$360 Pot Limit Omaha 8 (Re-Entry)
Structure
Level 9: 500/1,000
Entries: 86
The Pot Limit Omaha 8 game reached Level 9 and registration is now closed. The tournament clock shows 86 entries but we will await the final accounting before locking that in.
Once the numbers are crunched, we will post the prize pool and payout information.
$250 Ladies No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$10,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 3: 100/200 with a 200 ante
Entries: 48
We put a $10,000 Guarantee on the Ladies Event and they wasted no time blasting past it. Entry number 48 officially put the prize pool over $10,000 and registration is open until 6:30pm.
Table 20 grabbed our attention at the start of the day when the four starting players were having a laugh. They are best friends and all drew the same table. Melissa Mancini, MG Fernandez, Christine DiFiore, and Robyn Marshman are having a good time before getting down to serious business later this evening.
Marshman is no stranger to this tournament; she won the Ladies Event during the 2017 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown.
We have other successful women in the crowd including two big winners. Jacquelyn Scott won the WSOP Ladies Championship in 2015 and Melisa Singh won the WSOP Circuit Ladies Event ring when the series was here in October 2017
$360 Ultimate Re-Entry
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9: 400/800 with a 800 ante
Flight E Entries: 634
The break is over and Flight E picked up a few more entries while they were out of the room. Players still have two hours worth of late registration to get to the Event Center to fire this flight, or they can come for the start of Flight F at 5pm.
We have a new leader and Reece Lightner is the only player over 100,000. He came back to a stack worth 113,000 which is good enough to top the field with Victor Merkel (95,000), Nick Hopkins (93,000), Song Kim (92,000), and Nicholas Rasona (90,000) rounding out the top five.
$360 Ultimate Re-Entry
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8: 300/600 with a 600 ante
Flight E Entries: 620
Flight E is blowing up and the 620 entries pushed the combined total over 2,500. This final number is going to be huge.
More South Florida regulars are playing today including Jon “PearlJammer” Turner. He has more than $3,000,000 in live career earnings but that is a drop in the buckets compared to the wizard’s $8,000,000 in online poker earnings.
We also found former SHRP champs David Bradshaw and Paul Balzano at the front of the Event Center sharing a moment.
$250 Ladies No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$10,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1: 100/100
Besides the big field Ultimate Re-Entry flights and a little Pot Limit Omaha 8 in the corner, we have a special tournament on the schedule. At 3pm we kick off the Ladies Event with some nice added prizes.
The tournament has a $250 buy-in with a $10,000 guaranteed prize pool. In addition to the top money for first place, the winner will also receive a Hard Rock Atlantic City package that includes hotel, dinner, and spa trip along with a seat into the $1,000,000 Guarantee WPTDeepStacks Lucky Hearts Poker Open Main Event.
They will start with 15,000 deep stacks and the first nine levels will last 20-minutes each. Late registration and re-entries are available until the start of Level 10 at 6:30pm and levels increase to 30-minutes.
They will play it out for the title later this evening with the winner earning the Hard Rock AC package and WPTDeepStacks Main Event seat.
$360 Pot Limit Omaha 8 (Re-Entry)
Structure
Level 5: 200/400
Entries: 69
The Pot Limit Omaha 8 game recently returned from their first break of the day. The entry count is up to 69 for another great non-hold’em turnout as the majority of the room grinds the Ultimate Re-Entry.
Making room for them, the PLO8 is playing out in the back corner of the Event Center for a more intimate, quiet game.
They have four more levels plus the break to push the number higher with late registration closing at 4:30pm.
On Friday, Day 2 of the 2019 Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open had a big turnout in the Ultimate Re-Entry opening event and we had a back-to-back trophy winner.
Cincinnati’s Adam Walter came down to South Florida to escape the cold weather and play some poker for a few days. He began his run by capturing the first trophy of the series with an outright win in the $360 Limit Omaha 8 event on Thursday. He returned on Friday to play the $360 H.O.R.S.E. tournament and went on to win that trophy as well.
We have awarded two trophies so far and both are going back to Ohio.
Walter had his second win after defeating Adam Zeltser heads-up at a final table that included WSOP bracelet winner and four-time WSOP Circuit champ Phil Hui. He earned another $5,790 with the title and some good memories.
Event 3 results:
1st: Adam Walter – $5,790 + LHPO trophy
2nd: Adam Zeltser – $3,860
3rd: Phil Hui – $2,570
4th: Dale Phillips – $1,785
5th: Cory Zeidman – $1,295
6th: James Gunter – $980
7th: Michael Barry – $775
8th: Michael Dreese – $645
We another great turnout for the third and fourth flights of the $360 Ultimate Re-Entry. Nearly 1,000 entries came in the door on Friday for Event 1 and it pushed its way over the $500,000 Guarantee.
Nine more players took advance of the tweaked best-stack-forward concept and collected a $2,500 multi-stack payout. Among those, David Nathaniel and Stephen Ibrahim earned their second multi-stack payout after bagging three of the four starting flights.
Four-time WSOP bracelet winner Brian Hastings had the biggest stack of the two flights and locked up 517,000 for his second stack forward. We have 172 players with a seat booked for Day 2 on Monday with 14 stacks coming out of play after their $2,500 multi-stack payout.
Top ten stacks so far:
$360 Ultimate Re-Entry
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5: 200/300 with a 300 ante
Flight E Entries: 481
Flight E returned from the first break of the day and players continue to parade back into the Event Center running the entry count higher. The 481 entries so far pushed the prize pool over $700,000 with an eye on a $1,000,000 prize pool.
Ronald Katz is the early leader with 63,000 with Sean Harper not far behind with 61,000. That’s a good start to their day but there is a lot of work to do before advancing to Day 2.
$360 Ultimate Re-Entry
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4: 100/200 with a 200 ante
Flight E Entries: 389
Flight E moved into Level 4 and they are close to hitting 400 entries before the first break. The combined entry count is over 2,200 and they continue to pile into the Event Center to run up the numbers.
Chris Hinchcliffe is back with us and he may have traveled the furthest to get here. He is a Northern California pro with more than $1,000,000 in career earnings and he flew across the country for the series.
$360 Pot Limit Omaha 8 (Re-Entry)
Structure
Level 1: 50/100
We are knee deep into the first weekend of the series with the masses coming out to participate in the Ultimate Re-Entry event. But we don’t forget our four-card friends and we’ve had a one-day trophy event every day so far.
Today is no exception.
Event 4 is a $360 Pot Limit Omaha 8 game that will keep things moving but will also have chopped pots to even things out. Players sit down to 12,000 starting stacks and all levels last 30-minutes. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 9 at 4:30pm and there will be a dinner break at 6pm.
Cards are in the air and we will track them down to the final table for full coverage.