$1,100 Limit Omaha 8 Championship (Freeze-Out)
Structure | Payouts
Level 17:  6,000/12,000 Limits
Players Remaining:  15 of 87

Esther Taylor raised from early position, Donny Rubinstein called on the button, James Calderaro called in the small blind and Scott Matejka called in the big blind.

The flop was , Calderaro led out and Matejka called. Taylor raised, Rubinstein folded and both Calderaro and Matejka called.

The turn was the , Calderato bet, Matejka called all in for less, Taylor raised the rest of her stack and Calderaro called.

Taylor:
Calderaro:
Matejka:

Calderaro was well out in front with jack full of fours, but the river was the to give Taylor jacks full of fives to double through Calderaro and eliminate Matejka.

Esther Taylor – 90,000 (7.5 big bets)
James Calderaro – 210,000 (17.5 big bets)
Scott Matejka – Eliminated

$600 Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Single Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 21:  10,000/15,000 with a 15,000 ante
Players Remaining:  7 of 330

Seat 1:  Bruce McPhillips  –  1,020,000 (68 bb)
Seat 2:  Cameron Storto  – 575,000 (38 bb)
Seat 3:  Timothy Fisher  –  150,000 (10 bb)
Seat 4:  Rafay Asrar  –  340,000  (23 bb)
Seat 5:  Juan Rodriguez –   650,000 (43 bb)
Seat 6:  David Albertson  –  1,700,000 (113 bb)
Seat 7:  Victor Choupeaux  –  1,900,000  (146 bb)

Final Table Payouts
1st:  $34,215
2nd:  $23,680
3rd:  $16,660
4th:  $11,920
5th:  $8,680
6th:  $6,430
7th:  $4,855

$1,100 Limit Omaha 8 Championship (Freeze-Out)
Structure | Payouts
Level 16:  5,000/10,000 Limits
Players Remaining:  16 of 87

Hol Roltholz was all in from early position by the river of a board against Jeter Brock in the small blind.

Rotholz showed , obviously hating that river card, and was scooped by Brock’s for an ace-high flush and a rivered 6-5-low.

Jeter Brock – 130,000 (13 big bets)
Hal Rotholz – Eliminated

Also recently eliminated was Amnon Filippi.

The final 11 players will cash, and Day 1 will conclude when the final table of nine players is reached.

$1,100 Limit Omaha 8 Championship (Freeze-Out)
Structure | Payouts
Level 16:  5,000/10,000 Limits
Players Remaining:  18 of 87

Table 8
Seat 1:  James Gunter  –   160,000 (16 big bets)
Seat 2:  Nicholas Marsico  –  35,000 (3.5 big bets)
Seat 3:  Yuval Bronshtein  –  145,000 (14.5 big bets)
Seat 4:  Ricardo Quintero  –   75,000 (7.5 big bets)
Seat 5:  Matthew Zazaian  –  120,000 (12 big bets)
Seat 6:  Brian Hastings  –  55,000 (5.5 big bets)
Seat 7:  David Scarpetta  –  120,000 (12 big bets)
Seat 8:  Adam Hutchinson  –  85,000 (8.5 big bets)
Seat 9:  Amnon Filippi  –  58,000 (6 big bets)

Table 18
Seat 1:  Shelly Roth  –  32,000 (3 big bets)
Seat 2:  Matt Woodward  –  90,000 (9 big bets)
Seat 3:  Hal Rotholz  –  80,000 (8 big bets)
Seat 4:  Donny Rubinstein  – 85,000 (8.5 big bets)
Seat 5:  James Calderaro  –  220,000 (22 big bets)
Seat 6:  Scott Matejka  –  70,000 (7 big bets)
Seat 7:  Leonard St-Germain  –  30,000 (3 big bets)
Seat 8:  Esther Taylor  –  70,000 (7 big bets)
Seat 9:  Jeter Brock  –  100,000 (10 big bets)

$600 Six-Max Pot Limit Omaha (Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 10:  500/1,000
Players Remaining:  42 of 136

Fred Goldberg – 120,000 (120 bb)
Matt Betzfield – 115,000 (115 bb)
John Holley – 105,000 (105 bb)
Will Givens – 85,000 (85 bb)
Sean Shah – 80,000 (80 bb)
Brett Bader – 70,000 (70 bb)
Isaac Crow – 53,000 (53 bb)
Sam Sternfield – 48,000 (48 bb)
Jean Gaspard – 44,000 (44 bb)
Nicolas Seiken – 28,000 (28 bb)
Zhen Cai – 25,000 (25 bb)
Josh Reichard – 20,000 (20 bb)
Jim Collopy – 15,000 (15 bb)

$1,100 Limit Omaha 8 Championship (Freeze-Out)
Structure | Payouts
Level 12:  2,000/4,000 Limits
Players Remaining:  38 of 87

Yuval Bronshtein – 148,000 (37 big bets)
Mark Dube – 85,000 (21 big bets)
David Shmuel – 80,000 (20 big bets)
Esther Taylor – 68,000 (17 big bets)
Hal Rotholz – 64,000 (16 big bets)
Jesse Lonis – 60,000 (15 big bets)
James Calderaro – 56,000 (14 big bets)
Cory Zeidman – 55,000 (14 big bets)
Ayaz Mahmood – 55,000 (14 big bets)
Scott Matejka – 41,000 (10 big bets)
Brian Hastings – 40,000 (10 big bets)
Frankie O’Dell – 31,000 (8 big bets)
Nicolas Milgrom – 28,000 (7 big bets)
Shelly Roth – 25,000 (6 big bets)
Amnon Filippi – 23,000 (6 big bets)
Ken Aldridge – 20,000 (5 big bets)
Michael Rosenberg – 15,000 (4 big bets)
Tony Cousineau – 12,000 (3 big bets)
Barry Levy – 10,000 (2.5 big bets)
Danny Chang – 10,000 (2.5 big bets)

2021 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 23
$600 Pot Limit Omaha (Re-Entry)
Entries: 143
Prize Pool:  $73,075
August 2, 2021

Event 23  of the 2021 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open was a $600 Pot Limit Omaha (Re-Entry). A field of 143 entries came to play and created a prize pool of $73,075.

A heads-up deal was reached between the final two players and as the chip leader, Tom Guedj was the official Event 24 champion.

This marked Guedj’s third final table in a PLO event in an SHRP major, with previous third and fourth-place finishes at the 2019 and 2020 Lucky Hearts seres. The third time was the charm, as Guedj’s victory earned him $18,238.

*denotes heads-up deal

2021 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 22
$600 Double Black Chip Bounty NLH (Single Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed
Entries: 300
Prize Pool:  $97,500
Bounty Prize Pool:  $60,000
August 2, 2021

Event 22 of the 2021 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open was a $600 Double Black Chip Bounty NLH (Single Re-Entry) with a guaranteed prize pool of $50,000. A field of 300 entries generated a total prize pool of $157,500, of which $60,000 went to the bounty prize pool.

Emerging victorious was Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood regular Ducarmel Beaubien, winning outright for $20,860 and also earning his first SHRP trophy.

2021 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 24
$150 Big Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$30,000 Guaranteed
Entries: 569
Prize Pool:  $68,280
August 2, 2021

Event 24 of the 2021 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open, a $150 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry), attracted 569 entries and generated a total prize pool of $68,280, more than doubling the guarantee.

The final eight players agreed to a deal and as the chip leader, Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood regular Pasquale Caiazza was the official winner, notching his first SHRP trophy.

*denotes eight-handed deal

$600 Pot Limit Omaha (Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 25:  15,000/30,000
Players Remaining: 2 of 143

After playing a few hands heads-up, Tom Guedj and Amnon Filippi agreed to a deal.

Here were their chip counts at the time:

Tom Guedj – 1,695,000 (57 bb)
Amnon Filippi – 450,000 (15 bb)

Here were the resulting payouts:

Tom Guedj – $18,238
Amnon Filippi – $14,702

As the chip leader, Tom Guedj was the official winner of Event 23 of the 2021 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open.

A summary of the event will be posted later this morning.