Event 12: Playing From 11 to a Champ

$1,650 Purple Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em (Single Re-Entry)
Level 17: 1,500/3,000/500 Ante

It’s a short but talented field that returns for Day 2. The biggest buy-in event so far during the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open drew 129 players to the big bounty tournament with 11 players remaining and regular local Erik Christensen leading the way.

They’re all looking for the $38,698 top prize and the first step is losing a player to reach the final table. It could be a long day as even the shortest stack, Scott Zakheim, comes back with 30 big blinds and they will switch to hour-long levels once they reach the final table.

Players are unbagging their chips and we should be underway very soon.

Table 1
Seat 1: Hunter Cichy – 92,500 (31 bb)
Seat 2: Ira Schwartz – 99,500 (33 bb)
Seat 3: John Gorsuch – 119,500 (40 bb)
Seat 4: Enrique Roman – 114,500 (38 bb)
Seat 5: Trevor Doughty – 117,500 (39 bb)
Seat 6: Ryan Van Sanford – 151,000 (50 bb)
Seat 7: Empty
Seat 8: Empty
Seat 9: Empty

Table 2
Seat 1: Erik Christensen – 240,000 (80 bb)
Seat 2: Dan Buzgon – 151,000 (50 bb)
Seat 3: Marc MacDonnell – 177,000 (59 bb)
Seat 4: Scott Zakheim – 90,000 (30 bb)
Seat 5: Qasem Jamhour – 194,500 (65 bb)
Seat 6: Empty
Seat 7: Empty
Seat 8: Empty
Seat 9: Empty

Erik Christensen – 240,000 (80 bb)
Qasem Jamhour – 194,500 (65 bb)
Marc MacDonnell – 177,000 (59 bb)
Ryan Van Sanford – 151,000 (50 bb)
Dan Buzgon – 151,000 (50 bb)
John Gorsuch – 119,500 (40 bb)
Trevor Doughty – 117,500 (39 bb)
Enrique Roman – 114,500 (38 bb)
Ira Schwartz – 99,500 (33 bb)
Hunter Cichy – 92,500 (31 bb)
Scott Zakheim – 90,000 (30 bb)

1st: $38,698
2nd: $21,285
3rd: $12,255
4th: $10,320
5th: $7,740
6th: $6,450
7th: $5,160
8th: $3,870
9th: $2,903
10th: $2,580
11th: $2,580