Following its recent acquisition by the World Poker Tour, Season 4 of WPTDeepStacks kicked off in incredible fashion with the largest field size in the tour’s history. The opening event of WPTDeepStacks Hollywood from Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, FL attracted a massive field of 4,756 entries.
The 16-event WPTDeepStacks Hollywood series is part of Seminole’s Lucky Hearts Poker Open festival, and the opening event was the $360 Ultimate Re-Entry No-Limit Hold’em with a $500,000 guarantee. The guarantee was nearly tripled with a prize pool of more than $1.4 million generated. The event also proved to be the second largest field in a live tournament in Florida poker history.
Topping the field was Jerry Wong, who claimed a $250,000 first-place prize after a four-way chop in Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017. At the time of the deal, Wong had the largest majority of the chips in play, with 42.15 million in his stack of the 65.975 million in play. The other three players involved in the deal were Nancy Thomas, Victor Figueroa, and Steven McKoy.
Final Table Results
1st: Jerry Wong – $250,000*
2nd: Nancy Thomas – $104,113*
3rd: Victor Figueroa – $103,826*
4th: Steven McKoy – $91,241*
5th: Christopher Arcidiacono – $45,765
6th: Michael Laake – $34,830
7th: Fabio Pereira – $26,730
8th: Jose De La Cruz – $19,440
9th: Gal Erlichman – $13,770
*Denotes prize amount was result of a four-way deal.
Thanks to his large chip lead at the time, Wong made out very well from the deal, as first place was originally set at $251,100. It was the third largest score of his live tournament career.
The top 387 places reached the money in the event, with deep runs had by Jake Scwartz (13th – $7,290), David Prociak (26th – $8,240), Kenneth Hicks (36th – $4,525), and Jacobo Fernandez ($1,500). The event featured a special format that allowed players to earn bonuses for bagging multiple Day 1 stacks. Prociak’s prize included a $5,000 bonus, and Hicks’ prize included a $2,500 bonus.
The Season 4 WPTDeepStacks Hollywood schedule continues through Jan. 25. The series is highlighted by the $1,100 Main Event that boasts a $1 million guarantee on the prize pool and runs Jan. 19-24, 2017.
Click here to see the complete list of WPTDeepStacks Hollywood events.
**Image courtesy of SeminoleHardRockPokerOpen.com.