Primary Event Schedule

12PM: Day 2 – $5,250 SHRPO Championship

• Championship Day 2 Chip Counts
• Championship Day 2 Table/Seat Assignments
• Championship Payouts

2PM: Day 1 – $2,650 Big 4 No Limit Hold’em (Single Re-Entry)

• $1,000,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 25,000 in chips
• Day 1 levels last 40 minutes
• Day 2 levels last 60 minutes
• Final table levels will be 90 minutes
• Heads-up play will be 60 minutes
• Late registration/single re-entry available until start of Level 9
• Single ante will be paid from the big blind for the entire table
• Day 1 will end after Level 14
• Event 20 Structure Sheet

5PM: Event 23 Day 1A – $150 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)

• $50,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 10,000 in chips and 30-minute levels
• Late registration available until start of Level 9
• Day 1 will end after Level 14 or Tournament Director discretion
• Event 21 Structure Sheet

Secondary and Satellite Schedule

10AM: Event 61 – $300 Turbo High Roller Step Satellite (1-in-10)

• 1 seat guaranteed into $2,650 High Roller satellite
• Players begin with 8,000 in chips and 15-minute levels
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9
• This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
• Event 61 Structure Sheet

4PM: Event 62 – $140 Big 4 Event 21 Satellite (1-in-10)

• 10 seats guaranteed into $1,100/$500K GTD Big 4 Event 21
• Players begin with 8,000 in chips and 20-minute levels
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9
• This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
• Event 62 Structure Sheet

8PM: Event 63 – $2,650 Big 4 High Roller Satellite (1-in-10)

• 2 seats guaranteed into $25K/$1 Million GTD Big 4 High Roller
• Players begin with 10,000 in chips and 30-minute levels
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 7
• This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
• Event 63 Structure Sheet

8PM: Event 64 – $140 Turbo Big 4 Event 21 Satellite (1-in-10)

• 5 seats guaranteed into $1,100/$500K GTD Big 4 Event 21
• Players begin with 8,000 in chips and 15-minute levels
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9
• This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
• Event 64 Structure Sheet

$5,250 SHRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5: 300/500 with a 500 ante
Flight B Entries: 449 (Total Entries: 868)

As we head into the meat of the Big 4 SHRPO schedule, we are throwing a player’s party to thank everyone for making it another great series.

Starting at 10pm, SHRPO players are encouraged to join us at the L Bar for a fun night with their fellow competitors. Simply show your SHRPO tournament receipt at the door for access to the party with passed hor d’oeuvres from Kuro. and two free drinks.

We hope to see everyone there this evening to celebrate!

$5,250 SHRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5: 300/500 with a 500 ante
Flight B Entries: 426 (Total Entries: 845)

Championship Day 1B has some Hollywood, California talent in the field and Randall Emmett has been trying to make a name for himself in the poker world. He is a movie producer who has been spending a lot of time at the poker table over the last few months.

Emmett was part of a fun Poker Night in America cash game episode and he won a Rio Deepstacks event over the summer. But he jumped to everyone’s attention with an over-the-top infamous entrance to his WSOP Main Event seat.

“They let me do a lot of things in poker that nobody should be allowed to do,” Emmett laughed. “And it’s only because I’m out of my mind.”

Now he’s taking his shot at the SHRPO Championship and his 80,000 put him near the top.

$5,250 SHRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5: 300/500 with a 500 ante
Flight B Entries: 412 (Total Entries: 831)

The second break is complete and we have a new leader in the room. Robin Jofre came out of nowhere and stacked up to 173,000 over four levels. Former leader Uri Kadosh dropped to 89,000 but still among the bigger stacks.

We took a look for all stacks over 100,000 and a baker’s dozen over that mark.

1. Robin Jofre – 173,000
2. Jorge Cuesta – 160,000
3. Qasem Jamhour – 151,000
4. Nick Mamone – 140,000
5. Barbaro Diaz – 132,000
6. Tyler Patterson – 130,000
7. Truyen Nguyen – 112,000
8. Mike Laake – 111,000
9. Jeremy Ausmus – 109,400
10. Gintautas Putinas – 107,400
11. Guy Naimi – 106,900
12. Andros Ioakimides – 101,000
13. Will Tonking – 100,000

$5,250 SHRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4: 200/400 with a 400 ante
Flight B Entries: 397 (Total Entries: 791)

Championship Flight B players are now enjoying their second walk away from from the Hard Rock Event Center and the prize pool is very close to crossing $4,000,000.

With nine more entries, we will get there.

$5,250 SHRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 3: 200/300 with a 300 ante
Flight B Entries: 372 (Total Entries: 791)

Don’t call them old school, you might not like the reaction. But we do have some of the old poker guard in the room today with six-time WSOP bracelet Layne “Back-to-Back” Flack playing in the Championship.

WPT Executive Tour Director Matt Savage stopped by to say hi to Flack after the break and the two are long-time friends. Savage was the WSOP Tournament Director from 2002 through 2004 when Flack won three of his six bracelets. Flack has more than $5 million in career earnings, six WPT final tables, one WPT win, and two dozen tournament victories with the first coming way back in 1995.

$5,250 SHRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 3: 200/300 with a 300 ante
Flight B Entries: 347 (Total Entries: 766)

Championship players returned to their seats and the prize pool continued to climb even as they were away.

Raman Sivakumar was the early leader and he is still near the top of the counts, just not at the top. SHRP regular Uri Kadosh was your first break lead with 138,000 and Truyen Nguyen was the only other player in six-digits. We tracked down the other players with double starting stacks and only found seven total.

Uri Kadosh – 138,000
Truyen Nguyen – 120,000
Raman Sivakumar – 99,700
Nicholas Schwarmann – 85,000
Andros Ioakimides – 85,000
Matthew Zarcadoolas – 84,000
Timothy Flattery – 80,000

$5,250 SHRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 2: 100/200 with a 200 ante
Flight B Entries: 312 (Total Entries: 731)

Championship Flight B players are now taking their first break of the day with 312 entries pushing the prize pool over $3.5 million so far.

Lisa Costello decided to fire her first bullet this afternoon and witnessed the big, early hand by Raman Sivakumar. She has over $200K in earnings but making her first trek to South Florida for our big event.

Maria Konnikova is back with us today after an unfortunate late night run in Flight A. She was cruising to a Day 2 stack when she busted from the Championship with 30 minutes remaining in the day.

Editors note: Konnikova, writer-turned-poker player, was featured in a recent New York Times piece if you’d like to know more about the PokerStars Team Pro.

$5,250 SHRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1: 100/200 with a 200 ante
Flight B Entries: 258 (Total Entries: 677)

Nathan Papp has been on the ultimate freeroll over the last 12 months. He earned 2017 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Player of the Year honors and won an entry into every major SHRP Championship event throughout the year.

This is the last tournament from his winner package and he will be turning over the reins to someone new after this weekend.

Darryll Fish is the frontrunner for this year with Brett Bader the closest to catching him. Neither bagged yesterday and we’ll see if they re-enter today.