Sunday was a busy day in the Seminole Ballroom with multiple tournaments playing out including 720 players returning for Day 2 of the opening event. At one point, every one of the 90 tables were in use.
Of all the tournaments, only one of them played to a champion. Event 7 was a one-day $400 Deep Stack tournament with a $50,000 guaranteed prize pool. It was easily surpassed by the 263 entries and they pushed it to nearly $90,000.
Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood poker regular Sheldon Gross outlasted the entire field and took home more than $20,000 for the outright win after defeating Anthony Barbera in the heads-up match. It was his first career tournament and pushed his career tournament earnings over $250,000.
Event 7 final table results:
1st: Sheldon Gross – $20,370
2nd: Anthony Barbera – $14,328
3rd: Alexandru Ivan – $9,166
4th: Ginold Rendel – $5,575
5th: Stephen Vecchio – $4,306
6th: Adam George – $3,568
7th: Wanlop Phonphornwithoon – $2,996
8th: Angelo Miele – $2,504
9th: James Kirvin III – $2,037
Event 1 had 720 players return for Day 2 on Sunday with 470 set to make some money. The bubble burst before the first break and they continued to play until action was halted in the early hours. Pedro Catinchi was nearly felted but will lead the 13 players returning for Day 3 with more than $250K up top.
TABLE 10
Seat 1. Ben Boston – 7,000,000 (23 bb)
Seat 2. Traci Myhrum – 3,800,000 (13 bb)
Seat 5. Pedro Catinchi – 15,825,000 (53 bb)
Seat 6. Ronald Campillo – 7,400,000 (25 bb)
Seat 7. Song O. – 5,800,000 (19 bb)
Seat 9. John Two-Bears – 14,300,000 (48 bb)
TABLE 9
Seat 1.
Seat 2. Stuart Hankin – 2,700,000 (9 bb)
Seat 3. Gilles Dalco – 8,125,000 (27 bb)
Seat 4. Richard Leger – 6,200,000 (21 bb)
Seat 5. Shane Gosline – 5,675,000 (19 bb)
Seat 6. Brian Mancilla – 4,950,000 (17 bb)
Seat 8. Leif Force – 6,000,000 (20 bb)
Seat 9. Joel Gossett – 5,925,000 (20 bb)
Tables will be balanced before the start of Day 3 action
Event 1 wasn’t the only tournament set to move its action over to Monday afternoon. Event 8 is a $1,700 buy-in Purple Chip Bounty NLH tournament with a talented group of players joining. The single re-entry tournament drew 111 entries for an easy pass of the $100,000 guaranteed prize pool.
Day 1 came to an end after Level 17 and eight players were still alive at the final table. They also return at 2 pm to play down to a champion with Zhi Cheng Wu leading.
Seat 1. Albert Daher – 299,000 (37 bb)
Seat 2. Schahin Ghiai – 407,000 (51 bb)
Seat 3. Ronny Beda – 215,000 (27 bb)
Seat 4. Moshe Shabat – 356,000 (45 bb)
Seat 5. Zhi Cheng Wu – 518,000 (65 bb)
Seat 6. Padraig O’Neill – 83,000 (10 bb)
Seat 7. Tomas Soderstrom – 292,000 (37 bb)
Seat 8. Carlos Guerrero – 50,000 (6 bb)
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