$5,300 SHRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 11:  1,500/2,500 with a 2,500 ante
Day 1B Players Remaining:  169 of 456

Day 1B came to an end with 169 players remaining from a field of 456, and the chipleader was Juan Maceiras with 395,000 (158 big blinds).

Registration closed with a total field of 865 entries, generating a total prizepool worth $4,195,250, easily beating the $3 million guarantee. The final 109 players will finish in the money, with a min-cash worth $9,700.

The full list of official chip counts will be posted later tonight, but in the meantime, here are the six players who bagged at least 300K in chips:

1.  Juan Maceiras  –  395,000  (158 bb)
2.  Shawn Lucas  –  390,500  (156 bb)
3.  James Carroll  –  354,000  (142 bb)
4.  Andrew Moreno  –  347,500  (139 bb)
5.  Kyle Arora  –  330,500  (132 bb)
6.  Adrian Buckley  –  304,500  (122 bb)

Day 2 begins tomorrow (Sunday) at 12:00 noon, when the field will play another 10 one-hour levels. We expect the Money Bubble to burst sometime around the dinner break, so return to SHRPO.com for our continuing coverage of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship.