Event 9: Benitez Back to Defend

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 6: 200/400 with 50 Ante
Flight 1A Entries: 315

Leonard Benitez (North Lauderdale, FL)
Leonard Benitez (North Lauderdale, FL)

Flight A crossed over 300 entrants after the break and is building a nice afternoon field. We found Leonard Benitez in early action and he’s only player today who would be happy to repeat his result from this event last year.

Benitez made it through nearly 2,500 entrants in the $1 Million Guarantee event during the 2015 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown, taking home over $113,000 after a final table deal with him holding the chip lead.

That was also the first recorded tournament cash for Benitez, not a bad way to start things off.