$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship Event
Blinds 25k/50k/5k

Here’s some recent notable chip counts:

Chance Kornuth 5.75M
Jacob Bazeley 5.7M
Jordan Scott 4.1M
Eric Afriat 3.9M
Mukul Pahuja 3.1M
Matt Glantz 2.1M
Matt Stout 1.5M

Event 18 (3 pm): $1,650 Purple Chip Bounty NLH
Blinds 250/500/50 ante

Players remaining: 39
Average stack: 45,538 (91bbs)

Action folds around to Erik Christensen in the small blind, who raises it to 1500. Mike Dentale puts in another 1k to make the call from the big.

Flop comes . Christensen bets out 1350, Dentale flats. The comes on the turn. Christensen bets 3350. Dentale takes a look at Christensen’s stack, then makes the call.

The comes on fifth street. Christensen tanks for a bit before betting 8500. Dentale thinks for a bit before asking “Show me if I fold?”. No response from Christensen. Dentale then goes into the tank for a long while before making the call.

Christensen announces “Jack high” and turns over . Dentale tables for a turned pair of 9s and rakes in the pot. Dentale now has about 50K.

$250 Pot Limit Omaha 8B

On a flop of , Jordan Chizik checks. Leandro Peirano makes a pot size bet on the button, and Chizik makes the call.

The falls on the turn. Chizik doesn’t wait long to push his remaining 116K into the middle to put himself at risk of busting. Peirano thinks for a few moments before making the call.

Peirano
Chizik

Chizik has a King high straight and is in good shape against Peirano’s 2 pair (Kings and Queens). Unfortunately the falls on fifth street for Peirano to fill up with Kings full of Queens over Chisik’s straight.

Leandro Peirano wins the $5,285 first place prize money and the Event 17 $250 Pot Limit Omaha 8B trophy.  Peirano says “once you go PLO, you never go back”.  Peirano likes PLO because he feels there’s more action than in No Limit Hold’em.

$250 Pot Limit Omaha 8B

Jordan Chizik turns a straight against Leandro Peirano, but Peirano hits a full house on the river to the take the title.

“Three final tables is pretty good,” says Chizik about his success in the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown, “no complaints.”

$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship Event
Blinds 20K/40K/ 5K
Average Stack: 2M (50bbs)

With the elimination of Shawn Cunix in 28th place, the final 27 players are now redrawing for new seat assignments for the final 3 tables. They’ll be playing down to the final 18 players (2 tables) tonight.

$250 Pot Limit Omaha 8B

$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship Event

The remaining 34 players are now on their 15 minute break.  When they come back they’ll be playing Level 26 – 20k/40k/ 5k ante.  Average stack is 1.583 million (~40bbs)

$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship Event
Blinds 15k/30k/5k ante

Ryan Eriquezzo has his tournament on the line when he has his last 235k in the middle against Peter Striano.

Eriquezzo A♥ 9♥
Striano A♠ A♣

The board runs out J♣8♥3♥7♦3♦ and Striano’s pocket rockets eliminate Eriquezzo in 35th place, good for $21,336.

Eriquezzo won the 2012 WSOP National Championship for $416k and has more than $1.2 Million in poker tournament earnings to date.

Striano now has 3.05M in his stack.