Eine begehrte Alternative zur World Series of Poker (WSOP) ist an diesem Wochenende das $2.500 Hollywood Poker Open Championship Event im M Resort. $500.000 wurden garantiert, aber mit 692 Teilnehmern lagen gleich $1.560.460 im Pot. Und das wiederum heißt, dass sich er Sieger auf $351.097 freuen darf.
Im Feld waren einige Stammgäste der WSOP zu finden – Liv Boeree, Andrew Lichtenberger, Ryan D’Angelo, Jonathan Little, Ami Barer, Calvin Anderson, Kitty Kuo, Kevin MacPhee und viele mehr. Auch Artur Koren, Heinz Kamutzki, Christophe Gross, Martin Stausholm, Jens Kerper, Tillmann Raschke und Bastian Fischer waren im Feld zu finden.
Bastian Fischer hatte Glück, als er short mit Pocket Deuces gegen Kings lief, aber gleich als Doorcard die 
am Board fiel. Er kam letztlich ebenso heil durch den Tag wie Jens Kerper (73.), Giu Pantaleo (74.), Daniel Engels (94.) und Tillmann Raschke (166.).
Zahlreiche namhafte Spieler sind noch im Feld und es wird ein spannender Kampf für die verbliebenen 233 Spieler. Chipleader ist Tommie Janssen, aber das Fled liegt doch knapp beisammen und so darf man sich auf mächtig Action freuen. Die Coverage gibt es unter pokernews.com und für den Anteil an deutschsprachigen Spielern im Blog sorgt Christian Zetzsche. Die Blinds an Tag 2 starten bei 800/1600/200.
| Tommie Janssen | 287.100 |
| Ron Carrocio | 257.100 |
| Julia De La Rosa | 242.300 |
| Jason Smith | 233.400 |
| Tripp Kirk | 214.800 |
| Steve Zell | 213.000 |
| Ryan Tepen | 198.400 |
| David Eldridge | 198.000 |
| David Martirosyan | 194.900 |
| Toby Matthews | 193.000 |
| Andy Spears | 183.400 |
| Alex Schoenberg | 181.700 |
| Igor Dubinskyy | 172.300 |
| Pavlin Karakikov | 170.600 |
| Toby Lewis | 158.100 |
| Michael Wasserman | 156.800 |
| Brian Bishop | 156.600 |
| David Hengen | 152.500 |
| Michael Wang | 151.300 |
| David Palmucci | 149.000 |
| Brian Cavaliere | 148.000 |
| Kelly Johnson | 147.800 |
| David Paredes | 147.600 |
| Tony Schutter | 145.500 |
| Shawn Lampman | 139.300 |
| Danny Hannawa | 137.000 |
| Ravi Raghavan | 133.500 |
| Julian Nuijtan | 131.100 |
| Mal Hagan | 128.700 |
| Lopes Bruno | 126.900 |
| Roy Reid | 125.300 |
| Ryan D’Angelo | 125.100 |
| Slaven Popov | 123.900 |
| Mark Rix | 123.000 |
| Simon Deadman | 122.000 |
| Justin Pechie | 122.000 |
| Matt Sundberg | 121.300 |
| Viet Vo | 121.000 |
| Richard Dubini | 118.900 |
| Pablo Fernandez | 117.900 |
| Jake Toole | 117.800 |
| Noah Vaillancourt | 115.200 |
| Martin Godsk | 115.000 |
| Matt Iles | 112.600 |
| Brian Hastings | 111.100 |
| Stuart Breakstone | 110.600 |
| Artem Metalidi | 109.200 |
| Artem Koblynskyi | 108.800 |
| Garrett Beckman | 106.700 |
| James Lushin | 106.700 |
| Salas Damian | 105.600 |
| Michael Sanders | 105.500 |
| Dan Harkenrider | 104.200 |
| Lee Childs | 104.000 |
| Kenneth Hicks | 103.600 |
| Florens Feenstra | 103.600 |
| Mike Sowers | 102.100 |
| Thomas Lutz | 101.700 |
| Niall Farrell | 101.400 |
| David Chase | 99.800 |
| Yaron Malki | 99.400 |
| Seth Berger | 99.400 |
| Tom Braband | 99.100 |
| Sean O’Callaghan | 98.700 |
| Steve Birtcher | 97.200 |
| John Simon | 96.500 |
| Ting Xiao | 95.600 |
| Robert Reints | 94.400 |
| Bien Van Nguyen | 93.200 |
| Julien Duveau | 92.800 |
| Allen Lahouti | 92.700 |
| Roman Korenev | 92.300 |
| Jens Kerper | 91.800 |
| Giuseppe Pantaleo | 91.700 |
| Nathaniel Geiss | 89.400 |
| Sandeep Pulusani | 89.400 |
| Dmitry Kataev | 89.000 |
| Daniel Healey | 87.800 |
| Isaac Baron | 87.000 |
| Anthony Diotte | 85.900 |
| Mack Hill | 85.400 |
| Liv Boeree | 85.000 |
| Kevin Brewer | 84.200 |
| Chris Hunichen | 83.000 |
| Ramesh Tatikonda | 82.000 |
| Allen Smith | 81.600 |
| Paul Berende | 80.700 |
| Patrick Truong | 80.100 |
| Sam Panzina | 79.900 |
| Darryll Fish | 79.200 |
| Bradley Yazici | 78.800 |
| Nicholas Heather | 78.500 |
| Robert Parnell | 77.600 |
| Daniel Engels | 77.600 |
| Greg Ostrander | 77.400 |
| Chad Eveslage | 77.400 |
| Christopher DeMaci | 76.900 |
| Jeffrey Roberson | 76.300 |
| Dobromir Nikov | 76.000 |
| Justin Liberto | 75.800 |
| Harrison Beach | 75.600 |
| Elliott Zaydman | 75.500 |
| William McClintock | 73.100 |
| Amichai Barer | 72.000 |
| Mark Dube | 71.700 |
| R.J. Bakker | 71.400 |
| Calvin Anderson | 71.200 |
| Jack Salter | 71.000 |
| Michael Katz | 69.300 |
| Dennis Stevermer | 69.100 |
| Ivan Ivanov | 69.100 |
| Pedro Lim | 68.600 |
| Yunhstang Fan | 68.100 |
| Kent Snyder | 67.900 |
| David Williams | 67.800 |
| Amir Baba Khani | 67.000 |
| Justin Young | 65.700 |
| Jesse Sylvia | 65.200 |
| Darleen Johnson | 64.900 |
| Michael Aron | 64.200 |
| Ronald Inlow | 64.100 |
| Mario Sanchez | 63.700 |
| John Dolan | 63.500 |
| John Clancy | 63.300 |
| Brady Davis | 63.100 |
| Chi Do | 63.100 |
| Bastian Fischer | 63.000 |
| Pieter de Korver | 62.800 |
| Andy Seth | 62.500 |
| David Diaz | 62.100 |
| Rich Tursich | 61.900 |
| Sam Stein | 61.200 |
| Hung Le | 61.200 |
| Joshua Prager | 61.100 |
| Joseph Jennerjohn | 61.000 |
| Robert Perlitz | 60.900 |
| Chris Lillie | 60.500 |
| Greg McCurry | 60.300 |
| Allard Broedelet | 59.200 |
| Michael Alvarado | 59.200 |
| Anthony Lazar | 58.400 |
| Miles Reinhard | 58.200 |
| Maxim Sorokin | 57.200 |
| Cy Watson | 55.000 |
| Michael Merichko | 54.800 |
| Michael Wynn | 54.400 |
| Michael Salotto | 53.000 |
| Brandon Ageloff | 52.700 |
| Marco Cerio | 52.700 |
| Ronit Chamani | 51.500 |
| Igor Yaroshevskyy | 51.300 |
| Michael Tureniec | 51.200 |
| Mike Vogelsong | 51.200 |
| John Andress | 51.200 |
| Jorn Walthaud | 51.000 |
| Jerry Payne | 50.900 |
| Alex Goulder | 50.600 |
| Ray Starrett | 50.600 |
| John Unkart | 49.000 |
| Ben Olson | 49.000 |
| Brian Green | 48.800 |
| Rupesh Patini | 48.700 |
| Henry | 48.300 |
| Loune Soumphonphak | 47.700 |
| Sherri Moreland | 47.000 |
| Tillmann Raschke | 46.700 |
| Jordan Morgan | 44.800 |
| Ruben Visser | 44.500 |
| Andrew Lichtenberger | 43.400 |
| Deepak Bhatti | 43.000 |
| David Weinstein | 42.600 |
| Adam Kessel | 39.500 |
| Richard Miller | 39.100 |
| Tim Campbell | 39.000 |
| Max Kent Starrock | 38.400 |
| Brandon Shane | 38.200 |
| Nicholas Petitti | 37.600 |
| Terry Fleischer | 37.600 |
| Jack Schanbacher | 36.700 |
| Jasper Wetemens | 35.300 |
| Linda Keenan | 35.300 |
| Eric Ladny | 35.100 |
| Benjamin Zamani | 35.000 |
| Bill Childs | 34.700 |
| Julio Rodriguez | 34.100 |
| Jonathan Little | 33.700 |
| Philippe Bretan | 33.700 |
| Scott Cardone | 33.300 |
| Steve Nguyen | 31.800 |
| Thila Narayanan | 31.350 |
| Joedy Tapp | 31.200 |
| David To | 31.200 |
| Michael Gagliano | 31.000 |
| Andrew Jourth | 30.800 |
| Tyrone Valentine | 30.300 |
| Darya Hulyk | 30.100 |
| Kuo Hui Chen | 29.000 |
| Russell Thomas | 27.700 |
| Corey Burbick | 27.300 |
| Alexander Venovski | 27.000 |
| John Norberg | 26.600 |
| Nick Petrangelo | 25.000 |
| Adam Bitker | 25.000 |
| Brenda Gallaugher | 24.300 |
| Johnny Price | 23.100 |
| Darren Barnes | 22.900 |
| Hunter Frey | 22.200 |
| Dennis Stacy | 22.100 |
| Nasser Lahouti | 21.000 |
| Delmiro Toledo | 17.800 |
| Atanas Kavrakov | 17.700 |
| Ariel Samuhi | 16.300 |
| Burt Boutin | 16.200 |
| Andrew Davies | 15.700 |
| Bill Herald | 15.600 |
| Jade Sharp | 15.500 |
| Tuan Nguyen | 11.200 |
| Sam Law | 7.600 |
| Ed Kinports | 7.000 |
| Dan Winford | 6.900 |
| Man Neo | 6.800 |
| Ben McMullen | 6.700 |
| Hong Nguyen | 6.600 |
| Chuck Jennings | 6.300 |
| Marian Tomlinson | 6.100 |
| Freddie Gladney | 5.900 |
| Stephen Wallace | 5.500 |
| Joseph Sfulounskar | 5.400 |
| Sam Edwards | 4.900 |
| John Popp | 4.000 |
| Maurice Kragness | 2.900 |
| Timothy Colaco | 2.100 |
| Ben Palmer | 1 |
Payouts:
1 $351.097
2 $216.904
3 $142.158
4 $98.777
5 $71.781
6 $55.708
7 $46.814
8 $39.012
9 $31.209
10-12 $24.031
13-15 $17.945
16-18 $13.732
19-27 $10.299
28-36 $8.583
37-45 $7.178
46-54 $6.086
55-63 $5.618