$400 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 34:  150,000/300,000 with a 300,000 ante
Players Remaining:  17 of 7,703

The final 17 players have returned to the tournament area, and they will be playing down to a winner today.

With 17 players remaining from a field of 7,703, the average chip stack is about 9,050,000 (30 big blinds). The remaining players are guaranteed at least $10,931 each.

Levels will be one hour today, and the blinds begin at 150,000-300,000 with a 300,000 ante.

Everything is set and ready to go, so it’s time to shuffle up and deal!

$400 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 34:  150,000/300,000 with a 300,000 ante
Players Remaining:  17 of 7,703

Day 2 came to an end shortly before 3:00 am with 17 players remaining, and the big stack belongs to Corel Theuma with 16,625,000 in chips (55 big blinds).

Here are the official chip counts and seating assignments:

TABLE 7
Seat 1.  Raffaello Locatelli  –  10,825,000  (36 bb)
Seat 2.  Hossein Pezeshkan  –  5,500,000  (18 bb)
Seat 3.  Corel Theuma  –  16,625,000  (55 bb)
Seat 4.  Colby Covington  –  14,950,000  (50 bb)
Seat 5.  Eric Siegel  –  7,200,000  (24 bb)
Seat 6.  Michael Jagroo  –  11,425,000  (38 bb)
Seat 7.  Nicholas Carballo  –  5,900,000  (20 bb)
Seat 8.
Seat 9.  David Frenkel  –  8,475,000  (28 bb)

TABLE 8
Seat 1.  Yoann Gimenez  –  13,325,000  (41 bb)
Seat 2.  Ivan Saul  –  6,650,000  (22 bb)
Seat 3.  Vinny Monteiro  –  10,425,000  (35 bb)
Seat 4.  Andrew Pecina  –  7,500,000  (25 bb)
Seat 5.  Fred Dabus  –  7,925,000  (26 bb)
Seat 6.  Tony Abid  –  1,625,000  (5 bb)
Seat 7.  Tommy Morgado  –  14,650,000  (49 bb)
Seat 8.  Vamsi Magam  –  3,800,000  (13 bb)
Seat 9.  Scott Livingston  –  6,975,000  (23 bb)

And here is the remaining prizepool they’re battling for:

1st:  $308,979 + SHRPO trophy
2nd:  $206,664
3rd:  $160,908
4th:  $129,641
5th:  $101,680
6th:  $73,718
7th:  $48,298
8th:  $35,588
9th-10th:  $25,420
11th-12th:  $19,065
13th-15th:  $13,981
16th-17th:  $10,931

Day 3 begins tomorrow (Monday) at 3:00 pm, and they will play down to a winner. Return to SHRPO.com for our continuing coverage from the 2022 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open.

$400 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 33:  125,000/250,000 with a 250,000 ante
Players Remaining:  17 of 7,703

In the last hand of the night, Colby Covington raised from middle position to 600,000, Jim Gleason moved all in from the cutoff for 3,850,000, and Covington called with .

Gleason turned over , and needed to improve to stay alive.

The board came , and the pocket kings held up for Covington to win the pot and eliminate Gleason in 18th place.

Colby Covington  –  14,950,000  (60 bb)
Jim Gleason  –  Eliminated in 18th Place  ($10,931)

Level 33 came to an end after this hand, and the final 17 players are now bagging up their chips for Day 3, which begins tomorrow (Monday) at 3:00 pm EDT.

$400 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 33:  125,000/250,000 with a 250,000 ante
Players Remaining:  22 of 7,703

Hossein Pezeshkan min-raised from the button to 500,000, Scott Livingston moved all in from the big blind for 2,800,000, and Pezeshkan asked for an exact count before he called with .

Livingston turned over , and needed to improve to stay alive.

The board came , and Livingston paired his king on the flop to win the pot and double up in chips.

Scott Livingston  –  5,975,000  (24 bb)
Hossein Pezeshkan  –  5,000,000  (20 bb)

With 22 players remaining from a field of 7,703, the average chip stack is around 7,000,000 (28 big blinds). The field is in the money, with the remaining players guaranteed at least $8,389 each.

$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 33:  125,000/250,000 with a 250,000 ante
Players Remaining:  22 of 7,703

David Banaszak got it all in from the big blind for 2,250,000 with , and he needed it to hold to stay alive against the of Nigel Murray on the button.

Murray called for the four of spades on every street as the board came , but it was Banaszak who rivered a set, winning the pot with a set of jacks to double up in chips.

David Banaszak  –  4,875,000  (20 bb)
Nigel Murray  –  900,000  (4 bb)

The next hand, Murray moved all in from the cutoff for 900,000, taking the blinds and ante.

Nigel Murray  –  1,525,000  (6 bb)

A few minutes later, Murray was eliminated in 23rd place.

Nigel Murray  –  Eliminated in 23rd Place  ($8,389)

With 22 players remaining from a field of 7,703, the average chip stack is around 7,000,000 (28 big blinds). The field is in the money, with the remaining players guaranteed at least $8,389 each.

$400 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 33:  125,000/250,000 with a 250,000 ante
Players Remaining:  26 of 7,703

The players returned from break to begin Level 33, with increased blinds of 125,000-250,000 with a 250,000 ante.

A scan of the field during the break turned up four players with at least 10 million in chips, creating an unofficial leaderboard:

1.  Tommy Morgado  –  15,675,000  (63 bb)
2.  Corel Theuma  –  13,825,000  (55 bb)
3.  Vinny Monteiro  –  11,325,000  (45 bb)
4.  Ivan Saul  –  10,450,000  (42 bb)

With 26 players remaining from a field of 7,703, the average chip stack is around 5,925,000 (24 big blinds). The field is in the money, with the remaining players guaranteed at least $7,626 each.

$400 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 32:  100,000/200,000 with a 200,000 ante
Players Remaining:  29 of 7,703

After a flop of , David Frenkel check-raised all in from the big blind, and both of his opponents called.

The turn card was the , the UTG+1 player bet 1,400, the late position player moved all in, and the UTG+1 player called. All three players showed their cards.

Late Position:    (queen-high straight)
Early Position:    (queen-high straight)
David Frenkel:    (two pair, nines and sixes)

Frenkel needed to catch a nine or a six to stay alive, and the river card was — the .

Frenkel clapped his hands in victory as he rivered a full house, sixes full of nines, to win the pot and triple up in chips.

David Frenkel  –  4,900,000  (25 bb)

With 29 players remaining from a field of 7,703, the average chip stack is around 5,300,000 (27 big blinds). The field is in the money, with the remaining players guaranteed at least $6,863 each.

$400 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 32:  100,000/200,000 with a 200,000 ante
Players Remaining:  29 of 7,703

Nigel Murray got it all in from the small blind with , and he needed his hand to hold to stay alive against the of Eric Siegel in middle position.

The board came , and Murray won the pot with his ace to double up in chips.

Nigel Murray  –  4,150,000  (21 bb)
Eric Siegel  –  3,300,000  (17 bb)

With 29 players remaining from a field of 7,703, the average chip stack is around 5,300,000 (27 big blinds). The field is in the money, with the remaining players guaranteed at least $6,863 each.

$400 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 31:  75,000/150,000 with a 150,000 ante
Players Remaining:  36 of 7,703

Somebody finally caught up to Raffaello Locatelli on the leaderboard, and actually passed him — Vinny Monteiro.

1.  Vinny Monteiro  –  11,300,000  (75 bb)
2.  Raffaello Locatelli  –  10,350,000  (69 bb)

But a few minutes after we took those counts, Locatelli won a sizable pot to retake the chip lead.

1.  Raffaello Locatelli  –  14,100,000  (94 bb)
2.  Vinny Monteiro  –  10,350,000  (69 bb)

With 36 players remaining from a field of 7,703, the average chip stack is around 4,275,000 (29 big blinds). The field is in the money, with the remaining players guaranteed at least $6,863 each.

$400 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 30:  75,000/125,000 with a 125,000 ante
Players Remaining:  41 of 7,703

Tamara Goldshteyn got it all in from the cutoff for about 850,000 with , and she needed to improve to stay alive against the of Hung Tran in the big blind.

The board came — Goldshteyn paired her king on the turn, but Tran rivered a set of queens to win the pot and eliminate Goldshteyn in 42nd place.

Hung Tran  –  3,325,000  (27 bb)
Tamara Goldshteyn  –  Eliminated in 42nd Place  ($6,228)

With 41 players remaining from a field of 7,703, the average chip stack is around 3,750,000 (30 big blinds). The field is in the money, with the remaining players guaranteed at least $6,228 each.