Wednesday marked the third and final starting day for Event 6 of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open, the $125 No-Limit Hold’em Deep Stack with a $150,000 guaranteed prizepool.
The prizepool guarantee was met about halfway thru the starting flights, and it kept growing and growing until it reached $361,700.
The final 216 players will finish in the money, and the winner will earn $57,976 — about 463x the buy-in.
Here is a breakdown of the starting flights: How many survivors, total field size, and the percentage that made it thru to Day 2.
Flight A (Mon @ 11 am): 36 of 285 (12.6%)
Flight B (Mon @ 3 pm): 35 of 347 (10.0%)
Flight C (Mon @ 7 pm): 44 of 397 (11.1%)
Flight D (Tue @ 11 am): 25 of 278 (9.0%)
Flight E (Tue @ 3 pm): 36 of 406 (8.9%)
Flight F (Tue @ 7 pm): 47 of 375 (12.5%)
Flight G (Wed @ 11 am): 37 of 325 (11.4%)
Flight H (Wed @ 3 pm): 59 of 525 (11.2%)
Flight I (Wed @ 7 pm): 69 of 679 (10.2%)
Totals: 388 of 3,617 (10.7%)
Here is a look at the top of the leaderboard for the surviving 388 players as they head into Day 2:
1. Edward Gilfillan – 305,400 (101 bb)
2. Corey Zarnoch – 274,800 (91 bb)
3. Leonard Sande – 268,000 (89 bb)
4. Ricardo Velasco – 260,600 (86 bb)
5. Sebastien Soares – 254,300 (84 bb)
6. Neri Sanchez – 243,000 (81 bb)
7. Manny Julve – 235,300 (78 bb)
8. Nancy Birnbaum – 229,100 (76 bb)
9. Nicholas Mahabee – 227,900 (75 bb)
10. Ely Levy – 227,400 (75 bb)
Click here for a PDF file that includes the full prizepool and a complete list of official chip counts and seating positions.
With 388 remaining, a little more than half of them (216) will finish in the money tomorrow (Thursday). Those who survive the Money Bubble will continue play tomorrow all the way to the final table to determine the winner.
Thursday also marks the start of two more events — Event 7 ($560 No-Limit Hold’em w/ $1 Million Guarantee) and Event 8 ($240 Omaha 8-or-Better). We’ll be providing coverage of those events as well, here in the SHRPO Live Updates.