Level: 2
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
HPT Season XV Championship
$2,500 Championship Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
Level 1
: 100/100, 0 ante
Four players built up a pot of around 3,000 and saw the 
flop fall on the felt. Action checked to a player in middle position, who bet 2,000. Only Bryan Skreens in the hijack called.
The middle position player bet 2,000 again once the 
fell on the turn, and Skreens raised to 4,000. The middle position player called.
The 
river was checked by the middle position player, and Skreens bet 7,000. The middle position player called, only to muck after Skreens tabled 
for a full house.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
46,800
16,800
|
16,800 |
Level 2
: 100/200, 0 ante
Timothy Vance opened to 300 from middle position and saw four callers: the cutoff, the button, Cory Bogert in the small blind, and the big blind.
The monotone flop read 
, and Vance fired 700 when checked to. Only Bogert and the big blind called.
Bogert and the big blind checked the 
turn, after which Vance grimaced and confirmed, "You guys checked?" before checking back.
When the blinds checked the 
river over to Vance, he tossed in 1,500, and his opponents mucked fairly quickly. "Nice laydown, gentlemen," Vance said, exchanging his face-down cards for the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
51,000 | |
|
||
|
31,000 | |
Level 1
: 100/100, 0 ante
Amy Hallowell checked a 
board from middle position, and Ronald Melichar bet 3,300 into a pot of 6,000 next to act. Hallowell made the call.
The 
completed the board on the river, and Hallowell checked again. Melichar fired 6,300 and Hallowell folded.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
34,000 | |
|
|
23,000 |
Level 1
: 100/100, 0 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
30,000 | |
|
30,000 | |
|
30,000 | |
|
|
30,000 | |
|
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
30,000 |
Level 1
: 100/100, 0 ante
Mike O'Neill opened to 300 from the hijack, followed by a quick three-bet to 800 by Jason Simon on the button. Action folded around to O'Neill, who tossed in a 500 chip.
O'Neill checked the 
flop, and Simon fired 800 once again. O'Neill called.
The 
turn checked through, as did the 
river.
O'Neill tabled 
for a flopped top pair, and Simon showed his 
for a missed nut flush draw and losing pair of kings.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
43,000
13,000
|
13,000 |
|
23,000 | |
|
||
Level 1
: 100/100, 0 ante
Craig Welko alerted us to a three-way clash at Table 45, and Terry Stuhldreher had a dilemma on his hands.
Stuhldreher had 7,800 in front of him from early position with a 
board on the felt, and Bruce Chahal had jammed for 28,700 next to act. HPT's all-time tournament earnings leader Craig Casino then ripped his last 29,800 in from the small blind, and Stuhldreher was deep in the tank.
"Set over set over set?" Stuhldreher muttered. He then said, "I'll have a story to tell, anyhow," before eventually choosing to call the clock on himself. HPT Tournament Director Jeremy Smith came over, and after a few seconds, Stuhldreher started to push chips in to make the call.
Bruce Chahal: 
Craig Casino: 
Terry Stuhldreher: 
"Ace!" Casino said, looking for a blank to keep Stuhldreher's set from filling up. The 
river was safe for both Chahal and Casino, and they chopped up all but 100 of Stuhldreher's chips. Stuhldreher would fall on the next hand to Casino.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
48,000
18,000
|
18,000 |
|
|
47,100
47,100
|
47,100 |
|
|
Busted |
Level 1
: 100/100, 0 ante
For the past week, the Heartland Poker Tour has been hosting a slew of side events here at the Hollywood Casino St. Louis.
Event #2: $200 Seniors No-Limit Hold’em, saw 274 entries build up a $44,662 prize pool, and 31 players managed to take home a share of the prize pool. Among those fortunate enough to earn a slice of the pie include James Schulz (9th - $1,121), Philip Day (10th - $871), Michael Patterson (13th - $639), Dorothy Hope (17th - $558), John Larose (19th - $500), James Gidden (23rd - $469) and Jeff Grimes (31st - $406).
Among those to finish in the top 93 and get paid were Martin Warren (9th - $5,030), Andrew Echele (15th - $3,017), Nick Watson (21st - $1,875), Larry Zhao (27th - $1,875), Dennis Bohn (36th - $1,525), Craig Welko (42nd - $1,285), Corey Fleming (51st - $1,125), Kelly Rhoades (57th - $1,005), Carl Masters (61st - $1,005), Leif Nelson (74th - $820), Paul Belken (80th - $820), and David Wilkens (93rd - $750.
In the end, the final eight players worked a deal that saw them all lock up a minimum payday of $3,460, while Jeffrey West took down the title and $4,999 in prize money.
Final Table Deal
| Position | Name | Hometown | Prize Money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jeffrey West | Weldon, Illinois | $4,999 |
| 2 | Gary Lambert | Quincy, Illinois | $4,700 |
| 3 | Keith Gregory | Girard, Illinois | $4,400 |
| 4 | Paul Koenig | Louisville, KY | $3,460 |
| 5 | Jeffrey Hall | St. Louis, Missouri | $3,460 |
| 6 | David Stoneburner | Fox Lake, Missouri | $3,460 |
| 7 | Charles Perkins | Louisiana, Missouri | $3,460 |
| 8 | Alan Perry | St. Charles, Missouri | $3,460 |
Level 1
: 100/100, 0 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
30,000 | |
|
|
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
30,000 | |
|
|
30,000 | |
|
30,000 | |
|
30,000 | |
|
30,000 | |
|
30,000 | |
|
|
||
|
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
30,000 | |
|
30,000 | |
|
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
||
Level 1
: 100/100, 0 ante
In a three-bet pot pre-flop, Jonathan Lawson in the hijack continued for 2,200 on the 
flop four ways. The cutoff and button folded, and Stephen Mayfield in the small blind called.
When checked to by Mayfield, Lawson fired again for 3,200 on the 
turn, and Mayfield called.
The river went check-check, and Mayfield's 
proved second best to Lawson's one pair in the form of .
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
38,000
38,000
|
38,000 |
|
20,400
20,400
|
20,400 |
