Championship Day 1B: Diana Shirey Leads 142 Survivors

$5,250 SHRPO Championship
$3 Million Guaranteed | Payouts
Level 10: 800/1,600 with a 200 ante
Players Remaining: 142 of 480

The last starting flight in this $5,250 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship has concluded. Today’s Day 1B field drew 480 players with 142 players making it through to tomorrow’s Day 2, crushing the $3 Million guarantee.

Diana Shirey

Diana Shirey is our overall chip leader, bagging 398,000. “I’m chip leader? It’s my first time being chip leader! I’ve just been getting lucky thats all.”

It took three tries for Shirey to satellite into this event. “I ran good, it’s easy to play well when you run good, I picked my spots.”

There was a strong showing of Seminole Hard Rock Poker team members today including,  with Chance Kornuth leading the pack. Kornuth bagged 365,000.

Chance Kornuth (left) Glenn Cressman (right)

The players returning to Day 2 at noon tomorrow are vying for their piece of the $4,301,950 prize pool.

1st: $754,083
2nd: $528,322
3rd: $341,618
4th: $252,481
5th: $191,437
6th: $152,547
7th: $126,305
8th: $100,408
9th: $75,413
10th-12th: $61,303
13th-15th: $48,397
16th-18th: $40,094
19th-21st: $33,211
22nd-24th: $28,049
25th-27th: $22,972
28th-36th: $19,531
37th-45th: $16,950
46th-54th: $15,014
55th-63rd: $13,551
64th-72nd: $12,433
73rd-81st: $11,400
82nd-90th: $10,411
91st-99th: $9,421
100th-108th: $8,475
109th-111th: $7,528