SILVA COMES BACK TO WIN HPT DAYTONA BEACH

From almost the first hand of final table play, it was the Hyndi Khomutetsky Show at @HPTpoker @DBKCandPR. Khomutetsky, a regular at both Daytona Beach and @OrangeCityPoker card rooms, was running over the HPT final table.

Starting the day only a few BB behind chipleader Daniel Bekavac, Khomutetsky began amassing chips fast, took a huge pot early on from Bekavac and never looked back. By 6-handed she had more than half of all the chips in play, and it looked as though everyone else was playing for second.

Then there was Daniel Silva, another regular at the Daytona Beach card room.

Silva stayed out of trouble through most of the rapid-pace of the final table's early action. He gathered steam later by eliminating Ossama Estafanous, Tony Armand and Chris Poole. Knocking out the players in 4th (Armand) and 3rd (Poole) helped him cut in to the chiplead of Khomutetsky before heads-up play began to a 2-1 deficit.

Silva doubled once through Khomutetsky after about 45 minutes but was never able to get closer than that 2-1 disadvantage in chips during the first 90 minutes of heads-up play. Coming back from a 15-minute break, however, saw the tables turn and wow did they turn fast.

First there was a full double for Silva with a straight to cut Khomutetsky's chiplead to 5-4, followed up quickly with a 3.9 million pot Silva took down with top pair to King-high for Khomutetsky. The final hand saw Khomutetsky moving all in on a board with a straight draw. Silva called with top pair and held for the win, just three hands after getting the chiplead for the very first time.

Silva earned $91,557 and a $3,500 HPT Championship Package for the victory. He defeated  Khomutetsky in a heads-up match that lasted two hours.

Khomutetsky cashed for $56,527 as runner-up.

Former HPT champ Roger Campbell was the first player out at the final table ($8,917), with Barry Gallaher out shortly after ($10,549).

Bekavac - who lost almost every hand he played against Khomutetsky the last two days - went out in 7th, ($12,739), followed by current HPT Player of the Year leader Estafanous in 6th ($15,326).

Corey Zedo made back-to-back HPT final tables, finishing 4th at Black Hawk four weeks ago for $47k. He followed that up with a 5th place in Daytona Beach for $19,705.

Poole made the most of the least. He was all set to be eliminated late Sunday night, all in for his last 2BB with 10 players remaining. His 6-5 offsuit flopped a pair and he made the Monday final table, then found three double-ups in early final table action. He parlayed that run to a third-place finish and a $37,619 cash.

With his 6th-place finish, Estafanous extended his Player of the Year lead to 23 points over Jake Baumgartner - who finished as the TV Table Bubble, a 10th place in Daytona Beach. The Nov. 9-13 HPT Season Championship $2,500 buy-in at Ameristar East Chicago is the last tournament to earn Player of the Year points.

Others who cashed at Daytona Beach included Scotty Nguyen - celebrating his birthday with a 17th place finish - Maurice Hawkins (27th), Alex Ziskin (28th), Stan Jablonski (33rd), Mark Morris (35th) and Aaron Johnson (43rd).

Here's the final results.

	10/25-29/18	HPT Daytona Beach
	$1,100	Main Event
	414	Entries
	$401,580	Prize Pool
	45	Places Paid
	$3500 Champ	Pkg added to 1st
Place	Name		Payout	POY Points
1	Daniel	Silva	$91,557	110
2	Hyndi	Khomutetsky	$56,527	82.5
3	Chris	Poole	$37,619	66
4	Tony	Armand	$26,074	55
5	Corey	Zedo	$19,705	49.5
6	Ossama	Estafanous	$15,326	44
7	Daniel	Bekavac	$12,739	38.5
8	Barry	Gallaher	$10,549	33
9	Roger	Campbell	$8,917	27.5
10	Jacob	Baumgartner	$6,807	23.1
11	John	Lulgjural	$6,807	23.1
12	Tim	Clark	$6,807	23.1
13	Zane	Lipsey	$5,135	18.7
14	Nghia	Le	$5,135	18.7
15	Harvey	Vandeven	$5,135	18.7
16	Antuan	Bunkley	$3,861	14.3
17	Scotty	Nguyen	$3,861	14.3
18	Jeffrey	Trudeau	$3,861	14.3
19	Omer	Miller	$3,185	11
20	Sean	Conklin	$3,185	11
21	Le Giang	Tran	$3,185	11
22	Mathew	Steinberg	$3,185	11
23	Rodney	Turvin	$3,185	11
24	Douglas	Arcadi	$3,185	11
25	Lane	Phillips	$3,185	11
26	Nick	Costa	$3,185	11
27	Maurice	Hawkins	$3,185	11
28	Alexander	Ziskin	$2,588	7.7
29	Nicholas	Raio	$2,588	7.7
30	Max	Kingstone	$2,588	7.7
31	Mark	Zullo	$2,588	7.7
32	Michael	Jagroo	$2,588	7.7
33	Stan	Jablonski	$2,588	7.7
34	Nikita	Moiseev	$2,588	7.7
35	Mark	Morris	$2,588	7.7
36	Taylor	Deane	$2,588	7.7
37	Rodney	Rodrigue	$2,189	4.4
38	James	Baune	$2,189	4.4
39	Toby	Boas	$2,189	4.4
40	David	Arkeilpane	$2,189	4.4
41	Aaron	Johnson	$2,189	4.4
42	Michael	Turton	$2,189	4.4
43	Tom	Nguyen	$2,189	4.4
44	Timothy	Shortell	$2,189	4.4
45	Mohamed	Musa	$2,189	4.4

-- Dan Ross, Hold'em Live Updates