Season 4 of the WPTDeepStacks kicked off in spectacular fashion, and Michael Graffeo topped a field of 1,509 entries to win the WPTDeepStacks Hollywood $1,100 Main Event on Tuesday at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida. Graffeo was awarded $290,687 in prize money after winning a quick final table that clocked in at just over three hours of play.
Final Table Results
1st: Michael Graffeo – $290,687
2nd: Dantonio Brown – $178,209
3rd: Loni Harwood – $110,431
4th: Marc Levy – $94,049
5th: Charlemagne Benjamin – $77,127
6th: Timothy Banks – $62,081
7th: TK Miles – $47,766
8th: Luis Torres – $34,473
9th: Aaron Massey – $25,563
In addition to the more thasn $290,000 in first-place prize money, Graffeo earned a WPTDeepStacks $3,000 Championship package and a Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open $5,250 Main Event seat.
Cards got into the air at noon on January 24, 2017, and the early stretch of play was rough for some of the big names.
Aaron Massey was eliminated in ninth place, then it was Luis Torres who exited in eighth place. After that, TK Miles was the next to fall in seventh place, as action kept up its fast-and-furious pace.
Timothy Banks then busted in sixth place, and Charlemagne Benjamin hit the rail in fifth.
With four players left, Marc Levy was the first to fall, and he was followed out the door by Loni Harwood. That set up a heads-up final between Dantonio Brown and Michael Graffeo.
The heads-up final echoed the entirety of the final table and didn’t last too long. There was only one all-in confrontation, and it started when Brown raised to 1.6 million preflop on the button. Graffeo reraised all in, and Brown called to put his tournament life at risk. Graffeo held the 
, and Brown showed the 
. The board was dealt 
, and Brown was eliminated in second place to take home $178,209 in prize money.
Graffeo won the tournament and took home $290,687 in prize money along with the WPTDS trophy and Seminole Hard Rock trophy, a WPTDeepStacks $3,000 Championship package, and a Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open $5,250 Main Event seat.
Next up on the WPTDeepStacks schedule for Season 4 is WPTDeepStacks Big Stax. The entire series of events runs Feb. 6-March1, 2017, with the WPTDeepStacks Big Stax 1500 highlighting the schedule and running Feb. 24-27. It all goes down at Parx Casino in Bensalem, PA, and we hope to see you there!