2018 Escalator Series (Week 4)
$560 Buy-In, $400,000 Guaranteed
Level 8: 300/600 with a 75 ante | Structure
Flight A Entries: 179

A good chunk of Paul Balzano’s more than $1,300,000 in reported tournament earnings has come from right here at the Seminole Hard Rock. Most notably, he final tabled the 2016 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open $5,250 Championship finishing seventh for $125,000. Balzano is a regular at any pricepoint here in the room and has had a solid start in today’s $560.

Currently with about 45,000 chips, Balzano has more than doubled his 20,000 starting. He recently had a chance to grow it even higher, calling an opponent’s 10,100 turn shove on an board. Balzano had the worst of it with for a flush draw and needed to hit versus . The river was a blank and Balzano missed an opportunity to scoop a nice one.