On Thursday, the 2019 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open kicked off with two big opening flights of Event 1 and a one-day Omaha 8 tournament with a familiar face taking the title.
Event 2 awarded the first trophy of the series and the four-card game had a $30,000 guaranteed prize pool attached for the first time. It slid past that number before registration close with 92 entries putting more than $31,000 up for grabs.
The last twelve places were paid and it was David Levi taking the top spot for his second career SHRP title after a seven-way deal. He has dozens of tournament wins to his credit and the $5,208 he earned was enough to push his career total over $4,000,000 in tournament earnings.
Event 2 results:
1st: David Levi – $5,208 + SHRPO trophy
2nd: Stewart Yancik – $5,069
3rd: Aron Dermer – $4,455
4th: Jacobo Fernandez – $3,919
5th: Bryce Fox – $3,148
6th: Brian Gelrod – $2,477
7th: Robert Wachtel – $2,384
8th: Elias Nassif – $1,095
9th: Jeff Trudeau – $950
10th: Mike Soroka – $950
11th: Lee Jordan – $845
12th: Jason Lopesilvero – $780
Day 1 also saw the first two flights of Event 1 get things going in the series. The $600 buy-in tournament features six total flights with a $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool. Flights A and B combined to put 669 entries in the tournament with four weekend flights remaining.
Flight A was the biggest of the two with 376 entries but it was Flight B putting players at the top of the counts.
Matthew Lambrecht had the best stack to end Flight A with 280,500 but four players went bigger in Flight B. Roberto Berrocal is the clubhouse leader after bagging 439,500 with Carlos Rodriguez Rojas, Borja Iglesias Jato, and Brette DeJesus rounding out the top five.
There are two more flights running on Friday at 11 am and 6 pm followed by the two massive flights on Saturday.
- Roberto Berrocal – 439,500
- Carlos Rodriguez Rojas – 328,000
- Borja Iglesias Jato – 327,000
- Brette DeJesus – 321,000
- Matthew Lambrecht – 280,500
- Reynel Hernandez – 269,000
- Ryan Bunes – 258,500
- Brian Guzman – 250,500
- Maurice Paradis – 241,000
- Shane Shuckerow – 236,000