$150 No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry Level 19: 4,000/8,000 with a 1,000 ante Players Remaining: 37 of 625
The player in the big blind was all in for 3,000 and four players took a flop of . Edgardo Rosario bet 10,000 from under-the-gun and a player in late position called.
The rest of the hand was checked down as the board was completed with the and the .
Rosario showed , and dragged the pot against the all in player’s and the late position player’s . Rosario dragged the pot, burst the bubble and there is a slight break in the action as they break a table and the final 36 are all in the money.
Rosario is one of the biggest stacks remaining after dragging the pot and everybody remaining is guaranteed at least $488.
$150 No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry Level 18: 3,000/6,000 with a 1,000 ante Players Remaining: 37 of 625
Xiaoyan Wang
Hand-for-hand play is still in progress with Xiaoyan Wang leading the final 37 players as they come back from a 15-minute break. Wang sits atop the counts with 445,000 in chips. Eli Levy is her closest competitor with about 380,000.
$250 No Limit Hold’em Turbo Level 15: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 ante Players Remaining: 42 of 175
With the start of level 15, registration is closed and the prize pool is finalized. There are 175 entries in the last open event of the series, which generated a prize pool of $36,750.
The $25,000 guarantee prize pool was met and surpassed. The payouts will be released shortly.
$150 No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry Level 17: 2,500/5,000 with a 500 ante Players Remaining: 37 of 625
Hand-for-hand play is currently in progress with the final 37 players remaining. Only 36 players can earn a cash, however, and when one more player busts, everybody remaining is guaranteed at least $488.
Tuesday was chock filled with poker action at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown, with one of the busiest days of the series taking place.
There was one trophy awarded late into the night when Frankie Flowers was crowned the champion of the $350 No Limit Hold’em single day event. Flowers got the better end of a heads-up deal to take home the title and more than $20,000.
Most of the attention was focused on the $10,000 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Finale’s penultimate day and the kick off of the $25,000 High Roller No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry.
The WPT Finale played from 27 players, who were all in the money already, down to the final table of six players. Richard Leger leads the final six, but two-time WPT Champion Chino Rheem is sitting right behind him in second.
Those final six have an off-day on Wednesday while the $3,500 WPT main event plays down to a winner and comes back on Thursday at noon to play down to a winner. Both the Main Event and the Finale will be live streamed on WPT.com.
Day 1 of the $25,000 High Roller No Limit Hold’em got cards in the air at 2 p.m. and it drew 94 entries. They played all the way down to until the money bubble burst at about 5:15 a.m. on Wednesday morning, with the top 13 finishers earning a payday.
Play wrapped up and the bags came out as soon as the money bubble popped. Those final 13 players return on Wednesday at 4 p.m. to play down to a winner. Everybody is guaranteed at least a min-cash of $58,570, but the top spot pays out $658,000.
As if that wasn’t enough action, there were two other events running simultaneously. The $2,200 Deep Stack Pot Limit Omaha kicked off at 5 p.m. and drew 79 entries. It played until the money bubble burst as well, with the final nine players all coming back on Wednesday at 2 p.m. to play down to a winner.
Scott Clements holds a massive chip lead heading into the final day with nearly half of the chips in play.
Day 1B of the $150 No Limit Hold’em re-entry drew another 353 players to that field to bring the total field size to 625 and generated a $75,000 prizepool. Of the 625, only 67 will come back for Day 2, which starts at 2 p.m. and will play down to a winner.
Wednesday’s action will be the busiest of the series, with four trophies being awarded. The final table of the $3,500 WPT Main Event starts at 11 a.m., while the $2,200 Deep Stack Pot Limit Omaha, the $25,000 High Roller No Limit Hold’em and the $150 No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry all play down to a winner. There is also the last one-day event on the schedule, which is a $250 No Limit Hold’em Turbo Re-Entry event that kicks off at noon.
Here is a look at the details for Wednesday’s action:
11 a.m. – Final Day – $3,500 WPT Championship
12 p.m. – $250 No Limit Hold’em Turbo Re-Entry
2 p.m. – Final – $150 No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry
2 p.m. – Final Day – $2,200 Deep Stack Pot Limit Omaha
4 p.m. – Final Day – $25,000 High Roller No Limit Hold’em
$25,000 High Roller No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Level 17: 8,000/16,000 with a 2,000 ante Players Remaining: 13 of 94
Brian Benderoff
After a long, 15-hour day of poker, Day 1 of the $25,000 High Roller No Limit Hold’em comes to a close with the final 13 players all in the money.
Brian Benderoff is leading the pack with 1,279,000 in chips and is joined at the top of the leaderboard by Yevgeniy Timoshenko (1,140,000) and John Dolan (887,000).
The tournament was played eight-handed and Day 1 was originally scheduled to play down to the final table of eight players, but as the day moved along, the staff decided to alter the schedule and play until they burst the money bubble.
The money bubble burst just after 5 a.m. on Wednesday morning to wrap up the day’s action and leave the remaining 13 players all in the money.
The survivors of the day will come back on Wednesday afternoon at 4 p.m. to play down to a winner. They are all guaranteed at least a min-cash of $58,750, but they all have their sights set on the first place prize of $658,000.
Here are a look at the chip counts for the start of Day 2:
2016 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Hollywood Event #26 $350 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Total Entries: 262 Total Prize Pool: $78,600
Frankie Flowers Wins Event #26 for $20,479
Frankie Flowers won the $350 No Limit Hold’em in the early hours of Wednesday morning, but his sights were set much higher than that.
Flowers bested a field of 262 players in a heads-up deal to take home the trophy and $20,479. He’s got high hopes for that prize money.
“We are going to try tro run it up,” said the 42-year-old poker pro. “I think we might go fire it into the $25K in the morning. I don’t know what the blinds are, but we are going to give it a shot.”
When he was informed that the registration for the High Roller event was already closed, he couldn’t do anything but laugh.
After several cackles, he had another idea for the prize money.
“I’m just going to spin it up and try to roll this up,” he said with laugh. “We’ll just fly to Vegas and bet it all on [Steph] Curry. See how many points he can score in the next game.”
All of this was said with lots of laughter and joy with his win, but one thing he was serious about was taking home the trophy. Flowers is a regular in tournaments on the East Coast and is very well known in the northeast part of the country.
Flowers just missed out on a WPT final table back in 2007 at Foxwoods, finishing 10th in the World Poker Finals main event for $60,429.
Despite the success, this is the first time Flowers gets to take home some hardware.
“This is my first trophy,” said Flowers on a more serious note. “I’ve won a bunch of tournaments where we’ve made deals and then played for the trophy and I’ve always lost. This is the first time I get to take home the hardware.”
Flowers first trophy didn’t come easy. He came into the final table with the chip lead, but still had to top a table that featured WSOP bracelet winner Phil Hui and local tournament regular Michael Newman.
He then got the better part of the deal against Richard Arno heads-up, who puts a bow on a solid series of his own with two final tables.
Heads-up play didn’t last very long before a deal was made, allowing Flowers to be crowned the champion and take home the largest share of the prize pool.
Here is a look at the results:
1st: Frankie Flowers – $20,479 2nd: Richard Arno – $14,500 3rd: Ryan Sherman – $7,467 4th: Evan Young – $6,052 5th: Raymound Ruszkowski – $4,716 6th: Allan Dungo – $3,930 7th: Michael Newman – $3,144 8th: Phillip Hui – $2,358 9th: David Reeder – $1,572 10th: Edwin Roman – $1,022 11th: Nicholas Mahabee – $1,022 12th: Ido Ashkenazi – $1,022 13th: Daren Stabinski – $865 14th: Marc Kropf – $865 15th: Matthew Yorra – $865 16th: Sheldon Gorss – $786 17th: Dolphus Powers – $786 18th: Ory Hen – $786 19th: Xiaoyan Wang – $707 20th: Sheraz Nasir – $707 21st: Michael Ortiz – $707 22nd: Michel Esper Saad Jr. – $707 23rd: Jonathan Ounjian – $707 24th: Howard Darnold – $707 25th: Homero Molina – $707 26th: Paul Shafran – $707 27th: Haim Toorgeman – $707
$2,200 Deep Stack Pot Limit Omaha Level 13: 3,000/6,000 Players Remaining: 9 of 79
Scott Clements Leads Final 9 of $2,200 PLO
Scott Clements is regarded as one of the most respected Omaha players in the world and is showing why as he takes an astounding chip lead into the final table of the $2,200 Pot Limit Omaha.
The Washington native has won WSOP bracelets in both the split-pot and high-only variants of the game, as well as a plethora of deep runs and other titles in all variants. Clements enters the final day of play with almost half of the chips in play.
While Clements has a massive lead, one of the latest additions to the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Team, Chance Kornuth, sits in second chip position.
Kornuth is top flight professional poker player in his own right with over $3.6 million in tournament earnings and a WSOP bracelet in the 2010 $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha for over $508,000.
The event kicked off at 5 p.m. on Tuesday and when the late registration and re-entry period was closed, there were 79 entrants, which created a prizepool of $158,000 that would be divided up among the top nine finishers.
They reached the unofficial final table of 10 players just before the start of the last scheduled level of the day, but after finishing the last level and still having 10 players remaining, they continued play until they lost one more player and they could return nine players, all in the money, for Day 2.
It was another well-known pro, Ari Engel, who busted in 10th and was the unfortunate bubble boy. Engel headed to the rail without a payday, but earned a cash earlier in the day after busting from the $10,000 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Finale in 23rd place for $27,620.
Charlel Azzi also earned himself a seat at the final table and has secured his second cash of the series. His first cash came in the $3,500 WPT Main Event. He netted $30,228 for his 19th place finish.
The final nine players are all guaranteed at least a cash of $4,740, but are all within arms reach of the $47,400 first place prize money. Cards get back in the air on Wednesday at 2 p.m. to play down to a winner.
Here is a look at the seating arrangement for the final table:
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