$400 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4: 200/300 with a 300 ante
Flight C Entries: 402
Flight C players were sent on the first break of the day with more than 400 entries so far and more than two hours to register. They will return to play four more levels, plus a break, before we close the books on Flight C.
$400 H.O.R.S.E. (Single Re-Entry)
Structure
Level 2: 200/400 Limits
Entries: 32
There’s a nice group of players in the Meeting Room across the hall, riding some H.O.R.S.E. action and it’s pretty relaxed at the start with quarter chips in play and not much pressure.
We found Fabian Foster switching up from his normal no limit hold’em game for the second day in a row after he played the Limit Omaha 8 tournament yesterday. Poker pro Amnon Filippi is also here early and his biggest result came in this mixed game; he finished fourth in the 2007 WSOP $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship for $586K.
$400 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 3: 100/200 with a 200 ante
Flight C Entries: 332
The Grand Ballroom is filling fast and the entry count jumped over 300 well before we hit high noon. The $500,000 guarantee is all but locked up and it’s going to be a big one.
Two more early arrivals included Antonio Campbell and Frank Russo. Both players already own major SHR Hollywood trophies but wouldn’t mind adding this one.
$400 H.O.R.S.E. (Single Re-Entry)
Structure
Level 1: 150/300 Limits
Another day, another non-hold’em game for our friends who prefer them. Today we have a $400 H.O.R.S.E. tournament and the first of many mix games on the schedule. They will rotate between Limit Hold’em, Limit Omaha 8, Razz, Stud, and Stud 8 every eight hands.
Players start with 12,000 stacks and all levels last 30 minutes. Late registration is available until the start of Level 9 at 3:30 pm and players may re-enter once if they lose their stack. They’ll take a 40-minute dinner break at 5 pm and return to play down to our H.O.R.S.E. champ later this evening.
Cards go in the air at 11 am and we will be here with them from start to finish.
$400 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 2: 100/100 with a 100 ante
Flight C Entries: 245
We found a lot of familiar faces in the early crowd, getting in the action before the slow risers get moving and down to the Grand Ballroom.
Fernando Rodriguez, Jay Romano, Marty Robbins, Jeff Kessler, and Eric and Caleb Piderit are among those here in the morning and not waiting until the afternoon.
Rodriguez is looking for his second trophy of the week; our 2021 LHPO Event 1 champ won the last trophy of the recent Tampa Poker Classic series on the gulf shore.
$400 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1: 100/100
Flight C Entries: 160
Cards are in the air for Flight C of Poker Showdown Event 1 with 160 entries at the start. That tops what we had to start the first two flights so we’re looking at another big number this afternoon.
They will play eight levels, plus breaks, before registration closes at 2:30 pm.
$400 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1: 100/100
We are heading into the first weekend of the 2022 Poker Showdown and today we hit our first big number. The first two flights of Event 1 drew a combined 995 entries to the $400 buy-in tournament to leave it only 521 away from hitting the $500,000 guarantee.
We had 522 in Flight A so pretty confident it can get there this afternoon. If not flight C then for sure before cards go in the air for Flight D.
Players start with 20,000 deep stacks and all Day 1 levels last 30 minutes, increasing to 40 minutes on Day 2 and 60 at the final table. Late registration is available until the start of Level 9 at 2:30 pm.
Flight C will continue into the evening until only 10% of the field remains and they will bag chips for a Day 2 return on Sunday at 1 pm.
Primary Event Schedule
10AM: Event 1 Day 1C – $400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
11AM: Event 3 – $400 H.O.R.S.E. (Single Re-Entry)
6PM: Event 1 Day 1D – $400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
Secondary and Satellite Schedule
12PM: $150 Multi-Event Turbo Satellite (1-in-10)
3PM: $250 Multi-Event Turbo Satellite (1-in-10)
8PM: $150 Multi-Event Turbo Satellite (1-in-10)
$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1: 100/100
Flight B of Poker Showdown Event 1 is set to kick off at the top of the hour and build on the already big turnout from Flight A. We had 522 entries in the first flight with many more expected over the coming weekend.
The $400 tournament has a $500,000 guaranteed prize pool that should be surpassed at some point tomorrow and they can begin aiming for seven digits.
Players start with 20,000 deep stacks and all Day 1 levels last 30 minutes, increasing to 40 minutes on Day 2 and 60 at the final table. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 9 at 10:30 pm.
They will continue to play into the evening and Flight B will come to an end when 10% of the field remains. Those players will bag up their stacks and return for Day 2 on Sunday at 1 pm in the money.
$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 10: 600/1,200 with a 1,200 ante
Players Remaining: 135 of 522
Another break has come and gone and players are back in their seats trying to play down into the money.
We have a new leader and it is former Hollywood champ, James Salmon. He looks like the biggest stack holding 239,500 while former leader Kevin Payton dipped to 198,000.
