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Event 10: Sam Taylor Takes One out

$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Payouts
Level 12: 800/1,600/200 ante
Players Remaining: 126 of 633

Sam Taylor

The cutoff moved all in for 15,000 and Sam Taylor aka “Young Sam Lloyd” called from the small blind. Taylor turned over AhKc and was in good shape against his opponent’s Jd8d.

The board came Ks7s6s4s10h and Taylor’s pair of kings eliminated his opponent.

Sam Taylor  –  36,000

Event 10: Official Prize Pool Released with $118,157 Up Top

2017 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open 
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino 
Hollywood, FL
Event #10
$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Entries: 633
Prize Pool: $633,000

Tournament Director Tony Burns has just released the official prize pool and entrants. There was a total of 633 entrants to create a prize pool worth $633,000 with the last 80 players making the money. A min-cash is worth $1,804 and the winner will take hom $118,157 plus The Big 4 title.

1st: $118,157
2nd: $82,834
3rd: $53,349
4th: $38,581
5th: $29,605
6th: $23,782
7th: $19,762
8th: $15,749
9th: $11,818
10th-12th: $9,780
13th-15th: $7,786
16th-18th: $6,488
19th-21st: $5,317
22nd-24th: $4,494
25th-27th: $3,798
28th-36th: $3,121
37th-45th: $2,741
46th-54th: $2,424
55th-63rd: $2,171
64th-72nd: $1,981
73rd-80th: $1,804

Event 10: Ben Zamani Takes one out

$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 12: 800/1,600/200 ante
Total Entries: 633

Ben Zamani

Ben Zamani made it 8,800 from the cutoff, the big blind moved all in for 10,500, and Zamani called. It was a classic race as Zamani turned over 3s3d versus the big blind’s Ks10h.

The board came 4d4sJd7c8h and Zamani’s pocket threes held, eliminating his opponent.

Ben Zamani  –  36,000

Event 10: Chip Count Update

$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 12: 800/1,600/200 ante
Total Entries: 621

Spencer Champlin

Spencer Champlin leads our $1,100 field at dinner break with Josh Arieh in second place. Here is a list of big stacks and notables on dinner break:

Spencer Champlin  –  170,000
Josh Arieh  –  152,000
Jorge Gomez  –  146,000
Mike Faloney  –  141,200
Brian England  –  122,700
Nicholas Rampone  –  129,000
Jonas Mackoff  –  118,000
Jack Duong  –  102,500
Luke Vrabel  –  87,000
JeWook Oh  –  76,000
Seth Davies  –  72,800
Joe Kuether  –  64,300
Sheddy Siddiqui*  –  57,300
Ana Freitas  –  47,600
Stewart Newman*  –  47,000
Darryll Fish*  –  45,500
Mike Leah  –  45,200
Jake Schwartz  –  42,200
Athanasios Polychronopoulos  –  35,000
Joseph McKeehen  –  30,000
Michael Mizrachi  –  24,000
Steve Karp  –  17,000

*denotes Seminole Hard Rock team member

Event 10: Maria Ho on Double Duty

$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6: 600/1,200/200 ante
Total Entries: 608

Maria Ho

Maria Ho will be on site hosting videos throughout this series. We caught up with her while she was playing the $1,100 Big 4 Event 10.

“I really enjoy this property. The Seminole Hard Rock Poker team runs great events. I’ll be on double duty working extra hard to hopefully make deep runs and put out great content.”

We wish you the best of luck Maria!

Maria Ho  –  32,000

Event 10: Jonas Mackoff versus Niall Farrell

$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9: 400/800/100 ante
Total Entries: 575

Jonas Mackoff

On a final board reading Qs5h3sAs9c Niall Farrell bet 12,400 into a pot of around 25,000. Jonas Mackoff in the hijack thinks for a little bit before eventually calling. Farrell turns over AdKh but is not good against Mackoff’s AcQc (two pair).

Mackoff said he was thinking because he was “between calling and raising.”

Jonas Mackoff  –  71,000
Niall Farrell  –  35,000