made the call and the two would see a flop of 2♦ 5♠ K♥.  Ferrell led out for 675,000 and was called by Scott after a few moments of thought.  Frederick then checked-called a 1,300,000 bet after the 8♦ hit the turn.  With the pot close to 5,000,000, the dealer would place the Q♥ on the river.  The action would go check-check, and Ferrell would immediately show regret in checking, as he tabled K♠ K♣.  Ferrell would chip up to 16,300,000 with the pot, while Blackman dropped down to 5,400,000.

It was only two hands later though that Blackman would double through Michael Jelaso, once again evening the playing field a little more.  After Jelaso bricked a flush draw and had to ship the double to Blackman, the counts for the two would be as such:

Michale Jelaso - 11,700,000
Scott Blackman - 10,100,000

Big Stax 300 (Day 3): 5th Place - Loureiro ($17,805)

Level 32 (Blinds 100,000/200,000/25,000)
Players Remaining: 4
Chip Average: 13,900,000

Sergio Loureiro (Wayne, NJ)

Sergio Loureiro's (Wayne, NJ) bust out hand wasn't his true undoing, it was the hand prior.  On a board of Q♣ Q♥ 8♦ 9♣, Loureiro would get it in with Jose Montes, who was just reeling from the pot lost to Jelaso moments before:

Montes: J♦ 10♠ (turned straight)
Loureiro: K♠ Q♠ (flopped trips)

River: 6♠

Sergio would be left with just over 600,000 after losing said pot, and he'd be eliminated the next hand by Frederick Ferrell (K♥ 9♥ < A♠ Q♠).

Montes would chip back up to 11,000,000 with the referenced pot, recouping all the chips lost to Jelaso.

Big Stax 300 (Day 3): Montes Losing Ground

Level 32 (Blinds 100,000/200,000/25,000)
Players Remaining: 5
Chip Average: 11,000,000

The momentum is beginning to shift towards the side of Michael Jelaso.  He's been the chip leader the past to updates, and he is only increasing his lead.  The action between Jelaso and Jose Montes was caught on the river of a board reading K 6 7 Q 6.  Jelaso had already checked to Montes (pot over 3,000,000), and Jose would announce a bet of 2,800,000.  Michael tossed some chips in signifying a call, and Montes told him, "you got it."  Jelaso turned over K 10, with Montes looking back at his cards once more before mucking.

Michael Jelaso - 21,000,000
Jose Montes - 6,200,000

Big Stax 300 (Day 3): Updated Chip Counts

Level 32 (Blinds 100,000/200,000/25,000)
Players Remaining: 5
Chip Average: 11,000,000

Here are updated chip counts one-third of the way through Level 32:

1. Scott Blackman - 11,500,000
2. Frederick Ferrell - 10,200,000
3. Sergio Loureiro - 5,800,000
4. Jose Montes - 10,800,000
5. Michael Jelaso - 16,00,000

Big Stax 300 (Day 3): Break Time/Updated Chip Counts

Level 32 (Blinds 100,000/200,000/25,000)
Players Remaining: 5
Chip Average: 11,000,000

Players are currently going on a (10) minute break and will return to blinds of 100,000/200,000/25,000 (Level 32).  Here are the up to the minute chip counts from break:

1. Scott Blackman - 6,400,000
2. Frederick Ferrell - 9,100,000
3. Sergio Loureiro - 7,300,000
4. Jose Montes - 14,200,000
5. Michael Jelaso - 17,900,000

Big Stax 300 (Day 3): 6th Place - Wach ($13,616)

Level 31 (Blinds 75,000/150,000/25,000)
Players Remaining: 5
Chip Average: 11,000,000

Dan Wach (Boonton, NJ)

Dan Wach watched as the two players in front of him folded, and he then proceeded to shove his remaining 2,050,000.  Michael Jelaso called from the button, and the blinds folded behind:

Wach: A♦ 2♦
Jelaso: A♠ J♥

Flop: 5♦ 8♥ 3♠
Turn: K♦
River: Q♠

Wach would flop a wheel draw and then turn a diamond draw, giving him a lot of outs going to the river, but the black queen was not one of them.  He falls short of his best Big Stax finish (5th in the Big Stax V 1500), but adds $13,616 to his lifetime earnings of $631,000.

Big Stax 300 (Day 3): All the Kings

Level 31 (Blinds 75,000/150,000/25,000)
Players Remaining: 6
Chip Average: 9,200,000

Jose Montes and Frederick Ferrell would just play a pretty sizable pot, with the action beginning on the flop of K♠ 10♠ 7♥.  Montes led for 775,000 (this was a raised pot pre), with Ferrell making the call.  Jose led once again after the K♣ on the turn, this time for 925,000, with Frederick making the call once again.  Montes fired a third time after the 6♥ on the river, picking things up to 2,300,000.  Ferrell was talking to himself while making his decision, eventually verbalizing a call.  "All the kings," Jose said as he tabled K♥ K♦, winning the pot and chipping up to 17,700,000.  Ferrell would drop down to 3,500,000, but in an up to the minute update, Frederick doubled right back through Jose the next hand (Qx Qx > Ax Jx).

Big Stax 300 (Day 3): Wach Getting Very Short

Level 31 (Blinds 75,000/150,000/25,000)
Players Remaining: 6
Chip Average: 9,000,000

After losing a sizable pot moments ago to Jose Montes, Dan Wach is now the shortest stack at the table, sitting below the (20) big blind mark.  Wach would open the pot to 400,000, with Montes the only player to call, defending his big blind.  The flop would come out 7♠ Q♣ 8♦, and the action would go check-check.  After the 9♣ on the turn, Montes would lead for 650,000, and Dan pushed across a call.  The dealer would place the J♠ on the river, and Jose would check to Wach, who put out a bet of 1,400,000.  Jose looked at his cards, capped them once again, and verbalized a call.  Dan would ask Montes if he had a ten, which he showed (Q♥ 10♦), and Wach tossed his 7♦ 7♣ (bottom set) into the muck. Dan was left with 2,500,000 after losing the hand, just over (16) big blinds.

Big Stax 300 (Day 3): Break Time/Updated Chip Counts

Level 31 (Blinds 75,000/150,000/25,000)
Players Remaining: 6
Chip Average: 9,200,000

Players are headed on a (10) minute break, while the tournament floor colors off the grey (5,000 denomination) chips.  When players return to Level 31, the blinds to be posted will be 75,000/150,000/25,000.  Here are the up to the minute chip counts:

1. Scott Blackman - 6,300,000
2. Frederick Ferrell - 6,400,000
3. Sergio Loureiro - 12,400,000
4. Jose Montes - 11,800,000
5. Dan Wach - 5,100,000
6. Michael Jelaso - 8,800,000