Event 1 Day 1F – $580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 11: 500/1,000 with a 100 ante
Flight F Players Remaining: 126 of 410

Jeter Brock was one of the last players to register for today’s final flight, losing his first bullet late in Level 8 before he jumped in during the break.

Since then, the two-time WSOP Circuit winner has run his stack from 12,000 to 114,500 in only a few levels. Not a bad way to use the last shot at the big money.

Brock won both his rings earlier this year and his biggest career cash came in a non-ring Circuit Seniors event in 2015, the win putting $24,000 in his bankroll.

2017 Seminole Hard Rock WSOP Circuit
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
$580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed
Entries: 1,612
Prize Pool: $806,000
September 21-24, 2017

Registration officially closed on the opening event of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker WSOP Circuit series and it drew a total of 1,612 entries across the six starting flights. They combined to create a prize pool worth $806,000 to easily surpass the $500,000 guaranteed prize pool.

The last 171 players will earn a piece of the prize pool  with a min-cash banking $975 and the winner walking away with $135,022 plus the WSOP Circuit ring.

1st: $135,022
2nd: $83,751
3rd: $62,255
4th: $46,974
5th: $35,843
6th: $27,565
7th: $21,585
8th: $17,031
9th: $13,589
10th – 12th: $10,962
13th – 15th: $8,939
16th – 18th: $7,367
19th – 21th: $6,142
22nd – 24th: $5,175
25th – 27th: $4,401
28th – 30th: $3,788
31st – 33th: $3,288
34th – 36th: $2,885
37th – 45th: $2,555
46th – 54th: $2,289
55th – 63rd: $2,071
64th – 72nd: $1,894
73rd – 81st: $1,741
82nd – 90th: $1,604
91st – 99th: $1,475
100th – 108th: $1,354
109th – 117th: $1,249
118th – 135th: $1,153
136th – 153rd: $1,064
154th – 171st: $975

Event 1 Day 1F – $580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9: 300/600 with a 100 ante
Flight F Entries: 410

Registration has officially closed on the opening event of the Seminole Hard Rock WSOP Circuit event and this evening’s flight produced the biggest starting field of the tournament. The tournament board shows 410 entries to push the combined total over 1,600 for a prize pool of more than $800,000.

We will await the final accounting before releasing the final numbers along with the prize pool and payouts.

While the players were on break, tournament staff colored off the green chips and the clear leader at the moment in Kevin Butler. He is stacked up to 89,000 after four levels and set up for a deep run this evening.

Event 1 Day 1F – $580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8: 250/500 with a 75 ante
Flight F Entries: 390

There are only 30 minutes remaining for players to get down to the ballroom to be a part of our first huge WSOP Circuit event. The flight sits at 390 entries and it is only a handful away from pushing the $500,000 guaranteed prize pool over $800,000.

Spencer Champlin is back down south and hunting for his third career WSOP Circuit title. Not only does he own two rings, he won both of them a week apart back in February 2016 for a sweet heater. Champlin also picked up a chunk of change a few days ago when he won the Black Chip Bounty event closing out the Borgata Poker Open for more than $11,000.

Champlin does not have an easy table draw to run up his stack. He is bookended by fellow WSOP Circuit winner Steven Karp and TK Miles on each side but his table will be one of the first to break as the field shrinks.

Event 1 Day 1F – $580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8: 250/500 with a 75 ante
Flight F Entries: 368

As SHRP team member Jessica Dawley was getting knocked out on Table 72, two SHRP regulars were mixing it up at Table 71. David Moreno had John Ultey at risk and facing a race to stay away from the re-entry desk.

Moreno:
Utley:

Utley needed some help but missed the flop. The turn was no help and he was sent out after the river.

David Moreno – 31,000 (62 bb)
John Utley – Eliminated

Event 1 Day 1F – $580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 7: 200/400 with a 50 ante
Flight F Entries: 350

Seminole Hard Rock Poker team member Jessica Dawley had a rough go of it in the earlier flight, losing late when her opponent rivered a gutshot straight, and her luck did not change this evening.

In a three-way pot with Andre Rakusa and AJ “Doc” Santos, she was all in for 9,200 after Santos bet 4,500 on the flop. Rakusa considered coming along, asked for a specific count, then released his hand. Santos quickly called and Dawley needed to catch.

Santos:
Dawley:

Santos was ahead with top/top but Dawley had 11 outs twice with the flush draw/gutshot draw. The turn was a blank and the river sent her to the rail.

AJ “Doc” Santos – 41,000 (103 bb)
Jessica Dawley – Eliminated

Event 1 Day 1F – $580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6: 150/300 with a 25 ante
Flight F Entries: 340

We’re used to seeing some pretty talented players in any of our major series with plenty of titles to their name. Add in a WSOP Circuit stop and the talent level goes up a little more.

Eric Rivkin is part of that talent on the WSOPC tour but he’s also a regular down here whenever we run the big events. He won his first WSOP Circuit ring two summers ago in Baltimore, earned his biggest WSOP Circuit cash earlier this year with a High Roller final table in Wisconsin, and had his biggest career score last summer when he made the WPT final table in Choctaw.

Event 1 Day 1F – $580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5: 100/200 with a 25 ante
Flight F Entries: 321

Flight F players returned to their seats with no one running away with the chip lead in the early levels. Vladimir Kovalchuk sits atop the leaderboard with 47,000 with Roberto Alberro in second with 41,000.

There are plenty of tough players remaining and more coming in every minute. So it’s unlikely the leaderboard will look the same in two hours at the next break.

Top ten stacks:

1. Vladimir Kovalchuk – 47,000 (235 bb)
2. Roberto Alberro – 41,000 (205 bb)
3. Mahendran Ramanathan – 40,000 (200 bb)
4. Tyree Johnson – 38,000 (190 bb)
5. Qasem Jamhour – 35,900 (180 bb)
6. Myles German – 34,700 (174 bb)
7. Robyn Marshman – 30,700 (154 bb)
8. Melody Murphy – 30,000 (150 bb)
9. Ido Ashkenazi – 28,550 (143 bb)
10. David Moreno – 26,375 (132 bb)

Random notables:

Jason Gooch – 23,100 (116 bb)
Spencer Champlin – 22,025 (110 bb)
Dylan Drazen – 21,800 (109 bb)
Paul Balzano – 20,000 (100 bb)
Perry Shiao – 17,600 (88 bb)
Jessica Dawley – 16,900 (85 bb)
Paula Barros – 14,825 (74 bb)
Joel Harwood – 13,800 (69 bb)
Charlemagne Benjamin – 12,000 (60 bb)
Manny Minaya – 8,700 (44 bb)
Kurt Jewell – 7,000 (35 bb)

Event 1 Day 1F – $580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4: 100/200
Flight F Entries: 288

Final flight players are heading off on their first break of the day with a healthy 288 entries in the game and more expect with 180 minutes left to registration the big event.

We’ll take a walk around the empty ballroom to check for the early big stacks.

$580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Returning to Level 15: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante
Players Remaining: 160 of 1,202

Flight A: 160 Entries, 19 Advanced
Flight B: 144 Entries, 18 Advanced
Flight C: 232 Entries, 29 Advanced
Flight D: 268 Entries, 36 Advanced
Flight E: 398 Entries, 58 Advanced
Flight F: Late registration till 10:30pm
Day 2: Sunday at 1pm