Event 1: James Collins Wins In An Eight-Way Deal

$400 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 33:  125,000/250,000 with a 250,000 ante
Players Remaining:  8 of 3,687

James Collins
James Collins

After the elimination of Alexander Perez in ninth place, the remaining eight players agreed to look at the numbers and eventually reached a deal.

Here were their chip counts at the time:

James Collins  –  18,150,000  (73 bb)
Mihalache Cean  –  16,025,000  (64 bb)
Kevin Payton  –  11,650,000  (47 bb)
Toan Pham  –  8,125,000  (33 bb)
Daniyal Gheba  –  6,250,000  (25 bb)
Jason Klass  –  5,000,000  (20 bb)
Al Norman  –  4,600,000  (18 bb)
Jose Vargas Mone  –  3,850,000  (15 bb)

Here were the resulting payouts:

James Collins  –  $130,682
Mihalache Cean  –  $98,607
Kevin Payton  –  $87,129
Toan Pham  –  $74,060
Daniyal Gheba  –  $67,345
Jason Klass  –  $61,528
Al Norman  –  $55,129
Jose Vargas Mone  –  $54,290

As the chip leader, James Collins was the official winner of Event 1 of the 2022 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown.

A recap of the event will be posted later tonight.