$250 Holiday Day Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em

Today’s $250 Holiday Deep Stack tournament drew 290 entries more than doubling its $30,000 guaranteed target. In all, the prize pool topped out at $60,900 and pays the top 27 finishers at least $548. Payouts escalate from that point and climax in the form of a $17,051 first prize. In addition to the score, the champion earns the final Deep Stack Series trophy as well as an added seat in the $5,250 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship.

Full prize structure:

1st – $17,051 + SHRPO Seat
2nd – $10,049
3rd – $5,786
4th – $4,689
5th – $3,654
6th – $3,045
7th – $2,436
8th – $1,827
9th – $1,218
10th-12th – $792
13th-15th – $670
16th-18th – $609
19th-27th – $548

$1,650 Deepest Stack No Limit Hold’em
Level 27: 30,000/60,000/10,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 5/367

Scott Heiligman raised from under the gun and Sheddy Siddiqui defended his big blind. The flop fell and Siddiqui checked. Heiligman bet 200,000. Siddiqui called.

Fourth street was the . Both players checked.

The river completed the board with the . Siddiqui lead for 400,000. Heiligman called and Siddiqui’s cards instantly hit the muck. Heiligman showed and won the pot.

Scott Heiligman – 6,450,000
Sheddy Siddiqui – 3,050,000

$1,650 Deepest Stack No Limit Hold’em
Level 27: 30,000/60,000/10,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 5/367

The board read in a three-way pot between Mukul Pahuja, Marcus Stein and Scott Heiligman. Pahuja checked. Stein bet 200,000 and Heiligman folded. It was back on Pahuja and he raised to what appeared to be 575,000. Stein shoved and Pahuja called. Stein was at risk and behind.

Pahuja: for middle set
Stein: for top pair

The turn and river fell the and . Pahuja got new life crossing 3,000,000 chips while Stein busted 7th earning $26,699.

Mukul Pahuja – 3,175,000
Marcus Stein – Eliminated 6th ($26,699)

$1,650 Deepest Stack No Limit Hold’em
Level 27: 30,000/60,000/10,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 6/367

Scott Heiligman was on the button and opened the action for 175,000. It folded to Samuel Wynder in the big blind and he defended. With that, the pair that’s topped the counts for most of Day 2 faced off in a heads-up pot.

Wynder checked. Heiligman bet 225,000. Wynder called.

Both players checked.

Wynder lead for 325,000 and Heiligman insta-called. Wynder flashed for an ace-high bluff. Heiligman turned over and earned the pot as well as the chip lead.

Scott Heiligman – 5,600,000
Samuel Wynder – 4,160,000

$1,650 Deepest Stack No Limit Hold’em
Level 26: 25,000/50,000/5,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 6/367

Seminole Hard Rock Poker team member Sheddy Siddiqui opened for 100,000 from middle position and Samuel Wynder called from the small blind.

Wynder checked. Siddiqui bet 115,000. Wynder called.

Both players checked.

Wynder lead for 250,000. Siddiqui took a minute or so to think before he plopped in calling chips. Wynder flipped over and took the pot with top-top.

Samuel Wynder – 5,250,000
Sheddy Siddiqui – 4,000,000

$1,650 Deepest Stack No Limit Hold’em
Level 26: 25,000/50,000/5,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 6/367

Samuel Wynder opened the cutoff for 125,000. Seminole Hard Rock Poker team member Mukul Pahuja called from the button. The blinds folded and Wynder was heads up against Pahuja.

Both players checked.

Wynder lead for 175,000. Pahuja called.

Wynder checked. Pahuja reached into his stack for a bet of 325,000. Wynder called and Pahuja surrendered.

“Nice hand,” he said flipping over for ace-high.

Wynder turned over and took the pot with his rivered pair of 10s. The hand put him over 5,000,000 chips and he appears to have taken the lead from Sheddy Siddiqui. Pahuja, meanwhile, solidified his post at the bottom of the counts.

Samuel Wynder – 5,030,000
Mukul Pahuja – 1,075,000

$1,650 Deepest Stack No Limit Hold’em
Level 26: 25,000/50,000/5,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 6/367

Seminole Hard Rock Poker team member Sheddy Siddiqui leads the way as six remain in the $1,650 Deepest Stack. Siddiqui is in the midst of his third final table appearance in as many years in this event. He claimed victory in 2013 and finished 4th in last year’s installment.

Cards are freshly in the air for the final session and those players still in contention mark all that’s left of a 367-entry starting field. Each has locked up $26,699 with the tournament’s winner earning $148,627, a Seminole Hard Rock guitar trophy and an added $5,250 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship seat.

Seat 1: Scott Heiligman – 3,360,000 (67 bb)
Seat 2: Gil Haim – 1,800,000 (36 bb)
Seat 3: Sam Wynder  4,785,000 (95 bb)
Seat 4: Mukul Pahuja – 1,500,000 (30 bb)
Seat 5: Marcus Stein – 1,930,000 (38 bb)
Seat 6: Sheddy Siddiqui – 4,930,000 (98 bb)

1st – $148,627 + SHRPO Seat
2nd – $82,575
3rd – $51,362
4th – $41,288
5th – $32,480
6th – $26,699

Updated Results

Joining Siddiqui on Day 2 is fellow team member Mukul Pahuja who rounds out the counts as the shortstack. One other notable storyline developing is that of Scott Heiligman. Heiligman late registered Day 2, took a few orbits off and first took his seat to roughly 35,000 chips. From those couple big blinds, he’s spun up a stack of 3,360,000 good enough for third overall.

Levels are 90 minutes in length through the event’s conclusion. When cards went in the air just moments ago, 42:30 remained in Level 26.

Updates throughout the event’s conclusion will be available right here at SHRPO.com.

$250 Holiday Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em
Heading to Level 7: 250/500/75 Ante
Entries: 200

The $250 Holiday Deep Stack sits at 200 entries and growing during the first break. That already marks an increase over last year’s field of 165 and puts the unofficial prize pool at $42,000. Late registration and unlimited re-entry are available until 3:30 p.m. and both the aforementioned figures are expected to grow significantly between now and then.

After bubbling yesterday’s $1,650 Deepest Stack, Raymond Ruszkowski is experiencing a little better fortune here in the $250. He’s turned his 20,000 starting chips into 80,000 over the first four levels and appears to lead the way early.

We will provide another update on the event when the prize pool is finalized.

$250 Holiday Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em
Level 1: 25/50

It’s a 11 a.m. here in the Seminole Hard Rock poker room and cards are in the air for the final event of the 2016 Deep Stack Series. The $250 buy-in, $30,000 guaranteed Holiday Deep Stack features 20,000-chip starting stacks and 20- and 30-minute levels. In addition to the final guitar trophy and a hefty chunk of the prize pool, the tournament’s winner earns an added $5,250 seat in the $5,000,000 guaranteed Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship which runs August 13-16.

Here’s more on today’s event:

11am: $250 Holiday Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em

• $250 buy-in, $30,000 guaranteed, $5,250 SHRPO seat added
• Players begin with 20,000 chips
• Levels 1-12 are 20 minutes, Levels 13+ are 30 minutes
• Late registration/unlimited re-entry available until the start of Level 13 (about 3:30 p.m.)
• 30-minute dinner break occurs following Level 17 (at about 6:10  p.m.)

Structure Sheet

Periodic updates throughout the day will be posted right here at SHRPO.com

Happy Memorial Day and welcome to the final installment of the 2016 Deep Stack Series. Today’s play kicks off at 11 a.m. with the Holiday Deep Stack, a $250 buy-in, $30,000 guaranteed tournament that marks the final trophy event on the schedule. Continuing — and closing — the action at 6 p.m. is the $250 buy-in Second Chance Turbo.

Here’s a look at the day’s full schedule:

11am: $250 Holiday Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em

• $250 buy-in, $30,000 guaranteed, $5,250 SHRPO seat added
• Players begin with 20,000 chips
• Levels 1-12 are 20 minutes, Levels 13+ are 30 minutes
• Late registration/unlimited re-entry available until the start of Level 13 (about 3:30 p.m.)
• 30-minute dinner break occurs following Level 17 (at about 6:10  p.m.)

Structure Sheet

6pm: $250 Second Chance Turbo No Limit Hold’em

• Players begin with 20,000 chips
• Level are 15 minutes
• Late registration/unlimited re-entry available until the start of Level 14 (about 9:40 p.m.)

Structure Sheet

In addition to the above events, the $1,650 Deepest Stack tournament returns for an additional day of play at 2 p.m. More information on that event is available in the posts below.