$360 Ultimate Re-Entry $500,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 8: 300/600 with a 600 ante Flight C Entries: 468
Frankie Flowers
We mentioned Frankie Flowers and Jason Young earlier, two of the five players who cashed in both Flights A and B. Both are back today trying for a third bag and both recently hit a spade flush to stick around.
Young was down to only 1,700 after losing to and called all in on the next hand. He was behind this time with against , flopped a flush draw and it hit on the turn as the board ran out . A small double so he still has some work to do.
Flowers was a late entry and decided to gamble it up. He was all in for 15,100 holding and in trouble against . The gave him the spade flush draw, he blanked the , and cracked aces on the river to double to 31,700.
The H.O.R.S.E. field is growing and it hit 45 entries as players were on their first break of the tournament. Players have more than two hours remaining in late registration if they want to make their way down to the Event Center for the mix game.
John Holley was a recent addition to the tournament, choosing this game over the bigger Ultimate Re-Entry. The six-time WSOP Circuit ring winner excels in a lot of different games which makes him a perfect player for this event. In addition those rings, he also won a non-ring WSOP Circuit H.O.R.S.E. event and he won back-to-back tournaments during the 2013 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open.
$360 Ultimate Re-Entry $500,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 5: 200/300 with a 300 ante Flight C Entries: 402
Mark “Bud” Wiser
Flight C players returned from their first break and the entry count ticked over 400 soon after. It’s unlikely it will hit 767 before registration closes at 5:45pm, the number to push the prize pool over the guarantee, but it will get there not long after Flight D starts at 5pm.
SHRP regular Mark “Bud” Wiser is your early leader and he’s up to 68,000 from his 15,000 starting stack after four levels. Matthew Zarcadoolas sits in the second spot with 56,000 with a lot of players not far behind.
The first day of the 2019 Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open was a great start to the series. It featured the first two flights of the $500,000 Guarantee Ultimate Re-Entry tournament and we awarded our first title in the one-day Limit Omaha 8 trophy event.
Flights A and B of the Ultimate Re-Entry drew exactly 900 entries to put it on an easy path to the guarantee. This tournament allows/encourages players to enter as many flights as they wish and are rewarded for advancing multiple stacks to Day 2. They’ll play their biggest and we will pay them $2,500 for the smaller stack(s).
Flowers intends to keep playing through the weekend.
In addition to Flowers, he was joined by Jason Young, Sean Shah, Stephen Ibrahim, and David Nathaniel, Jr. as the first five players to earn a multi-stack payout.
It wasn’t all Ultimate Re-Entry in the Event Center on Thursday, we also handed out our first LHPO trophy. Event 2 was a $360 Limit Omaha 8 tournament and it drew 78 entries with the final table ten earning a piece of the prize pool.
Adam Walter Wins $360 Limit Omaha 8
Cincinnati’s Adam Walter came to South Florida simply to escape the cold weather and play a little poker and now he will return with a trophy after he won it outright. He earned $7,908 plus a custom-framed winner’s photo courtesy of Image Master after he defeated Michael Rosenberg heads up for the title.
Event 2 results:
1st: Adam Walter – $7,908 2nd: Michael Rosenberg – $4,563 3rd: Michael Dreese – $2,855 4th: Gabriel Ramos – $1,931 5th: Wayne Brown – $1,463 6th: Hyndi Khomutetsky – $1,170 7th: Harvey Freedman – $1,053 8th: Perry Klein – $936 9th: Harry Eisenberg – $819 10th: Eric Von Guttenberg – $702
We expected a small but talented field in the H.O.R.S.E. event today and it is living up to expectations. There are 34 entries so far after the first level and a lot of them already have mixed or non-hold’em success.
Joel Harwood won the H.O.R.S.E. event during the Everglades Poker Open here in 2016 and followed that up with a SHRPO Pot Limit Omaha 8 title this past August. Wally Maddah, with more than 100 career SHRP cashes, won a Pot Limit Omaha title at SHR Tampa and final tabled the first ever H.O.R.S.E. event he played during the 2017 Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open. Wayne Brown has a handful of Omaha final tables including a fifth-place finish in yesterday’s Limit Omaha 8 tournament.
$360 Ultimate Re-Entry $500,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 2: 100/200 with a 100 ante Flight C Entries: 251
Michael Damiani
Flight C pulled in another 150 entrants over the first hour and we have a steady line of players coming into the Event Center to grab their seat. We had 900 entries for the first two flights and we will flirt with 1,000 between the two today.
Two friends of SHRP are back in action, they together and will go home together. Husband and wife players Michael and Jorie Damiani both have success in our events including Jorie with a SHRPO Escalator win in 2013.
We’re not sure, but this might be one of the first time the two of them played in the same event. Jorie gave birth to their first child earlier in 2018 and he has been their focus.
The Ultimate Re-Entry event is chugging along in the middle of the Event Center but some prefer a little mix to their poker games. H.O.R.S.E. tournaments have always been popular and this time around we have two on the series schedule.
The first kicks off at noon and another chance for players to win a trophy along with some nice cash. Event 3 has a $360 buy-in and the games will rotate between Limit Hold’em, Limit Omaha 8, Razz, Seven-Card Stud, and Seven-Card Stud 8 every eight hands.
Players start with 12,000 stacks and all levels will last 30-minutes. Late registration and re-entries are available until the start of Level 9 at 4:30pm with a dinner break scheduled after Level 12. Since this is a one-day trophy event, they will return from dinner and continue playing until we award our second title of the series.
Cards fly shortly and we should see a very talented field for the first of two H.O.R.S.E. events.
Players begin with 12,000 in chips and 30-minute levels
Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9
This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
After a few player instructions, tournament supervisor Jordan Cutter announced “shuffle up and deal” to put cards in the air for Flight C of the Ultimate Re-Entry event.
We had 99 entries in the field at the kickoff and that number will climb in a hurry.
The first day of the 2019 Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open was a success and we expect even bigger things as we head into the first weekend.
The first two flights of the Ultimate Re-Entry event drew exactly 900 entries to put the field only 767 away from hitting the $500,000 guaranteed prize pool mark and they should get there sometime this evening. Today we have the next two flights of the $360 buy-in tournament with four more to go after.
Event 1 is a best-stack-forward tournament which allows players to enter any and all the flights they wish. If they advance more than one stack, they will play their biggest on Day 2 and receive a $2,500 multi-stack payout for their smaller stacks. We have five players already accomplish that feat including chip leader Frankie Flowers.
Players start their day with a 15,000 stack and 30-minute levels. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 13 at 5:45pm. Each starting flight will play down to the last 10% of the field, rounding down, and all those players will be in the money as they move on to Day 2 on Monday.
It will be a busy day in the Event Center as we cruise towards the first big guarantee of the series.
$500,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
Players begin with 15,000 in chips and 30-minute levels
Single ante will be paid from the big blind for the entire table
Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 13
10% of each flight’s field, rounded down, will advance to Day 2
All Day 2 players will be in the money
Players surviving more than one Day 1 flight will receive a $2,500 cash payout for each lesser multiple chip stack
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