$300 Seniors 50+ No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 9: 300/600 with a 100 ante
Players Remaining: 77 of 190

Registration closed for the Seniors Event and it drew 190 entrants to top the crowd from last year. They created a prize pool worth $48,450 with the last 18 players earning a piece. A min-cash pockets $727 while the winner will take home $14,048 along with the trophy and custom-framed print courtesy of the folks at IMPDI.

1st: $14,048
2nd: $8,237
3rd: $4,845
4th: $3,876
5th: $2,907
6th: $2,423
7th: $1,938
8th: $1,454
9th: $1,090
10 – 12th: $969
13 – 15th: $848
16 – 18th: $727

$1,650 Purple Chip Bounty NL Hold’em (Single Re-Entry)
Level 18: 2,000/4,000 with a 500 ante
Players Remaining: 9 of 120

Another 30 minutes down with no major hands but a lot of pleasant conversations about mangoes. Blinds increased at the top of the hour with the average stack staying the same at 160,000 but down to only 40 big blinds.

Seat 1: Jeremy Joseph – 220,000 (55 bb)
Seat 2: Joseph Marzilli – 86,000 (22 bb)
Seat 3: Kenneth Watson – 85,000 (21 bb)
Seat 4: Colin Robinson – 180,000 (45 bb)
Seat 5: Nicholas Immeleus – 120,000 (30 bb)
Seat 6: Toby Boas – 150,000 (38 bb)
Seat 7: Tom Middleton – 290,000 (73 bb)
Seat 8: Joseph Drory – 170,000 (43 bb)
Seat 9: Harrison Gimbel – 145,000 (36 bb)

$360 Big Stack Turbo NL Hold’em (Single Re-Entry)
Level 1: 25/50

Monday afternoon presents players with a fast moving, big prize tournament to round out the day’s main schedule. Event 14 is a $360 No Limit Hold’em tournament with big starting stacks and turbo structure with a $50,000 guaranteed prize pool.

Players sit down to 15,000 in their stack and will do the fast grind through 15-minute levels. Late registration is open until the start of Level 15 at 7pm but they are limited to only one re-entry should they be eliminated. This is a one-day tournament that will play down quickly to the next SHRPO champion.

• $50,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 15,000 in chips and 15-minute levels
• Late registration/ single re-entry available until start of Level 15
• This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
• Event 14 Structure Sheet

$1,650 Purple Chip Bounty NL Hold’em (Single Re-Entry)
Level 17: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 ante
Players Remaining: 9 of 120

The first half hour of the final table had little activity except for a double up by Joseph Marzilli. He was down to 27,000 and won a flip with against Tom Middleton’s .

Marzilli is still in the danger zone but he has a little to work with now.

Joseph Marzilli – 62,000 (16 bb)
Tom Middleton – 256,000 (64 bb)

$1,650 Purple Chip Bounty NL Hold’em (Single Re-Entry)
Level 17: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 ante
Players Remaining: 9 of 120

Cards in the air for the $1,650 Purple Chip Bounty final table with blinds at 1,500/3,000 and a 500 ante. They’ll play 60-minute levels for the duration.

$1,650 Purple Chip Bounty NL Hold’em (Single Re-Entry)
Level 17: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 ante
Players Remaining: 9 of 120

Event 12 was the biggest buy-in tournament of the series so far and it had the added twist of a $500 bounty on each player. The tournament drew 120 entrants to easily surpass the $100,000 Guarantee but only nine players remain with a shot at the title.

Tom Middleton leads the final table when they return but the structure is still deep and slow. This could take a while to determine the outcome.

The restart is set to go at 2pm and we will be here to follow all the action.

Seat 1: Jeremy Joseph – 111,500 (28 bb)
Seat 2: Joseph Marzilli – 56,500 (14 bb)
Seat 3: Kenneth Watson – 163,000 (41 bb)
Seat 4: Colin Robinson – 191,500 (48 bb)
Seat 5: Nicholas Immeleus – 149,500 (37 bb)
Seat 6: Toby Boas – 173,500 (43 bb)
Seat 7: Tom Middleton – 301,000 (75 bb)
Seat 8: Joseph Drory – 150,000 (38 bb)
Seat 9: Harrison Gimbel – 139,500 (35 bb)

Final table payouts:

1st: $34,800
2nd: $20,400
3rd: $12,000
4th: $9,600
5th: $7,200
6th: $6,000
7th: $4,800
8th: $3,600
9th: $2,700

$300 Seniors 50+ No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 5: 100/200 with a 25 ante
Total Entries: 156

Senior Event players are back from their first break as the entrant count climbed over 150 with four more levels to get in the game.

Leonard St. Germain made the most of his first two hours and ran his 10K starting stack up for 35,900. Luca Famea is not far behind as Sergio Morejon, Alan Feller, and Richard Wetter round out the top five.

Top stacks and some notable names:

Leonard St Germain – 35,900 (180 bb)
Luca Famea – 35,000 (175 bb)
Sergio Morejon – 33,400 (167 bb)
Alan Feller – 30,500 (153 bb)
Richard Wetter – 27,850 (139 bb)
Wesley Losher – 26,075 (130 bb)
Jacquelyn Scott – 25,650 (128 bb)
James Hamburger – 25,300 (127 bb)
Nancy Birnbaum – 21,500 (108 bb)
Neil Blumenfield – 19,950 (100 bb)
Alfonso Perez – 19,500 (98 bb)
Wally Maddah – 14,700 (74 bb)
Joel Harwood – 10,700 (54 bb)
Nancy Thomas – 7,750 (39 bb)

$300 Seniors 50+ No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 4: 100/200
Total Entries: 149

Players are midway through the fourth level of the day and they are one entry away from hitting 150 for the Seniors Event.

One of the early entries comes from a South Florida transplant, Neil Blumenfield is originally from California but now calls the Sunshine State his home. He had a few nice results to his credit before he found himself on live TV playing poker for the biggest prize in the game.

As a member of the 2015 WSOP November Nine, Blumenfield went on to finish in third place for a nice payday but short of the bracelet. While waiting for the WSOP Main Event final table to play out, he went ahead and scored a deep run in our Big 4 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open $5 Million GTD Championship last year.

$300 Seniors 50+ No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 2: 50/100
Total Entries: 106

AJ “Doc” Santos loves to have fun.

“I don’t have the patience to grind!” he half-yells, half-laughs.

The Seminole Hard Rock Tampa regular makes his way to this side of the state for the big SHRP series but now he’s just enjoying himself in the Seniors event.

“Get a picture with me and Marsha!” Doc continued with his standard excitement, while pointing to Marsha Wolak two seats away.

“After the hand. You have to play your hand first,” it was explained to him.

Then Wolak promptly put him all-in after flop. Santos dropped his hand, jumped from his seat, and gave Wolak a big hug.

Wolak is known around these parts as the 2011 WSOP Ladies Champion but she also owns a SHRP trophy in this event from the 2015 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown.