$200 + $40 Omaha Eight or Better
Blinds: 150/300 – Limits: 300/600
No further eliminations over the last level but tournament staff have been busy crunching the tournament numbers. Event 3 drew 53 players with an overlay of $1,400 and paying the top six spots. Min-cash will earn $720 while the winner will take away $4,680.
| Payout | |
| 1st | $4,680 |
| 2nd | $2,760 |
| 3rd | $1,680 |
| 4th | $1,200 |
| 5th | $960 |
| 6th | $720 |
Two events of the Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open” are in the book and we have our first look at the Leaderboard standings. Lee Stewart and Lance Goldenberg picked up 40 points for their wins in Event 1 and 2 with runners-up Kimani McKoy and Georges Boyadjian grabbing 30 points.
Top finishers from both final tables complete the top of the standings but plenty of time to catch the leaders. Players earn points towards the leaderboard based on their finish and the amount of the buy-in throughout for all 20 events in the series. The top 20 spots at the end of the series earn:
1st place: $5,300 entry into Seminole Hard Rock Showdown Day 1A on April 10th, 2014, 2 night stay in the Hotel and $200 gift certificate to Council Oaks Steaks & Seafood.
2nd place: $5,300 entry into Seminole Hard Rock Showdown Day 1A on April 10th, 2014.
3rd through 20th place: $575 entry into Seminole Hard Rock Showdown Mega Satellite (for the month of December 2013 only).
Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open” Leaderboard Top 10:
| Name | Points | |
| 1 | Lee Stewart | 40 |
| 2 | Lance Goldenberg | 40 |
| 3 | Kimani McKoy | 30 |
| 4 | Georges Boyadjian | 30 |
| 5 | Willie Wiggins | 26 |
| 6 | Lou White | 25 |
| 7 | Willis Prieto | 25 |
| 8 | Jeffrey Doan | 23 |
| 9 | Edward Medoff | 23 |
| 10 | Allen Bieler | 21 |
$200 + $40 Omaha Eight or Better
Blinds: 100/200 – Limits: 200/400
Players are starting to drop out of the tournament after getting low on chips and taking a shot. The 6-seat at Table 38 was left with just 1,400 after getting scooped and found a hand to go with the next deal. The betting was capped before the 
board and he was all-in on the flop.
Three players checked down the 
turn and 
river and the 6-seat turned over a premium 
starting hand for Aces up and busted wheel draw. The 2-seat tabled 
for trip Kings and the scoop. Four other players have been shown the door leaving 48 of the starting 53 still in action.
$200 + $40 Omaha Eight or Better
Blinds: 50/100 – Limits: 100/200
Players are on their first break of Event 3 with no elimination in the first two hours. Players have until the end of the 15-minute break to register for the tournament and the clock currently shows 51 entrants in the field.
$200 + $40 Omaha Eight or Better
Blinds: 50/100 – Limits: 100/200
The early parts of a limit tournament lack drama but make up for it with interesting plays. Players are getting fancy with any combination of hands, low draws, and multi-way pots. Six players to the flop is the rule rather than the exception.
Table 37 saw the betting capped with five players seeing the flop. The big blind called with 
followed by four of those players capping the flop betting. Everything slowed down on the turn and river with the big blind showing down top-two with his 64 good for the low and the scoop. Not the optimum Omaha/8 starting hand but he had an explanation for the table.
“I’ll play any four cards at this level,” he said, “the price was right.”
Level 3 is underway with 150/300 limits and 49 players showing on the clock. Only 45 minutes remain for late registration/re-entry.
$200 + $40 Omaha Eight or Better
Blinds: 50/100 – Limits: 100/200
Players are still making their way to the tournament area after registering and the player count continue to click upwards. No big action early as the limits have not put pressure on stacks but players will start to mix it up as the levels increase.
Among the 43 players in the field so far are local regular Errol Massey, one-time Event 1 chipleader Luis Santino, and one gentleman in an awesome cowboy hat.
There are still 90 minutes left to register for Event 3 if Omaha/8 is your game.
$200 + $40 Omaha Eight or Better
The third event in the Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open” is a change up from No Limit Hold’em tournaments and switching over to Omaha Eight or Better. Split pot games draw a specialized group of players and we expect to see interesting poker as players aim to scoop their opponents on their way to the top prize.
The $240 buy-in tournament has a $12,000 guaranteed prize pool and have 40-minute levels with two hours of late registration/re-entry.
Cards are now in the air and we will provide live updates throughout the day.
$100 + $25 No Limit Hold’Em Deep Stack
Lou White and Juliet Yarina spent a large part of the day sitting in the 6 and 7-seats pleasantly chatting as Yarina built her castle and White worked his short stack higher. It wasn’t all fun and games when the two finally butted heads after the dinner break.
White was all-in with 
up against Yarina’s 
and the 
flop was harmless but Yarina was in the danger zone after the turn. Looking for miracle, the river hit 
doubling White up to 500,000 while Yarina was down but still not out.
$100 + $25 No Limit Hold’Em Deep Stack
Players are back in their seats after a quick bite, drink, and/or rest. They come back to Level 23 with blinds at 10k/20k/2k ante and average stack of 41,000. After a quick search of the room, the clear chipleader is Brett Bader with 1,400,000 sitting in front and the nearest player showing 850,000.
$100 + $25 No Limit Hold’Em Deep Stack
The 51 remaining players are off on their 40-minute dinner break after a quiet hour with no bad beats and short stacks trickling out the door.
We are pulling together the list of payouts so far and tracking down chipleader.